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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Congratulations
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  • eng
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  • Number-one singles in Norway
  • Columbia Graphophone Company singles
  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • 1968 singles
  • 1968 songs
  • Cliff Richard songs
  • UK Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Congratulations Eurovision songs
  • Song recordings produced by Norrie Paramor
  • Pinky and Perky songs
  • Eurovision songs of the United Kingdom
  • Songs written by Bill Martin (musician)
  • Songs written by Phil Coulter
  • Eurovision songs of 1968
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  • %22Congratulations%22 is a song written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, as the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 on 6 April with Cliff Richard performing.Phil Coulter originally wrote the song as %22I Think I Love You%22, but was unsure of the lyrics and got together with Bill Martin (the same team that wrote %22Puppet on a String%22), who changed it to %22Congratulations%22. The song was immediately popular in the UK and became a number one single. On the day of the contest, it was the favourite to win, so much so that the British press were posing the question: %22What will come second to 'Congratulations'?%22During the voting, %22Congratulations%22 was leading for much of the way until the penultimate vote when Germany gave Spain six points, putting them one point ahead of the United Kingdom. It finished second losing to Spain's entry %22La, la, la%22 by just one point, and was a huge hit throughout Europe. In 2008, documentary film-maker Montse Fernandez Vila claimed that the loss was the result of rigging of the Spanish vote by state television on behalf of General Franco's fascist regime.However José María Íñigo, the person that made such claims in the documentary quickly said that his words were taken out of context and said that the channel that produced the documentary, laSexta, who was the promoter of the Spanish representative that year, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, had manipulated his words to help promote their candidate. He said: %22if there had been such a manipulation, it would have been for a different artist who had been closer to the regime%22.The song is still popular and was chosen to lead the show which celebrated 50 years of Eurovision and which was named after it: Congratulations. Also, Richard performed the song as part of the commemorations for the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995, despite its having been written long after World War II's end.George Harrison's song %22It's Johnny's Birthday%22 from All Things Must Pass is based on this song.
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  • Bill Martin (musician)
  • Phil Coulter
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  • Norrie Paramor
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  • 3124130
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  • english
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  • --02-03
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  • Congratulations
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