This week’s show is all about what might have been, the road not taken, the “you’re dreamin” approach to life. In it, I wondered aloud and on CD about what some of the participants in the Eurovision Song Contest might do if they let all their creative juices off the leash!
The result….not a single song with a title like “I wanna love you all night, my baby and make this dream reality and a heaven on earth” (Read out loud in an Icelandic/Bulgarian accent).
See what you think… Some familiar names, some devolutionary suggestions for the UK (and a rude one), some WW2 retro-irony and….some great tunes!! And don’t forget that there’s heaps of Eurovision Song Contest gear on the “TFC Link Of The Day”. Give it a click…. And next week: the ESC is celebrated in TFC style. And don’t forget the Caffe Latte part of the Eurovision equation
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Lay Down – Jimmy Somerville (UK)
Bo Mambo – Yma Sumac (ESP)
Verejushki – Volga (RUS)
Fado Portuges De Nos – Mariza (POR)
The Pheasant Plucker’s Song – The Barrow Poets (UK)
Chou Musicale (Musical Cabbage) (FRA)
Trois Petits Points – Paris Combo
Au Port – Camille
Feuilles Mortes – Mabel Mercer
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Ista Slika – Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkester (CROATIA)
Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home – Sinead O’Connor (IRL)
Irgendwo, Irgendwann – Gotz Alsmann (GER)
Blue Drag – New Orleans Jazz Vipers (FRA if the French had hung around in New Orleans!!)
An Turas – Sunrise Not Secular (UK)
Gwyliwch Y Ferch – Sian James (UK)
Mama Mi Piace Il Ritmo – Renzo Arbore E I Suoi Swing Maniacs (IT)
If you want Italy to return to the ESC – and who doesn’t – go to this petition
Kad Si Bila Mala Mare – Eurocantica (CROATIA)
Die Wacht Am Rhein/La Marseillaise – Casablanca Soundtrack (???!!!!)
Sag Du Nokke Te Kjerringa Mi – Gli Scapoli (NOR)
Mack The Knife – Bertolt Brecht (GER)
Rumbero – Dead Combo (POR)
Sexy Boy – AIR (FRA)
The Full Catastrophe 