Guildo and Stefan... the TRUE German heroes of ESC.. we really need to take ourselves less serious again and just have FUN!

@007Marke

4 күн бұрын

And Texas Lightning ofc.. also underrated...

@lamaglama6231

4 күн бұрын

We blew our chance at that by rejecting electric callboy

"Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein" by Joy Flemming (1975) is such a great song and absolutely didn't deserve that 17th place. It was unfortunately ahead its time. "Feuer frei!", literally "Fire free!", means "Weapons free!" or "Fire at will!"

@SabineThinkerbellum

3 күн бұрын

You should listen to I Hold No Grudge by Joy Unlimited. This song is stunning and Joy’s voice is from out of this world. Her band from the late 60s was Joy and the Hit Kids. In the early 70s they were Joy Unlimited. Some of the stuff is here on yt Joy passed away in 2017 and it was so sad. Her voice will stay forever.

@SabineThinkerbellum

3 күн бұрын

The best voice Germany has ever had.

When Nicole won in 1982 she then sang it again at the end in about 5 different languages including English. Listen to the English version , it's called a little peace .

@bigdaddigaming

7 күн бұрын

@McJibbin He’s right Connor you do need to listen to the English version, it doesn’t lose anything after translation

@Geneva1906

3 күн бұрын

It is just a little song about freedom ...the language is universal. But it seems as if much people today went deaf

joy Feming was such a powerful singer she really did not deserved such a low place so much strength

Katja Ebstein, the most successful ESC Performer to never win. 3 participations, 3rd, 3rd and 2nd. THAT is also AWESOME! And yes, Germany was killing it in the 70s to the 90s... In total we are, despite that streak of bad luck in recent years and only 2 wins in total, in the Top 10 of all time! Still a reason to be proud ^^

22:54 in 2004, the contest was held in Istanbul, Türkiye & he sang that part of the song in Turkish lol Also in 1999, The band sang the song in English, German, Hebrew & Turkish

Since you mentioned the Cascada song „Everytime we touch“… it was covered by the German band Electric Callboy lately. I think it’s worth watching!!!

@saranissen6210

7 күн бұрын

And Cascadas version is a cover of the original by Maggie Reilly

There's also a video by SchlagerLucas Germany 1956-2024 26:28 Yes that's her

I wasn’t aware that there had been three Scandinavian artists singing in German.

Fun fact -- the twin sisters, Alice and Ellen Kessler, who started for Germany in 1959, later (1960s) became quite a successful act as singers/dancers in Las Vegas.

Prima ballerina is the principal dancer, the lead dancer.

My alltime favorite german entry is Roger Cicero Frauen regiern die welt from 2007.

Hi, Connor! I notice that the voices in the early sixties, for example, almost all sound the same. Always the same high pitch and sung loudly.🙉 I think, "prima"-ballerina is a training level in the world of ballet. So a professional dancer, I think. (First grade). "Prima" comes from spanish/ italian "primero" what means first. ...Yes, just West Germany. ......... Minute 17:20: "He just looks communist"! GREAT reaction!!! I`M NOT SURE, but I guess you are right! The singer sings about a dream and also says: "Many thinks still have to be changed"..... Maybe in 1991 East Germany took place in Eurovision!???... 🧐🤔 1998: Gildo Horn has broken the ice at Eurovision and changed a lot I think. Since then songs and performances got much funnier. It was amazing for me to see his stage performance!!! I remember this performane and this guy very well. 🤣 Thank you. Greetings from Germany!

Stefan Raab 💥🔥 "Guildo hat euch lieb" performed by Guildo, "Wadde hadde du denn da" performed by himself and at least the winner 2010 Lena with "Satellite". This is a Story of Rice and Glory!

Till the late 90s you had to perform in one of your national languages most of the time. With some rule changes in the 60s and 70s. They finally changed it in 1999 and since then almost everyone performs in english.

