The woke shitshow it has become is very sad. They used to have a full orchestra with real music. Now they just strut their asses around, its not about singing/playing anymore. It has become the thing it never should,....political.fucking sad.
After he had a comfortable lead up until the two last voting countries, who attributed him 3 in total (3 from Portugal, NONE from Yugoslavia), while Celine got 18 (12 from Portugal, 6 from Yugoslavia). Absolute shocker!
@@dvdv8197 To add insult to injury (because much as I love Celine, that song was ridiculous), Yugoslavia won the next year due to sympathy votes as it would be its last year competing as one country and, thereby, beat into second place an equally excellent entry from the UK - 'Why Do I Alwavs Get It Wrong?' by Live Report.
@@kerryclark7233 That is not the truth. The civil war in Yugoslavia started in the summer of 1991, so Riva did not win because of sympathy votes and they competed still as one country in 1990 and 1991. By 1992, their last entry, sung by Extra Nena was only representing the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
I wonder if the juries knew that "Think twice" and "My heart will go on" and all the other hits of Celine Dion was from after 1988? She must have won because of them.
My mother loved this man's voice, rightly so. After Eurovision 88 my mother and her friend went to his concert on sankthans aften. Not the best day to have a concert in Oslo, but that is how they met. First row, Scott played his show. Many things happened after, many things i will tell. Good times
I hate to go against the grain, especially coming from the UK myself, but back then I indeed thought we had been robbed on the last vote but over the years it has become clear the best song really did win. However for 'GO' fans, take heart in the fact of finishing second! The best two songs actually finished in the top two! Hoorah for that! The international juries by and large got it right!
I wanted to throw my shoes at the TV when Scott lost by one bloody point. I was not actually a fan of this song but Scott gave a stellar performance and it was a shame he was not the winner
My first Eurovision memory, my parents never let me watch the contest, but I do remember this on Top of The Pops. It was 1992 when I first watched the entire contest.
this was also beautiful song, and it was very close, finally switzerland won with 1 point, they are both even epic good songs for me, greetings from switzerland
For anyone looking at the comments and wondering why there so many russian commentating on this video? Its because theres a Russian singer called Philip Kirkorov who covered this song in 1998.
'Go' is an overwrought ballad to wallow in and I like it muchly. Written by former Guys n' Doll, Julie Forsyth it lost out by 1 point. This was the closest contest yet, with a winning margin of just 0.73%.
One of the UK.s best ever entries pipped by 1 point by Celine Dion and Switzerland 31 years ago a moving song and performance deserved to win a song written by Julie Forsyth the daughter of the late tv legend sir Bruce Forsyth
Very well done Scott Fitzgerald: UK Should had won with Switzerland. Good Voice. Nice Performance. 12 points from Portugal. Congratulations UK
5 місяців тому
Tus ganas, en 1988 tenemos una de las mejores ganadoras del Festival de Eurovisión, Céline Dion con "Ne partez pas sans moi", es una de las ganadoras míticas junto a Abba, France Galle, Toto Cotugno, Dana International, Massiel, Loreen...
Stumbled across this while looking for the actual esc performance. Way better than the recorded version. Especially the ending. Nice falsetto in there :)
This is a song that knocked me flat because I was 23 and in an on-off relationship with a girl who only came back when she had no better offers yet I would have anything for her. I can't listen to it even now without it bringing back those memories. Beautiful song.
I recall the times when we were in love and had everything - it makes me so sad... Time is meant to heal the pain I thought was gone. Seeing you again has made it carry on. Go... Go on and marry him. Be happy. Whatever it takes. :(
It certainly didn't have any marks from the last voting country. That was the reason Celine walked away with the prize that she then could not believe she won.
Wow, what a horrible thing to say! Celine Dion is such a nice and funny person with the most incredible singing voice ever. She's a good mother to three boys, having had the twins two years ago at the age of 40 after trying and trying to have more children. How can anyone hate her?
One of the very best entries of U.K and certainly the best in the ballad style, I love it! Unfortunately, that year there were so many good songs in the contest that one could hardly decide which one should be the winner... My favourites -among other good ones- were the swedish and the spanish songs of that year... Try them and i think you'll agree with me...
Surely one of the very best ever UK songs, should have won.
