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	Waterloo
		The United Kingdom hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in the seaside resort of Brighton in 1974, as Luxembourg had won at home in the previous year and the EBU decided that it would be unfair to ask the tiny principality to stage the competition again.
		Three songs in French followed, before the Dutch entry "I See A Star" performed by the Mouth And McNeal duo used the gimmicks of a barrel organ and puppets to supplement their singa-along song.
		The song was produced by Michael B. Tretow who had a distinctive "wall of sound" technique, similar to that of Phil Spector and which was very fashionable in the mid 1970's thanks to the hits of Roy Wood and his band Wizzard.
	www.keithm.utvinternet.ie /Waterloo.htm (3000 words)

	Waterloo (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Waterloo" was the song that won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and began their path to worldwide fame.
		"Waterloo" was originally written as a song for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, after the group came third with "Ring Ring" in the previous year's national heats.
		The song was re-released in 2004, with the same B-side, to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, reaching #20 on the UK charts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waterloo_(English_version) (543 words)

	Waterloo Sunset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legend has it that the characters "Terry and Julie" in the song are named for the film stars Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, although Davies denies this in his 1996 autobiography X-Ray and instead says the inspiration for the song came from an incident when he was hospitalized as a boy.
		Waterloo Sunset is also the title of an album by Barb Jungr, which features a version of the Kinks song.
		The song was also covered by Cathy Dennis as a CD single and on the album 'The Irresistible Cathy Dennis' (2000).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waterloo_Sunset (609 words)

	Chris Patrick - April 2005
		Waterloo would prove to be Bjorn’s swansong before abdicating the throne as the dominant vocal force, his all-encompassing presence in “Sitting In The Palmtree”, “King Kong Song”, “My Mama Said”, “Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)” and “Watch Out” affording him plenty of scope for a final fling.
		Waterloo’s penultimate track “Gonna Sing You My Lovesong” gave her the chance to share her personality on a more intimate level; all the more credit to the girls’ team effort, as the heartspace into which they invite the listener is so encompassing this vocal bias goes unnoticed.
		Instrumentally the song has a decidedly R and B feel, the sophisticated glockenspiel-like mellotron refrain and middle eight guitar solo reflecting the fact that Bjorn and Benny were still influenced by musical ideas that were already commonplace.
	www.abbamail.com /columnis/chrispat_apr2005.htm (3067 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - Song Library - Waterloo
		This didn't stop the song from becoming a moderate European hit, though, and they approached 1974's contest with renewed vigour.
		The song was developed in late 1973 under the working title of 'Honey Pie'.
		Like most Abba songs, 'Waterloo' is tightly structured, and doesn't hang around before getting to the chorus.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/waterloo.shtml (427 words)

	Waterloo
		Waterloo soon composed and rehearsed six original songs, which they played on 6 November 1969 to Wallace Collection's producer Jean Martin, whom the Bilzen festival manager Paul Andre had convinced to attend one of their rehearsals.
		Thus, Waterloo made their stage debut at the beginning of December 1969, alongside Michel Polnareff, returning soon to the same concert hall, from 17th to 20th December, together with another Belgian group in the vein of Wallace Collection, Modus Vivendis, Belgian variety singer Jacques Hustin and Wallace Collection themselves.
		The broadcaster liked the song and played it regularly, explaining to the listeners that he had no idea about the title of the song or the name or origins of the band which performed it.
	www.alexgitlin.com /npp/waterloo.htm (2462 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - TOP 100 - Number 19 - Waterloo Sunset
		One of those songs that you know is great, but you forget just how great between listens - and then the intro brings all your neck-hairs to immediate attention (if this doesn't happen to you, have yourself checked for a pulse.) Dave's distant heavy industrial clanking guitar v.
		(Okay, Penny Lane is a great song too but the sha-la-las alone should prove that this is a song that will be remembered for years to come!) The songwriting is beautiful, the vocals are perfect for such a delicate image, the musicianship is as wonderful as ever and the harmonies are to die for.
		The thing, in my opinion, that makes the song so important and timeless is that we the listeners relate to and, in a sense, ultimately while listening become all three characters in the song.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/yourviews/waterloosunset1.shtml (2208 words)

