USC 1968 Dutch national final

The 12 finalists for the 1968 preselection show are made public:

01 Tony Vos & Studio Orkest - Love in Copenhagen (theme from "De Glazen Stad")

02 Shocking Blue - Send me a postcard

03 Egbert Douwe - Kom uit de bedstee m'n liefste

04 Golden Earring - Just a little bit of peace in my heart

05 Peter Tetteroo - Red red wine

06 Heintje - Mijn vriendinnetje

07 Zen - Hair

08 Rob Hoeke Rhythm & Blues Group - Drinking on my bed

09 BZN - Waiting for you

10 Patricia Paay - Corriamo

11 After Tea - We will be there after tea

12 Buffoons - Sunday will never be the same

reserve (in case one song drops out): Shocking Blue - Lucy Brown is back in town

The songs can be found here till 21st of april 2007 http://download.yousendit.com/61F792A5604006BC

Dutch entrant USC 2000 will be musical star Pia Douwes

In a mini-preselection, the dutch entrant for the 2000 United Song Contest was chosen. It was a battle between dance-act Alice Deejay, Frysian folk-duo Twarres and musical star Pia Douwes.

During the voting Twarres' frysian language song "Wer bisto" was in the lead but after the last jurors votes were cast it was Pia who won the preselection. Pia Douwes will be singing 'Mijn leven is van mij' (I belong to me). Alice Deejay with her song "Will I ever" ended up last.

Pia became famous for her role in the dutch version of the musical "Elisabeth". After the dutch version she made the german version of the musical to even bigger succes. Therefore she already made a german recording of her entry called "Ich gehör nur mir" as well and expressed she had high hopes to walk in the footsteps of Ruth Jacott who won the 1995 USC.

Anita Meyer & Do both surprise with mixed results

In the Winter 2007 edition, Anita Meyer's disco standard sadly and to the surprise of many stranded in the semi finals with her song "Why tell me why". The non-qualifying rumoured favourite was the talk of the night in Stockholm, tactical voting was mentioned by others but Anita nevertheless expressed she had performed well and after thanking the people who voted her she said she hopes she'll be given a second chance in a future USC edition.

results semi 2007 Winter Edition:
12. Cyprus 86p13. Portugal 84p14. Israel 67p15. Slovenia 64p16. San-Marino 63p17. Lithuania 5918. Hungary 56p (113p before 50%)19. Bosnia-Herzegovina 55p20. Netherlands 53p21. FYR Macedonia 43p (87p before 50%)22. Lebanon 39p23. Czech Republic 28p24. Poland 18p25. Ireland 17p (34p before 50%)26. Morocco 2p (4p before 50%)

In the final Latvia took the victory with singer Ella and the very swedish sounding song 'Heaven In Your Eyes' leaving all favourites (including Iceland and Romania) behind.

Anita's opponent in the preselections, Do, participated wih her song 'Heaven (piano version)' in the Second Chance Edition of the 2007 Winter USC and managed to rank 6th in the final!

Both Anita and Do will be in the Spring edition of 2007 USC preselections.
Do is considering to enter the Spring contest with an uptempo song while Anita will give a shot with a ballad.

The Netherlands win USC 1995

In a hilariously nerve-wrecking voting Ruth Jacott - the dutch entrant to the USC 1995 - ran away with the victory. She had sang her song 'Ik ga door' (I'll survive/go on) and managed to collect the most points (86) from the juries all over Europe. Voting was exciting till the last vote was cast by the Luxemburg jury. The Netherlands were in the lead with a 6 point margin over Portugal who was still pointless in the last vote, but with a douze points would grap the victory. Drama to the max Luxemburg left Portugal in 2nd spot with 80 points and gave thier 12p to (France) Celine Dion's song, leaving Pedro Migueis with "As Coisas Que Nao Esqueci" (The things one doesn't hope for) as runner up. After the voting made it clear beloved Ruth was the winner the crowd went wild and Ruth couldn't stop thanking the people that voted her. Prophetical At the pressconference, she sang especially for the fans to thank them, her 1993 preselection entry "Ik hou van jou" ( I love you) and Ruth expressed that she hoped her song title ('which can be translated as I'll go on, I'll survive or I'll pass) would be prophetical for both her fans and the chances of her fellowdutch singer Anita Meyer who is in the semi's at the 2007 USC Winter Edition. With her song "Why tell me why"