5 місяців тому
Tus ganas, en 1988 tenemos una de las mejores ganadoras del Festival de Eurovisión, Céline Dion con "Ne partez pas sans moi", es una de las ganadoras míticas junto a Abba, France Galle, Toto Cotugno, Dana International, Massiel, Loreen...
can understand that many here see him robbed. i don't... Celine's entry was by far the better composition not to mention her singing. The only odd thing was her style. Go is a decent ballad but it did not have written winner all over. And if there is another song that year I saw competing for victory it was definitely the Swedish one. What a ballad, what a voice. If it wasn't for him being sick that night, he could have won. Tommy robbed himself so to say. But 1988 was an extremely strong year with good songs especially from Norway, Luxemburg, Israel and many more.
Totally agree about Celine being a great singer but Scott`s song & performance were better that night,the stuff Celine did later in her career was far superior to the Eurovision Song,but yeah im another who says Scott was robbed that night
Idk, I’d never heard of Scot before last night, but I can’t comprehend how this song came second. It’s awful 😣😣, Céline deserved much more recognition than a close call with this performance…
1988 was an extremely strong contest with a lot of very brilliant voices. So ending up second is anything but a failure. Think of Lara Fabian, Tommy Körberg, Celine Dion and others
Ten years after he had a UK hit with If I Had Words, which was sped up for the closing titles of the film Babe. In 1988, it all came down to the final jury, who gave a couple of points to Switzerland, and nothing to the UK ... and who represented Switzerland? Celine Dion.
I recall that I could understand the lyrics even back in 1988 when I was just a kid. But I just realized it's only now that I can understand what he's talking about... Wish I couldn't though :(
I've just listened to this song properly for the first time, and it's lovely. Pity it lost out to Celine, but her song was also excellent. Interesting that the title of Scott's song is more or less the same as that of Gigliola Cinquetti's high-placed entry of fourteen years earlier.
I'm a big Celine Dion fan BUT I think that Scott should have won the 1988 Eurovision song contest, this is a far better song than what Celine sang that night in Dublin, Scott's performance was more memorable & dramatic, one of the bests UK entries ever!!!
I mean of course Celine Dion won. And with the No 1s, Oscars, Grammys, record breaking movie soundtracks, Las Vegas residencies, Olympics performances etc that followed, she kept on winning too….
Written by the very talanted Julie Forsyth, who was in the '70s Guys 'n Dolls and later with her husband Dominic Grant in Grant & Forsyth and still popular in The Netherlands. Regards, Dutchfranca living in France
Good question. He duetted with Yvonne Keeley in 1977/8 and if you do a search here on "If I Had Words" you'll find it. If you assume he was about 25 when he did this, that would put him mid to late fifties.
Should have won and still sounds great today. Hard to believe that coming second paved the way for Celine Dion's career but Scott cannot be blamed for this! Bruce Forsyth's daughter wrote the song and sang backing vocals
I think I am correct in saying that a number of years before 1988, Bruce Forsyth's daughter Julie had been a member of a British group called Guys and Dolls. They had a couple of big hits in the mid-'70s; "There's A Whole Lot of Lovin' Going On" [1975] and "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" [1976]. Oh, and I certainly agree with you that Scott Fitzgerald's rendition of "Go" fully deserved to win the Eurovision Song Contest of 1988. The fact that his song finished in second place was a travesty, in my humble opinion.
@@TheEctomorph David van Day and Therese Bazaar of Dollar were also in Guys and Dolls. Trevor Horn wrote the eighties with his trail blazing production methods and boundary pushing use of sound, his work with Dollar a prime example of this.
I don't understand why this song got so many points. She deserved a top 10 but in my opinion certainly not a second place. Fortunately Celine Dion won. On the other hand, the artist has a superb voice.
Wow....this is the first time I've heard this song since the actual night of the contest. I really liked it at the time and pretty much picked up the words straight away and song bits of it over the years..to be honest I remember it as being more powerful. Yeah it nearly won. Fitzgerald was seriously pissed off. If I remember correctly there is camera footage of him storming off in a huge strop....
