Playback

About Playback

"Playback" was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in Portuguese by Carlos Paião. The song is a moderately up-tempo number. Paião satirizes the "singing in playback", which he explains is in fact miming to pre-recorded music (the anglicism "playback" is used in Portugal to mean "lip synch", broadened from "playback singer"). By doing this, he points out, one does not have to risk singing out of tune or missing notes. He sang the song with the help of four backup singers, who were dressed in multicolored jumpsuits and acted as robots of sorts, emphasizing the playback theme. From left to right, these singers were Pedro Calvinho, Cristina Águas, Ana Bola, and Peter Petersen. The song was performed fifteenth on the night, following the United Kingdom's Bucks Fizz with "Making Your Mind Up" and preceding Belgium's Emly Starr with "Samson". At the close of voting, it had received 9 points, placing 18th in a field of 20. It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1982 Contest by Doce with "Bem bom". more »

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Dá pra toda uma soirée

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Nem sequer assobiar
Com certeza que não vais desafinar
Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

Só precisas de acertar
Não tem nada que enganar
E assim mesmo, sem cantar vais encantar
Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

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Não te enganes, não te esganes
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Põe-te em pose
Pra agradar
Em play-back é que tu és bom
A cantar sem fugir do tom
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Hás-de sempre cantar
Com play-back até pedem bis
Mas de certo, dirás feliz
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Agradeces e sorris

Podes não saber cantar
Nem sequer assobiar
Com certeza que não vais desafinar
Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

Só precisas de acertar
Não tem nada que enganar,
E assim mesmo, sem cantar vais encantar
Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

Em play-back, em play back, em play-back

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Carlos Paião

Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião (born in Coimbra on 1 November 1957 - 26 August 1988 in Rio Maior) was a very popular singer and songwriter from Portugal. He represented Portugal at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Playback. Carlos Paião was also a doctor, having graduated in Medicine in 1983, but his great passion was music. Some of his songs became national hits. In August 1988, Carlos Paião died in a car accident on N1 Road ("old" road Lisbon-Oporto) in Ponte Amieira, near Rio Maior, Santarém district, while returning from a concert. The Datsun Urvan Carlos Paião was travelling in collided head on with a truck that was irregularly overtaking a broken car. ALBUMS: more »

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