TIME MACHINE 2007: Sebastian-When Night comes falling

Our Time Machine stopped .. not so long ago in 2007.
The year that The Ark 'The Worrying Kind' won Melodifestivalen,
meanwhile in that years
semi final 3- We had a head-to-head battle of the recent idol
boys Måns Zelmerlöw & Sebastian. They did not need to
worry as both songs won a place in the Globen final. Managing to put Nanne
and Sonja Alden into Second Chance round!



Måns with Cara Mia finally became the Winner of the two boys- as this is
today a Melodifestivalen classic & public loved this tune and
proved this with 402,133 Televotes (2nd most). Lets not forget
Sebastian's 'When the Night comes Falling' I think Sebastian's
performance gave The Ark a run for there money..

Vinnare ! Melodifestivalen 1995 Jan Johansen- Se På Mig

Well its been in the Repair Shop for a few weeks, but now the clutch is fixed
Our Melodifestivalen TIME MACHINE is again whizzing thu space n Time
next stop is that victory moment in 1995...

as Jan gave back the flowers! was it the wrong colour! No, t'was to do his reprise



Jan Johansen has just put out a brand new CD just in Norway for some reason-
Minnen ( Memories ) gasp! Thankfully its 'not' showtunes in swedish. (sigh) More a Greatest
song collection spanning his career to date. With seven new swedish songs

The collection has on it 'Ingenmannsland' which he sang in Melodifestivalen 2002.

Welcome back Jan...

MELODIFESTIVALEN Time Machine 1992- with Kikki Danielsson and Maria Rådsten (One More Time)

The next stop on the MF Time Machine is March 14th 1992 at Cirkus in Stockholm. When after Carola's win at ESC 1991, Sweden went from 1st to almost Last! as Christer Bjorkman (himself) won Melodifestivalen 1992 with a ballad wrote by Niklas Stromstedt ' I morgon är en annan dag' (Tomorrow is another day) The song finished second last (22nd) with only 9 points. Still the tune became a popular Swedish hit peaking at 5- in the singles chart. And Christer went on to become Mr Mf of the 2000's & beyond.

The song festival had no shortage big names, with a Kikki Danielsson's comeback to Mf, (with song 'En Enda Gång') Wizex Feat. Lena Pålsson, Py Bäckman, Shan of The Shanes (60's band) Plus 2 singers from One More Time ( Peter Gronvall's new pop band ) Thérèse Löf and Maria Rådsten each sang an entry wrote by Nanne & Peter Grönvall for 1992. Maria's song 'Vad Som Än Händer' was the most popular, and during the cliff hanger voting she and Kikki lead the pack in the early stages. She finished up in 3 rd place, while Lena Pålsson's song "Som om himlen brann" was 2nd and a popular choice missing out by 5 points behind Christer's ballad.

Here is the best from 1992 the clip of 'Vad Som Än Händer'- which was translated into an english version 'I'll show you wonders'

one of the best tracks from One more Time's Highland release ( see previous post) Maria & Nanne waited 5 more years then took the MF winning prize in 1996 with 'Den Vilda'

MELODIFESTIVALEN Time Machine 1998 - 'Avundsjuk' -Nanne Grönvall

What a performance from Nanne Grönvall with her now most famous song and hit 'Avundsjuk' (Jealous) in 37th Melodifestivalen
contest in 1998. Strange but true Nanne only came 4 th this year with 35 points, as you watch this clip its
very clear to see how ahead of the times Peter Grönvall & Nanne Grönvall were. This song would have gone down a storm
in Eurovision today.
Yet the winner was the equally wonderful song wrote by Bobby Ljunggren & Ingela 'Pling' Forsman a ballad 'Kärleken är'
sung by a newcomer of 1998 Jill Johnson. The english title was 'Eternal Love' and infact the swedish original lyric
was inspired by the death of Princess Diana in 1997 in Paris.

This song became a Top 5 hit at home in Sweden and came 10 th in Eurovision Song Contest that year. It would be interesting
to see how Nanne would have done in 1998 if she had gone to met Dana International in ESC in Birmingham that year-
imagine these 2 Euro Diva's on the same night?

MELODIFESTIVALEN Time Machine 1981

We have just boarded the ole Mf Time Machine heading back to the Melodifest Time - 21st February 1981, The Song Contest had a
short list of only 5 songs and artists it featured the likes of Bjorn Skiffs Elisabeth Andreasson Kikki Danielsson & Britta Johansson (Sweet n Chips)
Anders Glenmark & Janne Lucas Persson.
The final result was choosen by 12 regional Juries of experts, Bjorn Skiffs had a narrow victory. Yet the public found Sweet n Chips ( 2nd place) & Janne Lucan Persson the popular choice, and both songs went on to be big hits in Sweden. Almost forgotten was the lovely ballad wrote by Agnetha Faltskog and lyrics by Ingela Forsman 'Men natten är vår' (The night is ours) we think the night was Kicki Moberg's.

Bjorn Skiffs went on to give Sweden only a halfway 10 th place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 in Dublin.
Check out this fantastic preview clips of the evenings event & wonderful intro....til our next
Mf Time Machine stop enjoy 1981.