Melodifestivalen 1984 - Winner: Herreys - Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"

The playlist with all editions of the Swedish MELODIFESTIVALEN:    • Melodifestivalen Sweden   Selection process Melodifestivalen 1984 Selection date(s) 25 February 1984 Selected entrant Herreys Selected song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" Selected songwriters: Torgny Söderberg, Britt Lindeborg Final result 1st, 145 points 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 Söderberg. Melodifestivalen 1984 was the selection for the 24th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 23rd time that this system of picking a song had been used. 90 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was held in the Lisebergshallen in Gothenburg on 25 February 1984, presented by Fredrik Belfrage and was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio. Herreys went on to win that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg; Sweden's second Eurovision win. Draw Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place 1 Janne Önnerud "Nu är jag tillbaks igen" Monica Forsberg, Örjan Fahlström - - 2 Göran Folkestad and Lotta Pedersen "Sankta Cecilia" Göran Folkestad, Vicki Benckert 41 2nd 3 Rosa Körberg "Schack och matt" Monica Forsberg, Örjan Fahlström - - 4 John Ballard "Rendez-vous" Paula af Malmborg, Bjarne Nyqvist 39 3rd 5 Herreys "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" Britt Lindeborg, Torgny Söderberg 49 1st 6 Per-Erik Hallin "Labyrint" Per-Erik Hallin - - 7 Elisabeth Andreasson "Kärleksmagi" Peter Wiberg, Vicki Benckert - - 8 Karin and Anders Glenmark "Kall som is" Ingela 'Pling' Forsman, Anders Glenmark 33 4th 9 Thomas Lewing "Tjuvarnas natt" Ingela 'Pling' Forsman, Bruno Glenmark - - 10 Vicki Benckert "Livet är som ett träd" Vicki Benckert 27 5th "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 performed in Swedish by the trio of brothers Herrey's, representing Sweden. Lyrics were written by Britt Lindeborg, and the tune by Torgny Söderberg. It was produced by Anders Engberg and Torgny Söderberg. The song is a perfect illustration of the time period in which it was performed:[citation needed] a very upbeat 1980s-style dance song, performed by three clean-cut young men – fellow Swedish Eurovision participant Tommy Körberg famously dubbed them "the dancing deodorants" in the press, a derogatory nickname that stuck with them for the rest of their career in their home country – and the nonsensical title harking back to previous entries such as "Boom Bang-a-Bang", "Ding-a-dong" and "La, la, la". The song has achieved considerable fame among Eurovision Song Contest fans, with a well-known archive of contest lyrics using the domain name diggiloo.net, named after it. Despite the reception the song receives today, in the run-up to the contest it was not an immediate favorite to win: bookmakers Ladbrokes had Ireland's "Terminal 3" and Italy's "I treni di Tozeur" as higher favourites, so the song winning came as a surprise to many. According to author John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History, Herrey's opened the contest and thus became the third winners of the competition to sing from pole position, following Teach-In in 1975 and Brotherhood of Man in 1976. No song sung first or second has won since. The song itself deals with the lead singer discovering a pair of golden shoes in the street one day. He puts them on and immediately feels like dancing in the street, entering a "magical world". Thus, he wishes for everyone to have a pair. The English translation, released some time after the Contest, took much the same theme, titling the song "Golden Shoes". Richard Herrey, lead singer of the band, performed at the Congratulations special in late 2005. In 2015, all three band members performed the track with a mixture of English and Swedish lyrics at Apollo theatre in Hammersmith, London as part of the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits concert to mark the contests 60th anniversary.