Song of the Day – Every day we shuffle through Eurovision History and present a random entry of the Eurovision Song Contest. Today we go back to 1969 and look at the Norwegian entry. In 1969, Norway sent a real Eurovision addict to Madrid. Kristi Sparboe had represented Norway in 1965 and 1967, coming 14th and 13th. In 1966 and 1968 she participated in the Norwegian selection. In 1968 she won the Norwegian selection, but her song was disqualified for claims of plagiarism of a popular Cliff Richard song.
In the same year she released a Norwegian cover of the Spanish winning entry “La,la,la”. In 1970 she would enter the German selection as Norway decided not to participate in 1970 (due to the tie scandal). She only came 4th and thus her 1969 performance is her last appearance on a Eurovision stage.
In her song “Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli”, Sparboe sings of how happy she will be when her boyfriend will only have interest in her. She sings that he chases after many girls, but seems to be very optimistic that she can convince him to only be with her. She sings that she’ll “have a party” and that she would be the “only guest”. This innuendo caused a scandal in Norway, as a professor of literature criticized the lyrics and said “oj,oj,oj” was the only good part of the song. After the song came last with only one point, the debate about the suitability of the entry continued throughout the summer in Norwegian newspapers.
Here is our Song of the Day:
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Her name is Kirsti, not Kristi. Her three Eurovision songs got a grand total of 4 points.
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Probably her weakest esc entries, but it’s kind of cute in a rather bad year
1969 a bad year?!!! No way, imho. Its’a among the 10 best esc editions ever
Errr, I don’t know what happened, but it’s me, the ambassador
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Happy and bouncy but not so much more. Poor Kirsti did never end up well in ESC, but at least she recieved a better fate than Anne Karine Strøm, the only artist who has finished last two times.
1969 is an OK year, weaker than the two earlier years but still there was some good songs.
I like Kirsit’s 3 ESC entries because they are all cute as Morgan correctly observed. On the other hand, not one of her ESC songs was sth to write home about and the juries obviously thought the same.
Off topic: On my way to Berlin today I visited the Old Town of Bamberg, which is the most beautiful place in Germany I have been to so far.
@ Eulenspiegel: Bamberg has a very beautiful painted town hall too.
Good night!
yes cute, but her 65 is the cutest of them all, in the best esc edition ever imo (along with 66)…
Remember when i asked you about Bamberg 3 years ago, it’s smth I want to see in Germany!
KISS Toggie! Miss ya!
Hi Marko!
Yes, I remember that you asked me about Bamberg. I will send some pics as soon as I have the time … probably on the weekend.
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Have a good journey. Yes, Old Towns usually have pretty town halls, and I’m very much in love with them. The one that sticks out of my mind is the one in Bremen, but that’s probably because of its famous statue.
My favourite Kirsti song is “Dukkemann”, btw. This one gave Norway their second last place, and some Norwegians blamed it on the seal hunting.
For me it’s one cute song!
OMG, I haven’t been here since Friday, I have been to Montenegro and climbed Durmitor’s highest peak – Bobotv Kuk, after 13 hours of walking!!!, it was my HARDEST HIKING EVER, but it was spectacular! I watched opening of Olympics, but after that I missed everything else…and BIG SHOCK is that Germany still doesn’t have any medal after 2 days!
In official site of London 2012 they don’t mention our medalist in medal table, they missed it completely! Ts,ts,ts!
You do at least have medalists.
You will have more medals don’t worry, you will get your first soon, i saw that your flag barrier in equestrian, already has 2 medals at Olympics, he will get this year 100%!
And women football Sweden : South Africa 4:1! 
Brunström and Lindstedt play against Djokovic and Troicki today in tennis doubles!
Yes, Rolf-Göran is our only hope, I fear. Equestrian and wrestling are traditionally our best sports, but we have – just like Hungary – lost much of our former sport skills. The stars are getting fewer and fewer. And gosh, don’t remind of the Swedish in-marching! Those blue and yellow striped sweaters made them look like some spooky children TV presenters from the 70′s.
Come on, today you almost got a medal in swimming, Sarah Sjöström was 4th!
In 2004 you got 2 golds in Athletics!
I’m sure you will have medals this year in some sports, maybe in some you don’t even expect!
Moa Hjelmer is current European champion, i know in Olympics is more difficult for Athletics, but who knows.
And today your Lindsted and Brundstrom won against DJOKOVIC!!! and Troicki in tennis doubles! :@ lol Heey you beat world number one novak Djokovic!
Yes, excuse a grumpy Swede sitting here being cynical.
I’m just pissed that half of our gold aspiring team; Carolina Klüft, Susanna Kallur, Therese Alshammar are all damaged and must stay home.
Good luck tomorrow!
Thanks, tomorrow Novak Djokovic plays in singles against Andy Roddick! YAY!
Good night!
it’s in the Guardian site though: http://www.guardian.co.uk/olympics-2012/results-medals-schedule?widget=medals,results,schedule&tabbed=true
It’s about time we buy Italy.. We NEED some medals ^^
wait for the athletics, germany should catch up… italy got almost all of its medals in fencing!
Yeah there is!
We expected another medal in shooting yesterday, even gold because Zorana Arunović is current World champion, but she disappointed yesterday, she came 7th in the final!
But Michael Phelps is not very strong this year it seems, so we hope for Čavić!!!
France started so nice in swimming! Chinese swimmers are so strong this yaer! :O
true, the 200m will be interesting between Sun, Agnel and Lochte… last night, it seemed to show that Agnel could beat Lochte, but Sun?!
Who would have thought? Agnel just smashed that final and Sun only got silver, tied with South-Korean Park… Lochte only 4th, Biederman 5th! France is extatic with this though!
I watched, congrats, I love that French swimmer
I also watched 15 years old!! Lithuanian winning 200 m breaststroke at her first senior competition!! She beat my FAVORITE swimmer Rebecca Soni, but I’m still happy with results! And after that our 18 years old Velimir Stjepanovic qualified for the final in 200 m butterfly which is SURPRISE for us!! 
And I’m so sad Alia Atkinson from Jamaica just missed bronze!
ps: at the olympics today, one american gymnast used “wild dances” to perform her moves
I adore Kirsti Sparboe’s 1969 song. I must admit that I haven’t heard either of her other two entries, but if they are as cute or cuter than “Oj oj oj,” I already know that I’ll love them.
1) She’ll “have a party” and that she would be the “only guest” – the only innuendo I see here is so preposterous that I wonder it ever occurred to anyone.
2) I’ve never quite understood why the 1969 tie was considered a “scandal” – let alone something making countries pull out. I always considered it as a “nice coincidence that showed that sometimes we CAN all be winners” – although to me, France was miles above the others (my top #1 ever).
Azerbaijan took first medal yesterday, in weightlifting, but Bulgarian took medal for Azerbaijan!