Eurovision Song Contest 1972

Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Dates
Final 25 March 1972
Host
Venue Usher Hall
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Presenter(s) Moira Shearer
Conductor Malcolm Lockyer
Directed by Terry Hughes
Executive supervisor Clifford Brown
Executive producer Bill Cotton
Host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Interval act Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle
Participants
Number of entries 18
Debuting countries None
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries None
Participation map
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Vote
Voting system Two-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points.
Nul points None
Winning song  Luxembourg
"Après toi"

The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th annual Eurovision Song Contest.

It was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Although Monaco had won the previous year's contest and thus had the rights to host, the principality was unable to meet the demands of hosting the event. On 31 January 1972, Rainier III of Monaco received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union about holding the 1972 Eurovision in the principality, he was unable to provide a venue, the props and the remainder of the requirements. He declined the opportunity in February 1972.

Séverine made the trip to the Scottish capital Edinburgh to pass on the 'Grand Prix' to Vicky Leandros. However, she looked thoroughly uninterested in the Monegasque entry when seen by viewers checking her watch before the song was performed.[1] This marked the fourth time that the contest was held in the United Kingdom. However, this is the first (and, so far, only) time that the UK hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in a venue outside England.

Luxembourg's win was their third. Yves Dessca also wrote the text for "Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue" that won in 1971, and other than conductors of the winning song, became the second person to win the Contest twice, the first person to win for two different countries and the first person to win two years in a row.[1]

Location

Usher Hall, Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest.

The 1972 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted by Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. The Usher Hall, the venue for the 1972 contest, is a concert hall, situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has hosted concerts and events since its construction in 1914 and can hold approximately 2,900[2] people in its recently restored auditorium, which is well loved by performers due to its acoustics. The Hall is flanked by The Royal Lyceum Theatre on the right and The Traverse Theatre on the left. Historic Scotland has registered the Hall with Category A listed building status.

Format

The stage design included a screen to introduce and accompany the on stage competing performances, and to show an interval act and voting sequence that were done at Edinburgh Castle. Before each country's performance, a picture of each song's performers along with their names and the song's title were projected on the screen, and during each performance, animated spiral shapes were projected as additional visual effect. The interval act was performed at the outside vast Esplanade of the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle. The jurors were stationed in the safety of the castle, and watched the competing performances at Usher Hall on TV.

Each country had two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55. They each awarded 1 to 5 points for each song, other than the song of their own country. They cast their votes immediately after each song was performed and the votes were then collected and counted. For the public voting sequence after the interval act, the jury members were shown on the stage's screen with each lifting a signboard with the number between 1 and 5 for each song, as a visual verification of the scores they had awarded earlier. The eventual winner, Luxembourg, remained in a strong scoring position throughout the voting.

1972 was the first year that had no ties in the voting. Every year prior to 1972, at least two countries had received the same score.

Participating countries

All countries who participated in the 1971 contest were present this year; with no withdrawals, returns, or débutantes. The Irish entry was in Irish, so far the country's only entry in that language.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.[3]

Returning artists

Four artists returned to the competition this year. Luxembourg's Vicky Leandros who last performed for the nation in 1967; Carlos Mendes for Portugal who last participated in 1968; Swedish entry Family Four who returned for a second consecutive year; and Yugoslavia's Tereza Kesovija who previously represented Monaco in 1966.

Results

Draw Country Artist Song Language[4] Place Points
01  Germany Mary Roos "Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben" German 3 107
02  France Betty Mars "Comé-comédie" French 11 81
03  Ireland Sandie Jones "Ceol an Ghrá" Irish 15 72
04  Spain Jaime Morey "Amanece" Spanish 10 83
05  United Kingdom The New Seekers "Beg, Steal or Borrow" English 2 114
06  Norway Grethe Kausland & Benny Borg "Småting" Norwegian 14 73
07  Portugal Carlos Mendes "A festa da vida" Portuguese 7 90
08   Switzerland Véronique Müller "C'est la chanson de mon amour" French 8 88
09  Malta Helen and Joseph "L-imħabba" Maltese 18 48
10  Finland Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor "Muistathan" Finnish 12 78
11  Austria Milestones "Falter im Wind" German 5 100
12  Italy Nicola di Bari "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" Italian 6 92
13  Yugoslavia Tereza Kesovija "Muzika i ti" Serbo-Croatian 9 87
14  Sweden Family Four "Härliga sommardag" Swedish 13 75
15  Monaco Anne-Marie Godart & Peter MacLane "Comme on s'aime" French 16 65
16  Belgium Serge & Christine Ghisoland "À la folie ou pas du tout" French 17 55
17  Luxembourg Vicky Leandros "Après toi" French 1 128
18  Netherlands Sandra & Andres "Als het om de liefde gaat" Dutch 4 106

