[78-L] Eurovision Finals

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

France had a good record in the contest, back in the 60's and '70's but 
never won afterwards.

So we think it was a good move to enter Patricia Kaas in the 
competition because she's "more than a star, an icon" among the 
Russians, I'm told.

But I found her song devoid af any melody, and the big-voiced Swedish 
girl that followed her was a painful contrast....I mean painful for 
those who had placed any hopes in Patricia Kaas.

BC
Le 16 mai 09, à 21:49, Michael Biel a écrit :

>
> Despite what I and others said about the Eurovision Song Contest, Leah
> and I are watching (and recording) the finals right now, and had 
> watched
> and recorded the two semis, the opening ceremony, and several other
> special programs for Russian Ostankino Channel 1 this week.  It is
> unusual that these programs are not time shifted on the U.S. satellite
> version of Ostankino, so we are seeing it live.  Of course we have a
> pair of Russian language hosts which insist on talking in addition to
> just translating.  You Brits have Graham Norton (taking over for Terry
> Wogan, Leah tells me) so I wish I could get your feed instead of the
> Russian feed.  For those of you outside Europe who don't have access to
> any feed, there are a lot of U-Tube postings, some seem to come from
> Finland with YLE bugs on the screen.
>
> The highlight for me so far was when they had the Alexanderovich Red
> Army Chorus in the latter part of the first Semi-Finals doing a medley
> of their "hits" but then they accompanied the "lesbian" girl duo
> t.A.T.u. doing one of their hits "Not Gonna Get Us".  Hearing the big
> burly ex-Soviets bellowing out "Not gonna get us" over and over was a
> scream.  (I had missed by one week the outdoor Helsinki concert the
> Chorus did with the Finnish retro-rock group Leningrad Cowboys, but I 
> do
> have the CD of the full concert and the DVD of the broadcast.  Go onto
> U-Tube to hear them do "Sweet Home Alabama" there are multiple 
> versions,
> some also from later Russian indoors concerts.  If the Cowboys bow to
> the chorus, you have the Helsinki concert that I missed.
>
> Anyway, back to the Eurovision finals.  One thing I am confused about 
> is
> to whether the voting is for the SONG or the PERFORMER.  The Russian
> entry "Mama" is finally on now and I really hope it wins.  We've been
> hearing promos for it all week.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
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