Abanibi - א-ב-ני-בי - Israel 1978 - Eurovision songs with live orchestra
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"Abanibi"
Country : Israel
Year : 1978
Performed by : Izhar Cohen & The Alpha Beta
Lyrics : Ehud Manor
Music : Nurit Hirsh
Arrangement : Nurit Hirsh
Conductor : Nurit Hirsh - เพลง
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When countries sang in their own languages!
countries still do that. but english is more widely used because many european countries have mandatory english education
top 3 2021 in own language
@@stevenburvenich168 Yes, but it’s still very rare when you analyse the number sung in English compared to the number sung in own language (aside from the country where English is the indigenous language) and that’s a fact!
Italy won with a song in Italian
@@AntonioSedicina You’re missing the point. I’m well aware that Italy won this year with a song sung in Italian, but that’s because Italy is one of the FEW countries nowadays who usually send their entries in their own language (another one is Serbia, who will almost always sing in their own language). Compare that to how many countries sing in English nowadays, then compare it to how many sung in English when this song won for Israel in 1978! That was my point!
I came here after humming this to myself this morning. It still pops into my head since hearing it at 12 years old and I’m 57 now!
My mum, who can't even remember who won last year, still remembers this song winning despite being 12 years old at the time. Apparently it made it onto UK radio too!
Neta from israel with the song :toy
Yes I was also 12 in 1978 and remember it very well.. it got to number 20 in the Top 40.
I was 12 in 1978 like your mum, I still remember it and enjoy listen it :)
I was also 12. It had success in the UK because Terry Wogan (who used to do the commentary for the UK's coverage of Eurovision and was a DJ on the breakfast show on Radio Two) 're-imagined' the lyrics to be, 'I want to be a Polar Bear' and would play it on his show constantly. Radio One and Two had a lot of sway on the UK Charts. Wogan did the same with a Brass Band number called, 'The Floral Dance'. He started singing a lyric on his show, expanded it. And the next thing you know, he's APPEARING on Top of the Pops as the lead singer!!
Me too Pal , sorry who are you🤣some one else said about the vocals a wanna be a polar bear,Guaranteed, just Realised been getting it Wrong , did wonder why Israel we’re talking about Polar bears, but🤷🏻it’s The Eurovision x
I would've never imagined that I'd be enjoying an Eurovision song that came out 22 years before I was born.
Same, One of my favorite eurovision songs is 34 years older Then me (jedan dan 1968)
Absolutely the same
@@lauraheeft8832yes I remember it was like a fairytale song
That is the wonder of Eurovision!
I was born 22 years later too!
One of the best Eurovision tracks back then when Eurovision was a real song contest !
Me and my Dad call this: "I wanna be a polar bear"
This is amazing
hahaha 😂
ahahahah thanks from Israel
Thank Israel forever
@fifthof there is no such thing as a bad Eurovision song. Each song means something to the performer and those who vote for it. Eurovision is a neutral zone where all preconceived ideas are discarded. We can be astounded at what strangeness each country decides represents them each year, but no song ever gets 'nil points' overall. It's not real life. It's an escape from reality. It's a living cartoon spectacle.
Still a so positive song to sing! Greek greetings to Israel. Shalom
Çok güzel şarkılar vardı "bir zamanlar" Şimdi nerede O eski şarkılar vede sanatçılar
Sas efxaristo poli ❤
thanks love from israel
The obvious winner that year. 12 points...! Greetings from Athens. 😊🇬🇷
One of my favourite songs from Eurovision , love from
Somalia .
Nice ואם אתה ישראלי ואת צודק
I’m israeli and is the favorite
If you were to begin singing this song in the middle of a crowd in Israel, there is a 75% chance other people would start singing. People sing this song even to this day. 😊
90%
I think it's more about 90% haha
yup
as a israeli i can confirm
Why not....the songs a classic.
Greetings to Israel from Cyprus (Greek side)! Love Israel!
