Love them, hate them, or just ignore them, Abba's success cannot be denied.
One of my old college friends had a serious crush on Agnetha...
Anyway, something light for this Sunday morning of war.
And now I have Waterloo stuck in my head!
Posted on 04/14/2024 6:33:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan
It was all more harmonious in the old days. One recalls the 1990 Eurovision finals in Zagreb, when the charming hostess, Helga Vlahović, presented her own fair country as the perfect Eurometaphor: "Yugoslavia is very much like an orchestra," she cooed. "The string section and the wood section all sit together." Alas, barely were the words out of her mouth before the wood section was torching the string section's dressing rooms, and the hills were alive only with the ancient siren songs of ethnic cleansing and genital severing. Lurching into its final movement, Yugoslavia was no longer the orchestra, only the pits. In an almost too poignant career trajectory, the lovely Miss Vlahović was moved from music programming to Croatian TV's head of war information programming.
The Eurovision Song Contest has never quite recovered, but oh, you should have seen it in its glory days, when the rich national cultures that gave the world Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Purcell, Debussy and Grieg bandied together to bring us "La-La-La" (winner, 1968), "Boom-Bang-A-Bang" (1969), "Ding-Dinge-Dong" (1975), "A Ba Ni Bi" (1978), "Diggy Loo Diggi Ley" (1984), and my personal favorite, "Lat Det Swinge," the 1985 winner by the Norwegian group Bobbysocks. The above songs are nominally sung in Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and even English, but in fact it's the universal language of Eurogroovy: "Ja, ja, boogie, baby, mit der rock'n'roll."
1974 didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. The great Katie Boyle was there, hosting for the BBC....
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Love them, hate them, or just ignore them, Abba's success cannot be denied.
One of my old college friends had a serious crush on Agnetha...
Anyway, something light for this Sunday morning of war.
And now I have Waterloo stuck in my head!
You could quit if you wanted to.
[One of my old college friends had a serious crush on Agnetha...]
Uhhh...yeah
Benny’s clothes look normal while Bjorn looks like he’s dressed up like a child or something
Waterloo--Stonewall Jackson (1959)
Bkmk
Stonewall Jackson was his real name. He also did this one, which is still relevant in 2024.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s the Seventies.”
:)
If I had a time machine......:)
I had a grand time in the Seventies. I was a teenager, served a four year hitch in the Navy, and started college in that decade.
My dad retired from the Navy, I made my first lifelong friends, with whom I still associate today including my best friend who went in the Navy with me.
It was a happening time. I know it was gritty. I know cars were rusty. I know we had Jimmy Carter. I know we had Inflation. I know we had the gas crunches. I know the hair style sucked. I know the clothes sucked just as bad.
But the music was glorious. And America was still more American than it is today. And of course, the world was my oyster back then...:)
Best times of my life before I got married.
It was a fantastic time
Except for a few of my friends who were on the ground in Vietnam (older friends)
In the mid-late Sixties and early Seventies, I lived on military bases in Japan and the Philippines...there was a lot going on.
I’ll bet
I’ll stick up for ABBA til my dying day.
I’m on Team Frida.
Man, I am having a lot of 70’s music flashbacks right now
SOS is a great song, I don’t care what anybody says.
Absolutely
Shoot, “Junior’s Farm” and I even appreciate “Helen Wheels”
Miss turning on the radio and hearing “Rockford Files” theme song, then “Southern Nights” and “Rhinestone Cowbody” then ELO....and even a disco song or two
Here’s one - had a secret crush in High School - this song always reminded me about her - like everything, my life must be complicated - I think her sister was flirting with me in chemistry class - (she wasn’t bad looking either)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xRMw0NyW0
WOW!
Never heard that one. Thanks!
Same here.
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