Scoreboard

Results
Germany 10786956654557588776
France 8155297235423526786
Ireland 7243446436343355465
Spain 8375538634453278355
United Kingdom 114896210482777969488
Norway 7343654525732544464
Portugal 90347742652494747105
Switzerland 8845654724785546475
Malta 4832426222522233224
Finland 7843365643333445868
Austria 100666635575468105459
Italy 9245323679666486665
Yugoslavia 8774585452433249886
Sweden 7553533542454375755
Monaco 6543435622553343445
Belgium 5523425233542322463
Luxembourg 1289892108764689108789
Netherlands 10666889856396396527

10 points

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

N.ContestantVoting nation
2LuxembourgUnited Kingdom, Yugoslavia
1AustriaSweden
PortugalLuxembourg
United KingdomNorway

International broadcasts and voting

Each national broadcaster sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the event in their own native language. Apart from the participating countries, the contest was transmitted in live for the first time in the continent of Asia, in the countries Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. Brazil and Greece also provided live broadcasting. Iceland and Israel broadcast the contest a few days later. The table below shows the order in which the votes were cast along with each country's two jury members, commentator and broadcasting station.

Voting order Country Jury members Commentator Broadcaster
01  Germany TBC Hanns Verres ARD Deutsches Fernsehen
Wolf Mittler Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2
02  France TBC Pierre Tchernia Première Chaîne ORTF[5]
TBC TBC
03  Ireland TBC Mike Murphy RTÉ Television
Kevin Roche Radio Éireann
04  Spain Emma Cohen (under 25) and Luis María Ansón (over 25)[6] Julio Rico TVE1
Miguel de los Santos Primer Programa RNE
05  United Kingdom Doreen Samuels (under 25) and Robert Bruce Walker (over 25)[7] Tom Fleming BBC1
Pete Murray BBC Radio 1[7]
Terry James British Forces Radio[8]
06  Norway Rachel Nord (under 25) and Signe Abusdal (over 25) Roald Øyen NRK[9]
Erik Heyerdahl NRK P1
07  Portugal Pedro Sousa Macedo (under 25) and Maria João Aguiar (over 25)[10] Henrique Mendes RTP1
Amadeu Meireles RDP Antena 1
08   Switzerland TBC Theodor Haller TV DRS
Georges Hardy TSR
Giovanni Bertini TSI
TBC TBC
09  Malta Mary Rose Mallia (under 25) and Joe Zerafa (over 25)[11] Norman Hamilton[12] MTV
TBC TBC
10  Finland Merita Merikoski (under 25) and Åke Granholm (over 25)[13] Heikki Seppälä YLE TV1
Erkki Melakoski Yleisohjelma
11  Austria TBC Ernst Grissemann FS2
Hubert Gaisbauer Hitradio Ö3
12  Italy TBC Renato Tagliani Programma Nazionale
Secondo Programma Radio
13  Yugoslavia Vera Zlokovic (under 25) and Veljko Bakasun (over 25)[14] Milovan Ilić Televizija Beograd
Oliver Mlakar Televizija Zagreb
Tomaž Terček Televizija Ljubljana
TBC TBC
14  Sweden Titti Sjöblom (under 25) and Arne Domnérus (over 25)[15] Bo Billtén[15] SR TV1
Björn Bjelfvenstam SR P3
15  Monaco Pierre Tchernia Télé Monte Carlo
TBC TBC
16  Belgium TBC Herman Verelst BRT
Arlette Vincent RTB
Nand Baert BRT Radio 1
André Hagon RTB La Première
17  Luxembourg TBC Jacques Navadic Télé-Luxembourg
Camillo Felgen RTL Radio
18  Netherlands Jennifer Baljet (under 25) and Cornelis Wagter (over 25) Pim Jacobs Nederland 1
TBC TBC

Non-participating countries

References

  1. 1 2 O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3
  2. ↑ "Geograph:: The Usher Hall, Edinburgh (C) Kevin Rae". www.geograph.org.uk.
  3. ↑ "Conductors 1972". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1972". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  5. ↑ Christian Masson. "1971 – Dublin". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  6. ↑ Eurojaume dice: (15 February 2008). "Eurovisión 1972 – Programa posterior al festival | AEV ESPAÑA". Aeveurovision.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  7. 1 2 "Eurovision 1972". Songs4europe.com. 25 March 1972. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Roxburgh, Gordon (2014). Songs For Europe – The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest Volume Two: The 1970's. UK: Telos Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
  9. ↑ http://www.nrk.no/debatt/index.phpshowtopic=87458&pid=1343226&mode=threaded&start=. Retrieved 21 May 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ Vasco Hogan Teves, 1964–1983 20 anos de Festival RTP da Canção
  11. ↑ "Views and comments on the Eurovision Song Contest", Times of Malta, 29 March 1972
  12. ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1972", Times of Malta, 25 March 1972
  13. ↑ "Muistathan: Eurovision laulukilpailu 1972". Viisukuppila.fi. 2012-01-09. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  14. ↑ Vladimir Pinzovski
  15. 1 2 Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 94. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2

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