Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Country	Switzerland
National selection
Selection process	Concours Eurovision 1984
Selection date(s)	4 February 1984
Selected entrant	Rainy Day
Selected song	"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?"
Selected songwriter(s)	Günther Loose
Finals performance
Final result	17th, 30 points
Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Switzerland was represented by the group Rainy Day with the song "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on 5 May. Rainy Day won the rights to represent Switzerland, from winning the national final that took place on 4 February 1984.

Before Eurovision[]

Concours Eurovision 1984[]

Swiss Italian broadcaster RTSI was in charge of broadcasting the selection for the Swiss entry for the 1984 Contest. The national final was held at the RTSI studios in Lugano, hosted by Ezio Guidi and Natascha Giller. Nine songs were submitted for the 1984 national final and the winning song was chosen by 3 regional juries (DRS, TSR, TSI), a press jury, and an expert jury. Unusually, the votes from the regional juries were combined as one result, whose points were allocated based on the total number of points each song received from the said juries, and the points from the other juries were added on from there.

Other participants included past and future Swiss representatives including Arlette Zola (1982) and Carol Rich (1987).

Final – 4 February 1984
Draw	Artist	Song	Regional Jury	Press Jury	Expert Jury	Total	Place
1	Nando Morandi and Mauro Monti	"Liberi"	4	8	5	17	5
2	Andy L.	"Musica"	7	7	1	15	6
3	Milo and Pina	"Piccola sarà"	1	2	2	5	9
4	Martin Richard Trio	"(Je veux) vivre d'amour"	3	3	3	9	8
5	Carol Rich	"Tokyo-boy"	5	1	7	13	7
6	Manuela Felice	"Wo die Lieder sind"	10	4	4	18	3
7	Krypton	"Per te"	2	10	8	20	2
8	Arlette Zola	"Emporte-moi"	6	6	6	18	3
9	Rainy Day	"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?"	8	6	10	24	1

Detailed Regional Jury Votes
Draw	Song	DRS	TSR	TSI	Total	Points
1	"Liberi"	5	4	5	14	4
2	"Musica"	8	8	7	23	7
3	"Piccola sarà"	1	1	1	3	1
4	"(Je veux) vivre d'amour"	7	3	3	13	3
5	"Tokyo-boy"	6	5	4	15	5
6	"Wo die Lieder sind"	5	10	10	25	10
7	"Per te"	2	3	2	7	2
8	"Emporte-moi"	3	7	6	16	6
9	"Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?"	10	6	8	24	8

At Eurovision[]

On the night of the contest Rainy Day performed 17th, following Finland and preceding Italy. At the close of the voting Switzerland had picked up 30 points, placing Switzerland in 16th place out of 19 entries.^[1] The Swiss jury awarded its 12 points to Ireland.

The Swiss conductor at the contest was Mario Robbiani.

Voting[]

Points awarded to Switzerland^[2]
Score	Country
12 points
10 points	United Kingdom
8 points	Denmark
7 points
6 points
5 points	Belgium
4 points	Italy
3 points
2 points
1 point	Cyprus Finland Sweden

Points awarded by Switzerland^[2]
Score	Country
12 points	Ireland
10 points	Sweden
8 points	Portugal
7 points	Italy
6 points	Turkey
5 points	Netherlands
4 points	France
3 points	Spain
2 points	Norway
1 point	Denmark

References[]

^ "Final of Luxembourg 1984". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Results of the Final of Luxembourg 1984". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

External links[]

(in French) Swiss National Final 1984

[1] "Final of Luxembourg 1984". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.

[1984detailed-2] "Results of the Final of Luxembourg 1984". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

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