Save Your Kisses for Me should sing this song'. But I didn't mind because Martin came in and sung it to perfection." Soon after, manager Tony Hiller was keen for the group to try for Eurovision, now that the qualifying rounds had changed in the UK. Up till now, a singer was nominated to perform, but for 1976 it was opened up to different singers to enter their own songs. Brotherhood of Man put forward "Save Your Kisses for Me" and it was accepted as one of the 12 finalists. It won "A Song for Europe" on 25 February 1976, beating second-placed Co-Co by just
Lee Sheriden Baby". According to Sheriden, during writing sessions for their second album, he came up with a song called "Save Your Kisses for Me", which the others rejected initially. He then presented it to them again as Hiller was looking for a song to enter in the following year's . This time they went with it and after some rewriting the song won the contest in 1976. It went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest and became a No. 1 in many countries, selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The writing team of Sheriden, Hiller and Lee