Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Eurovision Song Contest 1962 | |
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File:ESC 1962 logo.png | |
Dates | |
Final | 18 March 1962 |
Host | |
Venue | Villa Louvigny Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |
Presenter(s) | Mireille Delannoy |
Musical director | Jean Roderès |
Directed by |
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Host broadcaster | Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT) |
Interval act | Achille Zavatta |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 16 |
Debuting countries | None |
Returning countries | None |
Non-returning countries | None |
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Vote | |
Voting system | Ten-member juries awarded points to their three favourite songs. |
Nul points in final | |
Winning song | ![]() "Un premier amour" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the 1961 contest with the song "Nous les amoureux" by Jean-Claude Pascal. The contest was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and was held at the Villa Louvigny on Sunday 18 March 1962 hosted by the Luxembourgish speaker Mireille Delannoy. This remains the last time that the final of the contest has not been held on a Saturday evening, as since 1963 the final of the contest has consistently been held on a Saturday evening.
Sixteen countries participated in the contest – the same that took part the year before.
The winner was France with the song "Un premier amour", performed by Isabelle Aubret, written by Roland Valade and composed by Claude Henri Vic. This was France's third victory in the contest in just five years, having also won in 1958 and 1960. It was also the third consecutive winning song performed in French. For the first time in the contest's history, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain all scored nul points.[1]
Location
The 1962 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in Luxembourg City. The venue chosen to host the 1962 contest was the Villa Louvigny. The building served as the headquarters of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, the forerunner of RTL Group. It is located in Municipal Park, in the Ville Haute quarter of the centre of the city.[1]
Format
After France's entry had been performed, there was a short power failure rendering the screens dark. There also seemed to be an even shorter power failure during the Netherlands' entry, when viewers around Europe only saw darkness on their television screens when the Netherlands performed. The power failure seemed to affect the Netherlands' score during the voting. Nevertheless, the song turned out to be popular in Europe after the contest.[1]
Participating countries
All countries who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 also participated in this edition.[1]
Conductors
Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.[2][3]
Finland – George de Godzinsky
Belgium – Henri Segers
Spain – Jean Roderès
Austria – Bruno Uher
Denmark – Kai Mortensen
Sweden – Egon Kjerrman
Germany – Rolf-Hans Müller
Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
France – Franck Pourcel
Norway – Øivind Bergh
Switzerland – Cédric Dumont
Yugoslavia – Jože Privšek
United Kingdom – Angela Morley
Luxembourg – Jean Roderès
Italy – Cinico Angelini
Monaco – Raymond Lefèvre
Returning artists
Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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Camillo Felgen | ![]() |
1960 |
François Deguelt | ![]() |
1960 |
Fud Leclerc | ![]() |
1956, 1958, 1960 |
Jean Philippe | ![]() |
1959 (for ![]() |
Participants and results
R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Language[4][5] | Points | Place[6] |
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1 | ![]() |
Marion Rung | "Tipi-tii" | Finnish | 4 | 7 |
2 | ![]() |
Fud Leclerc | "Ton nom" | French | 0 | 13 |
3 | ![]() |
Victor Balaguer | "Llámame" | Spanish | 0 | 13 |
4 | ![]() |
Eleonore Schwarz | "Nur in der Wiener Luft" | German | 0 | 13 |
5 | ![]() |
Ellen Winther | "Vuggevise" | Danish | 2 | 10 |
6 | ![]() |
Inger Berggren | "Sol och vår" | Swedish | 4 | 7 |
7 | ![]() |
Conny Froboess | "Zwei kleine Italiener" | German | 9 | 6 |
8 | ![]() |
De Spelbrekers | "Katinka" | Dutch | 0 | 13 |
9 | ![]() |
Isabelle Aubret | "Un premier amour" | French | 26 | 1 |
10 | ![]() |
Inger Jacobsen | "Kom sol, kom regn" | Norwegian | 2 | 10 |
11 | ![]() |
Jean Philippe | "Le retour" | French | 2 | 10 |
12 | ![]() |
Lola Novaković | "Ne pali svetla u sumrak" (Не пали светла у сумрак) | Serbo-Croatian | 10 | 4 |
13 | ![]() |
Ronnie Carroll | "Ring-a-Ding Girl" | English | 10 | 4 |
14 | ![]() |
Camillo Felgen | "Petit bonhomme" | French | 11 | 3 |
15 | ![]() |
Claudio Villa | "Addio, addio" | Italian | 3 | 9 |
16 | ![]() |
François Deguelt | "Dis rien" | French | 13 | 2 |
Detailed voting results
This year marked the second jury voting system change in the contest's history, moving away from a point per favourite song from 10-member juries to the allocation of 3, 2 and 1 points given to the top three favourite songs from each country's 10-member jurors' ratings.
Finland | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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Belgium | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Spain | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Austria | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Denmark | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Sweden | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Germany | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Netherlands | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
France | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Norway | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Switzerland | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Yugoslavia | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
United Kingdom | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Luxembourg | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
Italy | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Monaco | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
3 points
Below is a summary of all 3 points received:
N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 3 points |
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3 | ![]() |
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2 | ![]() |
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1 | ![]() |
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Spokespersons
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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1962 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.
Monaco – TBC
Italy – Enzo Tortora
Luxembourg – Robert Diligent
United Kingdom – Alex Macintosh[3]
Yugoslavia – Mladen Delić
Switzerland – Alexandre Burger
Norway – Kari Borg Mannsåker
France – André Valmy
Netherlands – Ger Lugtenburg
Germany – Klaus Havenstein
Sweden – Tage Danielsson
Denmark – Ole Mortensen
Austria – Emil Kollpacher
Spain – Luis Marsillach
Belgium – Arlette Vincent
Finland – Poppe Berg
Broadcasts
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Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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ORF | Ruth Kappelsberger | |
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RTB | French: Nicole Védrès | |
BRT | Dutch: Willem Duys | ||
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Danmarks Radio TV | Skat Nørrevig | |
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Suomen Televisio | Aarno Walli | |
Yleisradio | Erkki Melakoski | ||
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RTF | Pierre Tchernia | |
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Deutsches Fernsehen | Ruth Kappelsberger | |
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Programma Nazionale | Renato Tagliani | |
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Télé-Luxembourg | Nicole Védrès | |
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Télé Monte Carlo | Pierre Tchernia | |
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NTS | Willem Duys | [9] |
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NRK, NRK P1 | Odd Grythe | |
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TVE | Federico Gallo | |
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Sveriges TV, SR P1 | Jan Gabrielsson | [10] |
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TV DRS | German: Theodor Haller | |
TSR | French: Pierre Tchernia | [11] | |
TSI | Italian: Renato Tagliani | ||
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BBC TV | David Jacobs | [3] |
BBC Light Programme | Peter Haigh | ||
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Televizija Beograd | Serbo-Croatian: Ljubomir Vukadinović | |
Televizija Zagreb | Serbo-Croatian: Gordana Bonetti | ||
Televizija Ljubljana | Slovene: Tomaž Terček |
References
- ^ a b c d "Eurovision Song Contest 1962". EBU. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ a b c Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 291–299. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1962". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1962". 4Lyrics.eu. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Final of Luxembourg 1962". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Luxembourg 1962". Eurovision. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1962 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
- ^ Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna [Melodifestivalen through time]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 40. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.
- ^ "Programme TV du 17 au 24 mars". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 15 March 1962.
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