I can't say that I blame the dude, to be honest. There is no doubt in my mind - none whatsoever - that his song was the best entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1988. It deserved to win. What is more, if it had done, it would (probably) have gone on to be a ginormous number one hit in the UK - like "Save Your Kisses For Me" (The Brotherhood of Man) in 1976, and "Making Your Mind Up" (Buck's Fizz) in 1981.
@@piaylitalo3663 I don't think a video was made though there might have been. It is surprising no-one has posted it if there is one. His real name is William McPhail and he is believed to be in ill health recently.
So magnanimous that he was one of the first to hug Miss Dion warmly to congratulate her on her unexpected success ! That's what a real Gentleman would do !😢💔💎💟💞 You're the WINNER !
I couldn't find the reason of his very short career and linited songs on billboards + radio. But, I guess that his very particular, hoarse voice is limiting the genre of songs he could sing. Also, it was good for the 70's. Same for Steven Tyler. And his comback though in 1988 was indeed quite unexpected. But see, it itself was a "one shot" thing ...
He also made a big hit in 77 with Yvonne kill man if I had words And unfo he only had two hit songs I agree he could easy have had a career like Johnny Logan and even celine dion but for some reason he stayed behind
At the time he entered Eurovision Scott Fitzgerald was living and working (and paying taxes) in the Netherlands. They were the last country to vote and the points they gave Celine Dion put her in the lead by a single point. They gave him nothing and she went on to win!
When Eurovision was
The True Eurovision 😊
When it was about music.
The woke shitshow it has become is very sad. They used to have a full orchestra with real music. Now they just strut their asses around, its not about singing/playing anymore. It has become the thing it never should,....political.fucking sad.
Art is in danger
Just one point behind Celine omg!
After he had a comfortable lead up until the two last voting countries, who attributed him 3 in total (3 from Portugal, NONE from Yugoslavia), while Celine got 18 (12 from Portugal, 6 from Yugoslavia). Absolute shocker!
@@dvdv8197 To add insult to injury (because much as I love Celine, that song was ridiculous), Yugoslavia won the next year due to sympathy votes as it would be its last year competing as one country and, thereby, beat into second place an equally excellent entry from the UK - 'Why Do I Alwavs Get It Wrong?' by Live Report.
@@kerryclark7233 Oh, don't think I've heard that one! I'll check it out!
@@kerryclark7233 That is not the truth. The civil war in Yugoslavia started in the summer of 1991, so Riva did not win because of sympathy votes and they competed still as one country in 1990 and 1991. By 1992, their last entry, sung by Extra Nena was only representing the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
I wonder if the juries knew that "Think twice" and "My heart will go on" and all the other hits of Celine Dion was from after 1988? She must have won because of them.
This song is better than anything the UK has sent for Eurovision in the last 10 years.
That's not saying a lot though, is it?
Agreed
My mother loved this man's voice, rightly so. After Eurovision 88 my mother and her friend went to his concert on sankthans aften. Not the best day to have a concert in Oslo, but that is how they met. First row, Scott played his show. Many things happened after, many things i will tell. Good times
A Celine and Scott duet would have been interesting through the years!
The Winner Takes It All? I doubt he would have wanted such a ( hypothetical) collaboration.
Celine was better
I hate to go against the grain, especially coming from the UK myself, but back then I indeed thought we had been robbed on the last vote but over the years it has become clear the best song really did win. However for 'GO' fans, take heart in the fact of finishing second! The best two songs actually finished in the top two! Hoorah for that! The international juries by and large got it right!
Best wishes to songwriter Julie Forsyth. So sorry to hear about the passing of your husband, Dominic Grant.
That man has a terrific voice !very unique.Songs not my kind of thing but I appreciate this mans vocal talent,it’s pretty obvious.
I wanted to throw my shoes at the TV when Scott lost by one bloody point. I was not actually a fan of this song but Scott gave a stellar performance and it was a shame he was not the winner
This is a boring song
@@inezfeytons8896 reasons
I love this ballad. Great composition - very catchy and a special voice.
Very nice song! He can always say he came second to Celine Dion 😊
Yes, be proud if Scott Fitzgerald is your uncle. A great performance, one of the best ever in Eurovision. Fantastic voice.
Beautiful song!
My first Eurovision memory, my parents never let me watch the contest, but I do remember this on Top of The Pops. It was 1992 when I first watched the entire contest.
Why wouldn't they?
