From Abba to Céline Dion, chicken noises to lyrics about magical shoes, we rate and slate every winning entry from 1956 onwards
69. The Herrey’s – Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley
With respect to the Herrey’s – three clean-cut brothers and one rogue apostrophe – Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley sounds like the result of an experiment to deliberately synthesise an abysmal entry. Antiseptic sound, meaningless title, mind-boggling lyrics – some frightful old balls about magical golden shoes – and a chorus that brings about a complete collapse of the will to live.The perennially demoralising sound of synthesised panpipes kicks off one of the most nondescript Eurovision winners of all: an amiable but entirely unmemorable acoustic guitar-fuelled pop-rock jog.
Corry Brokken’s Eurovision career was nothing if not extreme: she swept the board in 1957, then came last, with, the following year. Net Als Toen’s music sounds more romantic than its lyrics, about a failing marriage: the wife complains her husband is fat, bald and tired; he wonders if she’s still alive. Nice, vaguely Stéphane Grappelli-ish violin solo, though.
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