Eurovision Song Contest 1976

Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Dates
Final	3 April 1976
Host
Venue	Nederlands Congresgebouw The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s)	Corry Brokken
Conductor	Jan Steulen
Directed by	Theo Ordeman
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster	Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Interval act	The Dutch Swing College Band
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Austria  Greece
Withdrawing countries	Malta  Sweden  Turkey
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1976
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points	None
Winning song	United Kingdom "Save Your Kisses for Me"
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the contest hosted by NOS and held in The Hague, Netherlands. The arena for the event was the Nederlands Congrescentrum. Teach-In's victory in Stockholm the previous year gave The Netherlands the right to host the contest for the third time. The Contest was won by Brotherhood of Man, who sang "Save Your Kisses for Me" in English, representing the United Kingdom.^[1]

Contents

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  1 Location
  


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  2 Format
  


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  3 Participating countries
  
  
  
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    3.1 Conductors
    
  
  
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    3.2 Returning artists
    
  
  
  
  


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  4 Results
  


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  5 Scoreboard
  
  
  
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    5.1 12 points
    
  
  
  
  


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  6 International broadcasts and voting
  
  
  
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    6.1 Voting and spokespersons
    
  
  
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    6.2 Television commentators
    
  
  
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    6.3 Radio commentators
    
  
  
  
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

Location

Further information on the host city: The Hague

Nederlands Congresgebouw – host venue of the 1976 contest.

The Hague is the seat of government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the capital city of the province of South Holland. It is also the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.

The contest took place at the Congresgebouw (presently known as the World Forum). The venue was constructed in 1969.

Format

The scoring system introduced in the previous year's competition returned in 1976. Each jury gave 12 points to the best song, 10 to the second best, then 8 to the third, and then 7 to 1 (from fourth to tenth best song, according to the jury). Unlike today, the points were not given in order (from 1 up to 12), but in the order the songs were performed. The current procedure was not established until 1980.

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden, Malta and Turkey withdrew from this contest reducing the number of participating countries down to eighteen from the previous competitions record of nineteen countries that took part. Austria and Greece returned to the contest.^[1]

Sweden withdrew from the contest, as the broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) did not have enough money to host another contest if Sweden won again. A new rule was therefore introduced that in the future each broadcaster participating would have to pay a part of the cost of staging the contest. As the author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in his book The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History, there had been public demonstrations in Sweden against the contest, which also played a part in SR's decision to withdraw.^[2] The same book also notes that the victorious song went on to become the biggest selling winning single in the history of the contest and won with 80.39% of the possible maximum score; a record under the voting system introduced in 1975.^[3]

Malta, having selected Enzo Guzman with the song "Sing Your Song, Country Boy" to represent them, then withdrew from the contest for undisclosed reasons, as the singer has confirmed.^[4] Malta would not return to the competition until 1991. The entry from Greece aroused controversy as it was about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The previous year Greece had withdrawn from the contest in protest over this matter. This year it was Turkey's turn to withdraw.

Liechtenstein attempted to submit an entry to the contest, but as they had no broadcasting service of their own, they were not allowed to. Their entry would have been "Little Cowboy" by Biggi Bachmann.^[4][5]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.

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   United Kingdom - Alyn Ainsworth
  


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    Switzerland - Mario Robbiani


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   Germany - Les Humphries
  


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   Israel - Matti Caspi
  


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   Luxembourg - Jo Plée


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   Belgium - Michel Bernholc


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   Ireland- Noel Kelehan
  


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   Netherlands - Harry van Hoof
  


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   Norway - Frode Thingnæs
  


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   Greece - Michalis Rozakis


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   Finland - Ossi Runne
  


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   Spain - Juan Barcons


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   Italy - Maurizio Fabrizio
  


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   Austria - Erich Kleinschuster
  


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   Portugal - Thilo Krasmann


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   Monaco - Raymond Donnez
  


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   France - Tony Rallo


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   Yugoslavia - Esad Arnautalić

Returning artists

Four artists returned to the contest in 1976. Fredi who represented Finland in 1967, Sandra Reemer returned having represented Netherlands in 1972, Peter, Sue and Marc also returned having represented Switzerland in 1971, and finally Anne-Karine Strøm represented Norway again having last done so in 1974; she repeated her finishing result by coming last once more.

