Eurovision Song Contest 1976

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Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Dates
Finaldate 3 April 1976
Host
Venue Nederlands Congrescentrum
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s) Corry Brokken
Conductor Jan Steulen
Director Theo Ordeman
Executive supervisor Clifford Brown
Hostbroadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Intervalact The Dutch Swing College Band
Participants
Numberofentries 18
Debutingcountries Liechtenstein (But later withdrew)
Returningcountries
Austria
Greece
Withdrawingcountries
Malta
Sweden
Turkey
Vote
Votingsystem Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nulpoints None
Winningsong United Kingdom
"Save Your Kisses for Me"
Eurovision Song Contest
1975 1977
The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the contest hosted by NOS and held in The Hague,
Netherlands. The arena for the event was the Nederlands Congrescentrum. Teach-In's victory in Stockholm the
previous year gave The Netherlands the right to host the contest for the third time. The Contest was won by
Brotherhood of Man, who sang "Save Your Kisses for Me" in English, representing the United Kingdom.
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Location
For more details on the host city, see The Hague.
Nederlands Congrescentrum, The Hague. Host venue of the 1976
Eurovision Song Contest.
The songfestival was hosted in The Hague, at the
Nederlands Congrescentrum (presently known as the
World Forum Convention Center). The venue was
constructed in 1969.
Format
The scoring system introduced in the previous year's
competition returned in 1976. Each jury gave 12 points
to the best song, 10 to the second best, then 8 to the
third, 7 to the fourth, 6 to the fifth and so forth until the
tenth best song (in the jury's opinion) received a single
point. Unlike today, the points were not given in order (from 1 up to 12), but in the order the songs were performed.
The current procedure was not established until 1980.
Participating countries
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Sweden, Malta and Turkey withdrew from this contest reducing the number of participating countries down to
eighteen from the previous competitions record of nineteen countries that took part. Austria and Greece returned to
the contest.
Sweden withdrew from the contest, as the broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) did not have enough money to host
another contest if Sweden won again. A new rule was therefore introduced that in the future each broadcaster
participating would have to pay a part of the cost of staging the contest. As the author and historian John Kennedy
O'Connor notes in his book The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, there had been public
demonstrations in Sweden against the contest, which also played a part in SR's decision to withdraw. The same book
also notes that the victorious song went on to become the biggest selling winning single in the history of the contest
and won with 80.39% of the possible maximum score; a record under the voting system introduced in 1975.
Malta, having selected Enzo Guzman with the song "Sing Your Song, Country Boy" to represent them, then
withdrew from the contest for undisclosed reasons, as the singer has confirmed. Malta would not return to the
competition until 1991. The entry from Greece aroused controversy as it was about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The previous year Greece had withdrawn from the contest in protest over this matter. This year it was Turkey's turn
to withdraw.
Liechtenstein attempted to submit an entry to the contest, but as they had no broadcasting service of their own, they
were not allowed to. Their entry would have been "Little Cowboy" by Biggi Bachmann.
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Conductors
Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.
United Kingdom - Alyn Ainsworth
Switzerland - Mario Robbiani
Germany - Les Humphries
Israel - Matti Caspi
Luxembourg - Jo Ple
Belgium - Michel Bernholc
Ireland- Noel Kelehan
Netherlands - Harry van Hoof
Norway - Frode Thingns
Greece - Michalis Rozakis
Finland - Ossi Runne
Spain - Juan Barcons
Italy - Maurizio Fabrizio
Austria - Erich Kleinschuster
Portugal - Thilo Krasmann
Monaco - Raymond Donnez
France - Tony Rallo
Yugoslavia - Esad Arnautali
Returning artists
Four artists returned to the contest in 1976. Fredi who represented Finland in 1967, Sandra Reemer returned having
represented Netherlands in 1972, Peter, Sue and Marc also returned having represented Switzerland in 1971, and
finally Anne-Karine Strm represented Norway again having last done so in 1974; she repeated her finishing result
by coming last once more.
