"entries in the contest to date. Since that time, the United Kingdom has won the contest a total of five times: in 1967 with ""Puppet on a String"" by Sandie Shaw; one of four winners of the 1969 contest with ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"" by Lulu; in 1976 with the Brotherhood of Man song ""Save Your Kisses for Me""; in 1981 with ""Making Your Mind Up"" by Bucks Fizz; and most recently in 1997 with ""Love Shine a Light"" by Katrina and the Waves"". The United Kingdom also holds the record for the most second-place finishes, a total of 15. Since the"
"the 18th-most watched programme of the week. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" won the national final, performed on stage with dance moves and four brightly dressed singers, it ultimately went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest itself and become a UK No.1 single, the group had a 2 further UK No.1 singles over the next 18 months. The track was the biggest selling single of 1976 in the UK and the sixth biggest selling for the 1970s in Britain, with sales well in excess of 1 million copies. Globally, the track attained sales of over 6 million, making it"
"Olivia Newton-John, Lulu, etc.), but 1976 saw the return to the format in which any artist was eligible to enter. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" made it to the final twelve songs and on 25 February, Brotherhood of Man took the title, beating the second placed act, Co-Co by two points. Now signed to Pye Records, ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was released as a single in March and hit the No.1 spot two weeks before the Contest final. On 3 April, the ""1976 Eurovision Song Contest"" was staged in the Netherlands and Brotherhood of Man performed the song, dressed"
"Europe. The group continued to score hits in the UK, with two more chart toppers in the next two years; however, this was not the case in the United States, where ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was the group's final chart entry (and only one under this lineup). ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" is still one of the best-selling singles of all time in the UK, with sales of over a million copies. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was succeeded at Eurovision in 1977 by Marie Myriam singing ""L'oiseau et l'enfant"" for France. In a reversal of the 1976 result,"
"December 1976.It was shown on several European networks at the start of 1977, including Belgian, Dutch, German, Swedish and Norwegian TV, as well as several networks in Africa and the Antipodes. The show was hosted by Dame Vera Lynn, who opened the programme with a medley of British hits by leading British songwriters, spanning from 1952 to 1976. The medley sung by Lynn included songs by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Leslie Bricusse, Lionel Bart, Don Black and Norman Newell. The medley ended with the UK's 1976 Eurovision Song Contest winner, ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". The guests on"
"by public televoting On the night of the final Ferry performed 17th in the running order, following Monaco and preceding Yugoslavia. France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with ""Un, deux, trois"". Prior to the contest most observers noted that the 1976 contest was the easiest for many years to predict, with ""Un, deux, trois"" and the United Kingdom's ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" as the only possible winners. The predictions proved accurate as the two quickly surged well ahead of the field in the voting, and after"
"A Song for Europe 1976, Brown performed two competing numbers: as a soloist she performed ""Do You Believe In Love At First Sight?"" while Sweet Dreams featuring Brown and Tony Jackson performed ""Love, Kiss And Run"". These entrants finished at respectively #10 and #4 with Brotherhood of Man's ""Save Your Kisses For Me"" becoming that year's UK Eurovision entrant and eventual Eurovision winner. Brown remains unique in competing in the same UK pre-selection round for Eurovision as both a soloist and group member. Brown also recorded the original version of ""Dance Little Lady Dance"", which became a Top Ten hit"
"Cherry Red Records released the first four albums by the Eurovision line up as two double CDs. This was the first time these albums were available on CD. Brotherhood of Man I (1969–1972) Brotherhood of Man II (1972–present) Albums Brotherhood of Man Brotherhood of Man are a British pop group who achieved success in the 1970s. They won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initially an umbrella title for a frequently-changing line-up of session singers. Early on, they scored a worldwide"
"in sixth place out of the twelve contestants. The winners were Brotherhood of Man, who went on to win the Eurovision title in the final at The Hague with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". Jones released an album of the same name soon after, but neither the single nor album made the UK charts. This was followed up by Jones winning the first ""Opportunity Knocks"" satellite show via a TV link up with Australia. She had albums released in the UK with 30 piece orchestral backing and, in 1976, was voted the second best female vocalist in Britain. Jones appeared"
"The UK has itself entered many schlager artists into the Eurovision Song Contest; for example, Brotherhood of Man won for the UK in 1976 with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". Distinctively German schlager (including volksmusik and its modern version volkstümliche Musik), sung in German, has also attracted a small fan base in the United Kingdom, including BBC Radio Manchester commentator Ian Cheeseman. Germany's top-selling schlager singer Helene Fischer released the album ""The English Ones"" in 2010, with several English-language versions of her German hits for her Anglophone fans. British schlager singers including Ross Antony, Tony Christie and Roger Whittaker have"
