Eurovision 1978 Belgium

The Belgian entry at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.
Jean Vallée - "L'amour ça fait chanter la vie" ("Love makes life sing")
A nice, if a bit old-fashioned, song with pleasantly reflective lyrics. It's taking me some warming up to, but now I love it and think it's so soothing and beautiful. I'm not sure if it deserved its runner-up position, but then, it's a good song anyway.

Keep an eye out for Jean almost tripping on the raised step at the end of the song.

Category:

Music

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• eurovision
• esc
• 1978
• beligum
• jean
• vallee
• l'amour
• ça
• fait
• chanter
• la
• vie

[Talkon82]

I'm with EscBelgium111 too - one of the very best Eurovision songs ever, and extremely unlucky to lose to a much more childish entry. Without question they shouldn't have had to wait another eight years!

I adore the way the song just keeps building and building to that big crescendo, and Jean's performance is superb.

The other good thing is that after rarely setting my ESC scoreboard on fire, this song kicks off a decade where Belgium hardly miss being in my top ten.

[setheurovision94]

Well, that's actually true, 1977-1984 saw an amazing run of Belgian entries in my book. This isn't one of my favourites though I definitely recognise it as a good song. I love their entries from 1980, 1983 and 1984, as well as 1977.

[mynsweet6]

Pour toi, Papa avec le plus bel amour chanté par Jean Vallée, tu es décédé le 28 juin 1.977 , tu n'as donc pas connu cette chanson mais je sais que tu aimais ce très bel artiste! Ta fille chérie

[jasonptify]

@MrEiriku --- sorry but thats what your Daddy does to you

[MrEiriku]

@jasonptify I FUCK YOU IN THE ASS

[klarinetta]

By far the best Belgium entry

[arcencielbeautiful]

Merveilleuse chanson elle illumine

nos petits émois,à l'entendre encore

aujourd'hui, elle comble les coeurs

Ensemble nous l'avons chantée Maman

C'est un doux souvenir.

Merveilleux artiste ce Jean vallée

[nendaz21]

Eén van de mooiste inzendingen ooit voor het Eurovisiesongfestival dat jammer genoeg 2e eindigde. Waar is de tijd, dat waren nog eens festivals met echte kippevelmomenten....

[neus001]

Ah, the majesty of the french language at its best....

[jasonptify]

boring and old fashioned

[fleurperle]

magnifique chanson qui n'a pris aucune ride merveilleusement interprétée

[TheDRMISTERY]

Ok if not too old fashioned. Israel was better and deserved its win!

[euromaitre]

@setheurovision94 In 1984 Belgium sent a fabulous entry to the ESC and although there were other good ones (Portugal, Spain, Denmark, and Italy with who Belgium shared Place 5) Those two could have shared place 1, too, Sweden was not good that year, not even a good one.