	BMW ORACLE Racing Team Blog - TEAM CULTURE II
		The choice of song is often the source of friendly debate within the team -- both serious and not so.
		One song that was suggested, and roundly rejected, is in this morning's headlines.
		Lately "Waterloo" has become almost the team's anti-song -- played when someone receives one of Mark Bradford's light-hearted and hilariously funny "FITH" (don't ask) awards for making a notable bone-headed play in some aspect of his or her work for the team.
	bmworacleracing.twoday.net /stories/1085797/comment (485 words)

	"Waterloo Sunset: Stories" by Ray Davies - Salon
		T he best songs are often like little novels, their narrative bound up in the spaces between the words if not in the words themselves -- which is why if the world made any sense at all, songwriting and fiction writing would be interchangeable skills.
		You can easily read many of the stories in "Waterloo Sunset" as autobiographical, in their overall feel if not in their specifics: They have too much of the air of personal experience to be completely made up.
		Not all of his songs are about afternoon tea and quiet village life (think of the unreserved bitterness of "David Watts"), and his stories, too, can cut: The stormy, passionate domestic brawls between Les and his girlfriend, Donna, present the sort of caustic truth you'd rather not face up to in the couples you know.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2000/03/23/davies/index.html (664 words)

	"Waterloo"
		"Waterloo" was produced with the deliberate intent of crossing all cultural and age barriers.
		Without going into detail about how material is chosen or how songs are judged, the contest usually breeds thoroughly disposable ditties that attempt to prove the creative superiority of their respective cultures while simultaneously appealing to judges from many cultures.
		"Waterloo" was Sweden's entry in 1974 and has the distinction of being praised as the best song ever to come out of this rather dubious event.
	www.superseventies.com /sw_waterloo.html (954 words)

	Waterloo - ABBA - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This album is rather unusual in the group's output, however, for the fact that the guys are still featured fairly prominently in some of the vocals, and for the variety of sounds -- including reggae, folk-rock, and hard rock -- embraced by its songs.
		The reggae number "Sitting in the Palmtree" is quite remarkable to hear, with its perfect Caribbean beat and those radiant female voices carrying the chorus behind the beat.
		They get a little closer to their winning formula on the catchy, folky-textured pop song "Hasta Mañana," which sounds like a lost Mary Hopkin number.
	www.mp3.com /albums/32/summary.html (414 words)

	The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset": Great But Overrated?
		It may not be the best Kinks song or even the best song off the album, but it has a certain quality that is beautiful and poignant.
		i like the idea of "waterloo sunset" more than the execution: the words and delivery are quite moving, but i find the too-prominent sloppy rhythm guitar really distracting.
		"Waterloo Sunset" was track 2 on side one, if I remember correctly (I bought a copy of the album a few years ago, it's the only place you can get "Wonderboy" in stereo, y'know).
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=4044963 (1779 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Top 100 Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The songs subesquent failure to be anything like a sizeable hit in the US crushed Spector and he never recovered, but let's remember this.
		Interestingly, the song was a big hit in England and music lovers remembered the voice of Tina Turner - ensuring she was favourably received went she eventually got out of the control of Ike and struck solo.
		The song ends with the distinctive melody played by a combination of bass and piano, so you have a sound that is neither, but rather a new sound (a usual spector trick) you might call a bass piano.
	www.adriandenning.com /cuts.html (6059 words)

