A Message to Your Heart
"A Message to Your Heart" | |
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Sony Music Entertainment | |
Songwriter(s) | Paul Curtis |
Eurovision Song Contest 1991 entry | |
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Artist(s) | |
Language | English |
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Conductor | |
Finals performance | |
Final result | 10th |
Final points | 47 |
Entry chronology | |
◄ "Give a Little Love Back to the World" (1990) | |
"One Step Out of Time" (1992) ► |
"A Message to Your Heart", written and composed by Paul Curtis, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991, performed by singer and actress Samantha Janus. Paul Curtis had also penned the previous year's entry, "Give a Little Love Back to the World".
Janus went on to become a successful actress, starring in the sitcom
Background
Composition
Like the previous year, composer Paul Curtis submitted a topical entry for consideration; this time, the subjects were the less fortunate, suffering from poverty and starvation. Janus sung of the contrasts between the people who "are hungry just from being born", and the people who have too much, with "their only hunger being greed". The "message to [the] heart" refers to Janus imploring the better-off to, at the very least, say a prayer for the less fortunate, ending with the well-known John Bradford quotation, "There but for the grace of God, go I". The melody of the song is up-tempo.
Selection process
Janus won the right to perform at the contest, held in
At Eurovision
On the night of the contest, Janus was dressed in a pink mini-dress, flanked by three women (Zoe Picot, Lucy Moorby, and Nikki Belsher) in white mini-dresses. She was also joined by two other "ghost"
In Rome, the song was performed twentieth on the night, after
Charts
After Eurovision, the song placed at No. 30 on the
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Official Charts Company[3] | 30 |
References
- ^ Radio Times interview, April 2006
- ^ "A Message to Your Heart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ "The UK's highest charting Eurovision stars revealed!". Retrieved 2015-05-10.