Melodifestivalen 1984
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Date: 25 February 1984
Presenter: Fredrik Belfrage
Fredrik Belfrage
Fredrik Belfrage is a Swedish TV and radio presenter. He is the son of the dentist Åke Belfrage and Vera Maria, born Vange ....

Venue: Lisebergshallen
Lisebergshallen
Lisebergshallen is a multi-purpose venue in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is located at the entrance of the amusement park Liseberg. It was built in 1980 and is used as entertainment centre for example charity events and concerts...

, Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

Voting: Juries sorted by age
Winner: Diggi-loo, diggi-ley performed by Herreys
Herreys
Herreys, or Herrey's, is a Swedish pop group, consisting of the three Mormon brothers Per Herrey , Richard Herrey and Louis Herrey . They won the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". In 1985, they won the Sopot International Song Festival with "Sommarparty på Stranden"...

Winner's result at Eurovision
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

:
First place


Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

 1984
was the selection for the 24th song to represent Sweden
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....

 at the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

. It was the 23rd time that this system of picking a song had been used. 90 songs were submitted to SVT
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

 for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV1
SVT1
SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

 but was not broadcast on radio. Herreys went on to win that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

, Sweden's second Eurovision win.

Results

# Artist Song Songwriters Points Place
1 Janne Önnerud Nu är jag tillbaks igen Monica Forsberg
Monica Forsberg
Monica Yvonne Forsberg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress. She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 and 1985...

, Örjan Fahlström
6th
2 Göran Folkestad
Göran Folkestad
Göran Folkestad, born 1952, is a Swedish songwriter and singer. He is professor of music pedagogy at Malmö Academy of Music. He has competed three times in Melodifestivalen during the 1980s, with the songs:...

 & Lotta Pedersen
Lotta Engberg
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Sankta Cecilia Göran Folkestad, Vicki Benckert 41 2nd
3 Caron Tetsill Schack och matt Monica Forsberg
Monica Forsberg
Monica Yvonne Forsberg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress. She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 and 1985...

, Örjan Fahlström
6th
4 John Ballard Rendez-vous Paula af Malmborg, Bjarne Nyqvist 39 3rd
5 Herreys
Herreys
Herreys, or Herrey's, is a Swedish pop group, consisting of the three Mormon brothers Per Herrey , Richard Herrey and Louis Herrey . They won the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". In 1985, they won the Sopot International Song Festival with "Sommarparty på Stranden"...

Diggi-loo diggi-ley
Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley
"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 performed in Swedish by a trio of brothers named Herrey's. Lyrics were written by Britt Lindeborg, and the tune by Torgny Söderberg...

Britt Lindeborg, Torgny Söderberg 49 1st
6 Per-Erik Hallin Labyrint Per-Erik Hallin
6th
7 Elisabeth Andreasson
Elisabeth Andreassen
Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen - also known as just "Bettan" - is a Swedish-Norwegian singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest....

Kärleksmagi Peter Wiberg, Vicki Benckert
6th
8 Karin
Karin Glenmark
Karin Glenmark, born 8 April 1952, is a Swedish pop and rock singer. She is the niece to Bruno Glenmark and sister to Anders Glenmark. Together with Anders, she is a part of the siblings duo Gemini, and together with uncle Bruno and his wife Ann-Louise Hanson, they formed the group Glenmarks.She...

 and Anders Glenmark
Anders Glenmark
Anders Glenmark is a Swedish pop and rock singer, as well as one of Sweden's most successful music producers and song writers. He is the brother of singer Karin Glenmark and nephew of band leader Bruno Glenmark. Among the artists he's written and produced for are Eva Dahlgren, Orup, Ted Gärdestad...

Kall som is Ingela 'Pling' Forsman
Ingela Forsman
Ingela Birgitta "Pling" Forsman is a Swedish lyricist in popular music. 1981–2009, 33 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: Bra vibrationer , Se på mej and Kärleken är...

, Anders Glenmark
Anders Glenmark
Anders Glenmark is a Swedish pop and rock singer, as well as one of Sweden's most successful music producers and song writers. He is the brother of singer Karin Glenmark and nephew of band leader Bruno Glenmark. Among the artists he's written and produced for are Eva Dahlgren, Orup, Ted Gärdestad...

33 4th
9 Thomas Lewing Tjuvarnas natt Ingela 'Pling' Forsman
Ingela Forsman
Ingela Birgitta "Pling" Forsman is a Swedish lyricist in popular music. 1981–2009, 33 of her songs have competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen, three of them winners: Bra vibrationer , Se på mej and Kärleken är...

, Bruno Glenmark
6th
10 Vicki Benckert
Vicki Benckert
Vicki Benckert, born 17 October 1960, is a Swedish pop singer.Vicki Benckert broke through in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984, where she had written three of the songs "Kärleksmagi", "Sankta Cecilia" and "Livet är som ett träd". She sang "Livet är som ett träd"...

Livet är som ett träd Vicki Benckert 27 5th

Juries

Song 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 50-55 55-60 Total
Rendez-vous 8 8 2 8 1 2 2 6 2 39
Sankta Cecilia 1 2 6 4 4 6 8 4 6 41
Diggi-loo, diggi-ley 6 4 1 2 6 8 6 8 8 49
Kall som is 2 1 8 6 8 4 1 2 1 33
Livet är som ett träd 4 6 4 1 2 1 4 1 4 27

See also

  • Eurovision Song Contest 1984
    Eurovision Song Contest 1984
    The Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was the 29th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter was Désirée Nosbusch. Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for this show back then...

  • Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
    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...

  • Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
    Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
    Sweden held a national preselction named Melodifestivalen 1984 to choose the entry for the Eurovision Song Contest the same year. The winner was the three brothers Herrey, consisting of Richard, Louis and Per. Their song was called Diggi-loo diggi-ley, and was written by Britt Lindeborg and Torgny...


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