Eurovision Song Contest 1972
The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, United Kingdom and was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after Monaco, who won in 1971, were unable to meet the demands of hosting the event and could not find a suitable venue. The contest was held at the Usher Hall on 25 March 1972 and was hosted by Scottish ballet dancer Moira Shearer.
| Eurovision Song Contest 1972 | |
|---|---|
| Dates | |
| Final | 25 March 1972 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Usher Hall Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Presenter(s) | Moira Shearer |
| Musical director | Malcolm Lockyer |
| Directed by | Terry Hughes |
| Executive supervisor | Clifford Brown |
| Executive producer | Bill Cotton |
| Host broadcaster | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Website | eurovision |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 18 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Non-returning countries | None |
| |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Two-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points. |
| Winning song | Luxembourg "Après toi" |
| 1971 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1973 | |
Eighteen countries took part in the contest, the same countries as the previous year.
The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Après toi", performed by Vicky Leandros, with lyrics by Yves Dessca, and music composed by Mario Panas (which was the writing pseudonym of Vicky's father Leo Leandros). "Après toi" became the winner with the lowest percentage of the total vote, winning with just 8.30% of the points available. Yves Dessca also wrote "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" that had won the previous edition, and 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] Germany finished in third place for the third consecutive year, equalling their highest placement from the previous two editions.
Location edit
Following Séverine's win for Monaco at the 1971 contest in Dublin, Ireland with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", the principality were unable to meet the demands of hosting the event. Rainier III of Monaco received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union about hosting the 1972 contest in the principality, but he was unable to provide a venue, the props and the remainder of the requirements. Therefore the BBC from the United Kingdom stepped in, and chose to stage the contest in Edinburgh, making it the first of five times that the BBC had chosen a venue outside London with the 1974, 1982, 1998 and 2023 contests held in Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham and Liverpool respectively. It is also the only time that the contest has been held in Scotland. It is the only UK hosted Eurovision Song Contest to have been held outside England as of 2023.
The Usher Hall, the venue for the 1972 contest, is a concert hall, situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of the city. 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.
Participating countries edit
| Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – Participation summaries by country | |
|---|---|
The same countries that participated in the 1971 contest were present this year.
| Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | Songwriter(s) | Conductor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | ORF | The Milestones | "Falter im Wind" | German |
| Erich Kleinschuster |
| Belgium | RTB | Serge and Christine Ghisoland | "À la folie ou pas du tout" | French |
| Henri Segers |
| Finland | YLE | Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor | "Muistathan" | Finnish |
| Ossi Runne |
| France | ORTF | Betty Mars | "Comé-comédie" | French | Frédéric Botton | Franck Pourcel |
| Germany | SFB[a] | Mary Roos | "Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben" | German |
| Paul Kuhn |
| Ireland | RTÉ | Sandie Jones | "Ceol an Ghrá" | Irish |
| Colman Pearce |
| Italy | RAI | Nicola Di Bari | "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" | Italian |
| Gian Franco Reverberi |
| Luxembourg | CLT | Vicky Leandros | "Après toi" | French |
| Klaus Munro |
| Malta | MBA | Helen and Joseph | "L-imħabba" | Maltese |
| Charles Camilleri |
| Monaco | TMC | Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane | "Comme on s'aime" | French |
| Raymond Bernard |
| Netherlands | NOS | Sandra and Andres | "Als het om de liefde gaat" | Dutch | Harry van Hoof | |
