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Here's some slightly encouraging news. Following a recent Lord-related announcement, Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have given odds of 9/1 of the UK winning the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, as well as a 3/1 chance that the song Andrew Lloyd Webber pens for Blighty hits the top of the charts.
This is all a lot more positive than the bookies' odds posted in the run-up to Belgrade.
Andy Abraham was 33/1 with the bookmakers (although, let's be honest, he did finish last) and was 12/1 to reach that lowly position before the Contest was transmitted.
Mr Power is also offering odds of 100/1 of the Lord's effort scoring nil points. Whatever song he comes up with, it's currently 40/1 to finish last.
All this is purely speculative until a tune is penned and performed. The only form anyone has to go on with ALW and ESC is the ditty Try It And See - the song Andrew and Tim Rice put forward for Lulu to sing at the 1969 Song For Europe. It never made it past the early rounds of judging to reach the shortlist.
Here it is, performed not by Lulu, but a lady by the name of Rita Pavone:
Try It And See wound up -reworked - as King Herod's Song in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Despite Try It And See not impressing the panel in the 1969 preliminaries, let's now have a listen to Jack In the Box, the song the BBC sent to the Contest in Dublin two years later.
Don't they sound remarkably similar?
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Jamie McLoughlin - The news editor of Southport Visiter reveals all about his musical hobby that more people should admit to having.
Having listened to Miss Pavone’s version of ‘Try It And See’, I feel the BBC showed a rare flash of good taste when rejecting it for Lulu. ‘Boom-Bang-A-Bang' may be ridiculed by those who ought to know better but it sounds like masterpiece of quality song writing in comparison to ALW & Rice’s effort from the same year. I think that ALW will avoid writing something quite so ‘obvious’ having spent the past 40 years writing much, much better stuff. As for ‘TIAS’ sounding similar to the wonderful classic ‘Jack-in-the-Box’…well, only superficially. Nothing could quite match la belle Clodagh’s ditty for Eurovision magic.