Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

A couple of great tracks in this one, too, from Anna Eriksson, Egotrippi and Laura Voutilainen. Kari Tapio is here with his Euroviisut runner up and the rest is the usual dance band stuff spiced up with Pate Mustajärvi's effort.... Suvi Teräsniska has one song here and one more much much higher. Charles Plogman, Anssi kela, Matti ja Teppo and Agents are featured in this chosen ten once again. 121. EI SE MENNYT NIIN - ANNA ERIKSSON 122. MATKUSTAJA - EGOTRIPPI 123. VAARALLINEN YLLÄTYS - LAURA VOUTILAINEN 124. VALAISE YÖ - KARI TAPIO 125. ROKKIMAKKARA - PATE MUSTAJÄRVI 126. JALAT ALTA - CHARLES PLOGMAN 127. ÄLÄ MENE POIS - ANSSI KELA 128. KYLMÄT ENKELIT - SUVI TERÄSNISKA 129. NÄIN SE KESÄLOMA TOIMII - MATTI JA TEPPO 130. EMIGRANTIN LAULU (ONNEN RUUSUT) - AGENTS

This part is filled with dancebands and three excellent songs to spice it up: Puhu äänellä jonka kuulen, Oo siellä jossain mun and Kaunis päivä . Three acts very popular at the moment and with young and not so young. 141. PUHU ÄÄNELLÄ JONKA KUULEN - HAPPORADIO 142 . ANNA JATKUA YÖN - FINLANDERS 143. ETKÖ UNTA SAA - YÖ 144. MENNYTTÄ MIESTÄ - YÖLINTU 145. KELLOT SOI - TOPI SORSAKOSKI 146. OO SIELLÄ JOSSAIN MUN - PMMP 147. SYDÄNPUOLI SÄÄTÄ VASTEN - KARI TAPIO 148. MEIDÄN LAULU - MATTI JA TEPPO 149. UNOHTUMATON ILTA - AGENTS 150. KAUNIS PÄIVÄ - ANNA PUU

A bit poor selection this time (and very few Youtubes available) but Jari Sillanpää is here with his Eurovision 2004 entry. Other Euroviisut artists are Jani & The Jetsetters and Kristian Meurman and once again present Kari Tapio. Even a charity single is included and a rockband, Egotrippi as well as girlband Tik Tak. But the biggest of them all is Juha Tapio. 151. TUULIKKI, PIDÄ HUIVISTASI KII - NELJÄNSUORA 152. JÄTÄ MUT - JANI & JETSETTERS 153. LUPA ELÄÄ - ARTISTIT VERENLUOVUTUKSEN PUOLESTA 154. AAMU - KRISTIAN MEURMAN 155. ANNA POIS ITKUISTA PUOLET - JUHA TAPIO 156. EN PYYDÄ PALJON (TE QUISE TANTO) - KARI TAPIO 157. PÖYTÄ TÄYTEEN! - MATTI JA TEPPO 158. TAKES 2 TO TANGO - JARI SILLANPÄÄ 159. NÄMÄ AJAT EIVÄT OLE MEITÄ VARTEN - EGOTRIPPI 160. HEILUTAAN - TIKTAK

In this 7th set we have the usual Matti ja Teppo, Anne Mattila, Kari Tapio, one of the very few Katri Helena songs but also Johanna Pakonen and Jore Marjaranta with his superhit. And on top of all that Maija Vilkkumaa's only song on this schlager list! 231. POHJAN POIKA - MATTI JA TEPPO 232. EI - MAIJA VILKKUMAA 233. ELÄMÄN VIRTA - KARI TAPIO 234. KAIKEN PITÄS MUUTTUU - KOLMAS NAINEN 235. UNIHIEKKAA - ANNE MATTILA 236. ONNEN ONKIJA - KATRI HELENA 237. KUN RAKKAUS SAAPUU KAUPUNKIIN - HECTOR 238. ÄLÄ PUHU RAKKAUDESTA - JOHANNA PAKONEN 239. SÄ LÄHDIT LUOTANI TÄNÄÄN - JORMA KÄÄRIÄINEN 240. HAAVEET KAATUU - JORE MARJARANTA

Several Euroviisut artists in this one: Eija Kantola (again!), Kirka, Kristian Meurman, Laura Voutilainen with her 2002 entry, Jani & The Jetsetters and Samuli Edelmann. Matti & Teppo is in with yet another song of theirs and Antti Raiski from Tangomarkkinat completes the set. Katri Ylander is an Idol runner up. 251. AAMUAURINKOON - KATRI YLANDER 252. HÄNELLE - MATTI JA TEPPO 253. ROSALITA - ANTTI RAISKI 254. KUKA - EIJA KANTOLA 255. KARVAS VIINI - KIRKA 256. NÄIDEN KYYNELIEN JÄLKEEN - KRISTIAN MEURMAN 257. ADDICTED TO YOU - LAURA VOUTILAINEN 258. LENNÄ POIS - JANI & JETSETTERS 259. MUISTATKO KUN - JANI & JETSETTERS 260. KAIKKI TAHTOO - SAMULI EDELMANN

Antti Kleemola is back here. The rest is filled with schlager dance bands and Tangomarkkinat artists with the exception of girlband Tik Tak that no longer exists. 271. UNETON - YÖLINTU 272. MUTTA MÄ RAKASTAN SUA - TIKTAK 273. JALAT TUKEVASTI ILMASSA - MIKKO MÄKELÄINEN 274. TUHLAAJATYTTÖ PALAA (LA GOTA FRIA) - ANNE MATTILA 275. SYDÄMENPUOLIKAS - SAIJA TUUPANEN 276. ENSIMMÄINEN - MATTI JA TEPPO 277. SUOJAAN - ANNELI MATTILA 278. JOENSUU NEW YORK - ANTTI KLEEMOLA 279. SEIKKAILIJA - FINLANDERS 280. VAIN VÄHÄN AIKAA - CHARLIES

The listeners of Iskelmäradio or Schlager radio, a popular middle of the road channel playing  almost only Finnish music, have been voting the best Finnish songs of 2000-2009 and over the midsummer weekend the results were played in marathon programmes. I will publish the list over this July and hope you will find some new artists, and some good songs. Beware, it's very schlager! 88 different singers or bands got their songs in. One got in 12 songs, three others 11, and 2 more acts got 9 and 8 songs and to complete the dominators 7 acts got 7 songs in. That's 43% of the songs by 15 acts! Who they are and how many Eurovision songs are there, you will find out by July 31!  In this first part we have amongst others Johanna Pakonen, Tapani Kansa and Eija Kantola - all Euroviisut participants. Happy listening! 291. MUUKALAINEN - TOPI SORSAKOSKI 292. TULVII POHJANMAA - JANNE TULKKI 293. TANSSIN PÄIVÄT, TANSSIN YÖT - ANNELI MATTILA 294. SATOI TAI PAISTOI - MATTI JA TEPPO 29...

Matti Ruohonen (60) has expressed his wish to compose the Finnish Eurovision entry. He and his brother Teppo have been the most succesful Finnish duo for the last 3 decades with over 1,5 million sold albums, 26 gold records, 7 platinum records and even 2 platinum records, countless hits and even Iskelmä-Finlandia award won - yet they have never participated as artists nor writers! But they have written songs for Eurovision artists like Päivi Paunu, Kim Floor and Vicky Rosti.... As YLE has invited every year some "old dinosaur" like Jukka Kuoppamäki, Tapani Kansa or kari Tapio, will it be finally their turn? Here is a rare cover version by them of Sound of silence of Art & Garfunker and here's one of their biggest hits from 1982!