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Eurovision Song Contest 1962

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Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Dates
Final18 March 1962
Host
VenueVilla Louvigny
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)Mireille Delannoy
Director
  • Jos Pauly
  • René Steichen
Musical directorJean Roderès
Host broadcasterCompagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1962 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries16
Debuting countriesNone
Non-returning countriesNone
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         Participating countries
Vote
Voting systemTen-member juries awarded points to their three favourite songs.
Winning song France
"Un premier amour"
1961 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1963

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 was not held on a Saturday, 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

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Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg – host venue of the 1962 contest.

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]

Participating countries

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Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1962 – Participation summaries by country

All countries who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 also participated in this edition.[1]

Eurovision Song Contest 1962 participants[2][3]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
 Austria ORF Eleonore Schwarz "Nur in der Wiener Luft" German Bruno Uher Bruno Uher
 Belgium RTB Fud Leclerc "Ton nom" French
  • Eric Channe
  • Tony Golan
 Henri Segers
 Denmark DR Ellen Winther "Vuggevise" Danish
Kai Mortensen
 Finland YLE Marion Rung "Tipi-tii" Finnish
  • Jaakko Salo
  • Kari Tuomisaari
 George de Godzinsky
 France RTF Isabelle Aubret "Un premier amour" French
  • Roland Valade
  • Claude-Henri Vic
 Franck Pourcel
 Germany SWF[a] Conny Froboess "Zwei kleine Italiener" German
  • Christian Bruhn
  • Georg Buschor
 Rolf-Hans Müller
 Italy RAI Claudio Villa "Addio, addio" Italian
Cinico Angelini
 Luxembourg CLT Camillo Felgen "Petit bonhomme" French
Jean Roderès
 Monaco TMC François Deguelt "Dis rien" French
Raymond Lefèvre
 Netherlands NTS De Spelbrekers "Katinka" Dutch
Dolf van der Linden
 Norway NRK Inger Jacobsen "Kom sol, kom regn" Norwegian
Øivind Bergh
 Spain TVE Víctor Balaguer "Llámame" Spanish
  • Miguel Portoles
  • Mario Selles
 Jean Roderès
 Sweden SR Inger Berggren "Sol och vår" Swedish
Egon Kjerrman
  Switzerland SRG SSR Jean Philippe "Le Retour" French
Cédric Dumont
 United Kingdom BBC Ronnie Carroll "Ring-A-Ding Girl" English
Wally Stott
 Yugoslavia JRT Lola Novaković "Ne pali svetla u sumrak" (Не пали светла у сумрак) Serbo-Croatian
Jože Privšek

Returning artists

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Artist Country Previous year(s)
Camillo Felgen  Luxembourg 1960
François Deguelt  Monaco 1960
Fud Leclerc  Belgium 1956, 1958, 1960
Jean Philippe   Switzerland 1959 (for  France)

Contest overview

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The contest was held at 18 March 1962 at 21:30 CET (20:30 UTC) and lasted approxminately for 1 hour and 30 minutes.[5][6] The event was hosted by the Luxembourgish speaker Mireille Delannoy.[1]

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]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1962[7]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  Finland Marion Rung "Tipi-tii" 4 7
2  Belgium Fud Leclerc "Ton nom" 0 13
3  Spain Victor Balaguer "Llámame" 0 13
4  Austria Eleonore Schwarz "Nur in der Wiener Luft" 0 13
5  Denmark Ellen Winther "Vuggevise" 2 10
6  Sweden Inger Berggren "Sol och vår" 4 7
7  Germany Conny Froboess "Zwei kleine Italiener" 9 6
8  Netherlands De Spelbrekers "Katinka" 0 13
9  France Isabelle Aubret "Un premier amour" 26 1
10  Norway Inger Jacobsen "Kom sol, kom regn" 2 10
11   Switzerland Jean Philippe "Le Retour" 2 10
12  Yugoslavia Lola Novaković "Ne pali svetla u sumrak" 10 4
13  United Kingdom Ronnie Carroll "Ring-A-Ding Girl" 10 4
14  Luxembourg Camillo Felgen "Petit bonhomme" 11 3
15  Italy Claudio Villa "Addio, addio" 3 9
16  Monaco François Deguelt "Dis rien" 13 2

Spokespersons

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Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1962 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results

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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.

Detailed voting results[9][10]
Total score
Monaco
Italy
Luxembourg
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Switzerland
Norway
France
Netherlands
Germany
Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Spain
Belgium
Finland
Contestants
 Finland 4 3 1
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

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Below is a summary of all 3 points received:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 3 points
5  France  Germany,  Norway,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Yugoslavia
3  Luxembourg  Belgium,  Spain,  Monaco
 Monaco  Austria,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands
2  Yugoslavia  France,  Italy
1  Finland  United Kingdom
 Sweden  Denmark
 United Kingdom  Finland

Broadcasts

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Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.[11] At least 15 commentators were at the contest, with an estimated 60 to 100 million viewers reported in the media.[12][13]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF ORF [14]
 Belgium RTB RTB [15]
BRT BRT Willem Duys [15][16]
 Denmark DR Danmarks Radio TV, Program 2 Ole Mortensen [da] [17]
 Finland YLE Suomen Televisio Aarno Walli [fi] [18]
Yleisohjelma [fi] Erkki Melakoski [fi]
Ruotsinkielinen yleisohjelma Jan Sederholm
 France RTF RTF Pierre Tchernia [19][20]
France I [21]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Ruth Kappelsberger [de] [22]
 Italy RAI Programma Nazionale[b] Renato Tagliani [it] [23]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg [24]
 Monaco Radio Monte Carlo[c] [25]
 Netherlands NTS NTS Willem Duys [26][27]
NRU Hilversum 2[d]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet, NRK Odd Grythe [28]
 Spain TVE TVE Federico Gallo [es] [29][30]
RNE RNE [29]
 Sweden SR Sveriges TV, SR P1 Jan Gabrielsson [sv] [31]
  Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS [5][32]
TSR Pierre Tchernia
TSI [33]
Radio Genève [21]
Radio Monte Ceneri [33]
 United Kingdom BBC BBC TV David Jacobs [3][6]
 Yugoslavia JRT Televizija Beograd [34]
Televizija Ljubljana [35]
Televizija Zagreb [36]

Notes

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  1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[4]
  2. ^ Deferred broadcast at 22:15 CET (21:00 UTC)[23]
  3. ^ Delayed broadcast on 23 March at 17:02 CET (16:02 UTC)[25]
  4. ^ Deferred broadcast at 23:00 (CET)[26]

References

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