Eurovision - UK entries - The first 50 years (1957-2006)

[ton1961ton]

When will Great Britain bring a CD on the market with all the Songs from the Eurovision Songcontest show in this clip?????

[TheDrunkSpunk]

1962 what a tune

[britash94]

Love 1983, 1975, 1978, 1988, 1990, 1991 (its ronnie!!), 1994, 1996, 1998, 2005

and of course, my favourite 1997 :)

2003 is the worst :/

[pimmagrimm]

i got the entire formula now i just need to transpose my music. I seriously know what the formula is to win this thing... I got a long road ahead and it starts this autumn when i take some music lessons. The UK is missing a beat in recent years and isnt looking hard enough at what it is that wins... the element of surprise

[ThePonyluv]

@pimmagrimm good luck with that :)

[SuperHopes]

we need someone like adele , to go on :)

[thewolf1911]

ooh aah just alot of shit ohh ahh just a pile of shit

[08krakow]

50 years of shite....

[08krakow]

50 years of shite....

[georginachelsea]

amazing how we used to come 1st and 2nd now we are lucky to get like 10th

[risetodemise]

66 9th! ah well we won the World Cup! 68, Congratulations? Seriously?

[ThePonyluv]

the 2 dudes from 1961 freak me out big time O.O

[RossCawtonTV]

we just didnt catch with the groove since 2002 lol : D

[KnexmanBH]

2000

dont play that song again

16th

XD XD XD they agreed with the title

[TheCozintube]

of course we diddnt win in 1962, franzinstien was singing

[XXstilletoXX]

Shit we used to dominate Eurovision until the 2000s. I knew we won 6 times but 12 2nd places :O

[IBreathInAndOut]

It is kind of fascinating to see how much the show has grown and now it's really flashy and big!

[RoRonsku]

There was finnish subs most of he songs!

[RoRonsku]

There was finnish subs in 1975`s song!

[conchita4all]

1965 Was Awesome :)

[lfctwentytwo]

gina g was the best :D since then..it's gone downhill.

[Suedeheadlover]

@lfctwentytwo Gina G has & always will be eternally shit.

[TenshiChihuahua]

And this is why we never win :D

[UKUSAEU]

Guys remeber, different tastes in music in the early days...

[charlee119]

1:38

He looks like he was attacked my a mob of orange markers.

[charlee119]

1:38

He looks like her was attacked my a mob of orange markers.

[BiyaBiyaBiya]

Hahaha i think the guy on 0.40 ,1962 "Ring a Ding Girl", looks like frankenstein xD

[MrsAnabelaMagic]

@BiyaBiyaBiya IS TRUEEE! xDDD

[ioannisgr]

Did anyone count those 2nd places?

[StarryVision]

@ioannisgr Yep, i lost count a few times but i think we've come 2nd 12 times

[tryggvirafn]

Look at the dresses in the 1990, the gospel entry in 1992, the cheap entry in 1993 but you did amazing thing 1994 and 1995. You can feel the fashion trend each year like 1972, 1985, 1986 and so on.

But as always always 2nd! Thats a shame :-(

And while I remember 2003 was terrible!

[XxNewStarxX]

I remember the 2005 one, It was the first eurovision I ever saw ...

[NorwichTeenwolf]

2nd...2nd...2nd...2nd... :(

[falafelhotdog]

Oh wow I never realised 'just a little bit' was a eurovision song....and I like that song. How shameful :(

[1995maxh]

1991 - RONNIE MITCHELL! :O

[Tiffy576]

dont get why people find these embarrassing - we actually won with these, and came 2nd a lot - look at the crap thats gotten through recently where we are placed in the bottom 10 most of the times

[505kira]

we mostly came 1st , 2nd , 4th now we came near to last.

[morris912007]

we did alright back in the 50's 60's & 70's. The next 40 years things just went down hill.

[gingertears]

touch my fire deserves better than that!! honestly

[kaiyan246]

they sang ok but TODAY EUROVISION SUCKS NOW DONT WATCH IT UK PPL

[FloorAvenueDiary]

should have put in the beatles

[EternalRainfall]

1962 - Frankenstein.

[reballare]

sandie shaw was the best

[Sileeee56]

67-77 the bests songs!

[solefthanded2]

jeez, there's some rubbish there....

[hermione1998]

1991 ronnie mitchel

[ryckaxd]

from 2005. eurovision looks better

[joshuam1996]

U can see us go down hill from 1998

[mattdocherty3]

were!?!?!

[welshwitch17]

Cliff Richard's dancing never fails to crack me up

[TheGoldStandardBoy]

Cliff Richard's Congratulations came out a year after Sergeants Pepper. It's amazing how far behind we were in Eurovision when you compare it to our normal output in popular music back then.

