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| Jørgen & Grethe Ingmann won Eurovision in 1963 |
Today, The Grandma has been talking with The Watsons about Grethe Clemmensen and Jørgen Ingmann, the Danish singers who won the Eurovision Song Contest representing their country in 1963 and singing Dansevise.
Denmark became the first nordic country to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
Before talking about Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann, The Grandma has offered a new Cambridge Key English Test A2 Example to The Watsons. They will be able to know more infomation about the Speakings.
Grethe Ingmann (née Clemmensen; 17 June 1938-18 August 1990) was a Danish singer.
She started her career at 17, when she temporarily performed as a singer of the Malihini Hawaiians pop quartet. Soon after she sang with the Danish guitarist Jørn Grauengaard and his trio.
In 1955 she met her future husband, guitarist Jørgen Ingmann. The couple married in 1956 and performed as the duet Grethe og Jørgen Ingmann.
Together they won the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 representing Denmark with the jazz waltz Dansevise with music by Otto Francker and lyrics by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen. It was the first entry performed by a duo to win the Contest and also the first Scandinavian winner.
In 1965 she entered the German Schlager Contest with the song Sommerwind. She dropped out in the preliminaries, but the song's English version, written by Johnny Mercer in 1966 and sung by Frank Sinatra, became an international hit.
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| Jørgen & Grethe Ingmann won Eurovision in 1963 |
Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann continued their musical career until they divorced in 1975.
As a solo singer, Grethe participated in several Danish preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest, unsuccessfully.
She died on August 18, 1990, age 52.
Jørgen Ingmann (26 April 1925-21 March 2015) was a Danish jazz and pop guitarist from Copenhagen.
He was popular in Europe, and had a wider international hit in 1961 with his version of Apache. He and his wife Grethe Ingmann won the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Dansevise.
Jørgen Ingmann Pedersen was born in Copenhagen, and first performed as a guitarist with Svend Asmussen, the jazz violinist, during the 1940s and early 1950s, in a group known as the Unmelancholy Danes.
He was influenced by American guitarist and recording studio pioneer Les Paul. In the mid-1950s he set up his own studio where he developed techniques of multi-tracking and distortion, using his own accompaniment on bass and drums, and began recording under the name Jørgen Ingmann & His Guitar.
Under this name he recorded a version of Apache in the fall of 1960; Apache was originally recorded in June 1960 by the British group the Shadows. Ingmann's cover version charted in 1961 at #1 in Canada on the CHUM Chart, #2 in the United States on the Billboard pop singles chart, #9 on the Billboard R&B chart, #4 on Cashbox, and #6 in Germany.
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He remade Silvana Mangano's Anna with moderate US chart success. In the first half of the 1960s he had many hits in Germany, including Pepe (1961), Anna (1961), Violetta (1962), Drina Marsch (1964) and Zorba le Grec (1965).
Billboard magazine reported that he charted at no. 2 on the Denmark pop singles chart with his recording of Marchen Til Drina on 7 December 1963. His recording reached no. 1 on 17 December 1963.
Other recordings of his included Tequila, which he also recorded during the 60s, with the Champs, and a version of Pinetop Perkins' Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, from 1962.
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| Jørgen & Grethe Ingmann, Eurovision (1963) |
He also worked as a member of the duet, Grethe og Jørgen Ingmann, together with his wife Grethe Ingmann. After winning the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix competition in 1963, they went on to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 where they won with the song Dansevise, music by Otto Francker and lyrics by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen.
His best jazz work is to be found on the LP Guitar in Hifi which, apart from Margie, the first track, has many songs written by Hoagy Carmichael. It was issued in England on a 10-inch LP and in other places as a 12-inch LP. In the USA it was called Jorgan Ingmann Swings Softly.
He and Grethe met in 1955, married in 1956, and divorced in 1975. Grethe Ingmann died in 1990 from cancer, age 52. Jørgen Ingmann died in 2015, aged 89.
Dansevise was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 performed in Danish by Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann representing Denmark.
This was the first entry performed by a duo to win the Contest and also the first Scandinavian winner.
The song was performed eighth on the night, following Finland's Laila Halme with Muistojeni laulu and preceding Yugoslavia's Vice Vukov with Brodovi. At the close of voting, it had received 42 points, thus winning from a field of 16.
The song is a moderately up-tempo tune in which the singer hymns the praises of dancing, specifically with her beloved friend.
The song was succeeded as contest winner in 1964 by Gigliola Cinquetti performing Non ho l'età for Italy.
It was succeeded as Danish representative at the 1964 Contest by Bjørn Tidmand with Sangen om dig.
The Danish band Outlandish has made a cover of the song called Kom igen which is featured in the game FIFA 07.
DR decided to include Dansevise in the opening sequence of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Grand Final.
More information: Eurovisionary
Et solstrejf i en vandpyt
Et lille kindkys af en vind
Og sivet, der nynner
At livet begynder
Sit spind i dit sind.
A ray of sunshine in a puddle
A little kiss on the cheek from a wind
And the rush, humming
That life's beginning
Its web in your mind.
Et lille kindkys af en vind
Og sivet, der nynner
At livet begynder
Sit spind i dit sind.
A ray of sunshine in a puddle
A little kiss on the cheek from a wind
And the rush, humming
That life's beginning
Its web in your mind.
Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann
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