Cyprus is Greek and was always
@@fuckucantevendrinkwithme9011 Cyprus is turkish
@@dsadunnodudeish4535 Cyprus is Turkish and Greek
@@haddakhalfi1775 İn History Cyprus was a Turkish Land Nowadays Cyprus is a Country Of Turks and Greeks So Don^t Need to Fight
Half of Cyprus is Greeks other half is Turks
Shalom Israel. Blessings from Poland 🤗🙏❤️🇵🇱❤️
שלום גם לך ❤
I was in 8th grade & my friend told me Israel had won Eurovision a couple days previously & that one of our local "top 40" fm radio stations was playing the Abanibi in HEAVY rotation! I literally RAN home getting off the bus in my neighborhood to go hear it & it was TRUE! An Israeli pop song was PLAYING ON AMERICAN RADIO!
2:40 that part is priceless! Amazing 70’s music.
This is one that stuck in my memory from my childhood. Good luck to Israel in the 2024 competition, they have a great song this year.
Thanks. These old songs have some groove the new ones are lacking
@@smmshoe I thought this song was "Groovy". 😂
I was a very little Child and this is still one of the Best of Eurovision
Thanks you very much.
Love from israel
This brings back memories of growing up in Queens NY with my sis and Israeli parents, listening to Hebrew music, classical, opera being alive and having my family alive and happy.
One of the best songs ever. Love from Belgium.
Love from Greece 🇬🇷🇮🇱
so a catchy song and one the songs that I remenber so much among winners songs, congratulations Israel !!!....love from Madrid 🇪🇸...
I love this song!
Love from Spain
Such a catchy number to brighten up the day. Well done Israel
YES!!
12 points from Greece
What an addictive song! It's amazing that people still come to hear it! Amazing songs for Israel in Eurovision! long live a-ha-va (love ) עם ישראל חי 💙
This is still ringing in my head over 40 years later....😂😂
Nurit Hirsh's arrangement was great. Such a talented lady.
Thank you very much from Japan .
I like this song very much.
I was a kid at that time but this song is still twisting my mind . Great job Israel, you deserved to win the contest !
I was in 8th grade & my friend told me Israel had won eurovision a couple days previously & that one of our local "top 40" fm radio stations was playing the Abanibi in HEAVY rotation! I literally RAN home getting off the bus in my neighborhood to go hear it & it was TRUE! An Israeli pop song was PLAYING ON AMERICAN RADIO!
@@bertskoi became an international hit! It was played in discotheques from the mid 70s to early 80s (at least in my country, Greece).
I was a 7,5 years aged child then and honestly was remembering the song, the win and it's great success, it had stayed in my mind!!!
Mine too after all these years!
Great to hear it again exactly as I remember it, thanks to the miracle that is TH-cam!
I am 53 now but this song stay in my rememberance greatings to everyone from Belgium
One of the proudest moments in my life watching this performed live, along with the rest of Israel...and WINNING!!!
And with an orchestra!!!
A thing that is forgotten these days .
Israeli music is beautiful! This song rocks!
After all these years I still love the song
One of my favorite songs of esc ever.Shalom Israel
One of the best Eurovision winners!
non désolé à l'époque c'est juste pour le monde ils conetra l´eta esrael
I am from Corfou island.and I like all the songs of Israel at all the Eurovision I remember all the songs but this song are from the better. Wonderful!!!!
wow I never thought that I will listen a song coming from 1978. Now it's November 2020 and even my mom was 1 year old at that time, crazy !
I think Israel One of the bests winners in Eurovision
MagicalElf121 me too
I’m israeli
Wtf UKRAINS 1944? WE COULD BE SAME FROM MANGA?
Ah I am ao sory MANGA- We Could Be the Same NOT A WINNERS because judge is not here in 2012 Eurovision. Ah I am really sory again. Judge never happen in eurovision. ( usually)
Too bad Ofra Haza didn’t win :(
I wanted to explain what does "ah bah ni bi aboe beh" mean. The singer tells us about a special language, where the words made by the same words as Hebrew, but the letter "b" is written in the middle. It means, that the key to the language is to remove all the "b" from the sentence. So, after we remove (not all) the "b"s from the sentece, we have "Ani ohev otah, ani ohev otah meod", that means "I love you, I love you very much".
