OGAE Retro Contest 1967 Australian National Final
The OGAE Retro Contest is an event of dual sub-contests that have been held within the OGAE community, to celebrate songs from a retrospective year. The year being celebrated is 1967.
The contest is held in two parts: the Retrospective Second Chance Contest, and the Guest Jury Hits Contest. In Retrospective Second Chance, countries who hosted a national final in 1967 will choose a song that narrowly missed out to compete at Eurovision that year in Vienna. As Australia wasn't competing that year, we cannot submit a song but will be a guest jury to help decide that result. In Guest Jury Hits, countries who didn't host a national final or weren't in the contest at the time will choose a hit from 1967 to represent their country. This is where OGAE Australia comes in!
After a whopping 21 submissions and 14 unique songs were submitted to our open call, our commitee had the very difficult task of choosing which of these songs would be shortlisted based on the eligibility criteria. After a long and intense process full of voting and discussion, we were able to whittle the list down to just 5 songs!
Here are the 5 songs fighting to represent OGAE Australia in the OGAE Retro Contest 1967 (in running order):
Love Is Kind, Love Is Wine - The Seekers
Falling Off the Edge of the World - The Easybeats
To Love Somebody - The Bee Gees
Sadie The Cleaning Lady - John Farnham
Sunshine Secret - Normie Rowe
Voting is now open to OGAE Australia members only. To vote, please refer to the email sent about voting, or check out the members-only Facebook group. You will be required to cast points to each song: your most favoured song will get 7 points, the next 5, then 3, 2 and 1. Please ensure that you do not vote for a song twice, or your vote will not be counted.
So what are you waiting for! OGAE Australia...you decide! But hurry, voting closes Tuesday 16th of July 2024 at 4pm AEST.