A beautiful song 🎶 just one ☝️ point short of victory
The Best song ever,my friend Scott...love this song!❤️
this was also beautiful song, and it was very close, finally switzerland won with 1 point, they are both even epic good songs for me, greetings from switzerland
A voice truly sent from Heaven!.
For anyone looking at the comments and wondering why there so many russian commentating on this video? Its because theres a Russian singer called Philip Kirkorov who covered this song in 1998.
Joey X Smith he's not unknown at Eurovision fans
Ok alot of people cover songs but i miss English
Thanks for explaining
He has not! He's declared it was his own!
He didn't cover the song, he stole it as always.
Thanks for posting. I,ve never forgotten this song,and it still sounds fantastic. It,s a classic and Scott,s voice was so beautiful.
Красавец мужчина и песня шикарная!
All time classic 👌
'Go' is an overwrought ballad to wallow in and I like it muchly.
Written by former Guys n' Doll, Julie Forsyth it lost out by 1 point. This was the closest contest yet, with a winning margin of just 0.73%.
One of the UK.s best ever entries pipped by 1 point by Celine Dion and Switzerland 31 years ago a moving song and performance deserved to win a song written by Julie Forsyth the daughter of the late tv legend sir Bruce Forsyth
Наконец-то я нашла её! Замечательная песня!
Ага, привет из 2018го
This was my favorite song in 1988..... Still love it...
Very well done Scott Fitzgerald: UK Should had won with Switzerland. Good Voice. Nice Performance. 12 points from Portugal. Congratulations UK
Tus ganas, en 1988 tenemos una de las mejores ganadoras del Festival de Eurovisión, Céline Dion con "Ne partez pas sans moi", es una de las ganadoras míticas junto a Abba, France Galle, Toto Cotugno, Dana International, Massiel, Loreen...
First time I've heard the song since i was 11. Still awesome!
Stumbled across this while looking for the actual esc performance. Way better than the recorded version. Especially the ending. Nice falsetto in there :)
Thanks Scott for being an inspiration for russians ❤
This is a song that knocked me flat because I was 23 and in an on-off relationship with a girl who only came back when she had no better offers yet I would have anything for her. I can't listen to it even now without it bringing back those memories. Beautiful song.
Hugs
Aww thats sad for you, I hope you found happiness
I think it's why it connects so well. We've all been at this point in a relationship and it captures it perfectly
Love this song ❤
Greetings from Israel 🇮🇱 Love this song
I recall the times when we were in love and had everything - it makes me so sad...
Time is meant to heal the pain I thought was gone. Seeing you again has made it carry on.
Go...
Go on and marry him.
Be happy. Whatever it takes.
:(
The true winner back then❤❤❤❤❤
This song wasn't bad, it just didn't have the edge that Celine had. A worthy second place.
It certainly didn't have any marks from the last voting country. That was the reason Celine walked away with the prize that she then could not believe she won.
Written by Julie Forsyth, Bruce's daughter. It lost by 1 point at Eurovision 1988.
Wow, what a horrible thing to say! Celine Dion is such a nice and funny person with the most incredible singing voice ever. She's a good mother to three boys, having had the twins two years ago at the age of 40 after trying and trying to have more children. How can anyone hate her?
One of the very best entries of U.K and certainly the best in the ballad style, I love it! Unfortunately, that year there were so many good songs in the contest that one could hardly decide which one should be the winner... My favourites -among other good ones- were the swedish and the spanish songs of that year... Try them and i think you'll agree with me...
Голос шикарный, почему он так малоизвестен...
Scot is a great singer should have won that year.
The voting was the gratest shock Moment in ESC , SCOTT deserved to win .... and RAY in 89 too !!!
Surely one of the very best ever UK songs, should have won.
Tus ganas, en 1988 tenemos una de las mejores ganadoras del Festival de Eurovisión, Céline Dion con "Ne partez pas sans moi", es una de las ganadoras míticas junto a Abba, France Galle, Toto Cotugno, Dana International, Massiel, Loreen...
I loved that xx
amazing song and i am from the uk
You cannot deny Celine’s vocal performance and she was a very worthy winner…but ‘Go’ was and remains the better song.
