While Finland was struggling year after year in Eurovision, from one fiasco to another null pointer we did well in various festivals in Poland, Romania, DDR and Bulgaria in 1970's and early 1980's. Marion won Sopot (twice) and Jukka Kuoppamäki Rostock and other awards were rolling in but in Eurovision nothing.... Now those festivals are pretty much gone, Finland has even won Eurovision once and also the other Finnish pop music festival Syksyn Sävel that produced hits like Melodifestivalen does in Sweden these days is only a distant memory... watch this fun documentary with dozens of Eurovision national final songs, clips from various festivals and footage you may have never seen before in YLEäs Areena here: Mrs Screen's music history! It's entertaining even if you don't speak Finnish! And try to spot as many familiar faces as you can! The clip is available until December 20, 2009.
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