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Sweden in 1978
Bjrn Skifs
Song
Det blir alltid vrre framt natten
Composer(s)
Peter Himmelstrand
More information
Biography
Bjrn Skifs and Bengt Palmers were no strangers to each other, when they met each other on the Eurovision stage in this year's contest. Four years earlier Bjrn Skifs played in the band Bjrn Skifs & Blablus (after stints with the Slam Creepers and a decidely unsuccessful solo career). Bengt Palmers, then head of A & R for EMI Records in Sweden, really liked what he heard, when he heard Jonathan King's version of the B.J. Thomas original Hooked On A Feeling. Bringing the song to the attention of the group, they decided to record it after a while. The song became a huge hit for the group in Scandinavia and an American release was considered. Now there was a need to change the name of the group and Bjrn Skifs and Blablus became Blue Swede. By pure coincidence Sweden was in the picture all around the world on 6 April 1974. On that day ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with Waterloo and Blue Swede topped the US charts for one week with their version of Hooked On A Feeling. Blue Swede went on to have hits with songs like Never My Love. Accidentally Blue Swede not only produced Bjrn Skifs as a Eurovision star. The man that would conduct many Swedish entries into the Eurovision Song Contest, Anders Berglund, was keyboardist with Blue Swede. Anders and Bjrn would reunite with Bengt for the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 to produce the song Fngad I En Drm.
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All Participations for Sweden
| Year | Artist | Song | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 20 | ||
| 2008 | Charlotte Perrelli | Hero | 54 | 10 |
| 2008 | Charlotte Perrelli | Hero | 47 | 19 |
| 2007 | The Ark | The worrying kind | 51 | 18 |
| 2006 | Carola | Invincible | 170 | 5 |
| 2006 | Carola | Invincible | 214 | 4 |
| 2005 | Martin Stenmarck | Las Vegas | 30 | 20 |
| 2004 | Lena Philipsson | It hurts (Det gr ont) | 170 | 6 |
| 2003 | Fame | Give me your love | 107 | 5 |
| 2002 | Afro-dite | Never let it go | 72 | 9 |
| 2001 | Friends | Listen to your heartbeat | 100 | 5 |
| 2000 | Roger Pontare | When spirits are calling my name | 88 | 7 |
| 1999 | Charlotte Nilsson | Take me to your heaven | 155 | 1 |
| 1998 | Jill Johnson | Krleken r | 53 | 10 |
| 1997 | Blond | Bara hon lskar mig | 36 | 14 |
| 1996 | One More Time | Den vilda | 100 | 3 |
| 1995 | Jan Johansen | Se p mej | 100 | 3 |
| 1994 | Marie Bergman and Roger Pontare | Stjrnorna | 48 | 13 |
| 1993 | Arvingarna | Elose | 89 | 7 |
| 1992 | Christer Bjrkmann | I morgon r en annan dag | 9 | 21 |
| 1991 | Carola | Fngad av en stormvind | 146 | 1 |
| 1990 | Edin-dahl | Som en vind | 24 | 16 |
| 1989 | Tommy Nilsson | En dag | 110 | 4 |
| 1988 | Tommy Krberg | Stad i ljus | 52 | 12 |
| 1987 | Lotta Engberg | Boogaloo | 50 | 12 |
| 1986 | Lasse Holm and Monica Trnell | E' de' det hr du kallar krlek | 78 | 5 |
| 1985 | Kikki Danielsson | Bra vibrationer | 103 | 3 |
| 1984 | Herrey's | Diggi-loo diggy-ley | 145 | 1 |
| 1983 | Carola Hggkvist | Frmling | 126 | 3 |
| 1982 | Chips | Dag efter dag | 67 | 8 |
| 1981 | Bjrn Skifs | Fngad i en drm | 50 | 10 |
| 1980 | Tomas Ledin | Just nu! | 47 | 10 |
| 1979 | Ted Grdestad | Satellit | 8 | 17 |
| 1978 | Bjrn Skifs | Det blir alltid vrre framt natten | 26 | 14 |
| 1977 | Forbes | Beatles | 2 | 18 |
| 1975 | Lars Berghagen and the Dolls | Jennie, Jennie | 72 | 8 |
| 1974 | ABBA | Waterloo | 24 | 1 |
| 1973 | The Nova and The Dolls | You're summer | 94 | 5 |
| 1972 | Family Four | Hrliga sommardag | 75 | 13 |
| 1971 | Family Four | Vita vidder | 85 | 6 |
| 1969 | Tommy Krberg | Judy, min vn | 8 | 9 |
| 1968 | Claes-Gran Hederstrm | Det brjar verka krlek, banne mej | 15 | 5 |
| 1967 | sten Warnebring | Som en drm | 7 | 10 |
| 1966 | Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson | Nygammal vals eller hip man svinaherde | 16 | 2 |
| 1965 | Ingvar Wixell | Absent friend | 6 | 10 |
| 1963 | Monica Zetterlund | En gng i Stockholm | 0 | 13 |
| 1962 | Inger Berggren | Sol och vr | 4 | 7 |
| 1961 | Lill-Babs | April, April | 2 | 14 |
| 1960 | Siw Malmkvist | Alla andra fr varann | 4 | 10 |
| 1959 | Brita Borg | Augustin | 4 | 9 |
| 1958 | Alice Babs | Lilla stjrna | 10 | 4 |
