You're Summer
Sweden chose their entry for Eurovision Song Contest 1973 in a national final called Melodifestivalen 1973. One of the competitors was a group of those who would later be the members of ABBA, but they only finished 3rd with their own entry. Instead, the winner was the song "Sommaren som aldrig säger nej" with the group Malta. To avoid confusion, they changed their name to "Nova and the Dolls" for the contest. The song was translated into English and got the name "You're Summer". The song's lyrics were written by Lars Forsell, and it was composed by Monica and Carl-Axel Dominique. Before Eurovision Melodifestivalen 1973 Melodifestivalen 1973 was the selection for the 14th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 13th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 10 songwriters were selected by SVT for the competition. The final was held in the SVT Studios in Stockholm on 10 February 1973, presented by Alicia Lundberg and was broadcast ...
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Malta (band)
Malta was a Swedish pop duo. It was a duo consisting of Claes af Geijerstam and Göran Fristorp. In 1973, they had to change their band name to Nova in order to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 to perform the song "You're Summer" in Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ..., which would put them in 5th place. References Swedish pop music groups Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Sweden Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1973 EMI Records artists {{Sweden-band-stub ...
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