Eurovision Song Contest 1984
| 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 |
| Director | Rene Steichen |
| Executive supervisor | Frank Naef |
| Host broadcaster | RTL Télévision (RTL) |
| Website | eurovision |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 19 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries |  Ireland |
| Non-returning countries |  Greece Israel |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs |
| Winning song |  Sweden"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1984, the 29th event of its kind, was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter, Désirée Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, 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 a strong transatlantic English, French, German and Luxembourgish in the course of talking, often in the same sentence.
Sweden's the Herreys were the winners of this contest with the song, "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". This was the Nordic country's second win, and the first song performed in Swedish. The previous Swedish winner, ABBA, ten years ago had performed their song "Waterloo" in English.
Israel withdrew from the contest due to Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism) being commemorated on the same date. Iceland was going to participate but withdrew due to lack of financial support.[1] 1984 is also a notable for the audible booing that 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 hooligans having rioted in Luxembourg in November 1983 after being knocked out of the UEFA European Football Championship. However, the song itself managed a pretty good showing, reaching seventh place.
Conductors
Host conductor in bold
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Returning artists
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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| Mary Roos |  Germany
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1972 |
| Izolda Barudžija |  Yugoslavia
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1982 (part of Aska), 1983 (part of Danijel's back vocals) |
Results
Notes
- 1.^ Contains some words in English.
- 2.^ Contains some words in Italian.
- 3.^ Contains some words in German.
Voting structure
Before the contest, Sweden was not expected to win or even achieve a high placing. In the run-up to the Contest, bookmakers Ladbrokes had the lowest odds on 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 one to eight, 10 and 12 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, at 141 and 135 respectively. However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland, and Portugal, the last jury, gave that western country only two points, crushing their chances. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, who had been holding at a strong third position, even leading the scoreboard for a short time, in that place, when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points. Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was latter country's best position in over 20 years.
Halfway through the voting, the scoreboard turned blue and remained so until the end of the voting. This was visible only to television viewers.
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. | Contestant | 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 |
Commentators
Sweden - Fredrik Belfrage (SVT, TV1)[3]
Luxembourg - Valérie Sarn & Jacques Navadic (RTL Télévision),[4] TBC (RTL plus)
France - Léon Zitrone (Antenne 2)[4]
Spain - José-Miguel Ullán (TVE2)[5]
Norway - Roald Øyen (NRK)[6]
United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC1)[7]
Cyprus - Pavlos Pavlou (RIK)[8]
Belgium - Jacques Mercier (RTBF1),[4] Luc Appermont (BRT TV1)[9]
Ireland - Gay Byrne (RTÉ1), Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)
Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV)[10]
Netherlands - Ivo Niehe (Nederland 1)[11]
Yugoslavia - Mladen Popović (TVB2), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 1), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)
Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2)[12]
Germany - Ado Schlier (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen),[13] Roger Horné (Deutschlandfunk)
Turkey - Başak Doğru (TRT)
Finland - Heikki Seppälä (YLE TV1)[14]
Switzerland - Bernard Thurnheer (TV DRS), Serge Moisson (TSR), Ezio Guidi (TSI)
Italy - Antonio De Robertis (Raidue and Rai Radio 1)
Portugal - Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)[15]
Iceland - (non participating country) - TBC (Sjónvarpið)
Israel - (non participating country) - No commentator
Spokespersons
- Sweden - Agneta Bolme-Börjefors[3]
- Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey
- France - Nicole André [16]
- Spain - Matilde Fernández Jarrín
- Norway - Egil Teige[17]
- United Kingdom – Colin Berry[18]
- Cyprus - Anna Partelidou[8]
- Belgium - Jacques Olivier
- Ireland - John Skehan
- Denmark - Bent Henius[10]
- 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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- ^ Zitrone, Léon (commentator) et al. (May 5, 1984). 29ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1984 [29th Eurovision Song Contest 1984] (Television production). Luxembourg: RTL, Antenne 2 (commentary).
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- ^ a b "The Eurovision Song Contest (1984 TV Special) : Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ Leidse Courant, 5 May 1984
- ^ "Selostajat ja taustalaulajat läpi vuosien? • Viisukuppila". Viisukuppila.fi. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ^ Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)
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