15:10 Eurovision was founded in 1954 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Geneva for sharing TV and Radio programs between public broadcasting corporations. The EBU is the successor of the International Broadcasting Union which was dissolved in 1950; its members were mostly west-oriented or neutral countries. The Warsaw pact countries were mostly organized in the Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (OIRT), founded 1946 in Belgium, but Belgium, Italy and France left the OIRT in 1950 to join the EBU. Multiple communist countries outside of Europe joined the OIRT; some (like China or Albania) left in the 1960s after some break-up with the USSR. The OIRT merged with the EBU in 1992/93; most former communist countries outside of Europe withdrew in 1992. So the GDR (East Germany) was never member of EBU or Eurovision. Currently all European states are EBU members, except for Belarus and Russia, whose memberships were suspended, also all North African states at the southern shore of the Mediterranean (except Lybia, whose membership is suspended due to the civil war situation) and Israel, Jordan, Libanon and Turkey as well as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Guildo Horn and the Orthopedic Stockings - Eurovision was made for them! He has been in my top 3 for years 👍🏻

Eurovision Song Contest Songs sounded nearly always a bit old-fashioned, like from the decade before, especially the German ones (mostly produced by the ever same old fashioned producers hiring some singers and not at all representative for the contemporary German music scene). Because of this the contest had a rapidly decreasing audience in Germany. That changed only really at the end of the 1990s, maybe partly by the engagement of German producer Stefan Raab (and some others from other countries), partly also by the engagement of the LGBTQ community. (1998, 2000, 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2012 were produced by Stefan Raab.) In 1974 ABBA won the contest. The German entries of 1976 and 1977 tried to imitate their sound and failed (because being too synthetic). The 1982 win was a sentimental peace song which hit presumably the anti-war and anti-armament mood of the time. A year later about 300,000 people formed a human chain over the 108 km from Stuttgart (seat of EUCOM) to Neu-Ulm (where the Wiley Barracks were intended to become the base for the Pershing II, nuclear IRBMs) to protest against nuclear armament.

i think Frei zu leben translates mote to " to live freely" not free to live its not compleatly wrong but not compleatly right it could mean that in a full sentence asn in " dir steht es Frei zu leben" " u are free to live" but as an alsone standing word group eh Wer liebe lebt (One/those) who live(s) love XD

Before 2010, check out the 2006 winner, Lordi from Finland. It'll blow your mind!

The guy at 15:57 was one of the two guys from Milli Vanilli lol

That 1979 German entry is still a very popular karaoke song in finland

Joy Flemming....the one and only ...RIP ....beautiful childhood memories 😪 And yes you are right with Cascada watch the remake from Electric callboy ...maybe you will go with it...also a german group but a little harder

The songs from 1962, 1970, 1979 and 1982 are in Germany still songs with iconic status (I just name them, of course all the songs have something good, but if you ask a German about that four songs, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who at least know a little bit of the lyrics). Nice list, as a German, I'm honest I didn't even heard half of them, but it's very nice, such a travel through ESC history :).

Yes, which kind of music is popular can't seldom fixed exactly to the turn of a decade, but the midth of a decade isn't always the turning point too. It has a lot to do with inventions, other styles in fashion or changes/events in society. Although modern Germany was founded in 1949 it took some time till the "Wirtschaftswunder" /economic miracle took off. When the vinyl singles were introduced in the USA it changed the music, with two/three years delay it had also impact on Germany, the turning point for music in Germany was in the midth/late 50th. We talk about the "Swinging Sixties", but the change in fashion and the sexual revolution came with the invention of the pill, introduced in the early sixties, but it needed some time till it changed everything. The Beatles were founded in 1960 and split up in 1970, but they weren't famous directly from the start. Disco music and the fashion style we mostly associate with the 70th didn't really started in 1970 but some years later and it didn't ended exactly in 1980. With the invention of commercially available synthezisers the style of music changed at the begin of the 80th. We had the New Wave Movement - or in Germany the "Neue Deutsche Welle". The CD and the possibility to sample music with computers changed the musical style again in the 90th. The CD came to the market in 1981 but it took nearly 10 years before players and CDs became so cheap that it dominated the market.

