Play-Back

Play-Back

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song = flagicon|Portugal "Play-Back"


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year = 1981
country = Portugal
artist = Carlos Paião
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language = Portuguese
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composer = Carlos Paião
lyricist = Carlos Paião
conductor = Shegundo Galarza
place = 18th
points = 9
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lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1981pt from Diggiloo Thrush]
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"Play-Back" (English translation: "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 sings in praise of "singing in playback", which he explains is in fact miming to pre-recorded music. 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 Peterson.

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".


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  • play back — (something) to show a film or listen to a something recorded earlier. I m filming the race, so if we don t see it, we can always play back the videotape. Then you can edit the song on your computer and play it back …   New idioms dictionary

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  • play|back — «PLAY BAK», noun. the replaying of a sound recording, especially a tape recording, or of a videotape, especially just after it has been made …   Useful english dictionary

  • play-back — |pleibéque| s. m. No cinema e na televisão, técnica inversa da dobragem, na qual o registro do som precede o da imagem.   ‣ Etimologia: palavra inglesa …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

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  • play back — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms play back : present tense I/you/we/they play back he/she/it plays back present participle playing back past tense played back past participle played back to play a message or video that has been recorded in… …   English dictionary

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