I like 1970 and 1997 the best.

[cgsilverscreen2020]

HOW the HELL did they get 13th place in 1987?! That was a good song!

[thisisnixofficial]

love city groove - i loved that one lol, bought the cassette n'everything. - gosh, our entries really deteriorated after then.. suppose the US/UK hand-in-hand war didn't help, but still.. neither did our song entries when you look back over the recent years.

[jacksite2007]

Every one hates us after we joined an illegal war sucking up to the americans. We are never going to win again so we should pull out if it. We pay for it in the BBC tv license so it affects us all

[EmilySlash]

2003 "Cry Baby" seems to be a good song; why is it last? I think it was the best out of all the other entries

[Rockape593]

Wonderful

[hermione1998]

cliff richard olivia newton john katrina and the waves and jade ewen are all famous now

[garrychelsea]

@hermione1998 apart from jade all the others were famous BEFORE eurovision

[fustyans]

My God, That brought back some memories.......

Thanks for uploading this :)

[erlock21]

gina g ..oh ahhh shouldve won

some of them were awfu;

[EmmieHeartsYou]

wow, we just kept getting worse..

[nacht98]

1983 what a great song this is...I just Love, I only can understand that this wasn´t winner because 1993 was really a very strong year!

[nacht98]

1976 is the best one, and probably the best eurovision song ever!

[musicisinsideofme]

The UK has got worse and worse. This year we came last! The song was pretty crap though

[bucha563]

You got to remeber that overall the uk are second behind Ireland on the amount of times we've won it. It's someone elses turn.

[angularity1]

@bucha563 It's not about turns. It should be about the music. The UK used to produce strong entries. It doesn't any more, simple as that.

[bucha563]

@angularity1

What i was trying to say is i dont like the same country winning it over and over again like ireland did in the 90s. And i do agree that the uk dont produce strong entries anymore.

[etherella]

I'm quite amused by which songs I remember and which ones I don't (from about the mid nineties I remember all of them, then only here and there after that). I'm 28 now and I used to watch Eurovision a lot...so I wonder why I don't remember more. Hrm.

[ukryan1992]

the UK's songs in 2004 and 2005 were a hell of a lot better than most of the others!

[markey1221]

we need to demand for recounts more often!

[hermione1998]

1968 actually it was annoced that spain cheated and that we should have won

[Colorshade]

1993 was great!

[cravin4chocolate]

at the year went on they got worst

[leemister07]

Hope America never join Europe there will be alot of fights at eurovision if they see an American ^^

[Orlabobz]

@leemister07

Even if they wanted to, they really couldnt. I mean, its the EUROvision.....

[55skins55]

Where did it all go wrong for us :L

[duncandohnut1993]

1962=frankenstein :O

[RogueRotting360]

Why did they get rid of the pit orchestras and conductors?

Should bring them back.

[sirstarwars]

through the early years we did ok mostly in the top ten but these past like 3 years we are comming last! WTF HAPPENED

[WahTakVong]

1999 onwards is horrible

[WahTakVong]

I like the oldies better

[GoodByeKyle]

Good Upload, Thanx :-D

[13r1tish]

they should just get paul mcartney and the other beatle guy

[Orlabobz]

@13r1tish

Ya i'm sure Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have nothing better to do than to make a mockery of themselves at eurovision. I mean, the greatest band of old time and them doing eurovision? i don't think so!!!

[Cornpish]

Lol

Song from 2000 "dont play that song again"

Is really true

[juicymoi22]

eurovision never changes - still as crap as ever - but we love it!  : )

[pippin1992]

Woo This is so strange, goes from nice singing to a raper with school girls and cliff richard in the middle

[JackalFeatures]

Omg, years 2000+ are awful! Especially 2003, what were they thinking? I reckon they WANT us to lose.

[flexdream]

Ah memories, esp 67,68,72,81, and 96(the best).

[ShitMovies2000]

lol 50 years of embarrassment...

[Lusjnie]

@ShitMovies2000 Not really, we were doing well until the 2000s. Then it was an embarrassment.

[MusicVideoVille]

I hate the 2003 entry! No wonder it came last!

[MaddieBishop]

woooooo we won on my birth year! :)

lol we got to 2000 and started loseing ....gradually...

[thelearner60]

Thanks uploading all that. Very appropriate the  2000 British Euro song 'Dont Play that Song Again' because that song a lot of those others, wont ever be played again without a gun to your head.

[wiltner]

1961 was an attempt to copy the Everly Brothers. 1962 was Lurch from the Adams Family!

[somethingxtraspesh]

Who the fuck were those awful singers from 2003, how the hell did that get entered, it was awful...(N)

[TheManOfSteel363]

Lol they came LAST.... :D

[MaddieBishop]

oh ive heard about them..gemini or summin like tht.

