Eurovision Song Contest 1972

Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Dates
Final date	25 March 1972
Host
Venue	Usher Hall Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)	Moira Shearer
Conductor	Malcolm Lockyer
Director	Terry Hughes
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
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      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1972
Vote
Voting system	Two jury members from each country, with each of them awarding between 1 to 5 points for each song.
Nul points	None
Winning song	Luxembourg "Après toi"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Although Monaco had won the previous year's contest, the principality was unable to meet the demands of hosting the event (on January 31, 1972, Monaco's ruler Rainier III of Monaco received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union about holding the 1972 Eurovision in Monaco, he was unable to provide a venue, the props and everything else so in February 1972, Prince Rainier declined because of the expenses).

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 - venue of the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest.

The 1972 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted by Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. 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 to 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 Gaelic, 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	Language[4]	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Germany	German	Mary Roos	"Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben"	Only Love Lets Us Live	3	107
02	France	French	Betty Mars	"Comé-comédie"	Comic Comedy	11	81
03	Ireland	Gaelic	Sandie Jones	"Ceol an Ghrá"	The Music of Love	15	72
04	Spain	Spanish	Jaime Morey	"Amanece"	It's Dawning	10	83
05	United Kingdom	English	The New Seekers	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	-	2	114
06	Norway	Norwegian	Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg	"Småting"	Little Things	14	73
07	Portugal	Portuguese	Carlos Mendes	"A festa da vida"	The Party of Life	7	90
08	Switzerland	French	Véronique Müller	"C'est la chanson de mon amour"	This is the Song of My Love	8	88
09	Malta	Maltese	Helen and Joseph	"L-imħabba"	Love	18	48
10	Finland	Finnish	Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor	"Muistathan"	Remember	12	78
11	Austria	German	Milestones	"Falter im Wind"	Butterfly in the Wind	5	100
12	Italy	Italian	Nicola di Bari	"I giorni dell'arcobaleno"	The Rainbow Days	6	92
13	Yugoslavia	Croatian	Tereza Kesovija	"Muzika i ti"	Music and You	9	87
14	Sweden	Swedish	Family Four	"Härliga sommardag"	Lovely Summer Day	13	75
15	Monaco	French	Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane	"Comme on s'aime"	How We Love Each Other	16	65
16	Belgium	French	Serge & Christine Ghisoland	"À la folie ou pas du tout"	Madly or Not At All	17	55
17	Luxembourg	French	Vicky Leandros	"Après toi"	After You	1	128
18	Netherlands	Dutch	Sandra and Andres	"Als het om de liefde gaat"	When It's All About Love	4	106

Scoreboard

		Results
	Germany	107		8	6	9	5	6	6	5	4	5	5	7	5	8	8	7	7	6
	France	81	5		5	2	9	7	2	3	5	4	2	3	5	2	6	7	8	6
	Ireland	72	4	3		4	4	6	4	3	6	3	4	3	3	5	5	4	6	5
	Spain	83	7	5	5		3	8	6	3	4	4	5	3	2	7	8	3	5	5
	United Kingdom	114	8	9	6	2		10	4	8	2	7	7	7	9	6	9	4	8	8
	Norway	73	4	3	6	5	4		5	2	5	7	3	2	5	4	4	4	6	4
	Portugal	90	3	4	7	7	4	2		6	5	2	4	9	4	7	4	7	10	5
	Switzerland	88	4	5	6	5	4	7	2		4	7	8	5	5	4	6	4	7	5
	Malta	48	3	2	4	2	6	2	2	2		5	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	4
	Finland	78	4	3	3	6	5	6	4	3	3		3	3	4	4	5	8	6	8
	Austria	100	6	6	6	6	3	5	5	7	5	4		6	8	10	5	4	5	9
	Italy	92	4	5	3	2	3	6	7	9	6	6	6		4	8	6	6	6	5
	Yugoslavia	87	7	4	5	8	5	4	5	2	4	3	3	2		4	9	8	8	6
	Sweden	75	5	3	5	3	3	5	4	2	4	5	4	3	7		5	7	5	5
	Monaco	65	4	3	4	3	5	6	2	2	5	5	3	3	4	3		4	4	5
	Belgium	55	2	3	4	2	5	2	3	3	5	4	2	3	2	2	4		6	3
	Luxembourg	128	9	8	9	2	10	8	7	6	4	6	8	9	10	8	7	8		9
Netherlands	106	6	6	8	8	9	8	5	6	3	9	6	3	9	6	5	2	7

10 points

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

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, Tawian, Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. Brazil and Greece also provided live broadcasting. Iceland and Israel broadcast it 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[5]
			Wolf Mittler	Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2
02	France	TBC	Pierre Tchernia	Première Chaîne ORTF[6]
			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)[7]	Julio Rico	TVE1[8]
			Miguel de los Santos	Primer Programa RNE
05	United Kingdom	Doreen Samuels (under 25) and Robert Bruce Walker (over 25)[9]	Tom Fleming	BBC1
			Pete Murray	BBC Radio 1[9]
			Terry James	British Forces Radio[10]
06	Norway	Signe Abusdal and Rachel Mord	Roald Øyen	NRK[11][12]
			Erik Heyerdahl	NRK P1
07	Portugal	Pedro Sousa Macedo (under 25) and Maria João Aguiar (over 25)[13]	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)[14]	Norman Hamilton[15]	MTV
			TBC	TBC
10	Finland	Merita Merikoski (under 25) and Åke Granholm (over 25)[16]	Heikki Seppälä	YLE TV1
			Poppe Berg	YLE Radio 1
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)[17]	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)[18]	Bo Billtén[18]	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

External links

• Official website