	ABBA - Biography, Discography and Information @ CD Quest Music
		In early 1974, ABBA (as Stig had christened the quartet) performed "Waterloo," a song written by Benny, Bjorn and Stig, and walked away with the Swedish Eurovision heat.
		"Waterloo" became the first of the group's nine UK Number One singles, and launched ABBA as the first internationally successful pop/rock superstar act who sang in a language other than their native tongue.
		The "Waterloo" single also topped charts around the world, as well as making the US Top 10, and while the group reached the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with follow-up singles, for over a year, they seemed unable to overcome the apparent stigma which has afflicted non-British Eurovision winners.
	www.cdquest.com /bands/abba.html (1161 words)

	Amazon.com: Waterloo (Digipak): Music: ABBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As with that song, it was released in Swedish and English versions, and it's interesting to hear both.
		Despite several wonderful songs, it is not as strong as several of their later albums.
		Their song compositions are multi-layered, and comlex; that is why critics who really don't know them call them simplistic ballads.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005CDNE?v=glance (2013 words)

	"Congratulations"! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'Waterloo' (by Stig Anderson, Benny and Björn) with which ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, sold over 6 million before the end of 1976.
		A shortlist of 14 songs was chosen from every single entry in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest â“ ten were selected by an online vote on the official website, www.eurovision.tv, and the remaining four were given wild cards by the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group.
		On the night, responsibility for ranking the 14 songs was split evenly between TV viewers, who were able to televote, and national juries from 31 countries in which 'Congratulations' was broadcast.
	www.eurovision.tv /english/2048.htm (559 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com
		Burt, Rep. Deborah Berry of Waterloo and Betty Andrews, director of the fl festival of arts and culture I'll Make Me a World in Iowa, rejoiced at the adoption of the song, which was previously approved by the Iowa Senate.
		The song emphasizes "to every citizen in the state of Iowa and the country that Iowa is a progressive state," Berry said.
		Burt, who sings gospel and jazz, hopes the song inspires Iowans and newcomers to the state to follow their dreams and to realize that those dreams can be accomplished in Iowa, she said.
	www.dmregister.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/NEWS08/602280391/1001 (774 words)

	SSRN-On Parameter Estimation for Exponential Dispersion Arma Models by Peter Song, Dingan Feng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One property associated with the class of models is that the projection process takes the exact form of the classical Box and Jenkins ARMA representation, leading to considerable ease to establish theories.
		The key of the proposed approach is to treat the residual process associated with the projection essentially as a measurement error, which enables us to formulate directly an ARMA representation for the observed time series.
		Song, Peter X.K. and Feng, Dingan, "On Parameter Estimation for Exponential Dispersion Arma Models".
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=830177 (309 words)

	Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Eurovision song contest celebrated its 50th birthday by beaming live from Copenhagen with all its usual kitsch and glamour.
		Saturday night's programme ended with the announcement that Abba's catchy "Waterloo", which won Eurovision in 1974 and shot to the top of the charts, was the best all-time song in the history of the contest.
		Although Eurovision is sometimes derided for trumpeting songs that don't even fall in the peripheral vision of the rest of the music industry, the 1974 selection of "Waterloo" launched Abba's international career.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/news/article321745.ece (706 words)

	eurovision song contest - eurosongonline.com , scenario creative services
		The Eurovision Song Contest grew out of the Italian "San Remo Song Festival" and was first staged in Switzerland in 1956 with the participation of 7 countries.
		The Eurovision's Song Contest stated mission is: "to stimulate the output of original high-quality songs in the field of popular music by encouraging competition between authors and composers through the international comparison of their work".
		In 1976 the Song Contest's rules were changed to oblige countries to sing in their native languages.
	www.eurosongonline.com /past_years/1.htm (878 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : ABBA
		The song suffers terribly after this promising beginning by featuring one of the guys on lead vocals, a rather strained and unconvincing lead vocal.
		Here, whatever emotions are within the song are rendered uninteresting due to the entire presentation of the piece, a real over the top orchestral/vocal number that eventually cause pain to even have to listen to it.
		It sounds like a song from a musical, far removed from pop music and when abba cease to be pop music they cease to be.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /abba.html (3295 words)

