Home Composed Song Contest 2007

Contest overview

Following Patryk Smolarek's victory the previous year, the 2007 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by OGAE Poland, with vice-president Kris acting as coordinator.

This year saw a number of innovations. Firstly, the contest was conducted almost exclusively online, with OGAE Poland setting up a separate website for the competition. Reflecting this change in the state of the art, the voting period was also significantly shorter, with the submission deadline on 15 September and the results announced by the end of that month. Furthermore, the songs were placed online in the order that they were received, rather than all being made available after the deadline - hence the non-random running order in the list below.

The modernisation of the contest as a whole was accompanied by a significant shift in its centre of gravity as far as the participants were concerned: among the 28 songs from an impressive 11 countries, only Achim Wurm, Martin Faulkner, Annika Jansson and Matthias Pohl remained from the pre-2005 history of the competition. Meanwhile, Slovenia made its debut, Cyprus returned after a 13-year absence, and British group Vulnerable were joined by a second UK representative for the first time in a number of years as Andy Brook's londonvision project made its arrival.

In the end, there was a second victory for the country with the most entries in Home Composed history: Germany took the title with "Warrior Of Love", composed and performed by first-time entrants Stefan Engel, Randi Knobloch and Tato Gomez.

Note: To any participants reading this now (yes, even so many years later!), we are aware that some of the composer and lyricist information below may be incorrect and some of the lyrics/translations are incomplete - so if you have any additions or corrections, please let us know via the HCSC Facebook group and we'll make sure it's rectified. Thanks!

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Germany I	I'll Send An Angel	Jannnni	Jannnni	Jannnni	2	74
02	Portugal I	4, 3, 2, 1 A-a-a-a Break! Yeah...	Manel da Silva	Manel da Silva	n/a	26	9
03	Slovenia	Mmm	Jernej Dermota	Jernej Dermota	Jernej Dermota	18	29
04	Slovenia	What A Night	Jernej Dermota	Jernej Dermota	Jernej Dermota	4	70
05	Greece	Aneksitilo	Dimitris Kiklis	Dimitris Kiklis	Dimitris Kiklis	2	74
06	Greece	Time	Dimitris Kiklis	Dimitris Kiklis	Dimitris Kiklis	17	30
07	Malta	Issa tibza xejn	Mauro	Mauro	Mauro	26	9
08	Malta	Illum	Mauro & Diane Castillo	Mauro	Mauro	11	46
09	Poland	Living In Another World	Patryk Smolarek	Patryk Smolarek	Stefan Engel	8	50
10	Poland	Wierze	Patryk Smolarek	Patryk Smolarek	Patryk Smolarek	10	48
11	Austria	Pretty Young Girl	MikeWail	Karl Gartler	Karl Gartler	6	57
12	Switzerland	Legendary	ThreeZ	ThreeZ	n/a	24	15
13	Switzerland	Hold Up	ThreeZ	ThreeZ	ThreeZ	28	5
14	Cyprus	This Love	Andreas Anastasiou	Andreas Anastasiou	n/a	5	62
15	Germany II	Warrior Of Love	Stefan Engel, Randi Knobloch & Tato Gomez	Randi Knobloch, Tato Gomez	Stefan Engel	1	90
16	Germany III	Stop	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	22	18
17	Germany IV	Tomorrow	Waveworld	Angelo Schmidt	Angelo Schmidt	14	33
18	United Kingdom I	Purity & The Peach	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	12	37
19	United Kingdom I	Erazher	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	25	11
20	Sweden	Stick och brinn	Annika Jansson	Marcus Björkander	Marcus Björkander, Annika Jansson	8	50
21	Portugal II	Day And Night	Rogério Afonso	Rogério Afonso	Rogério Afonso	7	53
22	Portugal II	All I Needed	Rogério Afonso	Rogério Afonso	Rogério Afonso	23	16
23	Portugal III	Ao sabor do vento	DaZeAnSilFreRoGeCa	DaZeAnSilFreRoGeCa	Carlos Paulo	19	20
24	Germany V	Wo bist Du	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	16	32
25	Germany V	Mut zum Leben	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	14	33
26	United Kingdom II	Never Forever	londonvision feat. Tiina	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	21	19
27	United Kingdom II	I Never Knew	londonvision feat. Tiina	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	19	20
28	Portugal I	Can't Stay Without You	Manel da Silva	Manel da Silva	Manel da Silva	13	34

Scoreboard

	Juries
																			Total
I'll Send An Angel		3		4	3	5	4	12		7	2	12	10	3	5	2	2		74
4, 3, 2, 1 A-a-a-a Break!									2				3		4				9
Mmm						4		1		6		2		6				10	29
What A Night	8				12	12		8		3		6		10			7	4	70
Aneksitilo	7	5	7		2		5	5	1	8				7	12	7		8	74
Time			8			10			12										30
Issa tibza xejn	3	6																	9
Illum				3			3			10			5		7	8	10		46
Living In Another World			6	7	4		8			12		5		8					50
Wierze					5		2	7	10	4	1	1				6		12	48
Pretty Young Girl	10			5	6			10		5			4	5	8	3	1		57
Legendary		7	5						3										15
Hold Up			4										1						5
This Love	1		10	12		2					10			12	3	5	6	1	62
Warrior Of Love	12	2		8	7	8	7	6			4		6	2	1	12	8	7	90
Stop							12			1							5		18
Tomorrow	5	8			8			4					2					6	33
Purity & The Peach	4	4				3	6				7	8						5	37
Erazher				1								10							11
Stick och brinn			12						4		5		12			10	4	3	50
Day And Night	6	12		2	10			3		2						4	12	2	53
All I Needed		10			1				5										16
Ao sabor do vento		1					10						7		2				20
Wo bist Du	2					7		2	6		8	7							32
Mut zum Leben			3						8		12	4			6				33
Never Forever			2	6		1					3	3		4					19
I Never Knew			1			6	1						8	1			3		20
Can't Stay Without You				10					7		6				10	1			34

Media

HCSC 2007 winner: Stefan Engel, Randi Knobloch & Tato Gomez - Warrior Of Love

Recap of all HCSC 2007 songs in draw order