Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song "You're Summer", composed by Monica Dominique and Carl-Axel Dominique, with lyrics by Lars Forssell, and performed by Nova and the Dolls. The Swedish participating broadcaster, (SR), selected its entry through 1973. The winner of was the song "" performed by the group

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. To avoid being confused with the country of Malta, who did not participate in that year's contest, they changed their name to "The Nova" (with their backing group The Dolls) for the contest. The song was translated into English with the title "You're Summer" for Eurovision. Another of the competitors of was a group of four who, later in the year, would become

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, but they only finished 3rd with " Ring Ring".

Before Eurovision

1973

1973 was the selection for the 14th song to represent at the

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. It was the 13th time that (SR) used this system of picking a song. 10 songwriters were selected by SR for the competition. SR held the final in its television studios in

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on 10 February 1973, presented by Alicia Lundberg and was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio. The third place act, Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn, and Benny, returned to take part in 1974 under their new moniker

At Eurovision

The contest was held in and Sweden was drawn into spot 12. They finished 5th (out of 17). Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one below the age of 25 and the other above, who voted by giving between one and five points to each song, except that representing their own country. All jury members were colocated in a television studio in Luxembourg. The Swedish jury members were Lena Andersson and Lars Samuelson.

Voting

References

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