This is quite a good song and very catchy
Powerhouse performance.
good voice and good song1
Whithout doubt, this was the best song of 1988
The only FAVORI
Шедевр
I know, I remember watching the voting and I still can't get over it....!
I like live in eurovision better than studio
Киркоров на горшке подпевал в 1988 году, а потом
Точнее в 1998 то есть через 10 лет
в 21 год на горшке?
King Eagle а он до сих пор на нем...
can understand that many here see him robbed. i don't... Celine's entry was by far the better composition not to mention her singing. The only odd thing was her style. Go is a decent ballad but it did not have written winner all over. And if there is another song that year I saw competing for victory it was definitely the Swedish one. What a ballad, what a voice. If it wasn't for him being sick that night, he could have won. Tommy robbed himself so to say. But 1988 was an extremely strong year with good songs especially from Norway, Luxemburg, Israel and many more.
Totally agree about Celine being a great singer but Scott`s song & performance were better that night,the stuff Celine did later in her career was far superior to the Eurovision Song,but yeah im another who says Scott was robbed that night
Exactly, Celine was better.
Imagine U.K. only needed minimum of 2 points, that’s what makes it even more wounding.
Idk, I’d never heard of Scot before last night, but I can’t comprehend how this song came second. It’s awful 😣😣, Céline deserved much more recognition than a close call with this performance…
Celion Dion representing Switzerland was an absolute joke. It was after that i realised how corrupt the song contest was and never watched it again.
1988 was an extremely strong contest with a lot of very brilliant voices. So ending up second is anything but a failure. Think of Lara Fabian, Tommy Körberg, Celine Dion and others
Ten years after he had a UK hit with If I Had Words, which was sped up for the closing titles of the film Babe.
In 1988, it all came down to the final jury, who gave a couple of points to Switzerland, and nothing to the UK ... and who represented Switzerland? Celine Dion.
And finally... France twelve points... =(
Great song
Should have won
I recall that I could understand the lyrics even back in 1988 when I was just a kid.
But I just realized it's only now that I can understand what he's talking about...
Wish I couldn't though :(
❤ Scott's Fitzgerald go he sang this in the Eurovision song contest x😊
memorys 2me luv it
Brilliant
Back in the days when the UK really cared about where they placed on the Scoreboard.
Lara Fabian was the best mature voice of 1988 esc..
Yeah, what an awesome year 1988. Lara Fabian and Celine Dion.
супер!
For me, this is an amazing song but I think Celine's is way more amazing, and active.
Amazing song shame we got to 2nd place should have won.
good song
Better than the winner song, in my opinión.
Great song, great singer! Lost only by one point, to Clene Dion!! What can you say 🎉
I've just listened to this song properly for the first time, and it's lovely. Pity it lost out to Celine, but her song was also excellent. Interesting that the title of Scott's song is more or less the same as that of Gigliola Cinquetti's high-placed entry of fourteen years earlier.
One of the backing singers was Des Dyer ( lead singer of Jigsaw ) . They should have let him sing lead .
I love Celine, but I still don't know how she beat Scott. Possibly my favourite UK entry.
музыку написал Ф.Киркоров в 1998 году!!!!
Чертов Фицжеральд. Эти англичашки вечно пиздят у бедных русских поэтов!
А Фиджеральд и не ведал, когда исполнял эту песню.
))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Скот услышал ее и отправился в прошлое, что бы без палева сплагиатить.
kirkorov i sam poshutil :)
In fact, this song is better than Celine Dion's.
Watch it a million times and if you get bored then probably ... you should take rest ... you're not well ...
Celine is unique. No doubt!
Just so beautiful. Hus voice is amazing. Should have won. Cannot believe he lost my just point! Heartbreaking for him. ❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️
I'm a big Celine Dion fan BUT I think that Scott should have won the 1988 Eurovision song contest, this is a far better song than what Celine sang that night in Dublin, Scott's performance was more memorable & dramatic, one of the bests UK entries ever!!!
How did we lose this
I mean of course Celine Dion won. And with the No 1s, Oscars, Grammys, record breaking movie soundtracks, Las Vegas residencies, Olympics performances etc that followed, she kept on winning too….
Written by the very talanted Julie Forsyth, who was in the '70s Guys 'n Dolls and later with her husband Dominic Grant in Grant & Forsyth and still popular in The Netherlands.