Funny thing about Germany in Eurovision : it never was an issue untill they won. When Nicole won, and sang in 4 languages for her reprise, critics said it was "all a show and orchestrated to get an emotional win" which was "rich from the country that pulled the world into war and the most atrocious act against humanity" when Lena won, deservedly that year, the comments were "Germany should never win the Eurovision due to WW2, Nazi's, etc..." it's really weird and I think the only country within the Eurovision that has such a double edge sword. 'You are welcome, you are equal, you are good, but don't win because then we will dig out your past, yet that past is the reason why the Eurovision song contest is so important to peace. But the contest is 'non political' off course 😂😂

Yes, it's only West Germany. No Eastern Block country was part of the competition, they only joined after the fall of the iron curtain. You might not be aware that "Eurovision", the organizer of the ESC, is a consortium of (originally West-) European TV stations. TV stations in Eastern Block countries generally were under strict govenrnment (i.e.party) control, and those governments tended to avoid getting their populace exposed to Western Media wherever possible. I guess joining a club of Western TV stations for a singing contest was not really in line with party policy.

@xaverlustig3581

4 күн бұрын

The communist countries had a counterpart to Eurovision called Intervision, and they had a similar annual song contest until after the end of the cold war they joined Eurovision.

After this year, I'm just waiting for Ski Aggu

1999 and 2004 songs had Turkish lyrics

Could you react to Norway or Greece next?

2015 was insane. They deserved higher

My favs are Blood n glitter in 2023 and Satellite in 2010❤❤

LOL 80´s hear needs a lot of hair mouse and tons of hairspray and concrete gel @McJibbin

Many rules have changed since the beginnings. Until the 1990s or so, songs had to be in the native languages of the competing countries, now not anymore. Yes, until the Reunification, it was exclusively west Germany. Lots of hairspray in the 1980s.... The quality isn't what it used to be, either.

I think that's just your personal choice. The period you said is my favourite!

Stefan raab 🙌

I never feel as unloved as a German as I so on ESC-Days 😂

@michaelathiel6056

Күн бұрын

that's true..but it definitiv change 2010 with Lena every country can't wait to give germany points and all of them are really excited to say that never happend before

@katb.78

Күн бұрын

@@michaelathiel6056but we had a lot of Bad placings since Lena.

2020 they would have probably entered top 5

You're very right, end 80's we had ca. 20 years of bad music at ESC

Reacts to Portugal, please 😀

The background It was a Western European television union. In 1990 (end of the Cold War) it became a pan-European organisation. Since Israel feels part of Europe, they joined. A few years ago the Australians applied ... and were allowed to join ... for whatever reason. At first only a few countries participated. Then more and more did. After the end of the Cold War, almost all the Eastern European countries joined. With enlargement (around 1990) the number of songs in English increased because so many people like songs in english language better than songs in their own language. Before the advent of televoting, the judges awarded the points. At some point it was decided to use double voting. Jury plus public vote. This also had to do with the fact that people often didn't rate the song, but gave points according to whether they liked "country X and its people". Neighbouring countries in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe often gave the highest scores to each other. No matter how good or bad the song was. In the beginning, the song was the main focus, but later the performance became more important. In den ersten jahrzehnten spielte ein orchester LIVE. The event is paid for by all the countries in the association, according to their economic size. It is a misconception that the winning country - which is allowed to organise the competition the following year - pays all the costs. So it doesn't matter financially whether a "small country" or a "big country" wins.

@xaverlustig3581

4 күн бұрын

The reason that non-European countries like Israel and Australia can participate is that it's a festival of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) members, not Europe the continent. Morocco also took part one time.

