![]() Over 53 years, more than 1,000 songs entertained Eurovision audiences. And the contest overlooked songs destined for world fame such as Domenico Modugno’s Volare-presented at the 1958 Hilversum contest as Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu-and Betty Curtis’s Al di Lá. Some winners were seldom heard after their one glorious evening on Eurovision’s stage. Since then, top picks have included ABBA’s Waterloo and Brotherhood of Man’s Save all Your Kisses for Me. Lys Assia of Switzerland won with a song called Das Alte Karussell. The series began on May 24, 1956, when singers from 14 countries met in Lugano, Switzerland to launch a new idea on the nascent Eurovision Network. Rybak and Fairytale triumphed at the 54th Eurovision Song Contest. ![]() Fairytale might also have described the saga of a Norwegian fiddler, three pretty Georgian girls and a guy with funny hair-except it was real-life farce. We Don’t Wanna Put-In is a song by Stefane and 3G, the Georgian entry nixed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to shield the apparently very thin skin of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from the possibility of a burn from the strobe lights of Olympiyski Arena. ![]() Fairytale is the sprightly little ditty that won the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest for Norwegian Alexander Rybak last Saturday in Moscow. ![]()
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