Dio, come ti amo preceding France's Dominique Walter with Chez nous). At the close of voting, it had received the dreaded "nul points" (zero), for the first and also the only time in Italian Eurovision history, placing 17th (equal last) in a field of 18. It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1967 Contest by Claudio Villa with "Non andare più lontano". Sergio Franchi recorded an English/Italian version of this song [titled "Oh How Much I Love You" (Dio, come ti amo!")] in 1967 on his RCA Victor album "From Sergio - With Love." Shirley Bassey recorded a version of the song titled
Bye Bye I Love You Ralph Siegel/Bernd Meinunger compositions. Bye Bye I Love You "Bye Bye I Love You" was the Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed (despite the English of the title, although the title phrase is in that language) in French by German-British singer Ireen Sheer. The song is notable in the history of the Contest; it was the very first entry composed by Eurovision veteran Ralph Siegel, who would go on write 19 ESC entries throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - 14 for Germany including 1982 winner "Ein bißchen Frieden", 3 for Luxembourg, 1 for Switzerland, Montenegro