"All Kinds of Everything" is a song recorded by Irish singer Dana written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith.

"All Kinds of Everything" was written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith, two twenty-eight-year-old amateur songwriters who worked as compositors for a Dublin newspaper.

Dana recorded "All Kinds of Everything" following her victory in the national final with veteran Eurovision composer Phil Coulter ("Puppet on a String", "Congratulations") providing the musical arrangement for the Ray Horricks production.

On 21 March 1970, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam hosted by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), and broadcast live throughout the continent.

Dana sang seated on a stool fashioned as a cylinder which left her feet suspended above the floor and caused her concern that she'd slide off.

However Dana performed the song with the self-possession she had displayed at rehearsals, when the production team had her rise from her stool mid-performance to accommodate a set adjustment she continued singing regardless and earned a standing ovation from the orchestra.

1970 had augured to be an off year for Eurovision with five nations boycotting the contest and an apparently predictable outcome with a victory by Hopkin or possibly Julio Iglesias –who in fact came in fourth with "Gwendolyne" for Spain–.

"All Kinds of Everything" was also only the second song sung in English to win Eurovision outright –the first being "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw, with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" by Lulu sharing first place one year previously–.

[citation needed] The United Kingdom's entry the following year, held in Dublin, was sung by Clodagh Rodgers, who was also from Northern Ireland.

[8] When Dana – as Dana Rosemary Scallon – ran in the 1997 Irish presidential election the Republic of Ireland's Independent Television & Radio Commission requested that Irish radio stations refrain from playing "All Kinds of Everything" on the grounds that airing the song in effect promoted its singer's candidacy.

The song became a massive hit in the Republic of Ireland upon its release on 14 March 1970 even prior to its Eurovision win reaching No.

In Australia the release of Dana's "All Kinds of Everything" was preceded by a cover by Melburnian singer Pat Carroll whose version reached No.