h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Always a good source of OHWs

1. Bardot (featuring Sally Ann Triplet) - must've been the year after Bucks Fizz.

2. Nena - ninety nine red balloons.

erm ... (stuck)

I wonder if the 'Brotherhood of Man' had any other hits apart from the Eurovision 'Save Your Kisses for Me'?

Or Johnny Logan, who won it for Ireland one year. His song may have been a minor hit in the UK (can't remember - don't really want to )

Dana - 'All Kinds of Everything'. She became sort-of famous (ie, pantomime-famous), but I don't know whether she had any other hit singles.

Katrina and the Waves - 'Walking on Sunshine'

I'm going to stop now before I embarrass myself further...

Nothing to do with Eurovision, but talking of Katrina and the Waves just reminded me of Martha and the Muffins with 'Echo Beach'.

Johnny Logan can't be included - he won it twice!

Now there's a claim to fame

But does winning Eurovision count as having a 'hit' if the song doesn't make it into the charts afterwards..?

Brotherhood of Man did indeed have hits beyond 'Save Your Kisses for Me,' most memorably 'Angelo' which sounded absolutely nothing like 'Fernando' by Abba. They also had a hit called 'United We Stand,' but I think that may have been pre-Eurovision.

However, I am more or less certain that Nicole ('A Little Peace' - 1982?) didn't come up with anything else. Which is a crying shame.

And I wonder what did happen to Sally Ann Triplet?! Well remembered!

Nena weren't Eurovision folk though, oddly.

Ah yes, Angelo...

"High on a mountain in Mexico
Lived a young shepherd-boy Angelo
He knew a girl and he loved her so..."

How could I have forgotten...

One step further and I could have been there
You could have turned around and hit me and I wouldn't have cared
All this time I didn't get anywheeeeeeeere
I could have taken one step further and I would have been theeeeere.


Ah, Bardot!

Johnny Logan doesn't qualify though, as he also had (ulp) 'Hold Me Now'.

Eurovision is ripe for the picking though.

And you can't have Katrina and the Waves as Walking On Sunshine wasn't her Eurovision winning song - can't remember the title but it also got pretty high in the charts (maybe even number 1?).

Ooh - and what was that rap song we entered about 6 or 7 years ago that wasn't actually too bad but came about 7th...??

That would have been 'Love Shine a Light'-

As in "Love shine a light in every corner of the world, let the love light Kerry" etc.

Sorry. I'll go now

That wsas in answer to the question about Katrina and the Waves, btw.

"... And I wonder what did happen to Sally Ann Triplet?!"

Well, I know where she didn't end up. Unfortunately!

The Angelo thing.

Didn't the Barron Knights do a 'parody'(? - sorry I have forgotten my 7 tenets of humour already)?

It was like...

Sam and Jo
Met in a Chip Shop in Walthamstow

and later

He was keen
Drove down the High Street like Barry Sheene

etc.

The rap one would have been Love City Groove with, um, 'Love City Groove'.

Did Gina G have any hits other than "Just a Little Bit"?

I beleive she did chart again, but the songs were all exactly the same so not surprised we can't remember what they're called...