[4] Initially, it was planned that another artist would represent the Soviet Union on Golden Orpheus international song contest, but in the end this honor fell to Alla Pugacheva, the soloist of Vesyolye Rebyata.

"Arlekino" came to Pugacheva from Emil Dimitrov himself; as it turned out, it was a song from his repertoire, with which he won the contest in Sopot in 1964.

She later assessed the song as an ideal combination of text, music and arrangement, which gave her the freedom of creative approach to creating an image, facial expressions, gestures for performance.

As a result, Pugacheva stayed on stage until the end of the song and sang the final phrase for Wayne.

[6] The contest was broadcast throughout Bulgaria, it was also watched by eight-year-old Philipp Kirkorov, the future singer and husband of Pugacheva.

[7] In the Soviet Union, however, the competition was shown only a month later due to the negative reaction of the chairman of Gosteleradio Sergey Lapin.