Bernadette performing "Sing Me a Song", the Dutch entry at the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest.

Undoubtedly one of the highlights of a very strong year, a truly marvelous, original number with simple but effective lyrics and a spot-on performance from Bernadette (who bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Michelle Pfeiffer!). Kudos must also go to the backing vocalists, who are largely responsible for the SOARING climax of the song, and among which one can spot three-times entrant Sandra Reemer. And since we're on the subject of Eurovision connections, the song's composer, Piet Souer, was the guitarist who accompanied Lenny Kuhr in the 1969 Dutch entry (and one of the four joint-winners that year) "De Troubadour" - which, incidentally, is one of my all-time favorites at the contest. I guess this kind of explains why I like this one so much... :-)