Results

The following tables reflect the officially verified scores given by each jury, adjusted after the transmission. During the live broadcast, France failed to announce the 4 points they awarded to Yugoslavia, an error overlooked by the scrutineer, Clifford Brown. Thus in the live show, Norway were placed 17th and Yugoslavia 18th. After the broadcast, the scores were adjusted and the two nations swapped places, with Yugoslavia's score being adjusted from 6 to 10 points, moving Norway down to last place.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language[6]	Place	Points
01	United Kingdom	Brotherhood of Man	"Save Your Kisses for Me"	English	1	164
02	Switzerland	Peter, Sue and Marc	"Djambo, Djambo"	English	4	91
03	Germany	Les Humphries Singers	"Sing Sang Song"	German	15	12
04	Israel	Chocolate, Menta, Mastik	"Emor Shalom" (אמור שלום)	Hebrew	6	77
05	Luxembourg	Jürgen Marcus	"Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment"	French	14	17
06	Belgium	Pierre Rapsat	"Judy et Cie"	French	8	68
07	Ireland	Red Hurley	"When"	English	10	54
08	Netherlands	Sandra Reemer	"The Party's Over"	English	9	56
09	Norway	Anne-Karine Strøm	"Mata Hari"	English	18	7
10	Greece	Mariza Koch	"Panagia mou, Panagia mou" (Παναγιά μου, Παναγιά μου)	Greek	13	20
11	Finland	Fredi & Ystävät	"Pump-Pump"	English	11	44
12	Spain	Braulio	"Sobran las palabras"	Spanish	16	11
13	Italy	Al Bano & Romina Power	"We'll Live It All Again"	English, Italian	7	69
14	Austria	Waterloo & Robinson	"My Little World"	English	5	80
15	Portugal	Carlos do Carmo	"Uma flor de verde pinho"	Portuguese	12	24
16	Monaco	Mary Christy	"Toi, la musique et moi"	French	3	93
17	France	Catherine Ferry	"Un, deux, trois"	French	2	147
18	Yugoslavia	Ambasadori	"Ne mogu skriti svoju bol"	Bosnian	17	10

Scoreboard

		Results
	United Kingdom	164		12	8	12	8	12	3	10	12	12	10	12	4	10	12	10	7	10
	Switzerland	91	12		5	4	1	7	1	6	10	2	7	4		8	7	4	6	7
	Germany	12		2			2	1						2					2	3
	Israel	77	6	7	3		7	5	4	2	7		8	1	10	6	2	1		8
	Luxembourg	17						6	6	5
	Belgium	68	7	6		1				4	6		12		8	3	8	8	5
	Ireland	54	10		1	3	3					8		5	12	2		6	3	1
	Netherlands	56		4	4	8	4	4	2		1	7		3	2	4	6	2		5
	Norway	7								3							4
	Greece	20						2					4		5		1		8
	Finland	44	2		6	6			5	1	4			6		7		7
	Spain	11	3									1			3			3	1
	Italy	69	1	8		2			12		3	10	6			1	10		10	6
	Austria	80	4	3	10	10	5	3	10	7	2	6	5	8				5		2
	Portugal	24					6					4	1		1				12
	Monaco	93	5	5	7	7	12	8	8	8	5		2	7	7	5	3			4
	France	147	8	10	12	5	10	10	7	12	8	5	3	10	6	12	5	12		12
	Yugoslavia	10		1	2							3							4

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Voting nation
7	United Kingdom	Belgium, Greece, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
5	France	Austria, Germany, Monaco, Netherlands, Yugoslavia
1	Belgium	Finland
	Italy	Ireland
	Ireland	Italy
	Monaco	Luxembourg
	Portugal	France
	Switzerland	United Kingdom

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1976 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

