Eurovision

[GrahamH]

Hi all

Apologies if this has been posted before but I've just stumbled across a YouTube clip of Lulu introducing the Shads performing all 6 Eurovision songs (I know there's some miming going on!)

Though "Let Me Be The One" was probably the best choice for the contest after the success of "Boom-Bang-a Bang" and similar offerings, I still can't decide which is my favourite. All I can be sure of is that it was an excellent collection of songs and perhaps makes "Specs Appeal" the Shads' best ever album purely in terms of value for money?

After all that I hope this link works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9yoR2nlkA

[Peter K]

Hi Graham,

yes, the link works.
I think that everyone has his own favourite Shads album, "Specs Appeal" is certainly one of the better albums released during the seventies.

My number one amongst the six Eurovision songs is certainly "Don't throw it all away", while "Cool clear air" and "Stand up like a man" share place number two.
I don't like the remaining three songs very much.

I didn't expect my favourites to be chosen by the people who voted for the British Eurovision entry and I was right. Maybe "Let me be the one" was the right song for Eurovision in 1975,
but it was certainly not the best song out of the six presented in this TV-clip.

Best regards Peter

[Uncle Fiesta]

Interesting clip that, I don't remember seeing it before but I suppose I must have done, I'd never have missed the Shadows unless it was unavoidable!

Notice the first song was written by John Farrar and PETE BEST! Presumably not the one who used to be in the Beatles!

My personal favourite was Stand Up Like A Man, but I have to agree that LMBTO was the best choice for Eurovision.

My belated congratulations to the winners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI78Bqp6z6g

You have to admit it's not a bad song, quite a complicated structure in places (took me ages to work out the middle section!).

[drakula63]

In my opinion, Let Me Be The One was a good song and, more importantly in this respect, was the only song of the lot that actually sounded like a Eurovision winner. I'd be tempted to suggest that the result of the heats, as seen on the Lulu show, was more or less inevitable.

As I understand it, The Shads were in the lead for at least half of the results and we were only pipped at the post when the Dutch have us 1 point (maybe two) after we had given them 12. Oh well. In my view, it SHOULD have won.

[iefje]

In my opinion, Let Me Be The One was a good song and, more importantly in this respect, was the only song of the lot that actually sounded like a Eurovision winner. I'd be tempted to suggest that the result of the heats, as seen on the Lulu show, was more or less inevitable.

As I understand it, The Shads were in the lead for at least half of the results and we were only pipped at the post when the Dutch have us 1 point (maybe two) after we had given them 12. Oh well. In my view, it SHOULD have won.

Despite being Dutch, my father was probably the only one in the room in front of the TV who also thought The Shadows should have won. Every other year, he would like The Netherlands to have won, but 1975 (and probably also 1968 and 1973) was the exception.

[drakula63]

In my opinion, Let Me Be The One was a good song and, more importantly in this respect, was the only song of the lot that actually sounded like a Eurovision winner. I'd be tempted to suggest that the result of the heats, as seen on the Lulu show, was more or less inevitable.

As I understand it, The Shads were in the lead for at least half of the results and we were only pipped at the post when the Dutch have us 1 point (maybe two) after we had given them 12. Oh well. In my view, it SHOULD have won.

Despite being Dutch, my father was probably the only one in the room in front of the TV who also thought The Shadows should have won. Every other year, he would like The Netherlands to have won, but 1975 (and probably also 1968 and 1973) was the exception.

I knew a Dutch girl once - used to be a member of this forum many, many years ago - who felt exactly the same.