First Eurovision Song Contest--1936

POD: an earlier development and popularization of television. (Or maybe widespread commercial television in the 1930's isn't even necessary. The contest could be launched as a festival within the 1937 World's Fair in Paris--the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne)

Possible entries:

UK: George Formby, "When I'm Cleaning Windows"

USSR: Leonid Utesov, "Serdtse" (Heart) from "The Happy Guys"
(The Soviets realize that "Song of the Motherland" from "Circus"
is a bit too political to have a chance of winning...)

Poland: Probably a tango (they were *very* big in interwar Poland until Eddie Rosner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rosner helped popularize US-style swing). Mieczyslaw Fogg - Powiedz
is a possibility.

Germany: It's a little too early for Lili Marlene... Maybe the Golden Seven play "Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein"
from the movie of the same name: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027539/

France: Maurice Chevalier, Le Chapeau de Zozo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerJ2RI788I

Any other suggestions?
 
I like this concept. I know Celine Dion won for Switzerland in the 80's. Would this rule enable performers who later lived in Europe such as Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson to enter?

Another possible French entry, but it was recorded in 1935:

 
Finland could send the young Valtonen sisters Vera, Maire and Raija - The Harmony Sisters. A song would probably be made to order for the occasion.

Here the three performing Lili Marlene and When It´s Lamp-Lightin´ Time in the Valley in 1942:

 
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