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Episode 108 – “1960: Norway’s Debut, Catherine?, and A Bad Boyfriend”

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Welcome to the 10th and FINAL year of Wind Machine Podcast!

In this episode, we chat about host city of London, the host of 1960, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1960, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1960 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Wat een geluk – Rudi Carrell (Netherlands)

Alla andra får varann – Siw Malmkvist (Sweden)

Det var en yndig tid – Katy Bødtger (Denmark)

Cielo e terra – Anita Traversi (Switzerland)

Mon amour pour toi – Fud Leclerc (Belgium)

Voi-voi – Nora Brockstedt (Norway)

Bonne nuit ma chérie – Wyn Hoop (Germany)

Ce soir-là – François Deguelt (Monaco)

Looking High, High, High – Bryan Johnson (United Kingdom)

Tom Pillibi – Jacqueline Boyer (France)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year –

In episode 109, we’re back to Luxembourg City for Eurovision 1966!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions to see our limited reaction series The Last Five…

Danie’s new YouTube channel “They Did What?! On Television?” can be found here https://youtube.com/@danietreg

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 107 – “1963: A Snub, The Magic Of Television, and A Beloved Friend”

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Happy New Year!

2026 will be a bit different for us. Our statement regarding the future of Wind Machine Podcast starts this episode, and 1963 review begins around the 10 minute mark.

In this episode, we chat about host city of London, the host of 1963, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1963, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1963 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Brodovi – Vice Vukov (Yugosalvia)

Waarom? – Jacques Raymond (Belgium)

À force de prier – Nana Mouskouri (Luxembourg)

Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder – Carmela Corren (Austria)

L’amour s’en va – Françoise Hardy (Monaco)

Elle était si jolie – Alain Barrière (France)

Say Wonderful Things – Ronnie Carroll (United Kingdom)

Uno per tutte – Emilio Pericoli (Italy)

T’en va pas – Esther Ofarim (Switzerland)

Dansevise – Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann (Denmark)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year –

In episode 107, we’re staying in London for Eurovision 1960!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions to see our limited reaction series The Last Five…

Danie’s new YouTube channel “They Did What?! On Television?” can be found here https://youtube.com/@danietreg

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 106 – “1961: A Garden Party, Introductions, and The Taboo Lovers”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Cannes, the host of 1961, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1961, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1961 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

April, april – Lill-Babs (Sweden)

Einmal sehen wir uns wieder – Lale Andersen (Germany)

Wat een dag – Greetje Kauffeld (Netherlands)

Allons, allons les enfants – Colette Deréal (Monaco)

Estando contigo – Conchita Bautista (Spain)

Angelique – Dario Campeotto (Denmark)

Printemps (avril carillonne) – Jean-Paul Mauric (France)

Nous aurons demain – Franca di Rienzo (Switzerland)

Are You Sure? – The Allisons (United Kingdom)

Nous les amoureux – Jean-Claude Pascal (Luxembourg)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year –

In episode 107, we’re back in London for Eurovision 1963!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions to see our limited reaction series The Last Five…

The Eurovision Podcrawl can be found here https://linktr.ee/eurovisionpodcrawl featuring ESC Insight, us, EuroWhat?, Niall Points, 12 Points From America, That Euro Site, and Douze Points (UK).

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 105 – “1965: Ireland’s Arrival, Backstage Slapping, and Singing Dolls”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Naples, the host of 1965, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1965, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1965 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Qué bueno, qué bueno – Conchita Bautista (Spain)

Aurinko laskee länteen – Viktor Klimenko (Finland)

Het is genoeg – Conny Vandenbos (Netherlands)

Absent Friend – Ingvar Wixell (Sweden)

I’m Walking the Streets in the Rain – Butch Moore (Ireland)

Se piangi, se ridi – Bobby Solo (Italy)

Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen – Udo Jürgens (Austria)

N’avoue jamais – Guy Mardel (France)

I Belong – Kathy Kirby (United Kingdom)

Poupée de cire, poupée de son – France Gall (Luxembourg)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year –

In episode 106, we’re off to Cannes for Eurovision 1961!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast. Big thanks to Christian for the coffees!

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions to see our limited reaction series The Last Five…

The Eurovision Podcrawl can be found here https://linktr.ee/eurovisionpodcrawl featuring ESC Insight, us, EuroWhat?, Niall Points, 12 Points From America, That Euro Site, and Douze Points (UK).

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 104 – “1964: Missing Pieces, A Protest, and She Was Too Young But Also Old Enough”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Copenhagen, the host of 1964, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1964, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1964 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne – Nora Nova (Germany)

Jij bent mijn leven – Anneke Grönloh (Netherlands)

Sangen om dig – Bjørn Tidmand (Denmark)

Spiral – Arne Bendiksen (Norway)

Laiskotellen – Lasse Mårtenson (Finland)

Warum nur, warum? – Udo Jürgens (Austria)

Dès que le printemps revient – Hugues Aufray (Luxembourg)

Où sont-elles passées – Romuald Figuier (Monaco)

I Love The Little Things – Matt Monro (United Kingdom)

Non ho l’età – Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year –

In episode 105, we’re off to Naples for Eurovision 1965!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions for our limited reaction series The Last Five…

Keep up with the Podcrawl here https://linktr.ee/eurovisionpodcrawl. Episode 3 1990 by EuroWhat? and episode 4 2003 by Niall Points are out now!