	Epinions.com - DANCING QUEEN, FERNANDO, SOS, WATERLOO & OTHERS — ABBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 10 February 1973 their song comes in 3rd again as in the previous year and it also goes to #1 on the Swedish single charts.
		The songs as they appear on this CD are listed next followed by the length of the song, my rating of each song and then my overall rating of the CD:
		All the songs by them are very energetic, easy to tap your feet to or to sing along with.
	www.epinions.com /content_3318980740 (4266 words)

	song
		Two past winners of the competition are well- known even outside of Europe: ABBA, who won with their famous song "Waterloo," and Celine Dion, who performed as a representative from Switzerland.
		Each year, the song to be sung is played on the radio (over and over) and people enjoy debating its quality and chances for success.
		Some feel she will have a better chance for success if more of the audience can understand the words to her song; others feel that singing in a language that is not her mother-tongue may weaken her performance.
	www.postcardsfromisrael.com /song.html (542 words)

	WCFCourier.com \| The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!
		Since our discussion of rock 'n' roll songs used in commercials a year ago (available in the archive at wcfcourier.com/pulse), there is a whole new crop of ads meant to coax all of us baby boomers to buy, buy and buy.
		There was a time when The Beatles refused offers to use their songs to pitch products, but that commitment fell apart when they lost the rights to much of their catalog which eventually ended up in Michael Jackson's portfolio.
		By the way, this song should not be confused with "Shapes Of Things" from the Yardbirds, who have another classic hit "For Your Love" being used by Zales Jewelry.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2006/03/15/pulse/lostinsixties/doc4411964f80575758538486.txt (1174 words)

	The Countdown Collector's Reference: Previous Columns, March 2004
		But their watershed (pun intended) moment came with "Waterloo", the song that won them the Eurovision Song Contest on April 6, 1974, and was the first single released that bore their group's name.
		The title of the song referred to Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat by British and German forces at the battle near the Belgian town in 1815 and was used as a metaphor for a girl surrendering to the courting of an insistent suitor
		This song came from the "Falcon and the Snowman" a movie that was somewhat dark and disturbing and not a blockbuster.
	home.nc.rr.com /bestfamily/tccPreviousMar.htm (4943 words)

	WCFCourier.com \| The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!
		WATERLOO --- Some Cedar Valley-area state legislators are reviving an effort to get a Waterloo woman's song recognized on a par with the official Iowa state song.
		State Rep. Deborah Berry, D-Waterloo, said she and Reps. Don Shoultz, D-Waterloo and Bob Kressig, D-Cedar Falls, are reviving a resolution to get Waterloo singer/songwriter Effie Burt's "I'll Make Me a World in Iowa" recognized as the companion to Iowa's state song, "Song of Iowa," which was written by S.H.M. Byers in about 1911.
		I think her song tells a story of how you don't have to leave Iowa to make your world," Berry said of Burt's composition.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2006/01/27/news/metro/f37874c10ef907b08625710300501ed7.txt (534 words)

	Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks Songfacts
		Waterloo Bridge is in London, and the lyrics are about a guy looking out of a window at two lovers meeting at Waterloo Station.
		Yet in spite of this simplicity, the song is laced with a level of depth that can easily escape a superficial listener.
		Ray Davies says in the unauthorized biography that the characters in his songs are taken from the people in his life.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=4147 (727 words)

	Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007 \| ABBA victory with Waterloo exactly 30 years ago
		ABBA is by far the most succesful winner of the Eurovision Song Contest ever, selling millions of records all over the world.
		The Eurovision Song Contest is considered as the kick-off of ABBA's 10-year career.
		I was in Brighton that night for the final and it seems like only yesterday, and of course that year four songs made the top 10 in the UK charts, a top year all round.
	www.esctoday.com /news/read/2433 (998 words)

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