Beautiful song!🤍💙😍👏🔝❗
Nurit Hirsh wrote many many songs. Most popular were performed during this concert: th-cam.com/video/fo5NwWXcOW0/w-d-xo.html
I remember singing this song in the Kitchen while we were working and listening to it at the Tel-Aviv Youth Hostel at 36 Beni Dan. Such joy and happiness.
❤
The best song ever siged in Eurovision.
@xodiac good to hear man, and that we agree
I fell in love with Izhar Cohen that year :-p
I really enjoyd Isreael's song when I first heard it,was little younger than today. but still remembering the rhythm and feeling the Song. Loved it then. And, suprisingly, still love it. In the year of 2020....
בשוק שהשיר הזה גדול ממני ב33 שנה ואני שומע אותו עדין!!!!!
I never new i would vibe to a 70 music
Nurit Hirsh Is My Favourite Conductor
remember this song so well - and I was in Israel the following year when they hosted and won it again! This started our family's love for Eurovision especially my sister Jude Habib
So much respect to these song!!!
The backing singer in the middle was gorgeous 😍
Yeah we realized that Israelis are gorgeous.
And I'm from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
One of my top 5 favourite Eurovision songs. I have a link to it in my home screen and play it whenever I feel like a self-indulgent moment. Just played it to my husband for the first time who has no memory of it. He said it was a great song. The orchestra too are fantastic.
here from israel real glory for our country
This brings back memories. I was in the Royal Albert Hall for the ESC in 1968 (held in Britain because the UK had won in 1967 with Puppet on a String). That was the one and only time I saw Cliff Richard perform live. I thought Congratulations was a wonderfully uplifting song but then so was La La La. Those were the days! Signed: An old fogey.
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I was 9 in '78 and remember Wogan jokingly refer to this as 'I wanna be a polar bear' on his radio show, and I still hear them lyrics when this is played. :-)
The sudden ending of this song (along with the Bet language) is amazing
The girl in the middle is so pretty , great song worthy winners 👍🏻
I don't understand a word, and I still listen & bob my head to the song multiple times =D
Something is just really attractive about a song in native language.
One of my top three favourite entries ever. Even in 2021 it still sounds as amazing as it did on the day it won.
Shalom, Israel!
Mucho amor desde España🇪🇸❤️🇮🇱
Omg. ..I heard this wen I was a pre teen...N I loved it
Killer dance moves!
Catchy song ideal for this contest at the time
Back then when the music and songs were a Lot better
Realmasterorder and it wasn’t so political.
Judging by Germany and their entries the next year, I think you're right...!
Its just that you are getting old.. No offence
100%. Toy is garbage compared to this.
Omg. This song had a severe impact on my childhood in Sweden. 🎶Abatta bia bai bae🎶 One of my favorite dolls, i called this 😂❤👏🏼
fun fact! the song is actually in hebrew pig latin, and translates to "I love you" so its basically the repitition of I love you over and over again, and I think thats really sweet
Abatta Bia Bai Bae
Abanibi obo ebev ❤
@@ani2756 abanibi obo eve
@@ani2756 abanibi obo eveb
Still a hot jam 42 years on.
Una linda canción que causó sensación y luego fue versionada en español. ¡Bravo Israel!
¿Sabes como se llama la versión en español?
@@burmesenurse Abanibi - el chaval de la peca
Cool!
I dont know that its have cover in spanish. And im from israel!
So im gonna check it right now.
Je me souviens avec émotion de ce grand prix eurovision retransmis depuis le palais des congrès de paris . Nous étions si fiers de l'organiser en1978. Le décor était magnifique et la soirée fut merveilleuse. Mes favoris étaient :Luxembourg .Italie.Irlande et Israël. Bravo Israël pour cette belle victoire .
My folks moved to United States from Israel in 1978. I was 8, unfortunately by 9
I forgot most of the language
But this song, I remember.