| Norway | NRK | Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg | "Småting" | Norwegian |
| Carsten Klouman |
| Portugal | RTP | Carlos Mendes | "A festa da vida" | Portuguese |
| Richard Hill |
| Spain | TVE | Jaime Morey | "Amanece" | Spanish |
| Augusto Algueró |
| Sweden | SR | The Family Four | "Härliga sommardag" | Swedish | Håkan Elmquist | Mats Olsson |
| Switzerland | SRG SSR | Véronique Müller | "C'est la chanson de mon amour" | French |
| Jean-Pierre Festi |
| United Kingdom | BBC | The New Seekers | "Beg, Steal or Borrow" | English |
| David Mackay |
| Yugoslavia | JRT | Tereza | "Muzika i ti" (Музика и ти) | Serbo-Croatian |
| Nikica Kalogjera |
Returning artists edit
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Tereza Kesovija | Yugoslavia | 1966 (for Monaco) |
| Vicky Leandros | Luxembourg | 1967 |
| Carlos Mendes | Portugal | 1968 |
| Family Four | Sweden | 1971 |
Contest overview edit
| R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | Mary Roos | "Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben" | 107 | 3 |
| 2 | France | Betty Mars | "Comé-comédie" | 81 | 11 |
| 3 | Ireland | Sandie Jones | "Ceol an Ghrá" | 72 | 15 |
| 4 | Spain | Jaime Morey | "Amanece" | 83 | 10 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | The New Seekers | "Beg, Steal or Borrow" | 114 | 2 |
| 6 | Norway | Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg | "Småting" | 73 | 14 |
| 7 | Portugal | Carlos Mendes | "A festa da vida" | 90 | 7 |
| 8 | Switzerland | Véronique Müller | "C'est la chanson de mon amour" | 88 | 8 |
| 9 | Malta | Helen and Joseph | "L-imħabba" | 48 | 18 |
| 10 | Finland | Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor | "Muistathan" | 78 | 12 |
| 11 | Austria | The Milestones | "Falter im Wind" | 100 | 5 |
| 12 | Italy | Nicola Di Bari | "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" | 92 | 6 |
| 13 | Yugoslavia | Tereza | "Muzika i ti" | 87 | 9 |
| 14 | Sweden | The Family Four | "Härliga sommardag" | 75 | 13 |
| 15 | Monaco | Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane | "Comme on s'aime" | 65 | 16 |
| 16 | Belgium | Serge and Christine Ghisoland | "À la folie ou pas du tout" | 55 | 17 |
| 17 | Luxembourg | Vicky Leandros | "Après toi" | 128 | 1 |
| 18 | Netherlands | Sandra and Andres | "Als het om de liefde gaat" | 106 | 4 |
Detailed voting results edit
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.
| 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 edit
Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.
| N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 10 points |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Luxembourg | United Kingdom, Yugoslavia |
| 1 | Austria | Sweden |
| Portugal | Luxembourg | |
| United Kingdom | Norway |
Broadcasts edit
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]
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Brazil, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Zaire.[12][13]
Notes edit
References edit
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- ^ "Geograph:: The Usher Hall, Edinburgh (C) Kevin Rae". geograph.org.uk.
- ^ "Participants of Edinburgh 1972". European Broadcasting Union. from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d Roxburgh, Gordon (2014). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume Two: The 1970s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 76–98. ISBN 978-1-84583-093-9.
- ^ "1972 – 17th edition". diggiloo.net. from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ "Detailed overview: conductors in 1972". And the conductor is... Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ "Alle deutschen ESC-Acts und ihre Titel" [All German ESC acts and their songs]. www.eurovision.de (in German). ARD. from the original on 12 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ "Final of Edinburgh 1972". European Broadcasting Union. from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ "Results of the Final of Edinburgh 1972". European Broadcasting Union. from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ . European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "The Rules of the Contest". European Broadcasting Union. 31 October 2018. from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest: Edinburgh 1972". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- ^ "'A Festa da Vida' hoje na grande festa da Canção Europeia". DL Show (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal. 25 March 1972. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 6 January 2023 – via Casa Comum.
