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  Eurovision Song Contest - Table - MSN Encarta
Eurovision Song Contest - Table - MSN Encarta
Started in 1956, this European song contest is held annually in May. The contest is intended to encourage the production of high-quality music through international comparison.
During the live telecast of the European final the winner is chosen by televoting, in which the viewers vote by telephone.
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  Eurovision Song Contest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among the famous performers to have graced the Eurovision stage are Nana Mouskouri, Sandie Shaw, Cliff Richard, Vicky Leandros, Julio Iglesias, Mocedades, Olivia Newton John, ABBA, The Shadows, Baccara, Céline Dion, Katrina and the Waves, and t.A.T.u.
Currently, the contest winner is selected by means of a modified version of the Borda count Each country ranks all the entries and assigns 12 points to their favorite entry, 10 points to their second favorite entry, and 8 through 1 points to their third through 10th favorites.
Many viewers of the contest view the event as a combination of camp entertainment and a musical train wreck (a fact played upon in the UK broadcast with the sardonic BBC commentary of Terry Wogan) and a subculture of Eurovision song contest drinking games and the like has evolved in some countries.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the 48th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 24, 2003 in Riga, Latvia.
Whilst the contest featured its usual collection of dance numbers and power ballads (complete with "truck-driver's" key changes for the last chorus in typical Eurovision style), and entries pulled the usual stunt of attractive dancers gradually removing some clothing throughout the performance, there were several acts that generally stood out from the usual fare.
Erener's song clearly showed her nationality with a striking violin hook in typically Turkish pop style, emphasised with attractive dancers accompanying her performing a bellydance.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1957 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the second Eurovision Song Contest and was held on March 3, 1957, in Frankfurt am Main.
With as the presenter, the contest was won by Corry Brokken who represented the Netherlands, with her song "Net Als Toen".
The second contest was still mainly a radio program, but there was a noticeable increase in the number of people with televisions.
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 Encyclopedia: Eurovision Song Contest 1962   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the twelfth Eurovision and was held on 8 April 1967 in Austria.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth Eurovision and was held on April 3, 1971 in Dublin.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the eighteenth Eurovision and was held on April 7, 1973 in Luxembourg.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the fifteenth Eurovision and was held on March 21, 1970 in Amsterdam.
With as the presenter, the contest was won by Dana who represented Ireland, with the song "All Kinds of Everything".
Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden boycotted this contest as they were not pleased with the result of 1969 and the voting structure.
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 Eurovision Song Contest
The 2002 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Tallinn, Estonia on Saturday 26 June, 2002, hosted by Annely Peebo, an opera singer, and Marko Matvere, an actor.
The 2003 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Riga, Latvia on Saturday 24 May, 2003, hosted by Marie N, the singer who won the ESC 2002, and Renars Kaupers, a singer whose group competed in the ESC 2000.
By the 1960s, entries were limited to one song per country (participation in the contest had almost doubled), and the songs had to be sung in one of the national languages of the country.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1962 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the seventh Eurovision and was held on March 18, 1962 in Luxembourg.
With as the presenter, the contest was won by Isabelle Aubret who represented France, with her song "Un Premier Amour".
All 10 jury members points would then be added up and the song with the most points would get 3 points, the song with the second most points would get 2 points and the song with the third most points would get 1 point.
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 Eurovision Song Contest Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At the first contest in 1956, each country was allowed to submit two three-minute (or less) songs, performed by inhabitants of the respective country.
Following the dominance of English language songs, particularly Sweden's 1974 victory (with ABBA's "Waterloo"), a rule was passed in 1977 that the song had to be sung in one of the official languages of the performing country.
This was invoked at the 1991 contest, to resolve a tie between Sweden and France.
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 Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007 - More News and Comments
The 52nd Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast by YLE (English pages) from Helsinki's Hartwall Areena, with the semi-final being held on 10 May 2007 and the final on 12 May 2007.
Songs which catch the "pulse" of TODAY, which have a professional, lively original or unique presentation and which also conform to certain unwritten limits and demands of artistic decency and presentation will always be successful, and that was why Lordi won for Finland in Eurovision 2006.
Eurovision Nation is running a mock poll for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest and it is really very well done.
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 Eurovision_Song_Contest_2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was the 50th Eurovision competition and was held in Kiev, Ukraine on May 21, 2005.
While he tried to justify his decision in the contest aftermath arguing that it needed to reflect the dramatic changes in the society due to the recent Orange Revolution, the perceived government intervention into a musical contest attracted much criticism.
