My 50 favourite songs from old Eurovision 

50. Artist: Luci Capurso and Hamo Hajdarhodžić Song: Jedan dan Place: Tied for 7th 49. Artist: Stella Song: Si tu aimes ma musique Place: 4th 48. Artist: Bucks Fizz Song: Making Your Mind Up Place: 1st 47. Artist: Wind Song: Für alle Place: 2nd 46. Artist: Elpida Song: Sokrati Place: 8th 45. Artist: Teach-In Song: Ding-a-dong Place: 1st 44. Artist: Sandie Shaw Song: Puppet On A String Place: 1st 43. Artist: Tonicha Song: Menina do alto da serra Place: 9th 42. Artist: Domenico Modugno Song: Nel blu, dipinto di blu Place: 3rd 41. Artist: Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran Song: Rock Bottom Place: 2nd 40. Artist: Céline Dion Song: Ne partez pas sans moi Place: 1st 39. Artist: Pascalis, Marianna, Robert and Bessy Song: Mathima solfege Place: 5th 38. Artist: Daniel Song: Džuli Place: 4th 37. Artist: Karina Song: En un mundo nuevo Place: 2nd 36. Artist: Baccara Song: Parlez-vous français ? Place: 7th 35. Artist: Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson Song: Sing, Little Birdie Place: 2nd 34. Artist: Carola Häggkvist Song: Främling Place: 3rd 33. Artist: Avi Toledano Song: Hora Place: 2nd 32. Artist: Gigliola Cinquetti Song: Non ho l'età Place: 1st 31. Artist: Monica Aspelund Song: Lapponia Place: 10th 30. Artist: Dana Song: All Kinds Of Everything Place: 1st 29. Artist: Cliff Richards Song: Congratulations Place: 2nd 28. Artist: ABBA Song: Waterloo Place: 1st 27. Artist: Françoise Hardy Song: L'Amour s'en va Place: Tied for 5th 26. Artist: Sean Dunphy Song: If I Could Choose Place: 2nd 25. Artist: Milk and Honey Song: Hallelujah Place: 1st 24. Artist: Vicky Song: L'Amour est bleu Place: 4th 23. Artist: Lucía Song: Él Place: 10th 22. Artist: Tonia Song: Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel Place: Tied for 4th 21. Artist: Da Vinci Song: Conquistador Place: 16th 20. Artist: Mocedades Song: Eres tú Place: 2nd 19. Artist: Monica Zetterlund Song: En gång i Stockholm Place: Tied for 13th 18. Artist: Isabelle Aubret Song: La Source Place: 3rd 17. Artist: Åse Kleveland Song: Intet er nytt under solen Place: 3rd 16. Artist: Brotherhood Of Man Song: Save Your Kisses For Me Place: 1st 15. Artist: Birthe Kjær Song: Vi maler byen rød Sannnn Place: 3rd 14. Artist: Umberto Tozzi and Raf Song: Gente di mare Place: 3rd 13. Artist: Marie Myriam Song: L'Oiseau et l'Enfant Place: 1st 12. Artist: Maria Guinot Song: Silêncio e tanta gente Place: 11th 11. Artist: Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler Song: Skibet skal sejle i nat Place: 3rd 10. Artist: Maggie MacNeal Song: Amsterdam Place: 5th 9. Artist: Nicole Song: Ein bißchen Frieden Place: 1st 8. Artist: Simone de Oliveira Song: Desfolhada portuguesa Place: 15th 7. Artist: Pas de Deux Song: Rendez-vous Place: 18th 6. Artist: France Gall Song: Poupée de cire, poupée de son Place: 1st 5. Artist: Betty Missiego Song: Su canción Place: 2nd 4. Artist: Anne-Marie David Song: Tu te reconnaîtras Place: 1st 3. Artist: Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann Song: Dansevise Place: 1st 2. Artist: Ofra Haza Song: Si la vie est cadeau Place: 2nd 1. Artist: Alice and Franco Battiato Song: I treni di Tozeur Place: Tied for 5th Information The Video Forgot to Mention

My favourite of all the Eurovision songs is Apres toi/1972. 🔝Vicky Leandros❤️

How much more charm did Eurovision have in the past, when everyone sang in their own language, nowadays there is too much English, (but I have nothing against English).

2) Chai chai chai. R.I.P. Ofra Haza. From a portuguese fan 🇵🇹

This collection is a treasure! A real flash back in time.

It was so wonderful to hear native languages at ESC ! Danish, german, dutch, portugues, norvegian....! But, these last years, lots of songs in native languages climb in the top 10 ! Each language has its own music and beat! Monaco and Luxembourg often won with french singers ( Françoise Hardy , France Gall, Anne- Marie David....)