[billysharp15]

how in the dickins did they judge the first 20 lol!

[funcnot]

Lol tust us english to apply  2 late

[funcnot]

Love city groove same year i was born lol

[funcnot]

Where is the 58 contest

[michaelleacy]

UK didn't enter the 58 contest

[Clusterlala]

@michaelleacy UK entered them all !

[Sileeee56]

@michaelleacy WHY?

[505kira]

@michaelleacy why ddint they?

[dylandoran2006]

England came second 14 times... so close!! But ireland won 7 times... still the most out of any country... but we're startin ta lose our irish charm in the past few year... its gettin way toooo hard to win now!!

[222apple222]

England ? United Kingdom you mean ..

[dylandoran2006]

Its all the same!

[222apple222]

@dylandoran2006 How the hell is one country , all four in the UK ?

[dylandoran2006]

You never see somebody welsh.. scotish.. or n.irish.. entering it.. its always english people.. so i don't see where the big problem is!.. Nobody calls it the united kingdom.. i even have relations there.. and they call it england aswell.. theres no need for a reply.. i know you disagree so its pointless!!

[222apple222]

@dylandoran2006 No, thats not true, they are not all English people , Why in the 53 years we have entered , do you think there has never been a welsh ,or scottish person ,,,

[222apple222]

@dylandoran2006 and the 1962 entery is from northeren ireland , so i would realy do my reaserch , before you make judgements about a country , you are not even from , and blatetly no nothing about

[michaelleacy]

The 1971 entry was Northern Irish as well. Added to that the 1966, 69, 87, 88 entries were Scottish and the 1970, 90, 02,04 entries were Welsh. 1972 was English/Scottish/Australian/Ge­rman, 1976 was part Welsh, 1996 was Australian and 1997 was mainly American!

[222apple222]

I know , but some idiot thinks all of them are English ,,

[dylandoran2006]

ah shut the fuck up you stupid bitch.. and stop crying!! get over yourself!

[222apple222]

Me , i was not the one who posted that stuoid comment , saying all of them are English ,, WHAT !!!

[geestarshizzle]

We were waay better in the olden days haha

[JackLiberal]

Hey in 2000 we sent Penny from the GMTV newsdesk ?!?

[Bille994]

haha really puts the last few years in to perspective...people were stupid to just blame politics when we sent baaad entries.

and omggg eurovision in the olden days scares me o.0

[StephanieIsPink]

I have always wanted to speak icelandic :) The language is beautiful :)

I am from England like the singers :) Great video xx

[princessofDanmark]

Hi from Iceland I hope someone here can help me. I have been looking for a few years of Eurovision on cd the years i am serching for are 1956 untill 1985. If someone wants to help me please feel free to contact me. Thank you

[mawe1979]

hallo i have all songcontest from 1956 and forward...but 56 and 64 is only the audio.....mawe from sweden

[cplanner97]

we wer good in the 60s 70s and 80s but then we wer shit

[Ayame895]

We won five times....but oh my...we really do suck at this....XD

[Furienna]

I won't comment much on the first twenty years. That music is so much before my time, that I can't appreciate it properly, I'm afraid. But I like 1959, 1961, 1967, 1970, 1972 and 1973. The music starts sounding more modern in the late 70s. I like 1976, 1977 and 1979.

In the 80s, UK pretty much deserved their placings, except that I don't think, that they should have been 2nd in 1988. There were several entries, especially "Croire" by Lara Fabian, the Luxembourg entry, which were better.

[lfctwentytwo]

let me be the one was pretty cool..sounded reggae lol all the other old ones sucked we should get bad manners on or the wurzels..just take the piss out of it basicly but put on a good show cos it's not about the music lol lordi won it cos of the performance not the song..it was kickass though and the best one out of this pile of trash has to be love city groove..omg that was epic

[hammerslittlehorror]

The late 90's onwards it really goes down hill, but it was interesting to see that we haven't always done so badly...2nd place so many times. Great to see Jade get us back on track (hopefully we can keep it up in the following years)

[xtibbersx]

oh fuck me were bad.

[kupaval]

The Nolans .. Harry My Honolulu Lover 1979.. prepared to Eurovision, could have been #1~#2 to see this.

[IceWiz44]

I say Cry Baby was their best song :)

[hannahrodez]

eurovision isn't fun anymore since the politic voting started ;(

But congrats Jade for helping us gain 5th ;)

[catokoch]

imanii had, and still has, a fantastic song. should have won..

[seymourdix1]

paul curtis wrote so many classic songs....lets get him back for 2010

[Busseto]

Yeah , definitely you did it KrazyKid , in a fake, senseless, cheated so called contest .....DD !