@ichbinbluna3504

4 күн бұрын

@@xaverlustig3581 That is not an explanation. The E in EBU means "European".

@xaverlustig3581

4 күн бұрын

@@ichbinbluna3504 EBU accepts non European members, and that is why non European countries can take part in the song contest. Complain to EBU if you think it's not logical, but they do.

@ichbinbluna3504

4 күн бұрын

@@xaverlustig3581 You only tell me things I know. Tell me WHY they do it.

@xaverlustig3581

4 күн бұрын

@@ichbinbluna3504EBU is a body for exchange of television programmes and technical standards. Defining the continent of Europe isn't what they're interested in.

Joy Fleming deserved to win Eurovision 1975. That is all I can say. Three or four times over.

It was indeed all West Germany until the unification

ok

Nicole deserved the first place a great song and she sang in german. I think a bit of peace what her song is called would be great to have nowadays maybe someone takes her song as a base and bring out a new version of this because a bit of peace for all on the planet is what we hopefully all wish. The fact that Jamie-Lee only got 11 points and came 26th in 2016 is so disrespectful to me.

@Rafaela_S.

4 күн бұрын

Jamie-Lee's song and No No Never, are the only ones from the list that, that made it to my everyday playlist from this list. Sadly I must say, 2016 was an insane year, there are a lot of songs from the 2016 ESC that I really like. But there are also a few that I think would deserve last place. And I'm pretty sure that ESC rankings for most parts aren't about the music...

I thought there was very good singers and I enjoyed watching it

I think it's really sad that Germany mostly stopped singing in German starting at 2002 (the last who broke the english chain was Roger Cicero, RIP jazz icon), I feel like every country should sing in their native tongue for Eurovision (or at least incorporate the language into the song, even if it's not a lot). I like my language and we've won with it before, I know English is a language the majority understands, but come on, singing in German more often in Eurovision maybe would also help erasing this misconception in people's heads that German is a rough and ugly language.

thing is with this tele vote systhem and the jury points favoring radio playable pop of couse people go into the same direction it truely is sad we need a better mixed jury and really do televote points from 0 to number of participating countrys minus 2 so if there are 25 countrys points will go from 0 to 23 and dont stop half way i feel like this only works in favor of the top 10 but doesnt give the other countrys give much room to fight for the middle places

Yes. It was only west Germany that participated.

@YukiTheOkami

7 күн бұрын

jeh becouse they didnt wantet the east europe in at all kinda got excluded for no effin reason

@winterlinde5395

7 күн бұрын

@@YukiTheOkami would the Eastern European more or less communist countries have liked to participate? Didn’t it have to do with this broadcasting association (EUROVISION), like today?

@ichbinbluna3504

7 күн бұрын

@@YukiTheOkami Europe was divided into East and West. It was an organisation of Western European states. After the end of cold war (1990) it became a pan-European organisation. That is the reason.

Cascada is only a cover. This is the original kzread.info/dash/bejne/moitpa6GcZyWqLA.htmlsi=1lxJq3hbYIqCRPyG

@McJibbin lmao trump as a German backing singer, what are you smoking 🤣🤣🤣

12:30: Germany won with "Ein bisschen Frieden" - A little bit of peace. This was in the second year of Reagan and the high tensions in the Cold War his politics caused. Europe was really afraid of a war again. This time nuclear. But, Eurovision is not political 😂😂😂

No worries, most people have that twin fetish, both male and female, no need to be sorry.

Turkiye should've won at 2010.

tbf my birth year 95 is a kakophony i dont know what they did with the mixing but its horrible

2016 is just sad cause the song and music video was amazing and then the live was trash in every way

the 57 entry was originally titled Phone call from Hitler

i mean i am german i am biest but aside "sisters" i agree at least not alast place there was worse entrys

The European Cringe Contest. When generic tries to be original, in some cases vice versa. Europe has so much amazing music, which is be found elsewhere...