Eurovision Song Contest 1976

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Eurovision Song Contest 1976
ESC 1976 logo.png
Dates
Final date 3 April 1976
Host
Venue Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s) Corry Brokken
Conductor Jan Steulen
Director Theo Ordeman
Host broadcaster Netherlands NOS
Interval act The Dutch Swing College Band
Participants
Number of entries 18
Debuting countries None
Returning countries  Austria
 Greece
Withdrawing countries  Sweden
 Malta
 Turkey
Participation map
  • ESC 1976 Map.svg      Participating participants     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
Vote
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song  United Kingdom
"Save Your Kisses for Me"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1976, the 21st in the series, was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 3 April 1976. With Corry Brokken as the presenter – the first time a previous winner of the contest had played hostess – the contest was won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song "Save Your Kisses for Me".

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.[1][2]

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 The previous year Greece had withdrawn from the contest in protest over this matter.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.

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 future each broadcaster participating in the future 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.[3] 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.[4]

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.[1] Malta would not return to the competition until 1991.

As in the 1975 contest the year before, the winner was the first song performed on the evening.

Contents

[edit] Individual Entries

Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976

[edit] Results

Draw Country Language[5] 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" (אמור שלום) Say Hello 6 77
05  Luxembourg French Jürgen 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 Strøm "Mata Hari" - 18 7
10  Greece Greek Mariza Koch "Panagia Mou, Panagia Mou"
(Παναγιά μου, Παναγιά μου)		 My Lady, My Lady 13 20
11  Finland English Fredi & Ystävät "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

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.

During the voting, the French spokesperson forgot to award the jury's 4 points, which should have gone to Yugoslavia. This wasn't corrected until after the voting.

[edit] Score sheet

Results
Total Score United Kingdom Switzerland Germany Israel Luxembourg Belgium Ireland Netherlands Norway Greece Finland Spain Italy Austria Portugal Monaco France Yugoslavia
Contestants 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

[edit] 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Recipient nation 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

[edit] Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Fredi  Finland 1967
Sandra Reemer  Netherlands 1972
Anne-Karine Strøm  Norway 1973 (part of Bendik Singers), 1974
Peter, Sue and Marc  Switzerland 1971

[edit] Commentators

[edit] Television

[edit] Radio

[edit] Spokespersons

[edit] National jury members

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "No, No, Never!!! - Songs That Did Not Make It To Eurovision". eurovisionsongs.net. http://www.eurovisionsongs.net/nononever.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
  2. ^ "The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 - present". BBC. 2007-04-26. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A22080368. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
  3. ^ O'Connor, John Kennedy (2007). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History. UK: Carlton Books. pp. 64–67. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3. 
  4. ^ O'Connor, John Kennedy (2007). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History. UK: Carlton Books. ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3. 
  5. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1976". The Diggiloo Thrush. http://www.diggiloo.net/?1976. Retrieved 4 March 2012. 
  6. ^ Eurovision Song Contest 1976 BBC Archives
  7. ^ http://www.ecgermany.de/archiv/1976esc.htm
  8. ^ http://eurovision.vosforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5032
  9. ^ Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9
  10. ^ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival" (in Dutch). Eurovision Artists. http://www.eurovisionartists.nl/index.htm?content/esf480.asp. 
  11. ^ http://www.nrk.no/debatt/index.php?showtopic=87458&pid=1343226&mode=threaded&start=
  12. ^ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
  13. ^ http://www.retromaniax.gr/vb/showthread.php?16014-%C7-%CC%E1%EA%FE-%C3%E5%F9%F1%E3%E9%DC%E4%EF%F5-%EA%E1%E9-%E7-EUROVISION-%281970-1986%29
  14. ^ http://www.viisukuppila.fi/phpBB3/yleista/topic1578.html?sid=4004772ec986da0c3795a6f5dd54f0d4
  15. ^ http://eurosongcontest.phpbb3.es/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=20310&start=45
  16. ^ http://www.scheibmaier.at/grissemann.html
  17. ^ http://songcontest.free.fr/bdd/cec1976.htm
  18. ^ http://www.radiovisie.eu/nl/nieuws.rvsp?art=00063843
  19. ^ http://www.infosajten.com/esc/esc/swedishspokesmen.html
  20. ^ Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)
  21. ^ http://sf.tapuz.co.il/shirshur-262-1949782.htm
  22. ^ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
  23. ^ http://www.viisukuppila.fi/phpBB3/yleista/topic1578-30.html
  24. ^ http://21595.activeboard.com/t3895343/comentadores-do-esc/
  25. ^ Teleradio, 12-18 April 1976
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