Eurovision Song Contest 1984
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1984 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 5 May 1984 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Grand Theatre Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Presenter(s) | Désirée Nosbusch |
| Musical director | Pierre Cao |
| Directed by | Rene Steichen |
| Host broadcaster | RTL Télévision (RTL) |
| Website | eurovision |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 19 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries |  Ireland |
| Non-returning countries |  Greece Israel |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs |
| Winning song |  Sweden"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was the 29th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter was Désirée Nosbusch. Nosbusch was only 19 years old at the time and hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for the show at the time. She manifested her fluency in four languages by switching between English, French, German and Luxembourgish in the course of her speech, often in the same sentence.
The Herreys were the winners of this Eurovision with the song, "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Their "Golden Shoes" have become a pop-cult classic since their win in 1984. The was Sweden's second win and their first song performed in Swedish. The previous Swedish winner, "Waterloo" by ABBA in 1974, had been performed in English.
Israel withdrew from the contest due to Yom Hazikaron commemorated on the same date. Iceland was going to participate but withdrew due to lack of financial support.[1] 1984 is also a notable year as one of the first contests where audible booing could be heard from the audience, particularly at the end of the UK's performance. It was said that the booing was due to English football fans having caused damage in Luxembourg the year prior to the contest. However, the song itself managed a pretty good showing and reached 7th place.
Just a few days after the contest a woman named Jean Westwood said that she was one of 3 woman who sang for Belle and the Devotions, but they were hiding. There were rumors that the song was stolen from another song called Baby Love from 1981, sang by Diana Ross.[2]
Individual Entries
Results
Voting structure
Before the Contest, Sweden was not expected to win or even achieve a higher placing. In the run-up to the Contest, bookmakers Ladbrokes had the lowest odds on the songs from Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Sweden was considered a "dark horse" entry with high odds.
Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.
At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, there was only a difference of six points between Sweden and Ireland (141 and 135 respectively). However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland and the last jury, Portugal, gave Ireland only 2 points, thus crushing their chances of winning. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, who had been lying on a very strong 3rd position, and even leading the score board for a short time, its 3rd place, when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points, while Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was Denmark's best position in over 20 years.
Halfway through the voting, the scoreboard turned blue and remained blue until the end of the voting. Only television viewers could see the blue scoreboard
Score sheet
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Sweden | 145 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | |
| Luxembourg | 39 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| France | 61 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Spain | 106 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 12 | ||||
| Norway | 29 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 63 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Cyprus | 31 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 70 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
| Ireland | 137 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 2 | |||
| Denmark | 101 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Netherlands | 34 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 26 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Austria | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 34 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Turkey | 37 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Finland | 46 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 30 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 70 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Portugal | 38 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
| N. | Recipient nation | Voting nation |
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| 5 | Sweden | Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland |
| 4 | Ireland | Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland |
| 2 | Belgium | France, Luxembourg |
| Denmark | Norway, United Kingdom | |
| Italy | Spain, Finland | |
| Spain | Portugal, Turkey | |
| 1 | Cyprus | Yugoslavia |
| France | Netherlands |
Returning artists
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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| Mary Roos |  Germany
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| Izolda Barudžija |  Yugoslavia
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1982 (part of Aska) |
Commentators
Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)[4]
Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn & Jacques Navadic (RTL Télévision)[5]
France - Léon Zitrone (Antenne 2)[5]
Spain - José-Miguel Ullán (TVE2)[6]
Norway - Roald Øyen (NRK)[7]
United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC1)[8]
Cyprus - Pavlos Pavlou (RIK)[9]
Belgium - Jacques Mercier (RTBF1),[5] Luc Appermont (BRT TV1)[10]
Ireland - Gay Byrne (RTÉ1), Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)
Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)[11]
Netherlands - Ivo Niehe (Nederland 1)[12]
Yugoslavia - Mladen Popović (TVB2), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 2), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)
Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2)[13]
Germany - Ado Schlier (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen),[14] Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk)
Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)
Finland - Heikki Seppälä (YLE TV1)[15]
Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (TV DRS), Serge Moisson (TSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)
Italy - Antonio De Robertis (Raidue and Rai Radio 1)
Portugal - Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)[16]
Iceland - (non participating country) - TBC(Sjónvarpið)
Israel - (non participating country) - No commentator
Spokespersons
- Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors[4]
- Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey
- France - Gillette Aho
- Spain - Matilde Jarrín
- Norway - Egil Teige[17]
- United Kingdom – Colin Berry[18]
- Cyprus - Anna Partelidou[9]
- Belgium - Jacques Olivier
- Ireland - John Skehan
- Denmark - Bent Henius[11]
- Netherlands - Flip van der Schalie[19]
- Yugoslavia - Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova
- Austria - Tilia Herold[18]
- Germany - Kerstin Schweighöfer
- Turkey - Fatih Orbay
- Finland - Solveig Herlin[20]
- Switzerland - Michel Stocker[21]
- Italy - Mariolina Cannuli
- Portugal - Eládio Clímaco
National jury members
- Spain – Francisco Guardón (lab employee and photography expert), Carmen González (translator), Rafael Rullán (basketball player), Mayte Sancho (actress), Victoriano Valencia (former bullfighter and businessman), Andrés Magdaleno (actor and theatre businessman), Eva Nasarre (ballet and gymnastics teacher), Luis del Val (playwright), Carmen Garrido (public relations), Luis Fernando Abad (industrialist), Conchita Mínguez (horsewoman)[22]
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