Englebert's back!

[jon]

Or maybe he never really went away. Apparently he's representing the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. It's not 1 April, is it? I must check my calendar...

[karl]

Surely that has to be a joke?

I just checked online and it is true, he must surely be the oldest singer (75) to take part.

[mariana44]

It is absolutely true-I believe it is May 18th.

And he will be the oldest person to enter-at the time he will be 76.

Not sure what his voice is sounding like just now--but whatever--he needs a decent song !

[john]

I say good luck to Engelbert. At least we have a good singer representing us and we should have a better chance of getting somewhere for the first time in years. He is still singing pretty well.

[karl]

I see he also has a new Spectrum release, it looks good.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Well Engelbert may be 75, but what the hell. We've done no good for years in this farcical competition, but seeing that at long last someone is waking up to this and presumably no other singer think it's worth the flight or been invited, we hope he gets well paid.

[ROBERT M.]

Engelbert should get more than.......nil points this year................hopefully .......................I think it's great that they are going back to the ballad type singers............when I heard the news I immediatley thought of Matt in 1964 staight away

[karl]

I stopped watching Eurovision years ago, back in the glory days you knew who the conductors were etc from the records we bought, politics should be kept
out of music!

[Marian]

Ireland's choice always seemed to win at one time with ballads, it will be interesting to see how Englebert does anyway.

[karl]

Engelbert made a lot of good records over the years, most of the one's I liked best were album tracks or b sides.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Songwriter Barry Mason who has written more songs for Engelbert than any other songwriter is talking to Eric Hall today, and he thinks this is a great move for him and he should definitely go for it

[bigdipper]

I THINK HE MIGHT DO A LOT BETTER THAN PEOPLE THINK. HE MAY BE 75 BUT HIS VOICE IS STILL GOOD AND MUCH BETTER THAN SOME AT THAT AGE , BUT UNTIL THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE VOTING IM AFRAID ITS MORE CORRUPT THAN THE REST OF EUROPE

[mike]

And here it is........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eurovision/2 ... ideo.shtml

[karl]

Ken Bruce played it today and spoke to him, I think it's rather mediocre and doubt if it will light up the score board!

[Lena & Harry Smith]

I would like to see Engelbert do well, and who knows, but this song does nothing for me, so unmelodious and repetetive.