Finland's entry in the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest, apparently performed by a domesticated yeti, a pair of failed ingenues who've drunk too much Bacardi, a wife swapping librarian couple and the Mad Organist having a bash on the piano. I had forgotten how ghoulishly quaint the nineteen-seventies can sometimes seem; and disarmingly naive, too, for even in the more desperate realms of amateur showbiz such a confabulation of exuberantly untalented weirdos must surely be unthinkable today. The entrancing ditty is called "Pump Pump"
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Next time you're in Helsinki I dare any of you to loudly sing out:
'Let your hip go hippety pump pump !' or in its original language:
'Pylly vasten pyllyä pump-pump!'
Posted by: rannva | August 08, 2007 at 13:23
Next time I'm in Helsinki I would like to seek all of those performers out and shake them by the hand. They have immense courage. Alas, I always get the old Len Deighton fears when I think of Helsinki, so I will probably never go.
Posted by: stephenesque | August 08, 2007 at 13:32