"Judy, min vän" was the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969

Eurovision Song Contest 1969

The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th in the series. It was the first time that the contest resulted in a tie for first place, with four countries each gaining 18 votes. Since there was at the time no rule to cover such an eventuality, all four countries were declared joint winners...

, performed in Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 by Tommy Körberg

Tommy Körberg

Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. In 1969, he won Swedish Recording Industry Award Grammis in a category Best Debut Performance. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role in the Benny Andersson–Björn Ulvaeus–Tim Rice musical Chess...

, the winner of Melodifestivalen 1969

Melodifestivalen 1969

Melodifestivalen 1969 was the selection for the 11th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 10th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 2402 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio...

. Körberg was not the only Swede competing in the 1969 Contest, held in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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; Siw Malmkvist

Siw Malmkvist

Siw "Siwan" Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist is a Swedish singer who is popular in Scandinavia and Germany...

, who first had entered in 1960

Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth in the series, and was held on 29 March 1960 in London. France's win this year was their second in the contest....

 with "Alla andra får varann

Alla andra får varann

"Alla andra får varann" is a song by Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist, that represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, performed in Swedish....

", this year represented Germany

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

Germany has participated in every Eurovision Song Contest since its beginning in 1956, although its entry in 1996 did not qualify past the pre‐selection round, and therefore was not seen in the broadcast final. No other country has been represented as often. France and the United Kingdom come in a...

 with "Primaballerina

Primaballerina

"Primaballerina" is a 1969 song performed by Swedish singer Siw Malmkvist and written by Hans Blum. It was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969...

".

"Judy, min vän" was composed by Englishman Roger Wallis, living in Sweden since the early 60s, originally with English lyrics and entitled "Dear Mrs. Jones". Lyricist Britt Lindeborg subsequently translated and re-wrote the Swedish lyrics specifically for the Swedish pre-selections, and then changed the title to "Judy, min vän". Both versions of the song were released as singles in Sweden.

"Judy, min vän" was performed ninth on the night, following the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

's Lenny Kuhr

Lenny Kuhr

Lenny Kuhr is a Dutch singer-songwriter.In 1967 she started a singing career in the Netherlands, performing songs in the French chanson tradition. In 1969 she represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest with her own composition De Troubadour...

 with "De troubadour

De Troubadour

"De troubadour" , sung in Dutch by Lenny Kuhr representing the Netherlands, was – together with "Boom Bang-a-Bang", "Un jour, un enfant", and "Vivo cantando" from, respectively, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain – one of the four winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1969.In a ballad inspired...

" and preceding Belgium

Belgium

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's Louis Neefs with "Jennifer Jennings

Jennifer Jennings

"Jennifer Jennings" was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, performed in Dutch by Louis Neefs.The song was performed tenth on the night...

". By the close of voting, it had received 8 points, placing it in shared 9th place (incidentally with Siw Malmkvist's "Primaballerina") in a field of 16.

After four countries won the Contest in 1969, Sweden - as all the other Scandinavian

Scandinavia

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 countries - withdrew from the 1970 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1970

The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the 15th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 21 March 1970 at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Amsterdam contest is regarded as one of the most significant in Eurovision history for a number of reasons....

, in protest of the voting system. Thus, "Judy, min vän" was succeeded as the Swedish representative

Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden has participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 51 times since their debut in 1958. Since 1959, the Swedish representative has been chosen through an annual televised competition, known since 1967 as Melodifestivalen. Three times – 1964, 1970, and 1976 – Sweden didn't participate...

 at the 1971 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1971

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest and the first held in Dublin, Ireland. The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others...

 by Family Four

Family Four

Family Four were a Swedish pop group who recorded during the 1960s and 1970s. They were made up of Berdnt Öst, Marie Bergman, Agnetha Munther and Pierre Isacsson. They won Melodifestivalen twice, in 1971 with "Vita vidder" and in 1972 with "Härliga sommardag". They went on to represent Sweden in...

 with "Vita vidder

Vita vidder

"Vita vidder" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Swedish by Family Four.The song says that many people of Northern Europe like to travel to sunny countries of Southern Europe, with beaches, sunny days and warm nights, but the band prefers the white horizons...

". Tommy Körberg returned to the Contest in 1988

Eurovision Song Contest 1988

The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 30 April 1988 in Dublin. The presenters were Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca...

 when he represented Sweden with "Stad i ljus

Stad i ljus

"Stad i ljus" is a ballad, which was the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1988 winning song and entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, where it finished 12th. The song was written by Py Bäckman performed by Tommy Körberg....

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