Voting and spokespersons

1. 
    United Kingdom - Ray Moore
   


2. 
     Switzerland - Michel Stocker^[7]
   


3. 
    Germany - Ekkehard Böhmer


4. 
    Israel - Yitzhak Shim'oni^[8]
   


5. 
    Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey


6. 
    Belgium - André Hagon


7. 
    Ireland - Brendan Balfe


8. 
    Netherlands – Dick van Bommel


9. 
    Norway - Sverre Christophersen^[9]
   


10. 
     Greece - Irini Gavala


11. 
     Finland - Erkki Vihtonen^[10]
    


12. 
     Spain - José María Íñigo
    


13. 
     Italy - Rosanna Vaudetti
    


14. 
     Austria - Jenny Pippal


15. 
     Portugal - Ana Zanatti^[11]
    


16. 
     Monaco - Carole Chabrier


17. 
     France - Marc Menant


18. 
     Yugoslavia - Sandi Čolnik
    

Television commentators

Each national broadcaster [with the exception of Israel] also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Austria - Ernst Grissemann (FS2)  Belgium - Georges Désir (RTB),[12]Luc Appermont (BRT)[13]  Finland - Vesa Nuotio (YLE TV1)[14]  France - Jean-Claude Massoulier (TF1)[15]  Germany - Werner Veigel (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen)[16]  Greece - Mako Georgiadou (ERT)[17]  Ireland - Mike Murphy (RTÉ Television)  Israel - No commentator  Italy - Silvio Noto (Rete 1)  Luxembourg - Jacques Navadic (RTL Télé Luxembourg)  Monaco - Jean-Claude Massoulier (Télé Monte Carlo)

Netherlands – Willem Duys (Nederland 2)[18]  Norway - Jo Vestly (NRK)[9][19]  Portugal - Eládio Clímaco (RTP1)  Spain - José Luis Uribarri (TVE1)[20]   Switzerland - Theodor Haller (TV DRS), Georges Hardy (TSR), Giovanni Bertini (TSI)  Turkey (Non-participating country) – Bülend Özveren (TRT)  United Kingdom - Michael Aspel (BBC1)[21]  Yugoslavia - Milovan Ilić (TVB1), Oliver Mlakar (TVZ 1), Tomaž Terček (TVL1)  Denmark (Non-participating country) – Claus Toksvig (DR TV)  Iceland (Non-participating country) – Jón Skaptason[22]

Radio commentators

Austria - TBC (Hitradio Ö3)  Belgium - TBC (RTB La Première), Nand Baert & Jan Theys (BRT Radio 1)  Finland - Erkki Melakoski (YLE Rinnakkaisohjelma)  France - Patrice Laffont (France Bleu)  Germany - Wolf Mittler (Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2)  Ireland - Liam Devally (RTÉ Radio 1)  Italy - Silvio Noto (Rai Radio 2)

Luxembourg - André Torrent (RTL Radio)  Netherlands - Willem van Beusekom (Hilversum 3)[23]  Norway - Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)  Portugal - Amadeu Meireles (RDP Antena 1)  United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC Radio 2), Andrew Pastouna and Richard Astbury (British Forces Radio)[24]  Sweden (Non-participating country) – Ursula Richter (SR P3)[25]

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Countries Final United Kingdom (winner) France Monaco Switzerland Austria Israel Italy Belgium Netherlands Ireland Finland Portugal Greece Luxembourg Germany Spain Yugoslavia Norway Withdrawn Liechtenstein Malta
Artists Final Brotherhood of Man Catherine Ferry Mary Christy Peter, Sue and Marc Waterloo & Robinson Chocolate, Menta, Mastik Al Bano & Romina Power Pierre Rapsat Sandra Reemer Red Hurley Fredi & Ystävät Carlos do Carmo Mariza Koch Jürgen Marcus Les Humphries Singers Braulio Ambasadori Anne-Karine Strøm Withdrawn Biggi Bachman Enzo Guzman
Songs Final "Save Your Kisses for Me" "Un, deux, trois" "Toi, la musique et moi" "Djambo, Djambo" "My Little World" "Emor Shalom" "We'll Live It All Again" "Judy et Cie" "The Party's Over" "When" "Pump-Pump" "Uma flor de verde pinho" "Panagia Mou, Panagia Mou" "Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment" "Sing Sang Song" "Sobran las palabras" "Ne mogu skriti svoju bol" "Mata Hari" Withdrawn "Little Cowboy" "Sing Your Song, Country Boy"
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