45 years later I decide to look it up
Getting a lump in my throat. 🥲
Wonderful song!! I was 14years old when it came on Eurovision,I was crazy about it!!! Still sounds as good as back then😍
I love this song. Me and Janet sing this when we get together in Spain. I love Eurovision. Israel have catchy songs.
listened and seen thai version of this song in 2006 thai movie "The Possible" since then i am fan of this song..... never known that original is Israeli; the country which reside in my heart beside my home country India.....!
This is one of my favorite songs
Came here after seeing him on 2019 Eurovision
He hardly aged!
@@dudewatcheskpop2022
Also how I got here haha
One of the greatest Eurovision songs. We need songs to be sung in their original language 🎉
It’s half Hebrew and half gibberish
@@GULI100 bah humbug... It is a great tune none the less😂
I was 13 years old then, but I remember this wonderful song as if it were yesterday.
love it....one of the best songs ive heard....54 now..still love it
Simply great song!
Polar Bear or not, with or without a bra, this song if remade today (with new tech and arrangment) would have been again a huge hit worldwide.
I like the way he dances.
Israel must win Eurovision every year!!
Beautiful country.
I want visit this country buy i'm in quarantine!!😭😭.
I Will visit you and love from Italy!!
Forever Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱!!!
Wow cool.. and thanks i like our music but not Neta.
Went there for the Eurovision in Tel Aviv 2019, and it was literally the most fun time I've ever had!!! Wish they win again very soon! 😍
אהבתי!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
In the first year Israel joined the Eurovision Song Contest (Paris,1978), they already came out with a strong, winning song ! I had the honour to meet them backstage at that time and loved their spontanious behaviour (especially from the girls) and their good laughs and sense of humor......It was also the year in wich the State of Israel celebrated its 30 years existance !
1978 wasn't the first year Israel participated. 1973 with Ilanit at Luxembourg was the first time.
I C O N I C T O P S O N G !!!!
The male backing singer on the left is fabulous!😂😂
The lead singer, Izhar Cohen, came out of the closet also, just a few years ago (even though everyone guessed it)
The VHI jump makes it so real ❤ I'm transported to my childhood
When Eurovision was fun!
The best ever eurovision song amazing
Israel..the land..people and music i love
I love it fantastic amaizing FABULOUS ❤❤❤❤
אחלה שיר
Magnifique chanson 👍🙏 très beau d'écouter l'hébreu 👏👌...
It fills me with joy hearing this- finally, my country being proud of our language, it's amazing! אבניבי מתבתהבה!
לא יאמן! עוד ישראלי?
@@skeletonkn1ght854 כולנו פה 😎
@@queertearss זה כל כך כיף למצא עוד ישראלי הומו
@@skeletonkn1ght854 😻😻
all my love to Israel
Thanks bro nice to see
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2021 ;-) I LOVE THIS SONG! I born in 1978 ;-)
המוזיקה זה טוב מאוז!! טוב מאוד ישראל!!!
Saludos desde mis raíces sefardíes me llega al ❤️ está canción 👏👏👏
Always liked it. Great song. deserved to win and it did by a wide margin.
Love Blessings from Rotterdam NL to Israël
how good is that stage design shown in the begining?
it looks in style and ultra-modern even in 2017
The French know how to host a good ESC! ;-)
@@sonjapetersen4410 Let's hope for another French victory, followed by a Eurovision Song Contest in France.
All 3 had impressive stages.
Cannes 59 had revolving backgrounds
Cannes 61 was extravagant
Paris 78 was modern
All 3 had impressive stages.
Cannes 59 had revolving backgrounds
Cannes 61 was extravagant
Paris 78 was modern
Love it. I also sing 'I wanna be a polar bear' but I love the actual words too. A true classic from Israel x
אני אוהבת השיר הזאת
"I wanna be a polar bear that wears a bra"
freak my life dude :DDDD
I want to be a polar bear who wears a kippah
I just woke up singing this out of the blue. Couldn’t remember who sang it in Eurovision. Israel won with this 1978 and the next year with Hallelujah.