From the intense, to the....not so intense, Dana's 'All Kinds Of Everything' won the Eurovision Song Concert for Ireland for the first time and at an era when winning was still taken as a serious barometer of quality the way the Mercury Prize (pfft) is today. Amongst certain people anyway.'All Kinds Of Everything' is 'These Foolish Things' as written by Enid Blyton; the 'Snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees, sailboats and fishermen, things of the sea' lyrics are only one step up from a recounting of what little girls are made from. It's winsome and twee to the point of nausea, but Dana has a 'day release from the convent' voice with innocence to burn so laying into her would feel a bit like laying into Bambi. So I'll just say that although it's a pleasant enough melody, I can't help thinking this would have been so much better sung in French. Or at least any Euro language where I didn't know what she was on about.
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