Regards,
Dutchfranca living in France
My first grand prix that i catched completely 11yo.
What a song here, but Celine was there.....
Гость из будущего
Karoline Kruger was my favourite that year
Gran peinado,excelente final,sólo por un maldito punto!
Good question. He duetted with Yvonne Keeley in 1977/8 and if you do a search here on "If I Had Words" you'll find it.
If you assume he was about 25 when he did this, that would put him mid to late fifties.
Кто от Фили
Should have won and still sounds great today. Hard to believe that coming second paved the way for Celine Dion's career but Scott cannot be blamed for this! Bruce Forsyth's daughter wrote the song and sang backing vocals
I think I am correct in saying that a number of years before 1988, Bruce Forsyth's daughter Julie had been a member of a British group called Guys and Dolls. They had a couple of big hits in the mid-'70s; "There's A Whole Lot of Lovin' Going On" [1975] and "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" [1976].
Oh, and I certainly agree with you that Scott Fitzgerald's rendition of "Go" fully deserved to win the Eurovision Song Contest of 1988. The fact that his song finished in second place was a travesty, in my humble opinion.
@@TheEctomorph David van Day and Therese Bazaar of Dollar were also in Guys and Dolls. Trevor Horn wrote the eighties with his trail blazing production methods and boundary pushing use of sound, his work with Dollar a prime example of this.
I don't understand why this song got so many points. She deserved a top 10 but in my opinion certainly not a second place. Fortunately Celine Dion won. On the other hand, the artist has a superb voice.
Wow....this is the first time I've heard this song since the actual night of the contest. I really liked it at the time and pretty much picked up the words straight away and song bits of it over the years..to be honest I remember it as being more powerful. Yeah it nearly won. Fitzgerald was seriously pissed off. If I remember correctly there is camera footage of him storming off in a huge strop....
I can't say that I blame the dude, to be honest. There is no doubt in my mind - none whatsoever - that his song was the best entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1988. It deserved to win.
What is more, if it had done, it would (probably) have gone on to be a ginormous number one hit in the UK - like "Save Your Kisses For Me" (The Brotherhood of Man) in 1976, and "Making Your Mind Up" (Buck's Fizz) in 1981.
On television a couple of days later he was very magnanimous. The footage is on You Tube.
@@eightiesmusic1984 where could i see the video? I would like to see it thank you❤❤and oh yes Scott should have won back then❤❤❤❤
@@piaylitalo3663 I don't think a video was made though there might have been. It is surprising no-one has posted it if there is one. His real name is William McPhail and he is believed to be in ill health recently.
So magnanimous that he was one of the first to hug Miss Dion warmly to congratulate her on her unexpected success !
That's what a real Gentleman would do !😢💔💎💟💞
You're the WINNER !
Why do we know so little about and have heard so few songs from this great voice? Why Scott's (known) career was so short?
Fun fact. He wrote the Finland 2018 entry to Eurovision.
@@michaelpilling1443 His son actually
Ah okay. I remember there was some link.
I couldn't find the reason of his very short career and linited songs on billboards + radio. But, I guess that his very particular, hoarse voice is limiting the genre of songs he could sing. Also, it was good for the 70's. Same for Steven Tyler. And his comback though in 1988 was indeed quite unexpected. But see, it itself was a "one shot" thing ...
He also made a big hit in 77 with Yvonne kill man if I had words
And unfo he only had two hit songs
I agree he could easy have had a career like Johnny Logan and even celine dion but for some reason he stayed behind
At the time he entered Eurovision Scott Fitzgerald was living and working (and paying taxes) in the Netherlands. They were the last country to vote and the points they gave Celine Dion put her in the lead by a single point. They gave him nothing and she went on to win!
Sarah3025 I thought the last country was Yugoslavia, who gave Celine Dion 6 points just to push her 1 point over Scott.
+newwebuser yes, it was Yugoslavia.
You are crazy!
This was a close contest for a reason.
lovely song well sung just pipped by one celine dion represented switzerland in dublin
Stevie Mccrory off The Voice UK reminds me of him he should do Eurovision too :)
I don'y agree with you completely! It's right, Celine shouldn't have won, but she was also great! Scott was just awsome!
HE CAME SECOND BY ONE POINT!