Dana (singer, 1950)

Dana Rosemary Scallon (1970)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Everything is beautiful   UK 43 December 27, 1980 (3 weeks)

Singles

All Kinds of Everything   DE 4th 05/02/1970 (12 weeks)   AT 7th 05/15/1970 (12 weeks)   CH 3 05/05/1970 (6 weeks)   UK 1 04/04/1970 (16 weeks)   IE 1 March 13, 1970 (17 weeks) Who Put the Lights Out   UK 14th 02/13/1971 (11 weeks)   IE 5 02/20/1971 (8 weeks) Sunday Monday Tuesday   IE 4th December 20, 1973 (8 weeks) Please Tell Him That I Said Hello   UK 8th 01/25/1975 (14 weeks)   IE 7th 11/14/1974 (11 weeks) Don't play with me and my luck   DE 27 04/28/1975 (14 weeks) It's Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas   UK 4th December 13, 1975 (6 weeks)   IE 3 December 24, 1975 (13 weeks) Never Gonna Fall in Love Again   UK 31 03/06/1976 (4 weeks) Fairytale   DE 21st 10/25/1976 (19 weeks)   AT 19th January 15, 1977 (8 weeks)   UK 13 10/16/1976 (16 weeks) Something's Cookin 'in the Kitchen   UK 44 March 31, 1979 (5 weeks)   IE 22nd 04/12/1979 (3 weeks) Totus Tuus   IE 1 December 16, 1979 (9 weeks) Lady of Knock   IE 23 09/06/1981 (2 weeks) Dream lover   IE 26th 01/17/1982 (1 week) I feel love comin 'on   UK 66 05/15/1982 (3 weeks) Little Things Mean a Lot   UK 92 07/13/1985 (3 weeks)   IE 27 06/20/1985 (1 week) If I Give My Heart to You   IE 27 01/02/1986 (1 week)

Dana Rosemary Scallon (* 30th August 1950 in London , England as Dana Rosemary Brown ), called Dana , is a former Irish singer and politician . She grew up in Derry, Northern Ireland and won the Eurovision Song Contest with All Kinds of Everything as a student in 1970 ; since then she has released more than two dozen albums.

Dana ran for the office of President of Ireland several times, and in the 1997 election she won 13% of the vote. From 1999 to 2004 she was a Member of the European Parliament for Ireland .

Life

All Kinds of Everything , 1970

In 1970 she appeared with the song All Kinds of Everything at the Eurovision Song Contest in Amsterdam for the Republic of Ireland and won the country's first victory. Dana had other hits in the British and Irish music charts until the mid-1970s and also worked as a radio and television presenter.

Dana was also very successful in Germany with her singles My first love , don't play with me and my luck or build your house on love . Especially with the two singles If a girl is in love and Don't forget that I love you , she was in the top of many radio hit parades. Dana had a hit in 1972 with the song "Crossword Puzzle" written by Lynsey de Paul / Barry Blue in Thailand. The song was a new entry at number 7 on Bangkok Radio's HSA charts on August 26, 1972, as listed on Billboard (magazine) . It ranked second for 2 weeks (September 2nd and 9th).

Since she did not succeed in shedding the image of the "Sweetest Teenager on TV", her popularity declined and she turned to the interpretation of religious (Catholic) songs, for example Totus Tuus on the occasion of Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland 1979.

In the 1980s, she moved to the USA with her husband Damien Scallon, where she became involved in a Christian network and moderated television programs with a religious background. She returned to Ireland in 1997 to run for President of Ireland as a non-party independent , but was defeated by Mary Robinson . In 1999 she won a seat in the European Parliament for the Connacht-Ulster region .

Scallon advocates family values ​​and opposes abortion. However, when she rejected a government-proposed amendment to the constitution for stronger restrictions on abortions as not being strict enough, she lost a lot of support. When she ran again for a seat in the Irish elections in 2002, she only received 3.5 percent of the vote in her constituency.

In the 2004 elections to the European Parliament, Scallon missed a new parliamentary seat. She then focused again on a 2004 presidential candidacy, but was not nominated. On September 27, 2011, she was formally nominated for the October presidential election. She received 2.9% of the vote in the election.

Discography

Albums

• 1970 All Kinds of Everything
• 1975 Have a Nice Day
• 1975 New Days… New Ways
• 1976 Love Songs & Fairytales
• 1979 The Girl Is Back
• 1980 Everything Is Beautiful
• 1982 Magic
• 1985 If I Give My Heart to You
• 1987 In the Palm of His Hand
• 1989 The Gift of Love
• 1993 Say Yes
• 1997 Humble Myself
• 2007 A Thing Called Love
• 2012 Praise & Thanks
• 2019 My Time

Compilations

• 1975 The World of Dana
• 1983 Dana
• 1984 Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
• 1990 All Kinds of Everything
• 1996 The Collection
• 1998 The Best of Dana
• 2010 The GTO Years (2 CDs)

Singles

• 1967 Sixteen
• 1968 Come Along Murphy
• 1968 Heidschi Bumbeidschi
• 1969 look around
• 1970 All Kinds of Everything
• 1970 I Will Follow You
• 1971 Today
• 1971 Who Put the Lights Out
• 1971 Isn't It a Pity
• 1971 New Days - New Ways
• 1971 When a girl is in love
• 1972 Crossword Puzzle
• 1973 Do I Still Figure in Your Life
• 1973 Corner of the Sky / Morning Glow
• 1973 Sunday Monday Tuesday
• 1974 Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
• 1975 Don't play with me and my luck
• 1975 Are You Still Mad at Me
• 1975 It's Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas
• 1975 Don't forget that I love you
• 1975 This House Runs on Sunshine
• 1976 Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
• 1976 Fairytale
• 1977 I Love How You Love Me
• 1977 Put Some Words Together
• 1979 Something's Cookin 'in the Kitchen
• 1979 The Girl Is Back (In Town)
• 1979 I Can't Get Over Getting Over You
• 1979 Totus Tuus
• 1981 Lady of Knock
• 1981 Dream Lover
• 1982 I Feel Love Comin 'On
• 1982 If You Really Love Me
• 1982 Yer Man (with The Northern Ireland 1982 World Cup Squad )
• 1982 You Never Gave Me Your Love
• 1985 Little Things Mean a Lot
• 1985 Mother of Mine
• 1986 If I Give My Heart to You
• 1989 Harmony (with Gerry Brown )
• 2019 Falling

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE, AT, CH UK IR
2. ^ Presidential nominations to close. Irish Times .com, September 28, 2011, accessed September 28, 2011 . 

Web links

Commons : Dana Scallon  - Collection of Images

• Eurovision website of the NDR
• Entry for Dana Rosemary Scallon in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• Dana at Discogs (English)
• Discography at 45cat.com