- ^ "TV Avstrija 2 – sobota, 25. 3". Slovenski vestnik (in Slovenian). Klagenfurt (Celovec), Austria. 24 March 1972. p. 8. Retrieved 2 January 2024.}
- ^ Halbhuber, Axel (22 May 2015). "Ein virtueller Disput der ESC-Kommentatoren". Kurier (in German). from the original on 23 May 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Télé-Programmes". Luxemburger Wort (in German and French). Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. 24 March 1972. p. 17. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Dit weekend op radio en televisie". Limburgs Dagblad (in Dutch). Heerlen, Netherlands. 25 March 1972. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via Delpher.
- ^ a b "Radio ja TV". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 25 March 1972. p. 39. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b "TV – samedi 25 mars". Radio TV - Je vois tout (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: Héliographia SA. 23 March 1972. pp. 32–33. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Tele-Tip heute – Samstag 25. März 1972". Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Biel, Switzerland. 25 March 1972. p. 44. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ "TV Today". The Irish Times. 25 March 1972. p. 23. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "Celebrities and public figures launch Irish campaign to boycott Eurovision 2019 in Israel". Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. 30 July 2018. from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "Radio Today". The Irish Times. 25 March 1972. p. 23. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "Oggi alla televisione". La Stampa (in Italian). Turin, Italy. 25 March 1972. p. 6. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Stasera alla Tv – Canta Europa". Stampa Sera (in Italian). Turin, Italy. 25 March 1972. p. 8. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Die Luxemburger Jury-Mitglieder". Luxemburger Wort (in German). Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. 25 March 1972. p. 28. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "Sound and Vision – Today's TV Log". Times of Malta. 25 March 1972. p. 8.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – On TV and Radio". Times of Malta. 25 March 1972. p. 7.
- ^ "Monaco – Edinburgh 1972". European Broadcasting Union. from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "Nederlands duo niet kansloos op songfestival". Trouw (in Dutch). Meppel, Netherlands. 25 March 1972. p. 4. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via Delpher.
- ^ a b "Helgens TV". Sandefjords Blad (in Norwegian). Sandefjord, Norway. 25 March 1972. p. 9. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via National Library of Norway.
- ^ "Televisão – Hoje". Diário de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal. 25 March 1972. p. 30. Retrieved 6 January 2023 – via Casa Comum.
- ^ a b "Programas de Radio y Televisión". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. 25 March 1972. p. 53. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ Thorsson, Leif; Verhage, Martin (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna (in Swedish). Stockholm: Premium Publishing. pp. 94–95. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.
- ^ "Radio – samedi 25 mars". Radio TV - Je vois tout (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: Héliographia SA. 23 March 1972. pp. 62–63. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Radioprogramm fur die Woche vom 26. März bis 1. April 1972". Neue Zürcher Nachrichten (in German). Zürich, Switzerland. 25 March 1972. p. 42. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
- ^ "Sabato 25 marzo – TV svizzera italiana". Popolo e Libertà (in Italian). Bellinzona, Switzerland. 25 March 1972. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via Sistema bibliotecario ticinese.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – BBC1". Radio Times. 25 March 1972. Retrieved 6 January 2023 – via BBC Genome Project.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1972 – BBC Radio 2". Radio Times. 25 March 1972. Retrieved 6 January 2023 – via BBC Genome Project.
- ^ "Schedule – BBC Radio 1 – 25 March 1972". Radio Times. 25 March 1972. Retrieved 10 January 2023 – via BBC Genome Project.
- ^ "Televizija – 25. marca" (PDF). Glas (in Slovenian). Kranj, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia. 25 March 1972. p. 12. (PDF) from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ "TV danas – Subota 25. ožujka". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Serbo-Croatian). Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia. 25 March 1972. p. 17. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ a b "TV – szerda IV.5". Rádió- és Televízió-újság (in Hungarian). 3 April 1972. p. 7. from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via MTVA Archívum.
- ^ a b "Sjónvarp – Mánudagur 17. apríl 1972". Vísir (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. 17 April 1972. p. 17. Retrieved 5 January 2023 – via Timarit.is.
External links edit
- Official website