Would our friends from the Netherlands please take the floor?
It is four years since the Netherlands last showed up in a final of the Eurovision Song Contest, but with no pesky semi-final system to worry about here, the Dutch are loud and proud and straight through to the final in Glasgow.
Singer Thomas Berge takes on the amateur role in this partnership, having had experience in musicals such as Oliver and The Secret Garden and his popularity is such, a nosey Dutch camera crew followed his every move for a wee while to make a six episode fly-on-the-wall documentary all about him.
Which brings us to the Dutch pro, one Roemjana de Hann.
Roemjana, like every other professional in this Contest, started dancing from a young age and was crowned Dutch Amateur Latin Champion of 1996, making it to the final of the World Championship with partner Jaako Toivonen in December last year.
That's all very lovely, but it is now 33 years since the Dutch triumphed at a Eurovision event.
And what was it that brought that trophy home? Why, only this sophisticated intertwining of lyric and melody.
Sit back and let this wash over you for about two-and-a-half minutes:
And to think they beat The Shadows into second place.
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