Eurovision Song Contest 1972

The Eurovision Song Contest 1972 was the 17th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Edinburgh, 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 Monaco, who won in 1971, were 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.

Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Dates
Final25 March 1972
Host
VenueUsher Hall
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)Moira Shearer
Musical directorMalcolm Lockyer
Directed byTerry Hughes
Executive supervisorClifford Brown
Executive producerBill Cotton
Host broadcasterBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/edinburgh-1972
Participants
Number of entries18
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of Europe
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1972
Vote
Voting systemTwo-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points.
Winning song Luxembourg
"Après toi"

Eighteen countries took part in the contest, the same countries as the previous year.

The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Après toi", 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). "Après toi" became the winner with the lowest percentage of the total vote, winning with just 8.30% of the points available. Yves Dessca also wrote "Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue" 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.[1] Germany finished in third place for the third consecutive year, equalling their highest placement from the previous two editions.

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

Following Séverine's win for Monaco at the 1971 contest in Dublin, Ireland with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", the principality were unable to meet the demands of hosting the event. Rainier III of Monaco received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union about hosting the 1972 contest in the principality, but he was unable to provide a venue, the props and the remainder of the requirements. Therefore the BBC from the United Kingdom stepped in, and chose to stage the contest in Edinburgh, making it the first of five times that the BBC had chosen a venue outside London with the 1974, 1982, 1998 and 2023 contests held in Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham and Liverpool respectively. It is also the only time that the contest has been held in Scotland. It is the only UK hosted Eurovision Song Contest to have been held outside England as of 2022.

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[2] 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.

Format

The stage design included a screen to introduce and accompany the on stage competing performances, and to show an interval act and voting sequence that were done at Edinburgh Castle. Before each country's performance, a picture of each song's performers along with their names and the song's title were projected on the screen, and during each performance, animated spiral shapes were projected as additional visual effect. The interval act was performed at the outside vast Esplanade of the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle. The jurors were stationed in the castle, and watched the competing performances at Usher Hall on TV.

Each country had two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and one aged between 26 and 55. They each awarded 1 to 5 points for each song, other than the song of their own country. They cast their votes 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. The eventual winner, Luxembourg, remained in a strong scoring position throughout the voting.

Séverine made the trip to Edinburgh to pass on the winning trophy to Vicky Leandros. However, she looked thoroughly uninterested in the Monegasque entry when seen by viewers checking her watch before the song was performed.[1]

1972 was the first year that had no ties in the voting. Every year prior to 1972, at least two countries had received the same score.

Participating countries
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

All countries that participated in the 1971 contest were present this year.

Conductors

Each performance had a musical director who conducted the orchestra.[3][4]

Returning artists
Artist Country Previous year(s)
Tereza Kesovija  Yugoslavia 1966 (for  Monaco)
Vicky Leandros  Luxembourg 1967
Carlos Mendes  Portugal 1968
Family Four  Sweden 1971

Participants and results
R/O Country Artist Song Language[5][6] Points Place[7]
1  Germany Mary Roos "Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben" German 107 3
2  France Betty Mars "Comé-comédie" French 81 11
3  Ireland Sandie Jones "Ceol an Ghrá" Irish 72 15
4  Spain Jaime Morey "Amanece" Spanish 83 10
5  United Kingdom The New Seekers "Beg, Steal or Borrow" English 114 2
6  Norway Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg "Småting" Norwegian 73 14
7  Portugal Carlos Mendes "A festa da vida" Portuguese 90 7
8  Switzerland Véronique Müller "C'est la chanson de mon amour" French 88 8
9  Malta Helen and Joseph "L-imħabba" Maltese 48 18
10  Finland Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor "Muistathan" Finnish 78 12
11  Austria Milestones "Falter im Wind" German 100 5
12  Italy Nicola Di Bari "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" Italian 92 6
13  Yugoslavia Tereza Kesovija "Muzika i ti" (Музика и ти) Serbo-Croatian 87 9
14  Sweden Family Four "Härliga sommardag" Swedish 75 13
15  Monaco Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane "Comme on s'aime" French 65 16
16  Belgium Serge and Christine Ghisoland "À la folie ou pas du tout" French 55 17
17  Luxembourg Vicky Leandros "Après toi" French 128 1
18  Netherlands Sandra and Andres "Als het om de liefde gaat" Dutch 106 4

