Also shown again in full on Friday 7 May 2004 on SVT1
The conductor was Sven-Olof Walldoff. The programme host was Johan Sandström.
Songs taking part were :
1. Lena Ericsson - "En enda jord"
2.
Östen Warnerbring - "En mysig vals"
3.
Göran Fristorp - "Jag minns dig nog"
4. Titti Sjöblom - "Fröken Ur sång"
5.
ABBA -
"Waterloo"
6. Lasse Berghagen - "Min kärlekssång
till dig"
7. Inger Öst
- "En grön dröm om mig"
8.
Sylvia Vrethammar och Görn Fristorp - "En dröm är en dröm"
9. Lena Bergqvist - "Den sista sommar'n av mitt liv "
10.
Glenmarks - "I annorlunda
land"
ABBA won by a mile - 91 points ahead of the second position (Lasse Berghagen).
A baby-faced Anders Glenmark joined his older sister Karin, Uncle Bruno Glenmark and Auntie Ann-Louise Hanson in 'Glenmarks'.
First Performance
Winning Performance (note flowers on the piano!)
A familiar face in the orchestra - Ola Brunkert! According to ABBA - The Site, he had worked with them on "People Need Love" but it doesn't mention Melodifestivalen. Of course, he ended up playing with ABBA on stage in Brighton. Ola was a regular on TV during the 1970s when they had live orchestras/bands.
... and there's another couple of familiar faces in the audience - Michael B Tretow and Stig Anderson.
During the line-up of the winners, Lars Berghagen gets hit over the head playfully by Benny (although you don't see him do it, you just see the flying flowers!
Seconds later, Benny sees someone in the audience and acts like a little kid!
As ABBA take their places to repeat their winning song, the presenter calls him Björn and Benny corrects him and then pats him