Results
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01 United
Kingdom
English Brotherhood of Man "Save Your Kisses for
Me"
- 1 164
02
Switzerland
English Peter, Sue and Marc "Djambo, Djambo" - 4 91
03 Germany German Les Humphries
Singers
"Sing Sang Song" - 15 12
04
Israel
Hebrew Chocolat, Menta,
Mastik
"Emor Shalom" (
)
Say Hello 6 77
05 Luxembourg French Jrgen Marcus "Chansons pour ceux qui
s'aiment"
Songs for Those Who Love
Each Other
14 17
06
Belgium
French Pierre Rapsat "Judy et Cie" Judy and Company 8 68
07 Ireland English Red Hurley "When" - 10 54
08
Netherlands
English Sandra Reemer "The Party's Over" - 9 56
09
Norway
English Anne-Karine Strm "Mata Hari" - 18 7
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10
Greece
Greek Mariza Koch "Panagia Mou, Panagia
Mou"
( ,
)
Oh! Virgin Mary (x2)
[1]
13 20
11 Finland English Fredi & Ystvt "Pump-Pump" - 11 44
12
Spain
Spanish Braulio "Sobran las palabras" Words are Unnecessary 16 11
13
Italy
English,
Italian
Al Bano & Romina
Power
"We'll Live It All Again"
(Noi lo rivivremo di nuovo)
- 7 69
14
Austria
English Waterloo & Robinson "My Little World" - 5 80
15
Portugal
Portuguese Carlos do Carmo "Uma flor de verde pinho" A Green Pine Flower 12 24
16
Monaco
French Mary Christy "Toi, la musique et moi" You, the Music and Me 3 93
17
France
French Catherine Ferry "Un, deux, trois" One, Two, Three 2 147
18 Yugoslavia Bosnian Ambasadori "Ne mogu skriti svoju bol" I Can't Hide My Pain 17 10
Scoreboard
Results
United Kingdom 164 12 8 12 8 12 3 10 12 12 10 12 4 10 12 10 7 10
Switzerland 91 12 5 4 1 7 1 6 10 2 7 4 8 7 4 6 7
Germany 12 2 2 1 2 2 3
Israel 77 6 7 3 7 5 4 2 7 8 1 10 6 2 1 8
Luxembourg 17 6 6 5
Belgium 68 7 6 1 4 6 12 8 3 8 8 5
Ireland 54 10 1 3 3 8 5 12 2 6 3 1
Netherlands 56 4 4 8 4 4 2 1 7 3 2 4 6 2 5
Norway 7 3 4
Greece 20 2 4 5 1 8
Finland 44 2 6 6 5 1 4 6 7 7
Spain 11 3 1 3 3 1
Italy 69 1 8 2 12 3 10 6 1 10 10 6
Austria 80 4 3 10 10 5 3 10 7 2 6 5 8 5 2
Portugal 24 6 4 1 1 12
Monaco 93 5 5 7 7 12 8 8 8 5 2 7 7 5 3 4
France 147 8 10 12 5 10 10 7 12 8 5 3 10 6 12 5 12 12
Yugoslavia 10 1 2 3 4
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12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N. Contestant Voting nation
7 United Kingdom Belgium, Greece, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
5 France Austria, Germany, Monaco, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
1 Belgium Finland
Italy Ireland
Ireland Italy
Monaco Luxembourg
Portugal France
Switzerland United Kingdom
International broadcasts and voting
The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1976 contest along with the spokesperson who
was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.
Voting and spokespersons
1. United Kingdom - Ray Moore
2. Switzerland - Michel Stocker
[2]
3. Germany - Max Schautzer
4. Israel - Yitzhak Shim'oni
5. Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey
6. Belgium - Andr Hagon
7. Ireland - Brendan Balfe
8. Netherlands Dick van Bommel
9. Norway - Sverre Christophersen
10. Greece - TBC
11. Finland - Erkki Vihtonen
12. Spain - Jos Mara igo
13. Italy - Rosanna Vaudetti
14. Austria - Jenny Pippal
15. Portugal - Ana Zanatti
16. Monaco - Carole Chabrier
17. France - Michel Drucker
18. Yugoslavia - Viktor Blai
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Television commentators
Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their
own native language.
Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2) Luxembourg - Jacques Navadic (RTL Tl Luxembourg)
Belgium - Georges Dsir (RTB), Luc Appermont
(BRT)
[3]
Monaco - Jean-Claude Massoulier (Tl Monte Carlo)
Finland - Vesa Nuotio (YLE TV1) Netherlands Willem Duys (Nederland 2)
France - Jean-Claude Massoulier (TF1)
Norway - Jo Vestly (NRK)
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Germany - Werner Veigel (ARD Deutsches
Fernsehen)
Portugal - TBC (RTP1)
Greece - Mako Georgiadou (ERT) Spain - Jos Luis Uribarri (TVE1)
Ireland - Mike Murphy (RT Television)
Switzerland - Theodor Haller (TV DRS), Georges Hardy (TSR), Giovanni
Bertini (TSI)
Israel - No commentator Turkey (Non-participating country) - Blend zveren (TRT)
Italy - Silvio Noto (Rete 1)
United Kingdom - Michael Aspel (BBC1)
[4]
Luxembourg - Jacques Navadic (RTL Tl
Luxembourg)
Yugoslavia - Milovan Ili (TVB1), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 2), Toma Terek
(TVL1)
Monaco - Jean-Claude Massoulier (Tl Monte
Carlo)
Denmark (Non-participating country) - Claus Toksvig (DR TV)
Iceland (Non-participating country) - Jn Skaptason
[5]
Radio commentators
Austria - TBC (Hitradio 3) Luxembourg - Andr Torrent (RTL Radio)
Belgium - TBC (RTB La Premire), Nand Baert & Jan
Theys (BRT Radio 1)
Netherlands - Willem van Beusekom (Hilversum 3)
France - Patrice Laffont (France Bleu) Norway - Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)
Germany - Wolf Mittler (Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2) Portugal - Amadeu Meireles (RDP Antena 1)
Ireland - Liam Devally (RT Radio 1) United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC Radio 2), Andrew Pastouna and
Richard Astbury (British Forces Radio)
Italy - Silvio Noto (Rai Radio 2) Sweden (Non-participating country) - Ursula Richter (SR P3)
References
[1] [1] (E.g. It is a common expression in Greek asking for consolation from Jesus Christ's Mother, Virgin Mary)
[2] [2] Baumann, Peter Ramn (OGAE Switzerland)
[3] Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9
[4] Eurovision Song Contest 1976 BBC Archives (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ programmes/ p007x95f)
[5] http:/ / timarit.is/ view_page_init. jsp?issId=226990& pageId=3061053& lang=is& q=Eurovision
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