Eurovision Song Contest 1972

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, 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 the Monégasque broadcaster Télé Monte Carlo (TMC), who won in Template:Escyr, was 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. Eighteen countries took part in the contest, the same number as the previous year.

This contest marked the first time that the event was hosted in Scotland. Prior to 1972, when the BBC hosted the contest in Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr, it had always chosen a venue in London. However, for the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, the BBC broke this trend and chose to host the competition in the Scottish capital, marking the first time that London had not been chosen.[1] The 1972 contest also marked the first time that the event was broadcast live in Asia, with viewers in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand able to watch the show on television for the first time. The 1972 contest also marked the first time that a video wall was used to present song titles and artists prior to their performance.[1]

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang".", 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). "Script error: No such module "Lang"." became the winner with the lowest percentage of the total vote, winning with just 8.30% of the votes available. Yves Dessca also wrote "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 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.[2] Template:Esccnty finished in third place for the third consecutive year, equalling their highest placement from the previous two editions.

Location

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Usher Hall, Edinburgh – host venue of the 1972 contest.

Following Template:Esccnty's win at the Template:Escyr in Dublin, with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang"." performed by Séverine, the winning broadcaster Télé Monte Carlo (TMC) planned to organise the 1972 contest as an open-air event, setting the date in June rather than early spring.[3] However, due to a lack of funding, TMC sought help from the French public broadcaster, Script error: No such module "Lang". (ORTF), which accepted to organise the contest. Because TMC wanted the contest to be held in Monaco while ORTF wanted it in France, negotiations never came through.[4] In July 1971, TMC informed the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) that it was unable to organise the 1972 contest. The EBU asked Template:Esccnty's Script error: No such module "Lang". (TVE) and Template:Esccnty's ARD, which respectively finished second and third at the 1971 contest, but both broadcasters declined to host the 1972 contest.[3][5]

The event was eventually organised by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Edinburgh, making it the first of five times that the BBC had chosen a venue outside London with the Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr contests held in Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham, and Liverpool respectively. It is also the only time that the contest has been held in Scotland.[6] It is the only Eurovision Song Contest hosted in the United Kingdom to have been held outside England.

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[7] 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.

Participants

Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1972 participants The same countries that participated in the 1971 contest were present this year.

Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Vicky Leandros had represented Template:Esccnty, Carlos Mendes had represented Template:Esccnty, and Family Four had represented Template:Esccnty. In addition, Tereza Kesovija representing Yugoslavia, had represented Template:Esccnty.

Eurovision Song Contest 1972 participants[8][9]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
Template:Esc ORF The Milestones "Script error: No such module "Lang"." German Template:Hlist Erich Kleinschuster
Template:Esc RTB Serge and Christine Ghisoland "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc YLE Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Finnish Template:Hlist Ossi Runne
Template:Esc ORTF Betty Mars "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Frédéric Botton Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc SFBTemplate:Efn Mary Roos "Script error: No such module "Lang"." German Template:Hlist Paul Kuhn
Template:Esc RTÉ Sandie Jones "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Irish Template:Hlist Colman Pearce
Template:Esc RAI Nicola Di Bari "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Italian Template:Hlist Gian Franco Reverberi
Template:Esc CLT Vicky Leandros "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Klaus Munro
Template:Esc MBA Helen and Joseph "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Maltese Template:Hlist Charles Camilleri
Template:Esc TMC Template:Ill and Template:Ill "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Raymond Bernard
Template:Esc NOS Sandra and Andres "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Dutch Template:Hlist Harry van Hoof
Template:Esc NRK Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Norwegian Template:Hlist Carsten Klouman
Template:Esc RTP Carlos Mendes "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Portuguese Template:Hlist Richard Hill
Template:Esc TVE Jaime Morey "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Spanish Template:Hlist Augusto Algueró
Template:Esc SR The Family Four "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Swedish Template:Ill Mats Olsson
Template:Esc SRG SSR Véronique Müller "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Jean-Pierre Festi
Template:Esc BBC The New Seekers "Beg, Steal or Borrow" English Template:Hlist David Mackay
Template:Esc JRT Tereza "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Serbo-Croatian Template:Hlist Nikica Kalogjera

Contest overview

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1972[10]
R/O Country Artist Song Votes Place
1 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 107 3
2 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 81 11
3 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 72 15
4 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 83 10
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Beg, Steal or Borrow" 114 2
6 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Benny Borg "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 73 14
7 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 90 7
8 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 88 8
9 Template:Esc Helen and Joseph "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 48 18
10 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Kim Floor "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 78 12
11 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 100 5
12 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 92 6
13 Template:Esc Tereza "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 87 9
14 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 75 13
15 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Peter MacLane "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 65 16
16 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 55 17
17 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 128 1
18 Template:Esc Sandra and Andres "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 106 4

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55, with at least 10 years between their ages. They each scored each song between 1 and 5, other than the song of their own country. They cast their scores 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.

Detailed voting results[11][12]
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rowspan="18" Template:Vert header 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 votes

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 10 votes
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Broadcasts

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.[13]

In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Iceland, Israel, Morocco, and Tunisia; in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania via Intervision; and Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Zaire. With an estimated global audience of 400 million viewers.[1][14][15][16] Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann [17][18]
Template:Flagu RTB RTB Paule Herreman [19]
RTB 1 Template:N/A
BRT BRT Template:N/A
Template:Flagu YLE Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [20]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill
Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill
Template:Flagu ORTF Script error: No such module "Lang". Pierre Tchernia [21]
Template:Flagu ARD Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [22][23]
Template:Flagu RTÉ RTÉ Mike Murphy [24][25]
RTÉ Radio Liam Devally [25][26]
Template:Flagu RAI Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [27][28]
Template:Flagu CLT Script error: No such module "Lang". Jacques Navadic [29][30]
Template:Flagu MBA MTS, National Network Norman Hamilton [31][32]
Template:Flagu NOS Script error: No such module "Lang". Pim Jacobs [33]
Template:Flagu NRK Script error: No such module "Lang"., NRKTemplate:Efn Roald Øyen [34]
Template:Flagu RTP Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [35]
Template:Flagu TVE TVE 1 Julio Rico [36]
RNE Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [37]
Centro Emisor del Atlántico Template:N/A [38]
SER Radio Huesca rowspan="4" Template:N/A [39]
Radio San Sebastián [40]
Template:Ill [41]
Radio Zaragoza [42]
Template:Flagu SR TV1 Template:Ill [43][44]
SR P3 Björn Bjelfvenstam [45]
Template:Flagu SRG SSR TV DRS Template:Ill [46]
TSR Template:Ill [47]
TSI Template:N/A [48]
DRS 1Template:Efn Template:N/A [49]
RSR 2 Robert Burnier [50]
Template:Flagu BBC BBC1 Tom Fleming [51]
BBC Radio 2Template:Efn Pete Murray [52]
Template:Flagu JRT Script error: No such module "Lang"., TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar [53][54][55]
TV Koper-Capodistria Template:N/A [56]
TV Ljubljana 1 Template:N/A [57]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu Rede Tupi TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro rowspan="2" Template:N/A [58]
TV Paraná [59]
Template:Flagu BFBS BFBS RadioTemplate:Efn Terry James [9][60]
Template:Flagu ČST ČST1, ČST2Template:Efn Blažena Kočtúchová [61]
Template:Flagu EIRT EIRT Template:N/A [62]
Template:Flagu MTV MTVTemplate:Efn Template:N/A [63]
Template:Flagu RÚV Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn Björn Matthíasson [64]
Template:Flagu TVR Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn Template:N/A [65]

Notes

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References

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External links

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