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The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the 1961 contest with the song "Nous les amoureux" by Jean-Claude Pascal. The contest was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and was held at the Villa Louvigny on Sunday 18 March 1962 hosted by the Luxembourgish speaker Mireille Delannoy. This remains the last time that the final of the contest has not been held on a Saturday evening, as since 1963 the final of the contest has consistently been held on a Saturday evening.

Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Dates
Final	18 March 1962
Host
Venue	Villa Louvigny Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)	Mireille Delannoy
Musical director	Jean Roderès
Directed by	Jos Pauly René Steichen
Host broadcaster	Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1962
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries awarded points to their three favourite songs.
Nul points in final	Austria  Belgium  Netherlands  Spain
Winning song	France "Un premier amour"
1961 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1963

Sixteen countries participated in the contest – the same that took part the year before.

The winner was France with the song "Un premier amour", performed by Isabelle Aubret, written by Roland Valade and composed by Claude Henri Vic. This was France's third victory in the contest in just five years, having also won in 1958 and 1960. It was also the third consecutive winning song performed in French. For the first time in the contest's history, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain all scored nul points.[1]

Location

The 1962 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in Luxembourg City. The venue chosen to host the 1962 contest was the Villa Louvigny. The building served as the headquarters of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, the forerunner of RTL Group. It is located in Municipal Park, in the Ville Haute quarter of the centre of the city.[1]

Format

After France's entry had been performed, there was a short power failure rendering the screens dark. There also seemed to be an even shorter power failure during the Netherlands' entry, when viewers around Europe only saw darkness on their television screens when the Netherlands performed. The power failure seemed to affect the Netherlands' score during the voting. Nevertheless, the song turned out to be popular in Europe after the contest.[1]

Participating countries

All countries who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 also participated in this edition.[1]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.[2][3]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Camillo Felgen	Luxembourg	1960
François Deguelt	Monaco	1960
Fud Leclerc	Belgium	1956, 1958, 1960
Jean Philippe	Switzerland	1959 (for  France)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[4][5]	Points	Place[6]
1	Finland	Marion Rung	"Tipi-tii"	Finnish	4	7
2	Belgium	Fud Leclerc	"Ton nom"	French	0	13
3	Spain	Victor Balaguer	"Llámame"	Spanish	0	13
4	Austria	Eleonore Schwarz	"Nur in der Wiener Luft"	German	0	13
5	Denmark	Ellen Winther	"Vuggevise"	Danish	2	10
6	Sweden	Inger Berggren	"Sol och vår"	Swedish	4	7
7	Germany	Conny Froboess	"Zwei kleine Italiener"	German	9	6
8	Netherlands	De Spelbrekers	"Katinka"	Dutch	0	13
9	France	Isabelle Aubret	"Un premier amour"	French	26	1
10	Norway	Inger Jacobsen	"Kom sol, kom regn"	Norwegian	2	10
11	Switzerland	Jean Philippe	"Le Retour"	French	2	10
12	Yugoslavia	Lola Novaković	"Ne pali svetla u sumrak" (Не пали светла у сумрак)	Serbo-Croatian	10	4
13	United Kingdom	Ronnie Carroll	"Ring-a-Ding Girl"	English	10	4
14	Luxembourg	Camillo Felgen	"Petit bonhomme"	French	11	3
15	Italy	Claudio Villa	"Addio, addio"	Italian	3	9
16	Monaco	François Deguelt	"Dis rien"	French	13	2

Detailed voting results

This year marked the second jury voting system change in the contest's history, moving away from a point per favourite song from 10-member juries to the allocation of 3, 2 and 1 points given to the top three favourite songs from each country's 10-member jurors' ratings.

Detailed voting results[7][8]

		Total score	Monaco	Italy	Luxembourg	United Kingdom	Yugoslavia	Switzerland	Norway	France	Netherlands	Germany	Sweden	Denmark	Austria	Spain	Belgium	Finland
Contestants	Finland	4				3			1
	Belgium	0
	Spain	0
	Austria	0
	Denmark	2		1									1
	Sweden	4									1			3
	Germany	9	2			2					2			1				2
	Netherlands	0
	France	26	1	2	1	1	3	3	3			3	3		2	2	2
	Norway	2								2
	Switzerland	2										2
	Yugoslavia	10		3						3			2				1	1
	United Kingdom	10					2	2						2		1		3
	Luxembourg	11	3					1							1	3	3
	Italy	3			2		1
	Monaco	13			3				2	1	3	1			3

3 points

Below is a summary of all 3 points received:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 3 points
5	France	Germany,  Norway,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Yugoslavia
3	Luxembourg	Belgium,  Spain,  Monaco
	Monaco	Austria,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands
2	Yugoslavia	France,  Italy
1	Finland	United Kingdom
	Sweden	Denmark
	United Kingdom	Finland

Spokespersons

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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1962 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

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.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	Ruth Kappelsberger [de]
Belgium	RTB	French: Nicole Védrès
	BRT	Dutch: Willem Duys
Denmark	Danmarks Radio TV	Skat Nørrevig
Finland	Suomen Televisio	Aarno Walli [fi]	[9]
	Yleisradio	Erkki Melakoski [fi]
France	RTF	Pierre Tchernia
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Ruth Kappelsberger
Italy	Programma Nazionale	Renato Tagliani [it]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Nicole Védrès
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Pierre Tchernia
Netherlands	NTS	Willem Duys	[10]
Norway	NRK, NRK P1	Odd Grythe
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]
Sweden	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Jan Gabrielsson [sv]	[9][11]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]
	TSR	French: Pierre Tchernia	[12]
	TSI	Italian: Renato Tagliani
United Kingdom	BBC TV	David Jacobs	[3]
	BBC Light Programme	Peter Haigh
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Ljubomir Vukadinović [sr]
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Gordana Bonetti [hr]
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1962

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[ru] Евровидение-1962

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1962 — седьмой конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 18 марта 1962 года в Люксембурге (Люксембург) в Большом зале RTL. Песня «Un premier amour» («Первая любовь»), исполненная Изабель Обре и набравшая 26 очков, принесла Франции третью победу, и сделала эту страну единоличным лидером по количеству побед.

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