Quanti ricordi di bambina, Umberto Tozzi ed il grande Battiato ,gli Abba ,non ne perdevo una di puntata grazie

Great collection!. My favorite from this time is undoubtly 1963 Denmark. Completly ahead of it's time for the contest and simply stands out of all the 1960s winners.

Volare🤣🤣 Rest in Peace Lynsey de Paul🌹, Baccara ⚫⚪ 🌹

Eurovision is such a crazy freak show now. It's nice to look back on a time when it still had class, and it was more about the music than about outlandish performances.

No. 20 Eres Tu, and No. 1 i treni are my all time favorites

1964 winner is the best ever IMO

Fabolous songs !!!, every song is a nice song!!!!masterpiece!!!🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦

" Eres tú" del grupo español " Mocedades" ,es una joya.. dificilísimo cantar esa melodía.Sin duda,la mejor❤

Divine Anne-Marie David " Tu te reconnaîtras " ! 1973 Luxembourg

Old Eurovision was great

my best 5 eurovision song from all time 1 spain 1979 2 portugal 1979 3 cyprus 1982 4 greece 1974 5 germany 1982

lots of favorite classic eurovision songs here

1967 VICKY'S LEANDROS FORST REPRESENTATION FOR LUXEMBOURG 🇱🇺 L'AMOUR EST BLEU.

Thank you for making this collection❤

A full 20 of your picks appear on my top 100. Denmark 1963, Israel 1983 and Luxembourg 1973 are in my top 10 as well! Wonderful to see a “best of Eurovision” list that doesn’t include a single song from the 20th Century.

Come What May…A Favourite Of Mine

Rendez-vous is my 12 points of 1983.

YEs, Italy 1984 bring back memories, beautiful song.

I agreed in some songs, but... I desagreed in mamy of them... I´m missing, the Number One from Greece, Logan, Salomé, Massiel, Loreen, Elena Foureira, Chanel, .... and others.... Thancks

Interesante recorrido por el festival de eurovision

Agreed with some , disagreed with others but nevertheless it was such a joy to hear these old songs - when the competition was about the music and not about being half naked on stage with crazy fireworks. Thank you - it was lovely!

¡Que alegría! Mi canción favorita de Eurovisión también es "I treni di Tozeur".

Happy to see "Rendez-Vous" in your Top 10 :-)

The 70s were great, I love the fashion

I missed Frida Boccara, un jour, un enfant

Sing little birdy was so cute ❤

I was in suspense what your number one would be. "Il treni di Tozeur" is a very good choice, a true ESC gem. Bravo!

Nobody over here in France would know her as Isabelle, even though it is her name ! Don't forget she was immensely popular as "France Gall" for practically fifty years.

The names of the artists and placings in the competition need to be included !

Excellent compilation👍

I started watching 7 or 8 yrs old because i liked english a lot mid 70's

I don't know how I got to your list here...but I love it!! Wish I had born on those days. Thank you!!

Wonderful compilation. Thank you so much for posting it.

That was a great choice. I tried to do my own version of it and it turns out we would have has 27 in common. Considering the sheer amount of entries (I prefer "songs" raelly but some are clearly more entries.. ) that's surprisingly many. I particularly loved that Sandie Shaw, Françoise Hardy, Mocedades, Monica Zetterlund, Maria Guinot and Maggie Macneal in common and your #1 was my #2 - such a mix of winners/high-placers and way underrated performances. Very cool indeed :-)

I need the full version of this collection as a playlist

Wow. A compilation without Ireland’s Johnny Logan 😮 But still some very nice songs😊

France Gall...charming, so pretty

Real live Eurovision bring it back.

Excellent compilation .. and some very good choices .. I love Pouppee De Cire Pouppee De Son

Bellissime canzoni

Wooooooooooow! While watching I hoped the treni di Tozeur would be included, as it would be my nr 1. Unbelievable that it was only 6th in 1984. It was regularly on the Dutch radio. THANK YOU, completely agree with your favorite.

My Top: U,K. 1981, Germany 1985, Netherlands 1975, UK 1967, Italy 1958, Switzerland 1988, Spain 1971, Luxembourg 1978, Italy 1964, Ireland 1970, Sweden 1974, Ireland 1967, Israel 1979, Spain 1973, France 1968, UK 1976, Denmark 1989, Italy 1987, France 1977, Portugal 1984, Neeetherlands 1980, Germany 1982, Portugal 1969, Luxembourg 1965, Spain 1979, Luxembourg 1973, Italy 1984.

