Slippedisc daily comfort zone (37): The first Eurovision winner

Slippedisc daily comfort zone (37): The first Eurovision winner

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

May 21, 2021

Ahhhh….

The winner, Lys Assia, died in 2018 at the age of 94.

 

Comments

  • Mark (London) says:
    May 22, 2021 at 8:48 am

    Ah when Eurovision was music

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  • CYM says:
    May 22, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Looks like the Eurovision winners have been musical disasters ever since the 1956 premiere …

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    • david hilton says:
      May 23, 2021 at 2:14 am

      Not at all. Since the premiere some superb singers have won Eurovision, most significantly the great Swedish baritone Ingvar Wixell who won the 1965 contest. He went on to sing at the Met, Covent Garden, Bayreuth, and many other major opera houses, one of the great baritones of the 20th-century.

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  • M McAlpine says:
    May 23, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    You mean they had people who could sing in those days?

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