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Oh Denmark... the zany one, but not usually in a good way. You spent your first contest snogging a sailor, won with a spot of jazz in 1963, took your ball home after 1966, gave us the ultimate musical fusion in 1979, and pursued a willfully wacky path through the '80s and '90s (Hot Eyes, I'm looking at you). Your winning song in 2000 has to be a candidate for the most awful victor of all time (autotuned country-schmaltz). Denmark are the antithesis of Finland: both tend to provide the unusual, but Finland veer to the fascinating and Denmark to the tacky. More recently, Denmark have carved a slight niche with far-too-AOR-for-its-own-good folksy country rock and advert music. We've had a go at providing a top 10, which was frankly brave of us.

	1pt	1958	AV: 6th Eur: 8th
	Raquel Rastenni - "Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog"
	1958 was the year of props, and Denmark's was a book. The book is more noteworthy than the song, which is typical of its period but without the Hielscher kink to help it stand out. Something simple is sung in a rather simple way by a straightlaced schoolmistress.
	2pts	2010	AV: 6th Eur: 4th
	Chanée and N'evergreen - "In a Moment Like This"
	Denmark's 2010 song proved strangely memorable, though that may be because déjà vu is twined through its DNA. The verse has been shown a copy of "Every Breath You Take", probably by the male vocalist who has turned up dressed like Sting. He and his duet partner sing from different sides of a translucent white screen, harking back to a similar gimmick in Ukraine's 2008 performance. Later they find themselves on travellators, having seen Greece last year. The anthemic chorus is also oddly familiar, though quite what the tributary is we've yet to finger. It's certainly amazing in a "my god, it's like the '90s never happened" kind of way.
	3pts	1983	AV: 12th Eur: 17th
	Gry Johansen - "Kloden drejer"
	Like last year's Mess, this is whimsical pop with a hint of Smack the Pony, but unlike Mess it's not really any good. It pre-empts a couple of Swedish costumes by a couple of decades but, beyond a couple of lines of melody, it is ultimately forgettable.
	4pts	1960	AV: 2nd Eur: 10th
	Katy Bødtger - "Det var en yndig tid"
	Another year another prop. Raiding the dressing up box this year was Katy Bødtger, playing all coy with her bonnet, crinolines and parasol. Her song is a twee little ditty with more than a hint of Christmas about it. This folksy sleigh-bell sound would be a well-trod theme for the Scandinavian nations over following years.
	5pts	1966	AV: 7th Eur: 26th
	Ulla Pia - "Stop - mens legen er go'"
	In 1966, Denmark gave us a dynamic swing romp and accompanied the instrumental section with a dancing couple performing a hop. It did them no good: they finished 14th and ceased participation in the contest.
	6pts	1963	AV: 3rd Eur: 1st
	Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann - "Dansevise"
	The winning song of 1963 (awash in the BBC's finest swirly graphic effects) came from Danish duo Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann, and there can be no doubting that it was a rather special entry: a man on an accoustic-electric guitar twanging out an at times eerie, at times jazzy, at times just plain dizzying 3/4 time number, while his wife sings beside him. These are truly the jazzier shores of Eurovision. The piece was simply entitled "Dansevise" (Dance Ballad).
	7pts	1989	AV: 2nd Eur: 3rd
	Birthe Kjær - "Vi maler byen rød"
	The age of the Danish entry was in itself endearing (actually, the Wikipedia suggests she was only 41, in which case (assuming the Wikipedia to be right, which can be quite an assumption) all of this is terribly insulting), but she had a pretty good number to perform too, making it possible for us to ignore the slightly nauseating nonsense in the middle with the tag-team conductors. It's in the Bobbysocks school, but that doesn't do justice to the thing: it's a competent swinging pop song, well delivered.
	8pts	1981	AV: 6th Eur: 11th
	Tommy Seebach and Debbie Cameron - "Krøller eller ej"
	Tommy Seebach (more of whom below) returned with his backing vocalist, Debbie Cameron, for another piece of well-formed disco-pop complete with peow peow noises, a monument of a key change, and an entertaining dance routine in the instrumental.
	10pts	1959	AV: 1st Eur: 5th
	Birthe Wilke - "Uh, jeg ville ønske jeg var dig"
	The 1959 Danish entry, sung by the impish Birthe Wilke (something like a cross between Björk and Gracie Fields, and one half of a controversial snog in the fog in 1957) was our stand-out number of the night: a bouncy comedic little thing with hints of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", performed with knee-bends and chicken-wing gestures. Particularly enticing was the little stroll she took during the instrumental, punctuated at every turn by deft flicks of the train of her dress.
	12pts	1979	AV: 3rd Eur: 6th
	Tommy Seebach - "Disco Tango"
	It's called "Disco Tango". What more do I need to type? Curiously, the Finnish jury gave it nothing, though the Greeks and Israelis both gave it 12pts. One might argue that it does not quite live up to the potential dizzying wonder one might perhaps hope to imagine from the title, but it none-the-less delivers adequately on both disco and tango fronts. It is both disco and tango. It is Disco Tango à la carte. We ranked it 8th in the Top 10 entries of all time.