Day 25 - your favourite song from a national final

1999 Sweden : Martin - (Du är så) yeah yeah wow wow (You are so) yeah yeah wow wow
1999 Sweden : Crosstalk - Det gäller dej och mej (It’s about you and me)
1999 Estonia: Joel De Luna, Mati Kõrts, Jassi Zahharov & Mait Trink – Opera on fire
1999 Belgium : Alana Dante – Ready for the sunsand
1999 Netherlands : Colors – Positivity
1999 Netherlands : Double Date – E-mail to Berlin

The reason I have chosen a bunch of songs from 1999 is simple. When I used to buy ESC videos from my ‘supplier’ he would fill up the excess tape with other stuff. When I bought a load of tapes back in 1999/2000 he filled a lot of the empty space with excepts from the 1999 national finals. It kind of shocked me some of the songs which did not get through – there were some real classics !!!

Yeah yeah wow wow – love the 60s feel of this. The visual of this with all of the TV screens would have worked SO well on the stage. Asm actually surprised nobody has nucked this yet…




Det gäller dej och mej – very Swedish yet not to schlagery. Not too sure Swedish rap ever took off…




Opera On Fire - let’s throw in as many music styles in 3 mins- even if they don’t go together !!!
Although I have the National final coverage on video, no copy seems to exist on line, so you will have to do with the vocal




Ready for the sunsand – pure Flemish dance. So Typical of the 90s scene in Belgium.





Positivity – This song really took advantage of the relaxation of language rule. 1999 was the first year a song could be in any language and not just an official language of the country of origin.




E-mail to Berlin – Well, this is just appallingly bad. Looks like a bad auction for x-factor XD