Detailed voting results
Detailed voting results[8][9]
Total score
Germany
France
Ireland
Spain
United Kingdom
Norway
Portugal
Switzerland
Malta
Finland
Austria
Italy
Yugoslavia
Sweden
Monaco
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Contestants
 Germany 10786956654557588776
France 8155297235423526786
Ireland 7243446436343355465
Spain 8375538634453278355
United Kingdom 114896210482777969488
Norway 7343654525732544464
Portugal 90347742652494747105
Switzerland 8845654724785546475
Malta 4832426222522233224
Finland 7843365643333445868
Austria 100666635575468105459
Italy 9245323679666486665
Yugoslavia 8774585452433249886
Sweden 7553533542454375755
Monaco 6543435622553343445
Belgium 5523425233542322463
Luxembourg 1289892108764689108789
Netherlands 10666889856396396527

10 points

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 10 points
2  Luxembourg  United Kingdom,  Yugoslavia
1  Austria  Sweden
 Portugal  Luxembourg
 United Kingdom  Norway

Jury members

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1972 contest along with the names of the two jury members who voted for their respective country. Each country announced their results in groups of three.

  1.  Germany – Unknown
  2.  France – Unknown
  3.  Ireland – Unknown
  4.  Spain – Emma Cohen and Luis María Ansón
  5.  United Kingdom – Doreen Samuels and Robert Walker[4]
  6.  Norway – Rachel Nord and Signe Abusdal[10]
  7.  Portugal – Pedro Sousa Macedo and Maria João Aguiar[11]
  8.  Switzerland – Unknown
  9.  Malta – Mary Rose Mallia and Joe Zerafa[12]
  10.  Finland – Merita Merikoski and Åke Granholm
  11.  Austria – Unknown
  12.  Italy – Unknown
  13.  Yugoslavia – Vera Zloković and Veljko Bakasun
  14.  Sweden – Titti Sjöblom and Arne Domnérus[13]
  15.  Monaco – Unknown
  16.  Belgium – Unknown
  17.  Luxembourg – Nicole Wassermann and Paul Weitz[14]
  18.  Netherlands – Jennifer Baljet and Hendrik Cornelis Wagter[15]

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.[16]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Brazil, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Zaire.[17][18]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann [19][20][21]
 Belgium RTB RTB Unknown [22][23][24]
BRT BRT Unknown [24]
 Finland YLE TV-ohjelma 1 Unknown [25][26]
Yleisohjelma Matti Paalosmaa
Ruotsinkielinen ohjelma Åke Grandell
 France ORTF Première Chaîne Pierre Tchernia [23][27][28]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Unknown [20][23][29]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ Mike Murphy [30][31][32][33]
RTÉ Radio Unknown
 Italy RAI Programma Nazionale, Secondo Programma Renato Tagliani [34][35][36]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg Jacques Navadic [14][23][37]
 Malta MTPBS MTS, National Network Norman Hamilton [38][39][40]
 Monaco Télé Monte-Carlo Unknown [41]
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 1 Pim Jacobs [24][42][43]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet, NRK Roald Øyen [44][45]
 Portugal RTP I Programa Unknown [46][47]
 Spain TVE TVE 1 Julio Rico [48][49]
RNE Radio Nacional Unknown [49]
 Sweden SR TV1 Bo Billtén [13][26][45][50]
SR P3 Björn Bjelfvenstam
 Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Theodor Haller [20][27][51][52][53][54]
TSR Georges Hardy
TSI Unknown
DRS 1[lower-alpha 1] Unknown
RSR 2 Robert Burnier
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Tom Fleming [4][55][56][57][58]
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 Pete Murray
BFBS BFBS Radio Terry James [4]
 Yugoslavia JRT TV Ljubljana 1 Unknown [59][60][61]
TV Zagreb 1 Unknown
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Greece EIRT EIRT Mako Georgiadou [62]
 Hungary MTV MTV[lower-alpha 2] Unknown [63]
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið[lower-alpha 3] Björn Matthíasson [64]

Notes
  1. Delayed broadcast on 27 March 1972 at 22:30 CET (21:30 UTC)[52]
  2. Delayed broadcast on 5 April 1972 at 20:45 CET (21:45 UTC)[63]
  3. Delayed broadcast on 17 April 1972 at 20:30 WET (20:30 UTC)[64]

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