Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley

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This article is about the song. For the album, see Diggi Loo, Diggi Ley.
Herrey's
Language
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Conductor
Finals performance
Final result
1st
Final points
145
Entry chronology
◄ "Främling" (1983)
"Bra vibrationer" (1985) ►

"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" was the winning song in the

Anders Engberg
and Torgny Söderberg.

The song is an upbeat 1980s-style dance song, performed by three clean-cut young men – fellow Swedish Eurovision participant

Italy's "I treni di Tozeur
" as higher favourites, so the song winning came as a surprise to many.

According to author John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History, Herrey's opened the contest and thus became the third winners of the competition to sing from pole position, following Teach-In in 1975 and Brotherhood of Man in 1976. No song sung first or second has won since.[2]

The song itself deals with the lead singer discovering a pair of golden shoes in the street one day. He puts them on and immediately feels like dancing in the street, entering a "magical world". Thus, he wishes for everyone to have a pair. The English translation, which the group sang in their winning reprise at the Contest, took much the same theme.

Richard Herrey, lead singer of the band, performed at the

Congratulations special in late 2005. In 2015, all three band members performed the track with a mixture of English and Swedish lyrics at Apollo theatre in Hammersmith, London as part of the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits
concert to mark the contest's 60th anniversary.

The song was succeeded as winner in

UK Singles Chart.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Diggi Loo – Diggi Ley" – 3:05
  2. "Every Song You Sing" – 3:34

Charts

Chart (1984) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 10
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[5] 4
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[6] 5
Netherlands (
Single Top 100
) 		4
Norway (VG-lista) 5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) 2
Switzerland (
Schweizer Hitparade
) 		10
UK Singles (OCC
) 		46

Covers

References

  1. ISBN 91-89136-00-4
  2. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3
  3. ^ https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Herrey%27s&titel=Diggi+Loo+%2F+Diggi+Ley&cat=s [bare URL]
  4. ^ https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/herreys-diggi-loo-diggi-ley/ [bare URL]
  5. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Herrey's". Sisältää hitin – 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 102. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Herrey's – Diggi Loo/Diggi Ley" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 27 June 2022.

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Preceded by
1984
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Eurovision Song Contest winners
1984
 Succeeded by
"
Bobbysocks
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