United Kingdom – SCOOCH – Flying The Flag – Eurovision 2007

scooch-eurovision.jpgParticipant: Scooch

Song: Flying The Flag (For You)

Writer: Russ SPENCER, Morten SCHJOLIN, Andrew HILL & Paul TARRY

Composer: Russ SPENCER, Morten SCHJOLIN, Andrew HILL & Paul TARRY

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Lyrics:
Flying The Flag (For You)

This is your captain speaking
I’d like to welcome you aboard this Eurovision flight
The duration will be three minutes exactly
Now sit back, relax and enjoy the flight

Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada… (Duty free, madam?)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada…

We’re flying the flag all over the world
Flying the flag for you

London to Berlin
All the way from Paris to Tallinn
Helsinki on to Prague
Don’t matter where we are
Yeah yeah yeah…

Flying high in Amsterdam
Why don’t you catch us if you can?
Now we’re cruising in the sky
And we’re singing it for you

Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada… (Some salted nuts, sir?)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada…

We’re flying the flag all over the world
Flying the flag for you
(Would you like a complimentary drink with your meal, sir?)
We’re flying the flag all over the world
Flying the flag for you

Ladies and gentlemen, your exits are here, here and here
To fasten your seatbelt insert the fitting
To use the life vest, slip it over your head
Pull firmly on the red cord and blow into the mouthpiece

Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada… (We wish you a very pleasurable journey)
Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Babada babada… badada babada…
Babada babada…

We’re flying the flag all over the world
Flying the flag for you

We’re flying the flag (Yes, we’re flying)
All over the world (Take you all around the world)
Flying the flag for you
(Would you like something to suck on for landing, sir?)
We’re flying the flag (Yes, we’re flying)
All over the world (Take you all around the world)
Flying the flag for you

We’d like to thank you for flying with us today

About:

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On March 17th, in the last National Final to be announced, Scooch defied the odds and roared to victory on BBC ONE’s “Eurovision : Making Your Mind Up”.

In a thrilling finale (with one slight mishap at the end !) record numbers watched and phoned in to crown Scooch as victors over plucky French songstress Cyndi.

Scooch were formed in 1998 and signed to EMI Records. They hooked up with Mike Stock and Matt Aiken, two thirds of the “Hit Factory” (along with Pete Waterman) the producers who launched the musical careers of Kylie Minogue and many others.

Russ, Natalie, Caroline and David soon became one of the most popular teen pop acts of the late Nineties and early Naughties in the UK, performing on countless arena tours and UK television shows.

scooch-eurovision-2007.jpgScooch scored 4 Top 20 hits including the Top 5 single “More Than I Needed To Know”, culminating in their album “Four Sure”. In their time together they performed alongside Christina Aguilera, Kylie, Westlife and Ronan Keating and their success wasn’t just limited to the UK either, with #1s in various countries worldwide.

Schooch split 6 years ago…so what have they been up to?

Russ – has been TV presenting, currently working on “The Great Big British Quiz” on Five, he has also appeared in the last series of Footballer’s Wives and was a guest on the last series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. You may have also caught him in the hit Channel 4 and E4 show “Boys Will Be Girls”…trying to pass himself off as a woman !

Natalie – now a full time mum to her 6 year old son Michael, has been working on her own solo projects. She has scored 2 dance hits with “Unchained Melody” and “Music to My Heart”, toured extensively as a solo artist, as well as working as a session singer and singing teacher.

David – went back into education gaining an HND in Musical Theatre and is currently completing his degree in Performance. David has also set up his own very successful stage school “Performers” which has been running for 6 years now.

Caroline – moved from pop music to musical theatre. Having joined the cast of Grease in the West End, she then moved on to The Producers as part of the original cast alongside Lee Evans and Nathan Lane and currently stars alongside Peter Kay.

“We want to bring Eurovision back to the way it should be. Over the last few years, artists have been either performing rap, taking themselves too seriously or simply just not been “Eurovision”. Last year’s winner were a heavy rock band, we want to bring it back to Euro pop where it belongs”.

ja

hello,it’s me,and i am not calling.the song isn’t bad,but it’s more for a beach than eurovision.and,i would never vote for us,you don’t know what the qualite is.

sandy

I don’t know how anyone could seriously like this song. It sounded like something Hi 5 would sing (a group that sings a song very similar and does the same crappy plane movements with their arms while singing to 3-5 year olds) Maybe they should just call themselves Hi 4

They weren’t the worst by a long shot but the songs that deserved to win either didn’t make it to the final or didn’t have enough ‘friends’ to vote for them.

All the ex Yugoslav countries voting for each other is a joke as is all the former Russian ones doing the same thing. The winner will just rotate between them from now on if something isn’t done to make it fairer.

hi

my mum thinks its rubbish next time do a better job! make it more fasernating for all people not just weird

leigh

this song iz fu**in brilliant i lv it to bits were flyin the falg all ova the world flyin the flag 4 uxxxxxxxxx LOL

mollie

you are great schooch i love you i am going on holiday on the 22nd of june and going to turkey love you i will be thinking of you love mollie