One of my favourite..Fridda Boccara..wonderful...Un jour, un enfant...

wieder super Grüße aus Berlin es grüßt der Berliner

Brilliant songs...thank you 👏 🙂Well perhaps the odd one no...but enjoy this..

I've been diving into Eurovision for a while now, and every time I found a hidden gem, I went to the comment section and found the "OMG!, so underrated, this should have won! Personally, I think the ranking of that year should have been..." type of comment, and after uttering those word, he/she immediately proceeded to list trash after trash from the contest, and ended up placing the alleged hidden gem at number 3, below two tasteless trashy songs, of course. Every time I saw this, my faith in humanity faultered. "Do these people have rotting maggots in their ears?", I asked to myself. Thank you for this video. Today you've proven me there are a few people out there with a decent taste for music. I don't agree with a third of your picks, the timelapse is huuuuuge (like "old Eurovision" means "anything before 10 years ago"), personal feelings and nostalgia are interfeering with a few of your choices, etc. But the list is solid, dude. The list is solid. It has many good songs. Thank you again. I thought I was alone in this world. I have some playlists on my channel, and I'm planning to upload a video somewhat like this, one of these days. It will be more like "The true winners of Eurovision that should have won but the jury was bribed! ", kind of video. Keep up the good work!

Siii!! Bravo Battiato!!!

Thank you so much for this beautiful compilation!

a lot of good songs throughout the years

Oh, wow! I love Italy 1984! Great choices. 🙂

I'm songwriter of Abba , Anne Marie David and Céline Dion . And l'm Jean Jacques 1969 from Monaco ...

Those songs in history has brought back some happy memories for me. For me, your 12th song Portugal 1984, will always be number 1 for me. Followed closely by Il treni di tozur, your number 1. Well done. Thanks for the vlog.

Tonicha - menina do alto da serra , da Vinci - conquistador e Maria Guinot - silêncio e tanta gente !🙏 Thank you 🇵🇹

excellent post

Muy buen recopilatorio 😘👌🎵❤️

Brilliant

I love Massiel winner 1968, Spain. 💖

Il trene di tozeur as nr 1 is really nice.

This is such a good list. Kinda predictable at times but still great. I really miss Germany 1979, Spain 1985 and 1969, Monaco 1976 and Portugal 1979. Thanks for France 1968 and Greece 1979 :)

Dansevise is my favorite from the B&W era

Terrific exercise, fantastic selection, congrats!

Laaaa, La, La, Laaaaaaaaaa

Few of these artists became superstars with long career : Abba, obviously, Celine Dion, and France Gall, wich was the best discs sellers in France in 70's and 80's (with the musics of his husband Michel Berger). I saw too Lara Fabian, and Francoise Hardy I believe, great french stars too.

YUGOSLAVIA’s “Julie” sung by Daniel is #1 for me! JMHO. 👍🏻

Italy 1964 is, must be the very best, - - just listen to the orchestra Beethoven couldn't have done any better--timeless

My number one is Ajda Pekkan with her song petrol in 1980

Desfolhada is amazing.

Enjoyed thank you.

the last one is by far the very best, it's immortality!!

Number 1: yes, and number 3 from Denmark, my favorite!

Number one is very well chosen. The rest, well everybody has a different taste.

Interesting list, only knew about 2/3 of it. Nice to see my local all-time favorite in 2nd. Portugal and Denmark did much better with you than with the juries 😄

Just like we now have a Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU should organize an annual Senior Eurovision Song Contest: with singers over 30 years old, live orchestra and classic staging.

You didn't pick my favourite - Un banc, un arbre, une rue - Séverine ( Monaco - 1971)😪

Un vídeo espléndido, gracias!!

Thank you.

9:21 mais oui c'est un banger c'est tellement original !

Vicky leandros come what may

Muy buen video. Saludos desde "San Felipe y santiago de montevideo " (Uruguay)

Now Ding a Dong - a happy song that most love - catchy melody too

Thanks. An interesting list 👍 though very different from my choices.

Goog choices,!! ((Taste) 😊

Все талантливые.

1983 ISRAEL AND YUGOSLAVIA SHOULD WIN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST.

In the old times, singers were real ones and had a voice, composers had an enormous talent and taste, and the songs used to be good, even outstanding. Nowadays, the Eurovision contest is currently a sh*t in comparison with all that...😢

Great No 1 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

19 Monica Zetterlund ❤❤❤

Definitely a win for Luxembourg melody wise but wot- no Lulu? Thanks for the post.

O frumusețe de concurs

Hello :D My comments: (from Germany) 50. Yeeeeesss , Such a Masterpiece

I love this❤️❤️❤️❤️

Bravo

❤️❤️dansevise❤️❤️ it doesnt get much better….

I ❤all these songs