You can’t talk about Switzerland in Eurovision without going back to the very first year of the ESC: 1956. This week we’re talking about the winner of that first contest, Lys Assia, and her long history with the contest with our special returning guest, Tobias Larsson of the Eurovision deep dive blog, Tobson och alla bidragen. Jeremy finds The Simpsons in an unexpected place, Dimitry sees himself in the youths of 2013, Tobias breaks down the timing of horny song records in Eurovision, and Oscar just sees another Disney Princess.

Watch Lys Assia’s performances on this YouTube playlist.

And as always, this week’s companion playlist.

Eurovangelists is an American Eurovision podcast, made in the US for Eurovision fans worldwide. The Eurovangelists are Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya and Dimitry Pompée.

The theme was arranged and recorded by Cody McCorry and Faye Fadem, and the logo was designed by Tom Deja.

Production support for this show was provided by the Maximum Fun network.

The show is edited by Jeremy Bent with audio mixing help was courtesy of Shane O’Connell.

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