We based this episode on the 1964 reconstruction by JejTheDoodle23 that can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4WLDPKwNU&list=RDMS4WLDPKwNU&start_radio=1&t=322s

Check out Frank’s channel for restorations of Eurovision performances here: https://www.youtube.com/@Eurovision-OLD

Dan’s 1964 staging video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VehKF02e_4

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 100 – “1977: Postponements, Tatooine, and The Bird And The Child…ren”

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our listeners!

In this episode, we chat about host city of London, the host of 1977, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1977, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1977 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Boom Boom Boomerang – Schmetterlinge (Austria)

De mallemolen – Heddy Lester (Netherlands)

Lapponia – Monica Aspelund (Finland)

Telegram – Silver Convention (Germany)

A Million in One, Two, Three – Dream Express (Belgium)

Swiss Lady – Pepe Lienhard Band (Switzerland)

Mathema solfege – Pascalis, Marianna, Robert and Bessy (Greece)

It’s Nice to Be in Love Again – The Swarbriggs Plus Two (Ireland)

Rock Bottom – Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran (United Kingdom)

L’Oiseau et l’Enfant – Marie Myriam (France)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our first year for Season Six: Eurovision in the 1960s

In episode 101, we’re off to Luxembourg City for Eurovision 1962!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast. A massive thanks to Shane for his coffees!

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions

Stewart Morris talkback BBC 1977 https://youtu.be/XTgCLfYdRo4?si=pgZ0UUwxxAnM3jKe

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 99 – “1976: Bouquets, Judgement, and He Was Only 26?”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of The Hague, the hosts of 1976, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1976, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1976 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

Sing, Sang, Song – Les Humphries Singers (Germany)

Pump Pump – Fredi and The Friends (Finland)

When – Red Hurley (Ireland)

The Party’s Over – Sandra Reemer (Netherlands)

Judy et Cie – Pierre Rapsat (Belgium)

My Little Word – Waterloo and Robinson (Austria)

Djambo Djambo – Peter, Sue and Marc (Switzerland)

Toi, la musique et moi – Mary Christy (Monaco)

Un, deux, trois – Catherine Ferry (France)

Save Your Kisses For Me – Brotherhood of Man (United Kingdom)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our last year for Season Five:

In episode 100, we’re off to London for Eurovision 1977!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions

Song Snippets: “Save Your Kisses For Me” by Margo Smith, “Já půjdu tam a ty tam” by Helena Vondráčková and Jíři Korn, “Küsse von dir” by Rex Gildo, and “Mimo opyat” by Philipp Kirkorov used only for comparsions and all their rights are reserved. Same goes for Sponge Bob.

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 98 – “1974: Briiiighton, Wombledon, and Finally Facing Our (Spotify) Waterloo”

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In this episode, we chat about host city of Brighton, the host of 1974, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1974, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1974 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

The First Day of Love – Anne-Karine and the Bendik Singers (Norway)

Die Sommermelodie – Cindy and Bert (Germany)

Keep Me Warm – Carita (Finland)

Canta y sé feliz – Peret (Spain)

Fleur de liberté – Jacques Hustin (Belgium)

Long Live Love – Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom)

Bye Bye I love you – Ireen Sheer (Luxembourg)

I See a Star – Mouth and MacNeal (Netherlands)

Si – Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy)

Waterloo – ABBA (Sweden)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 99, we’re off to The Hague for Eurovision 1976! Which means, episode 100 will be 1977!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod

Follow our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@windmachineproductions

Hypercut of the postcards: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeLyrics2012

Check out A Tech Ops History blog here: http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/more-eurovision-memories/

Rewind ESC 1974 here: https://x.com/RewindESC

Snippets from Nine News Melbourne, Jimmy Rees’ Meanwhile in Brighton series, and the theme from The Wombles used only for storytelling and all their rights are reserved. We’re already dealing with Spotify not accepting our music licence, come on and give us a break.

Legal and Licencing Notice:

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We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.

WMP Supplemental 13: Eurovision 2024: A Contest For The History Books (For Probably The Wrong Reasons)

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Eurovision 2024. Well. It was a time.

We asked our listeners via our socials to give us topics to talk about, and we answered as best as we could. We hate having to say this, but as always here at WMP: these are our thoughts, and our opinions. 2024 was definitely an experience. You’re going to hear a lot of stories, these are just ours.

And for the first (and maybe only time), we recorded the podcast for YouTube, you can either listen OR watch here: https://youtu.be/dmcWm9n8tAc

Song played:

The Code – Nemo (Switzerland) – Grand Final Live Performance

We’ll be back to regular programming with Episode 96 – 1971 very soon!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

You can also find WMP merch at https://www.redbubble.com/people/WindMachinePod. The flags of Eurovision design never goes out of style!

Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave Sound. Into The Lights by Global Sound System.