EUROVISION Winner 1994 - Rock 'n Roll Kids - Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan

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  • Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
  • 1994 winner for Ireland. Words & music by Brendan J. Graham. Performed by Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan. In a first for the competition, this was performed entirely acoustically, with just a piano and guitar and no use of the orchestra at all. It might not be 'rock 'n roll' but it's simply brilliant!
    Unfortunately for the winning song, the interval performance of 'Riverdance' took most of the headlines.
    This is not the Eurovision performance.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 32

  • @heartbeat1405
    @heartbeat1405 6 років тому +28

    One of the most beautiful songs in Eurovision ever... That's music with emotion and no fireworks. I love it very much!

  • @085chrisclean
    @085chrisclean 11 років тому +13

    Unreal tune remember it well was the year I moved to Ireland and it was never of the radio pity they don't have songs like this anymore

  • @thomasmelsenofficieel
    @thomasmelsenofficieel 2 роки тому +6

    This is how music is made. Fantastic.

  • @marinasani3687
    @marinasani3687 6 років тому +16

    I remember '62
    I was sixteen and so were you
    And we lived next door,
    On the avenue.
    Jerry Lee was big and Elvis too;
    Blue jeans and blue suede shoes,
    And we never knew
    What life held in store.
    We just wanted to rock 'n' roll forever more.
    We were the Rock 'n' Roll Kids
    And Rock 'n' Roll was all we did
    And listening to those songs on the radio;
    I was yours and you were mine
    But that was once upon a time,
    Now we never seem to Rock 'n' Roll anymore.
    Now Johnny's in love with the girl next door,
    And Mary's down at the record store,
    They don't want to be... Around us no more.
    "Golden Oldies" but we hardly speak
    Too busy running to a different beat
    Hard to understand, we were once like them.
    How I wish we could find those Rock 'n' Roll days again.
    We were the Rock 'n' Roll Kids
    And Rock 'n' Roll was all we did,
    And listening to those songs on the radio;
    I was yours and you were mine,
    But that was once upon a time,
    Now we never seem to Rock and Roll anymore.
    I was yours and you were mine
    That was once upon a time,
    Now we never seem to Rock and Roll...
    We just never seem to Rock and Roll anymore.

  • @bernadette607
    @bernadette607 3 роки тому +5

    Two seriously handsome Irish man singing a very Very beautiful song. 💚💚❤️❤️

  • @mollyoneye
    @mollyoneye Рік тому +1

    Wow what a song, this is when the Eurovision was worth watching and Ireland won nearly every year.... Pity we won't win it again, can't bring those years back.... Beautiful song well done X

  • @bitbech
    @bitbech 11 років тому +4

    It reminds me a bit of the song called "Rock `n`roll I gave you all the best years of my life" - love this song. My favorite back then!!

    • @JeanMarcVasseur
      @JeanMarcVasseur 5 років тому

      That was the title of Bruce Welch's book...

    • @bernadettehays453
      @bernadettehays453 3 роки тому

      I was thinking I've heard a similar tune. Your right it does have some similarities.💚🍀

  • @animaa18
    @animaa18 13 років тому +4

    such a pretty song. this was my birth year!

  • @joaobrito2831
    @joaobrito2831 4 роки тому +2

    Something special:)

  • @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917
    @petropavlovskkamchatskiy1917 4 роки тому +3

    Best song of the ESC ever

  • @marizavieiracardim3190
    @marizavieiracardim3190 Рік тому

    Eu estava pesquisando sobre os vencedores do Eurovision e simplesmente amei essa música.

  • @iTwinhawk
    @iTwinhawk 11 років тому +2

    such a track

  • @Mr.M1STER
    @Mr.M1STER 3 роки тому +3

    No surprise that this won it for us in '94. Imagine if we entered a song like this these days, I wonder would we win it?

  • @rigolonzinbrin
    @rigolonzinbrin Рік тому

    L'Irlande a toujours été la championne du concours Eurovision parce qu'elle présente toujours de vraies chansons, au contraire de certains pays qui proposent n'importe quoi et qui gagnent quand-même. (Russie, Turquie, etc.) Il y a longtemps que je ne regarde même plus car on ne juge plus la valeur d'une chanson mais seulement la présentation. Auparavant, le jury était composé de professionnels de la musique, mais faire voter le public par téléphone est absurde, chacun votant pour son pays... Les plus grands pays de la musique sont l'Irlande et l'Italie. Ireland has always been the champion of the Eurovision Song Contest because it always presents real songs, unlike some countries which offer nonsense and still win. (Russia, Turkey, etc.) I haven't even watched it for a long time because we no longer judge the value of a song but only the presentation. Previously, the jury was made up of music professionals, but having the public vote by telephone is absurd, everyone voting for their country... The biggest music countries are Ireland and Italy.

  • @huds1223
    @huds1223 13 років тому +1

    @aoifebxxx im afraid not..id love the guitar part.cant figure the fecking thing out ha

  • @cycu1492
    @cycu1492 10 років тому +5

    He sounds like Keith Urban, an American country singer :) anyways, a good song!:)

    • @jlhabitan50
      @jlhabitan50 7 років тому +1

      Keith Urban is actually Australian. :)

  • @heliotropezzz333
    @heliotropezzz333 11 років тому +3

    Maybe it's deliberate because it costs a lot of money to host this contest and you have to host it if you win.Ireland had a very successful run in eurovision in the 1990s and that must have been expensive. Since the credit crunch no one has the money to spare any more.

  • @szamocay
    @szamocay 13 років тому +1

    @animaa18 mine too. :)

  • @boru1982
    @boru1982 11 років тому +10

    No, We get shite from Ireland nowadays. Awful awful pieces.

  • @davidbresson8716
    @davidbresson8716 11 років тому +1

    My top 5: United Kingdom / Norway / Poland / Ireland / Sweden
    With other words: It was the wrong song which won in my opinion...

    • @ragdoll2309
      @ragdoll2309 5 років тому

      UK's song that year was terrible, Frances Ruffelle. Norway had a nice duet, Polands song (from Edyta Górniak) was a nice song but it was very unoriginal. It sounded like many other eurovision songs. Sweden's was also a lovely song another duet but with a similar problem as Poland. I'm Irish so I'm always going to be biased towards them but I suppose there are reasons why they won. It was a lovely song too but didn't sound like every eurovision song before it.

  • @piotrokon7614
    @piotrokon7614 4 роки тому +1

    Powinna wygrać Edyta Górniak...dla mnie to jest największe oszustwo Eurovisia 😤😤😤

  • @Esticor
    @Esticor 13 років тому +3

    Edyta Górniak (second place) was better...