"the UK were runners-up. Among many cover versions, country singer Margo Smith had a major hit on the Country charts in 1976, while Bobby Vinton had a Billboard top 100 hit in the same year with his version. Brotherhood of Man themselves have re-recorded the song twice as well as releasing a Spanish version (""Tus Besos Son Para Mi"") as a single in 1991. The song was chosen in an internet poll conducted by the European Broadcasting Union in 2005 as one of the fourteen most popular songs in the history of the Eurovision, and was one of the entrants"
"replicated in the biggest-selling song of the year - the Eurovision-winning ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" by Brotherhood of Man, who began a three-year run in the UK charts from 1976. Other acts to achieve notable firsts were Elton John, who scored his first UK number one single this year (albeit as a duet with Kiki Dee), Showaddywaddy had their first and only number one and long-standing hitmaker Johnny Mathis also scored his biggest hit this year. The album charts saw TV advertising become a major factor in changing the landscape of big sellers with non-regular singles artists achieving high"
"first hit in 1974 and first No.1 the year after, the group entered and won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". To date, she is the only Welsh person to win Eurovision. For the next three years, the group regularly hit the chart and scored two more No.1 singles in the UK, ""Angelo"" and ""Figaro"". In addition to singing, Stevens is an amateur pianist, and performed the piano accompaniment to an otherwise a cappella recording of ""Send in the Clowns"" in 1978, which was featured on the band's ""Twenty Greatest"" album. In 1988,"
"Kisses For Me"". Let Me Be the One (The Shadows song) ""Let Me Be the One"" was the United Kingdom's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975, written by Paul Curtis and performed in English by the band The Shadows. The song was performed ninth on the night (following Yugoslavia's Pepel in Kri with ""Dan ljubezni"" and preceding Malta's Renato with ""Singing This Song""). At the close of voting, it had received 138 points, placing 2nd in a field of 19. It was succeeded as British representative at the 1976 Contest by the UK's third ever Eurovision champion, Brotherhood of"
"Kisses for Me"" performed by Brotherhood of Man, in 1981 with the song ""Making Your Mind Up"" performed by Bucks Fizz, and in 1997 with the song ""Love Shine a Light"" performed by Katrina and the Waves. To this point, the nation is noted for having finished as the runner-up in a record fifteen contests. Up to and including 1998, the UK had only twice finished outside the top 10, in 1978 and 1987. Since 1999, the year in which the rule was abandoned that songs must be performed in one of the official languages of the country participating, the"
"the Eurovision Song Contest. The final took place on 9 February 1975 in the studios of TRT and hosted by Bülend Özveren. The winning song was picked by averaging the ranks from the professional jury and people's jury as ""Seninle Bir Dakika"" (literally ""A minute with you"") by Semiha Yankı. At the close of voting the song had received only 3 points from Monaco and placed last. In 1976, Greek entry aroused controversy as it was about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This time Turkey withdrew from the Contest to protest the political background of the entry of Greece, ""Panagia"
"Love and Kisses from Brotherhood of Man Love and Kisses from Brotherhood of Man (usually referred to as simply Love and Kisses) is the second album released by the new line-up of British pop group Brotherhood of Man. It was released in the UK the day before their 1976 Eurovision win with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"", which the album contained. In some European countries the album was released in October 1975 with a slightly different track listing. In line with their previous album, the style of the album's tracks was more soul-based than the pure pop for which the"
"Baby"". According to Sheriden, during writing sessions for their second album, he came up with a song called ""Save Your Kisses for Me"", which the others rejected initially. He then presented it to them again as Hiller was looking for a song to enter in the following year's . This time they went with it and after some rewriting the song won the contest in 1976. It went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest and became a No. 1 in many countries, selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The writing team of Sheriden, Hiller and Lee"
"finishing as the 18th-most watched programme of the week. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" won the national final and ultimately went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest itself. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was one of fourteen Eurovision songs selected by fans to compete in the ""Congratulations"" 50th anniversary special in 2005. In spite of it and another British entry (""Congratulations"") being among the participating songs, as well as the presence of Katrina Leskanich (of the UK's victorious 1997 act Katrina and the Waves) as co-host, the United Kingdom did not broadcast ""Congratulations"" as they felt it wouldn't attract"
"in red, white and black with simple choreography devised by Guy Lutman. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" took the title with an overwhelming victory. As manager Hiller stated; ""...""Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby"" was a hit all over Europe in '75. I firmly believe it opened the door for us a year later and helped us do well because they knew us – every weekend we'd travel to do TV spots in France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland"". The song became a major hit around the world and made No.1 in many countries and returned the group to the US Charts."
