This video is from Disco, a German monthly TV pop show that ran for 12 years. DANA was the only act to bookend that long-running series, appearing in this the first episode with Who Put the Lights Out on 13 February 1971, and the closing one on 22 November 1982 with I Feel Love Comin' On. As for all the shows in between she is nowhere to be seen! The host was Ilja Richter, a German actor and comedian. He’d just been miming to her last hit so that’s why she held up a placard with this demand: STOP! THIS IS MY SONG!! She appeared two more times in this launch edition (FoD#70).

Almost a year had passed since she burst onto the scene, after winning the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with All Kinds of Everything, the ballad that went to #1 and sold two million copies around the world. Who Put the Lights Out was also a ballad but a sombre one. A Paul Ryan song that was first seen a year before on the album Barry Ryan 3. Her agent’s business partner, Harold Davison, stepfather to the Ryan twins, recommended it to her.

Being the last winner of Eurovision her job was to present the next winner with their trophy. But she was still a one-hit wonder so wasn’t looking forward it. Her last hope was Who Put the Lights Out. It saved her blushes by reaching #5 in the Irish chart and #14 in the UK. It was still in the Top 30 on 3 April, when she appeared at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre to present Séverineo (Monaco) with the trophy for Un banc, un arbre, une rue, the Eurovision 71 winning song.

I hear there's a song in the air
So sing it aloud, please feel free
Shout it aloud, I don't care
You laughed at me and you'll do it again and again

Now suddenly I realise
The sun won't shine in my eyes
It hurt me, but now I can see
You lied to me and you'll do it again and again and again

Who put the lights out
Who put the lights out
Many years ago
Many years ago

Who put the lights out
Who put the lights out
Many years ago
Many years

Time... they say it's a healer of pain
A pain that we knew once as love
I won't let it happen again
I loved you so, but that was years and years ago

Many years ago
We laughed away the tears
Many years ago
We laughed away those years away

Who put the lights out
Who put the lights out
Many years ago
Many years ago

Who put the lights out
Who put the lights out
Many years ago
Many years
Years and years and years and years ago

UK Top 30 for 13 March 1971:

01. Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump
02. Paul McCartney - Another Day
03. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
04. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
05. Perry Como - It's Impossible
06. Mixtures - Pushbike Song
07. T.Rex - Hot Love
08. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
09. Judy Collins - Amazing Grace
10. The Supremes - Stoned Love
11. Ashton, Gardner And Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle
12. Chairmen Of The Board - Everything's Tuesday
13. Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night
14. DANA - WHO PUT THE LIGHTS OUT
15. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Forget Me Not
16. Clive Dunn - Grandad
17. New World - Rose Garden
18. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - (Come 'round Here) I'm The One You Need
19. Badfinger - No Matter What
20. Elton John - Your Song
21. Dawn - Candida
22. Deep Purple - Strange Kind of Woman
23. The Byrds - Chestnut Mare
24. The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
25. Frank Sinatra - I Will Drink the Wine
26. Weathermen - It's the Same Old Song
27. Jackie Lee - Rupert
28. Frank Sinatra - My Way
29. The Kinks - Apeman
30. Tom Jones - She's a Lady

It's UK chart run:

13/02/1971 #31
20/02/1971 #40
27/02/1971 #28
06/03/1971 #21
13/03/1971 #14
20/03/1971 #16
27/03/1971 #17
03/04/1971 #23
10/04/1971 #29
17/04/1971 #39
24/04/1971 #41

On 25 February 1971 she (again) performed WPTLO on TOTP:

Presenter Jimmy Savile introduced:

(22) ATOMIC ROOSTER -- Tomorrow Night
(NEW) RAY STEVENS -- Can We Get To That
(02) THE MIXTURES -- The Pushbike Song
(23) LYNN ANDERSON -- Rose Garden (video) (and charts)
(36) THE SHOWSTOPPERS -- Ain't Nothin' but a Houseparty
(04) PERRY COMO -- It's Impossible (video)
(20) CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD -- Everything's Tuesday (danced to by Pan's People)
(28) DANA -- Who Put the Lights Out [see AKOD#66]
(24) PAUL McCARTNEY -- Another Day (crowd dancing)
(ALBUM TRACK) THE FOUR SEASONS -- Let's Hang On
(ALBUM TRACK) THE FOUR SEASONS - I've Got You Under My Skin
(ALBUM TRACK) THE FOUR SEASONS -- Medley
(01) GEORGE HARRISON -- My Sweet Lord (crowd dancing) (and credits)

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