Eurovision Song Contest 1972

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.<ref name="ESC 1972" /> 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.<ref name="ESC 1972" />

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "{{#invoke:Lang|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). "{{#invoke:Lang|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 "{{#invoke:Lang|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.<ref name="ReferenceA">O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 Template:ISBN</ref> 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 "{{#invoke:Lang|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.<ref name="eurotvmo72">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, due to a lack of funding, TMC sought help from the French public broadcaster, {{#invoke:Lang|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.<ref name="oconnor48">Template:Cite book</ref> 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 {{#invoke:Lang|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.<ref name="eurotvmo72"/><ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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

Template:Further 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.

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Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	The Milestones	lang}}"	German	Template:Hlist	Erich Kleinschuster
Template:Esc	RTB	Serge and Christine Ghisoland	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	YLE	Päivi Paunu and Kim Floor	lang}}"	Finnish	Template:Hlist	Ossi Runne
Template:Esc	ORTF	Betty Mars	lang}}"	French	Frédéric Botton	Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc	SFBTemplate:Efn	Mary Roos	lang}}"	German	Template:Hlist	Paul Kuhn
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Sandie Jones	lang}}"	Irish	Template:Hlist	Colman Pearce
Template:Esc	RAI	Nicola Di Bari	lang}}"	Italian	Template:Hlist	Gian Franco Reverberi
Template:Esc	CLT	Vicky Leandros	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Klaus Munro
Template:Esc	MBA	Helen and Joseph	lang}}"	Maltese	Template:Hlist	Charles Camilleri
Template:Esc	TMC	Template:Ill and Template:Ill	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Raymond Bernard
Template:Esc	NOS	Sandra and Andres	lang}}"	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Harry van Hoof
Template:Esc	NRK	Grethe Kausland and Benny Borg	lang}}"	Norwegian	Template:Hlist	Carsten Klouman
Template:Esc	RTP	Carlos Mendes	lang}}"	Portuguese	Template:Hlist	Richard Hill
Template:Esc	TVE	Jaime Morey	lang}}"	Spanish	Template:Hlist	Augusto Algueró
Template:Esc	SR	The Family Four	lang}}"	Swedish	Template:Ill	Mats Olsson
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Véronique Müller	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	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	Serbo-Croatian	Template:Hlist	Nikica Kalogjera

Contest overview

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	107	3
2	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	81	11
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	72	15
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	83	10
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	114	2
6	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Benny Borg	lang}}"	73	14
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	90	7
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	88	8
9	Template:Esc	Helen and Joseph	lang}}"	48	18
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Kim Floor	lang}}"	78	12
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	100	5
12	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	92	6
13	Template:Esc	Tereza	lang}}"	87	9
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	75	13
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Peter MacLane	lang}}"	65	16
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	55	17
17	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	128	1
18	Template:Esc	Sandra and Andres	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 to 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.

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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
2	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc
1	Template:Esc	Template:Esc
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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="ESC 1972">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Lisboa">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS2	Ernst Grissemann	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTB	RTB	Paule Herreman	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		RTB 1	Template:N/A
	BRT	BRT	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	YLE	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref name="HS">Template:Cite news</ref>
		lang}}	Template:Ill
		lang}}	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	ORTF	lang}}	Pierre Tchernia	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ	Mike Murphy	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="IE">Template:Cite news</ref>
		RTÉ Radio	Liam Devally	<ref name="IE" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RAI	lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	CLT	lang}}	Jacques Navadic	<ref name="Luxemburger">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Luxemburger2">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	MBA	MTS, National Network	Norman Hamilton	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NOS	lang}}	Pim Jacobs	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NRK	lang}}, NRKTemplate:Efn	Roald Øyen	<ref name="Norsk">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTP	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE 1	Julio Rico	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
	RNE	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Centro Emisor del Atlántico	Template:N/A	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	SER	Radio Huesca	rowspan="4" Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio San Sebastián	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		Radio Zaragoza	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SR	TV1	Template:Ill	<ref name="genom tiden">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		SR P3	Björn Bjelfvenstam	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Template:Ill	<ref name="Schweiz">Template:Cite news</ref>
		TSR	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
		TSI	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		DRS 1Template:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Radio2">Template:Cite news</ref>
		RSR 2	Robert Burnier	<ref name="Radio">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC1	Tom Fleming	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		BBC Radio 2Template:Efn	Pete Murray	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	JRT	lang}}, TV Zagreb 1	Oliver Mlakar	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV Koper-Capodistria	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV Ljubljana 1	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	Rede Tupi	TV Tupi Rio de Janeiro	rowspan="2" Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TV Paraná	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	BFBS	BFBS RadioTemplate:Efn	Terry James	<ref name="Roxburgh">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Cyprus">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ČST	ČST1, ČST2Template:Efn	Blažena Kočtúchová	<ref name="ČST">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	EIRT	EIRT	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	MTV	MTVTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Hungary">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	RÚV	lang}}Template:Efn	Björn Matthíasson	<ref name="Iceland">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVR	lang}}Template:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="Romania">Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

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