A nice melody, well sung, very clean and smart. But very common too. The kind of song you heard million times before and after. "Poupée de cire" of France Gall was new and fresh, like a peppermint candy, had that inventive "salt", creative peps.
Another song by Kathy Kirby that hasn't survived the years. Back in the day Eurovision songs were a big deal and finishing second should have kept it in the public's mind. I'm sorry to say it hasn't. A typically belting effort though.
CRAZY woman she has attack france Gall during eurovision 1965 because she has second place but she Finnish the live in Hospital Crazy Regards From sweden
Very bad person. After the victory of France Gall in Eurovision 1965, she is slapped behind the scenes by Kathy Kirby, bad loser, ranked second with the song "I Belong". Shame her, put her slaps forever. Who sows crops !!
The evidence that Kathy Kirby slapped France Gall is only what France Gall said - I believe this was in 2015. Kathy died in 2011 so she was never in a position to give her version of events.
A far superior song to that French entry that beat it, but as we know it was being fiddled. So much so it became painfully and blatantly obvious when the dirty was done on Cliff Richard. So Kathy slapped the off key & flat French singer. Wouldn't you if you'd been cheated.
I'm English and if I'd been watching that show I'd have been yelling "Vive la France!" 'Poupée de cire' completely tanks the safe conservative 'I Belong'. Written by songwriting genius Serge Gainsbourg, it not only takes the piss out the whole bombastic Eurovision style, it does so in a deviantly pop art kind of way and its lyric is comparatively Shakespearian to the Tin Pan Alley love song tedium of the Kirby song. Also, Kirby looked like she'd walked off the set of an early 50s soap opera and all her moves were straight out of a musical theatre school, whereas Gall just stood there and grinned a bit with a perfect Mary Quant bob. Kirby was definitely more in tune than Gall but this was a 1965 song contest not a 1955 singing competition.
So Kathy slapped the French singer, who represented Luxembourg. Alas. But to say "to have the victory stolen while she was the favorite" is outrageous !!
