Episode 98 – “1974: Briiiighton, Wombledon, and Finally Facing Our (Spotify) Waterloo”

In this episode, we chat about host city of Brighton, the host of 1974, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1974, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1974 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

The First Day of Love – Anne-Karine and the Bendik Singers (Norway)

Die Sommermelodie – Cindy and Bert (Germany)

Keep Me Warm – Carita (Finland)

Canta y sé feliz – Peret (Spain)

Fleur de liberté – Jacques Hustin (Belgium)

Long Live Love – Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom)

Bye Bye I love you – Ireen Sheer (Luxembourg)

I See a Star – Mouth and MacNeal (Netherlands)

Si – Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy)

Waterloo – ABBA (Sweden)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 99, we’re off to The Hague for Eurovision 1976! Which means, episode 100 will be 1977!

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Hypercut of the postcards: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeLyrics2012

Check out A Tech Ops History blog here: http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/more-eurovision-memories/

Rewind ESC 1974 here: https://x.com/RewindESC

Snippets from Nine News Melbourne, Jimmy Rees’ Meanwhile in Brighton series, and the theme from The Wombles used only for storytelling and all their rights are reserved. We’re already dealing with Spotify not accepting our music licence, come on and give us a break.

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Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.