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((Infobox song contest national year
| Year                   = 1973
| Country                = Sweden
| Preselection           = Melodifestivalen 1973
| Preselection date      = 10 February 1973
| Entrant                = [[Malta (band)|Nova]] and the Dolls
| Song                   = You're Summer
| Writer                 = ((unbulleted list|[[Monica Dominique]]|Carl-Axel Dominique|[[Lars Forssell]]))
| Final result           = 5th, 94 points
))
'''Sweden''' chose their entry for [[Eurovision Song Contest 1973]] in the national final [[Melodifestivalen 1973]]. One of the competitors was a group of four who, later in the year, would become [[ABBA]], but they only finished 3rd with [[Ring Ring (ABBA song)|their own entry]]. Instead, the winner was the song "Sommaren som aldrig säger nej" ("Summer that never says no") performed by the group [[Malta (band)|Malta]]. To avoid being confused with the nation of [[Malta]], who did not participate in that year's contest, they changed their name to "The Nova" (with their backing group The Dolls) for the contest.  The song was translated into English with the title "You're Summer".

The song's lyrics were written by Lars Forsell, and it was composed by Monica and Carl-Axel Dominique.

== Before Eurovision ==
=== Melodifestivalen 1973 ===
'''[[Melodifestivalen]] 1973''' was the selection for the 14th song to represent [[Sweden]] at the [[Eurovision Song Contest]]. It was the 13th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 10 songwriters were selected by [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] for the competition. The final was held in the SVT Studios in [[Stockholm]] on 10 February 1973, presented by Alicia Lundberg and was broadcast on [[SVT1|TV1]] but was not broadcast on radio.

The third place act, Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn and Benny, returned to take part in Melodifestivalen 1974 under their new moniker [[ABBA]].

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Draw
! Artist
! Song
! Songwriter(s)
! Place
! Points
|----
|1||[[Lasse Berghagen]]||"Ding-Dong"||[[Lasse Berghagen]]||7th||3
|----
|2||[[Ted Gärdestad]]||"[[Oh, vilken härlig dag]]"||[[Ted Gärdestad]], [[Kenneth Gärdestad]]||4th||7
|----
|3||Inga-Lill Nilsson||"En frusen ros"||[[Mats Olsson (musician)|Mats Olsson]], Karin Stigmark||9th||0
|----
|4||[[ABBA|Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid]]||"[[Ring Ring (ABBA song)|Ring Ring]]"||[[Benny Andersson]], [[Björn Ulvaeus]], [[Stig Anderson]]||3rd||8
|----
|5||Glenmarks||"En liten sång som alla andra"||[[Östen Warnerbring]]||4th||7
|----
|6||Kerstin Aulén and [[Mona Wessman]]||"Helledudane en sån karl"||Peter Himmelstrand||9th||0
|----
|7||[[Claes-Göran Hederström]]||"Historien om en vän"||[[Claes Dieden]], Anders Henriksson, Karin Stigmark||8th||1
|----
|8||[[Lill-Babs]]||"Avsked från en vän"||Peter Totth, [[Britt Lindeborg]]||4th||7
|-style="font-weight:bold;background:gold;"
|9||[[Malta (band)|Malta]]||"Sommaren som aldrig säger nej"||[[Monica Dominique]], Carl-Axel Dominique, [[Lars Forssell]]||1st||37
|----
|10||Ann-Kristin Hedmark||"I våran värld"||[[Bengt-Arne Wallin]], Anja Notini-Wallin||2nd||29
|}

== At Eurovision ==
The contest was held in [[Luxembourg]] and Sweden was drawn into spot 12. They finished 5th (out of 17).<ref>((cite web |title=Final of Luxembourg 1973 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973/final |publisher=Eurovision Song Contest |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409142300/https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973/final |archive-date=9 April 2021 |url-status=live))</ref>

Each country nominated two jury members, one below the age of 25 and the other above, who voted for their respective country by giving between one and five points to each song, except that representing their own country. All jury members were colocated in a television studio in Luxembourg.<ref name="Roxburgh">((cite book |last1=Roxburgh |first1=Gordon |title=Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest |date=2014 |publisher=[[Telos Publishing]] |location=[[Prestatyn]], United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84583-093-9 |pages=60, 124 |series=Volume Two: The 1970s))</ref> The Swedish jury members were [[Lena Andersson (singer)|Lena Andersson]] and Lars Samuelson.<ref name="genom tiden">((cite book |last1=Thorsson |first1=Leif |last2=Verhage |first2=Martin |title=Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna |date=2006 |publisher=Premium Publishing |location=Stockholm |isbn=91-89136-29-2 |language=sv |pages=102–103))</ref>

=== Voting ===
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+ Points awarded to Sweden<ref name="1973detailed">((cite web |title=Results of the Final of Luxembourg 1973 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973/final/results/sweden |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=9 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409143715/https://eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1973/final/results/sweden |archive-date=9 April 2021 |url-status=live))</ref>
|-
! scope="col" width="20%" | Score
! scope="col" | Country
|-
! scope="row" | 10 points
|
|-
! scope="row" | 9 points
| ((Esc|Switzerland|y=1973))
|-
! scope="row" | 8 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Finland|y=1973))|((Esc|Norway|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 7 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Spain|1945|y=1973))|((Esc|United Kingdom|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 6 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Luxembourg|y=1973))|((Esc|Netherlands|y=1973))|((Esc|Yugoslavia|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 5 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Germany|y=1973))|((Esc|Ireland|y=1973))|((Esc|Israel|y=1973))|((Esc|Italy|y=1973))|((Esc|Monaco|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 4 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Belgium|y=1973))|((Esc|France|y=1973))|((Esc|Portugal|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 3 points
|
|-
! scope="row" | 2 points
|
|}
((col-2))
{| class="wikitable"
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|+ Points awarded by Sweden<ref name="1973detailed" />
|-
! scope="col" width="20%" | Score
! scope="col" | Country
|-
! scope="row" | 10 points
|
|-
! scope="row" | 9 points
| ((Esc|United Kingdom|y=1973))
|-
! scope="row" | 8 points
| ((Esc|Luxembourg|y=1973))
|-
! scope="row" | 7 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Finland|y=1973))|((Esc|Spain|1945|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 6 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Germany|y=1973))|((Esc|Israel|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 5 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|France|y=1973))|((Esc|Ireland|y=1973))|((Esc|Italy|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 4 points
| ((Esc|Monaco|y=1973))
|-
! scope="row" | 3 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Netherlands|y=1973))|((Esc|Norway|y=1973))|((Esc|Switzerland|y=1973))))
|-
! scope="row" | 2 points
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|Belgium|y=1973))|((Esc|Portugal|y=1973))|((Esc|Yugoslavia|y=1973))))
|}
((col-end))

== References ==
((reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061004054426/http://escsweden.com/ ESCSweden.com] (in Swedish)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080506110752/http://www.esc.info.se/ Information site about Melodifestivalen]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20031006134943/http://www.geocities.com/national_finals/ Eurovision Song Contest National Finals]

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