Telegram (song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Germany Telegram
artist = Penny McLean, Ramona Wulf, Rhonda Heath
as = Silver Convention
with =
language = English
languages =
country = Germany
year = 1977
composer = Sylvester Levay
lyricist = Michael Kunze
conductor = Ronnie Hazlehurst
place = 8th
points = 55
place_semi =
points_semi =
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1977de from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Sing Sang Song
prev_link = Sing Sang Song
next = Feuer
next_link = Feuer

Telegram was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in English (the first occasion on which the German entry had not featured at least some lyrics in German) by Silver Convention.

The song was performed sixth on the night (following Norway's Anita Skorgan with Casanova and preceding Luxembourg's Anne-Marie B. with Frère Jacques). At the close of voting, it had received 55 points, placing 8th in a field of 18.

The song is inspired by the disco music popular at the time, with the group singing about their need to send a telegram to a lover to bring him to them. A carefully-choreographed dance was performed with the song, with a uniting theme throughout being "connection," ostensibly with the woman and her lover, in which all three ladies linked themselves to one another by touching each other's shoulders, and then hips, as the connection "came back."

It was succeeded as German representative at the 1978 Contest by Ireen Sheer with Feuer.