"Tie uuteen päivään" was the Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971

Eurovision Song Contest 1971

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest and the first held in Dublin, Ireland. The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others...

, performed in Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 by Markku Aro

Markku Aro

Markku Aro , born as Markku Tuomas Puputti , is a Finnish singer who performed on Eurovision contest in 1971 in Ireland with the pop-duo Koivistolaiset. They appeared with the song "Tie uuteen päivään"...

 & Koivistolaiset (The Koivisto Sisters).

The song was performed seventeenth on the night, following Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

's Kruno Slabinac with "Tvoj dječak je tužan

Tvoj dječak je tužan

"Tvoj dječak je tužan" was the Yugoslavian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Serbo-Croatian by Krunoslav Slabinac....

" and preceding Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

's Hanne Krogh

Hanne Krogh

Hanne Krogh is a Norwegian singer and one half of the duo that won the Eurovision Song Contest 1985....

 with "Lykken er

Lykken Er

"Lykken er" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Norwegian by Hanne Krogh....

". At the close of voting, it had received 84 points, placing 8th in a field of 18.

The song deals with the progress of humanity towards "a new day", contending that this is not something to be afraid of.

It was succeeded as Finnish representative

Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Finland first entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961, and has participated a total of 45 times. Finland won the contest for the first time in 2006 with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah"...

 at the 1972 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1972

The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition series. Monaco was unable to host this year's Eurovision as they were unable to provide the resources. They approached French TV, who agreed to produce the contest, but only if the contest was staged in France and not the planned Monte Carlo...

 by Päivi Paunu

Päivi Paunu

Päivi Paunu is a Finnish singer from Tampere. Paunu performed in the 1972 Eurovision contest in the United Kingdom with the song "Muistathan" .-Albums:* Päivi Paunu, 1966* Päivi, 1969* Hei vain, 1971...

 & Kim Floor with "Muistathan

Muistathan

"Muistathan" was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, performed in Finnish by Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor....

".