Boum-Badaboum

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Boum-Badaboum
Eurovision Song Contest 1967 entry
Country Monaco
Artist(s) Marie-Pierre Barelli
As Manouche Barelli
Language French
Composer(s) Serge Gainsbourg
Lyricist(s) Serge Gainsbourg
Place 5th
Points 10
Lyrics from Diggiloo Thrush

Boum-Badaboum was the Monegasque entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, performed in French by Manouche Barelli.

Written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg, the song is part of the long Eurovision tradition of nonsensical titles and lyrics. Barelli begs to be given the chance to know love and to experience "other paradises" before everything is blown up. The phrase "boom boom" and a countdown are repeated throughout the lyrics.

The song was performed fourteenth on the night (following Norway's Kirsti Sparboe with Dukkemann and preceding Yugoslavia's Lado Leskovar with Vse Rože Sveta). At the close of voting, it had received 10 points, placing 5th in a field of 17.

It was succeeded as Monegasque representative at the 1968 Contest by Line & Willy with À Chacun Sa Chanson.