Try to check how many times the UK poor shits won the contest thanks to political votes sharing with Scandinavia & Northern Europe !

The one time UK really deserved to win ( 1975 ) , your friend countries voted for the most easy hearing song in ESC history !

Which says a lot of the ESC rubbish .

[Kw2208]

One moment, are you saying that ding a dong in 1975 is a crap song. Im sorry, its pure greatness, dare i say the best euro hit ever : )

[KrazyKid15937]

ITs amazing we never left the TOP 5 from 1959 - 78 and we still had loads of winners and 2nd places after that

[xxGorgeousEmzxx]

I used 2 love "Say it again" by Precious when I was little (1999); I thought that "Love shine a light" (1997) was the best! Jade Ewen did so well for us to come back in2 the top 5 this yr! I cant believe how many times we came second in all of the eurovision contests.

[orbah1]

in 1992 it begins to be stereo.

[8jukesj]

gina g shud hav been higher !

[majjaahh]

Hahah, funny songs :)

[Ashboyyyy]

England could win, if the competition was actually about singing, if they didnt tell the veiwers which country was singing it would be alot more fair.

[grundu]

we can win, they have a rule about no political voting, don't exactly know how that works but it did for this years UK entry, 5TH i was so happy

[90liverpool09]

Jade Ewen was amazing (2009)

[Target842]

2002 was the best song!

[Target842]

1962 lol frankenstien!

[MiseryMoon]

The reason why the UK have done badly in recent years (2003 onwards) in Eurovision isn't because of the Eastern block in my honest opinion.

It has been because the UK's entries in recent years have honestly stunk.

Good singing, a good voice with plenty of talent is what the UK needs to do well.

[dfective1]

Of course its because of the Eastern block! we stopped taking the comp seriously in 2003 because we were tired of all the political voting...

Our songs sucked after as we just took the p*ss out of the competition... but they definately didn't suck enough to come as low as we have... there were MUCH worse entries that finished higher...

all i can say is thank **** for the overhaul of the voting system this year, alongside a song written for the UK by a musical genius Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[chileepengwin]

@MiseryMoon Yeah, although I do think that bloc/political voting has played a small part in our failure in recent years, I do agree with you that our entries, and also our singers, have gone somewhat dowhill and just arent as good as they were before, which is a shame.

[JackLiberal]

@MiseryMoon We need to get real our recent entries except for Jade have been completely awful and we deserve to finish last. The problem also is that the media reports give the impression that it's fixed when it's not :/

[2Kazoo]

We used to be soo good...what happened?

Don't answer that. I know the answer's politics....

[miketoriant]

no, also the eastern european taste is different :/ we like more traditional-ish songs from eastern europe not new british songs :/

take a look at spains song for 09, the music will definitely get it alot of votes from east europe.

[swordmasterE331]

ummm.... it didn't

[grundu]

yeh, i kept thinking we were spain and felt sorry but then they finally started to get points, a very good song! thought it would be around 10th but oh well

[menamesjames]

Englands supposed to be known for great music,all the other countries will think that we have the worst music with this song

[StrangeNormality]

I remember watching teenage life.

Oh how I resented whoever composed that.

[TheCfShow]

why cant coldplay or the feeling represent us?!

[leunga]

got the same query. I remember one year TATU represented russia. Isnt eurovision suppose to represent the music in your country? Then why cant UK just let Leona Lewis / coldplay / take that etc etc etc do it

[dameskates]

the uk doesnt need to show it has good music especially to a joke political voting contest like eurovision lol

[ztoical]

there's nothing stopping Leona Lewis / coldplay / take that but they prob think it wouldn't be good for their careers plus of those 3 only Coldplay is the only one who write their songs, for the others you'd still have to find a song writer. It's not contest between countries but between national broadcasters in the country so it's up the BBC who they send each year.

[s4nt45]

leona lewis just doesnt want to aswell because if they come last then thats their career ruined

[incinorated]

2003 was crap

[xVancha]

Watching this, I'm hardly surprised we haven't won recently. Looks like this year won't be any different either. Go forth and bore, Jade!

[allyplumb]

1984 oh dear!!

[dalesdad28]

Atm least in the early years we did not have the eastern block voting

Should have won more esp Cliff & Congratulations

[cocoohh]

uk were like the best for so many years, but the entries now... omg it's almost embarrassing to watch some of them!

[euro19952009]

But in this year UK is great! Go Jade!

[mingereilly]

agree with you!

[02goodProductions0]

awesome video im gunna show my mum this she will find it very intresting she loves this show and so do i

THANKYOU!!!!!!!

[Atlantisan]

Man! Must say it was a bit weird to see all thoose songs. All quality from 57-94, and then this rubbish that killed it all in 95. "Love shine a light" in 97 was really good tough.