"other countries. Brotherhood of Man toured extensively in Europe, honing their stage act and harmonies, while Hiller, Sheriden and Lee worked on composing songs for their second album. Among them was a song Sheriden had largely written called ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". In early 1976, Hiller was keen for Brotherhood of Man to make an impact in the UK and decided to put ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" forward to the ""A Song for Europe"" competition. This year saw a change to the contest in that, since 1964, one specific artist had performed all the songs (e.g. Cliff Richard,"
"Brotherhood of Man Brotherhood of Man are a British pop group who achieved success in the 1970s. They won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initially an umbrella title for a frequently-changing line-up of session singers. Early on, they scored a worldwide hit with the song ""United We Stand"". By 1973 the concept had run its course and Hiller formed a definite four-member line-up consisting of Martin Lee, Lee Sheriden, Nicky Stevens and Sandra Stevens. This version of the group went"
"""Save Your Kisses for Me"", but with another song, ""Tugging"" in its place. In some countries it was released as ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" in 1976, with ""Tugging"", but without ""Love Me for What I Am"""" The album was released in April 1976 on Pye Records and featured the singles ""Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby"" and ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". Album track ""Be My Loving Baby"" was released as a single in Belgium and France in 1975. In the US, ""Sweet Lady from Georgia"" was released as the follow-up to ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". This was the"
"United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1976. It took place on 25 February 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. For the first time since 1964 a single act did not perform each of the nominated songs with rather each song being performed by a different act. Michael Aspel acted as presenter for the event. A Song for Europe was watched in 6.3 million homes (giving it a general viewing figure of 12.6 million viewers), and finishing as"
"had released an album. Over the next few years, Stevens enjoyed great success with Brotherhood of Man throughout the world. In 1975 they scored their first number one single and a year later they won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Save Your Kisses for Me"". The song made No.1 in the UK as well as many other countries and this was followed by two more UK chart toppers, ""Angelo"" and ""Figaro"". Although Hiller, Sheriden and Lee wrote the bulk of their material, Stevens is credited as a co-writer on one of their songs: ""Let's Love Together"", the B-Side"
"the 12 points exchange between the two was noted as an oddity, as neither country had received a maximum vote from any other jury. The 1976 contest was a two-horse race with winners the United Kingdom and runners-up France finishing out of sight of the rest of the field, and it was also spotted that Italy and Ireland were the only two countries who did not award a 12 or a 10 to either the UK or France. Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 Italy was represented by Romina Power and Al Bano, with the song '""We'll Live It"
"Belgium and Holland. The first appearance by this line-up in the UK is with the single ""Save Your Kisses For Me"" on 13 March 1976. The song's entry at No.14 was the second highest chart entry of that year (following Queen's ""Somebody to Love"" at No.4). The first appearance on the UK album charts is with ""Love and Kisses"" on 24 April 1976. Their final chart appearance anywhere in the world was in the UK with the single ""Lightning Flash"" on 10 July 1982. Altogether they spent 98 weeks in the UK singles chart (including eight weeks at No.1) and"
"enough of an audience. They opted to create their own special, """", hosted by 1998 host and longtime British commentator Sir Terry Wogan. The song was drawn to appear thirteenth in the running order, following ""Hold Me Now"" by Johnny Logan and preceding ""My Number One"" by Helena Paparizou. At the end of the first round, ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was announced as one of the five songs advancing to the final round. It was later revealed that the song finished fifth, scoring 154 points. ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" ultimately finished fifth in the final round, scoring 230"
"points (including, as in 1976, a maximum 12 from Israel). United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1976. It took place on 25 February 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. For the first time since 1964 a single act did not perform each of the nominated songs with rather each song being performed by a different act. Michael Aspel acted as presenter for the event. A Song for Europe was watched in 6.3 million homes (giving it a"
"memories, as the final lines describe the lover's return and ""Then we'll be three, under the summer sun"". The song was performed sixth on the night, following Luxembourg's Géraldine with ""Toi"" and preceding Switzerland's Simone Drexel with ""Mikado"". At the close of voting, it had received 11 points, placing 18th in a field of 19. It was succeeded as Norwegian representative at the 1976 contest by Anne-Karine Strøm with ""Mata Hari"". Touch My Life (with Summer) Touch My Life (With Summer) (), alternatively You touched my life with summer ) as it states the Eurovision official website, was the Norwegian"
"The song eventually sold six million copies worldwide and is still the highest selling Eurovision winner ever. In the UK, it stayed at No.1 for six weeks and earned them a platinum disc. It ended up the top selling single of the year and is still one of the few UK singles to sell a million. The group had already recorded a second album and had been released in several countries a year previously. Following their victory, Pye released the album with ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" added. Entitled ""Love and Kisses,"" the album was a success in the UK,"
"previously recording for Sugar Hill and 20th Century Fox. The song reached the tenth position on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1976. The single became Smith's second top-ten single on the country chart and would start a series of major hits for her. In July 1976, the single was released on Smith's first studio album for Warner Bros. Records entitled ""Songbird"". Margo Smith's version of the song is the most successful cover of ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" to date. Weekly chart Year-end chart Save Your Kisses for Me ""Save Your Kisses for Me"" was"
"Eurovision Song Contest 1977 The Eurovision Song Contest 1977 was the 22nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, and was held in London, United Kingdom on 7 May 1977. The presenter was Angela Rippon. The contest was won by Marie Myriam, representing France, with the song ""L'oiseau et l'enfant"" (The Bird and the Child). This was France's fifth victory, a record at the time (since equalled by Luxembourg and the United Kingdom, and surpassed by Ireland and Sweden). It was also France's second victory on English soil, as well as its most recent victory to date. Located on the"