Eurovision Song Contest 1961
Eurovision Song Contest 1961 | |
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Dates | |
Final | 18 March 1961 |
Host | |
Venue | Palais des Festivals et des Congrès Cannes, France |
Presenter(s) | Jacqueline Joubert |
Musical director | Franck Pourcel |
Directed by | Maurice Barry |
Executive producer | Marcel Cravenne |
Host broadcaster | Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) |
Interval act | and |
Website | eurovision |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 16 |
Debuting countries | |
Returning countries | None |
Non-returning countries | None |
Participation map
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Vote | |
Voting system | Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs. |
Nul points in final | None |
Winning song | Luxembourg "Nous les amoureux" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the 6th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Once again, the contest was held in the French seaside city of Cannes, having already hosted the 1959 edition. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), the contest was held again at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on 18 March 1961 and was the first to take place on a Saturday evening, a tradition that has continued into the present day. The show was hosted by Jacqueline Joubert, who also hosted in 1959.
Sixteen countries participated in the contest - three more than in the previous edition; Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia all made their début this year.
The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Nous les amoureux", performed by Jean-Claude Pascal, written by Maurice Vidalin, and composed by Jacques Datin. This was Luxembourg's first victory in the contest, with the United Kingdom finishing in second place for the third consecutive year.
Location[]
The event took place in Cannes, France, with the venue being the original building of Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, after France got the right to host this edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for winning its previous 1960 with the song "Tom Pillibi" performed by Jacqueline Boyer.
Cannes, a city located on the French Riviera, is a busy tourist destination and known worldwide for hosting the annual Cannes Film Festival, with the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès also hosting the Film Festival. The original building was built in 1949 and was located on the boulevard of Promenade de la Croisette, on the present site of the JW Marriott Cannes. It also hosted the 1959 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Format[]
The stage used for the 1961 contest was notably larger than in previous years and was magnificently decorated with flowers. It is noticeable that during the voting, Luxembourg gave the UK eight points, and Norway also gave Denmark eight points. It was the largest number of points given to a country by a single jury since 1958, when Denmark provided France with nine points. Such a high number of points obtained by a country would not be achieved until 1970, when Ireland would receive nine points from Belgium.[1]
Participating countries[]
Interest in the competition began to grow across Europe as three new countries participated for the first time: Finland, Spain, and Yugoslavia.[1]
Conductors[]
Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[2][3] Léo Chauliac, the conductor of the winning entry, was the first conductor whose sole Eurovision participation was for a winning entry.[a]
- Spain – Rafael Ferrer
- Monaco – Raymond Lefèvre
- Austria – Franck Pourcel
- Finland – George de Godzinsky
- Yugoslavia – Jože Privšek
- Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
- Sweden –
- Germany – Franck Pourcel
- France – Franck Pourcel
- Switzerland – Fernando Paggi
- Belgium – Francis Bay
- Norway – Øivind Bergh
- Denmark – Kai Mortensen
- Luxembourg – Léo Chauliac
- United Kingdom – Harry Robinson
- Italy – Gianfranco Intra
Returning artists[]
Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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Bob Benny | Belgium | 1959 |
Nora Brockstedt | Norway | 1960 |
Results[]
Draw | Country | Artist | Song | Language[4][5] | Place[6] | Points |
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01 | Spain | Conchita Bautista | "Estando contigo" | Spanish | 9 | 8 |
02 | Monaco | Colette Deréal | "Allons, allons les enfants" | French | 10 | 6 |
03 | Austria | Jimmy Makulis | "Sehnsucht" | German | 15 | 1 |
04 | Finland | Laila Kinnunen | "Valoa ikkunassa" | Finnish | 10 | 6 |
05 | Yugoslavia | Ljiljana Petrović | "Neke davne zvezde" (Неке давне звезде) | Serbo-Croatian | 8 | 9 |
06 | Netherlands | Greetje Kauffeld | "Wat een dag" | Dutch | 10 | 6 |
07 | Sweden | Lill-Babs | "April, april" | Swedish | 14 | 2 |
08 | Germany | Lale Andersen | "Einmal sehen wir uns wieder" | German, French | 13 | 3 |
09 | France | Jean-Paul Mauric | "Printemps, avril carillonne" | French | 4 | 13 |
10 | Switzerland | Franca di Rienzo | "Nous aurons demain" | French | 3 | 16 |
11 | Belgium | Bob Benny | "September, gouden roos" | Dutch | 15 | 1 |
12 | Norway | Nora Brockstedt | "Sommer i Palma" | Norwegian | 7 | 10 |
13 | Denmark | Dario Campeotto | "Angelique" | Danish | 5 | 12 |
14 | Luxembourg | Jean-Claude Pascal | "Nous les amoureux" | French | 1 | 31 |
15 | United Kingdom | The Allisons | "Are You Sure?" | English | 2 | 24 |
16 | Italy | Betty Curtis | "Al di là" | Italian | 5 | 12 |
Scoreboard[]
Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favourite song.
Spain | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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Monaco | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Austria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Finland | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Yugoslavia | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Netherlands | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
Sweden | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
France | 13 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Switzerland | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Belgium | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Norway | 10 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Denmark | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Luxembourg | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||
United Kingdom | 24 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
Italy | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Spokespersons[]
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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1961 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.[9]
- Italy – Enzo Tortora
- United Kingdom – Michael Aspel[3]
- Luxembourg – TBC
- Denmark –
- Norway – Mette Janson[10]
- Belgium – Ward Bogaert
- Switzerland –
- France – Armand Lanoux
- Germany – Heinz Schenk
- Sweden – [11]
- Netherlands – [12]
- Yugoslavia – Saša Novak
- Finland –
- Austria – Emil Kollpacher
- Monaco – TBC
- Spain –
Broadcasts[]
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Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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Austria | ORF | Wolf Mittler | |
Belgium | RTB | French: Robert Beauvais | [13] |
BRT | Dutch: | ||
Denmark | Danmarks Radio TV | Sejr Volmer-Sørensen | |
Finland | Suomen Televisio, Yleisradio | ||
France | RTF | Robert Beauvais | [13] |
Germany | Deutsches Fernsehen | Wolf Mittler | |
Italy | Programma Nazionale | Corrado Mantoni | |
Luxembourg | Télé-Luxembourg | Robert Beauvais | [13] |
Monaco | Télé Monte Carlo | [13] | |
Netherlands | NTS, Hilversum 1 | Piet te Nuyl | [12][14] |
Norway | NRK, NRK P1 | Leif Rustad | |
Spain | TVE | ||
Sweden | Sveriges TV, SR P1 | [15] | |
Switzerland | TV DRS | German: | |
TSR | French: Robert Beauvais | [13] | |
United Kingdom | BBC TV | Tom Sloan | [3] |
BBC Light Programme | Pete Murray | ||
Yugoslavia | Televizija Beograd | Serbo-Croatian: | |
Televizija Zagreb | Serbo-Croatian: | ||
Televizija Ljubljana | Slovene: |
Incidents[]
BBC broadcast cut[]
As the contest overran its allocated time, and the show was being broadcast live, the winning song's reprise was not shown in the United Kingdom.[1]
References[]
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- ^ "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1961". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1961". 4Lyrics.eu. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Final of Cannes 1961". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Results of the Final of Cannes 1961". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1961 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "Eurovision 1961 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
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- ^ a b "Greetje vanavond nummer zes". Nieuwe Leidsche Courant. 18 March 1961. p. 7. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Christian Masson. "1961 - Cannes". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
- ^ Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna [Melodifestivalen through time]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 34. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.
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