Indeed, for many weeks the song, which almost certainly owes its victory to its familiarity as an unofficial anthem of the Orange Revolution, appeared to be in danger of falling foul of two criteria for eligibility as an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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 The 60s (1960 - 1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although Conny only finished 6th during the Eurovision Song Contest 1962, her song ‘Zwei kleine Italiener’ (‘Two little Italians’) was one of the most commercially popular Eurovision entries and the singer became the most popular star in Germany in the 60s along with Conny Francis.
Her Eurovision song ‘Intet er nytt under solen’ (‘Nothing New Under The Sun’) was a song in the tradition of singer-songwriting.
Her song ‘(De) Troubadour’ from the singer-songwriter scene captured the mood of the moment and made her one of the clear favourites in polls of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest.
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 Italy 1958
The Italians had great hopes for their first Eurovision victory as the song was already on the way to becoming a massive hit at home and the performance was certainly memorable.
However the most successful version of the song in recent years has been by the popular flamenco group the Gipsy Kings which was a European hit in 1990 (you can sing-along karaoke style to their version here).
In 1962 he once again won the first prize in the San Remo Festival with the song "Addio, Addio", but chose not to sing the song at Eurovision, where it was instead performed by Claudio Villa.
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 Hall of Fame / The Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision is unique, a festival of music by performers from an ever-increasing number of nations, allowing the public to select “a song for Europe”.
Eurovision took place for the first time in Lugano, Switzerland in 1956, and was inspired by the popular San Remo Festival.
An estimated 100 million people tuned into the Eurovision Song Contest at The NIA, Birmingham but to stage the three hour extravaganza, broadcast live to 36 countries, the BBC actually took up residence for two weeks, using every available space in the arena.
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 From National Pride to Global Kitsch : the Eurovision Song Contest
The contest is broadcast simultaneously in all the participant countries (24 in 2000) as well as in non participant countries outside the European broadcasting area: for example, the Australian channel SBS had an overall audience rating of 900 000 viewers in 1999 (8% of the market shares) from 6 883 000 Australian TV households.
To be entered for the contest, each country must be a member of one of the UER organisations such as the ARD in Germany, the RTBF in Belgium, the RTE in Ireland, the ORT in Russia or the TRT in Turkey.
The contest is a symbolic show-case and induces opinions and power struggles: according to the former scrutineer, "the ESC is for EBU and most of the persons in charge of it a kind of necessary evil.
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 Eurovision Song Contest Record Book- The show
The 1961 contest was the first one to take place on a Saturday, but in 1962 for once it was held on a Sunday again.
Both the 1961 and 1962 contest were held on 18 March, a unique gap of exactly one year between two consecutive contests.
Except for the first contest, held on 24 May, until 1977 the ESC was usually held in March, sometimes in April.
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 Eurovision Song Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The last time the United Kingdom won the contest was just after the EU-sceptic Conservative government of John Major was heavily defeated by the more EU-friendly Tony Blair (although the country had come second in both 1992 and 1993, during the Major administration).
The 2005 contest saw France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, the four largest contributors to the EBU who automaticaly qualify for the final, occupying the four bottom positions of the final, each with fewer than 20 points.
In the contest of that year, Switzerland (who finished seventh), were leading prior to the results of the Eastern Block being announced.
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 Eurovision_Song_Contest_1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paul Harrington with Charlie McGettigan was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Rock 'N' Roll Kids.
To cope with the increasing number of countries wishing to participate in the contest, for 1994 the European Broadcasting Union ruled that the five lowest-placed countries from the preceding year's contest would not participate.
With advances in technology, this was the first contest in which the spokesperson for each national jury appeared on-screen, live from their own countries.
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 United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993
The UK entered "Better the Devil you Know", performed by Sonia, for the 1993 contest.
United Kingdom in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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 Encyclopedia: Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Germany held a national preselection to choose the two songs that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1956.
It was held on May 1, 1956 and was presented by Heinz Piper.
"So geht das jede Nacht" and "Das Lied vom großen Glück" were the dual winners of the national selection, but neither prevailed at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest, which was won by the Swiss entry "Refrain", sung by Lys Assia.
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 Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Eurovision Song Contest 2004
The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the forty-ninth Eurovision Song Contest and took place on May 12, 2004 and May 15, 2004, in Istanbul, Turkey.
It was the first Eurovision Song Contest to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and the grand finale held on the following Saturday.
Some commentators suggested that, true to Eurovision tradition, her victory could be attributed more to her dance routine and revealing attire than to the quality of the song.
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 Junior_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was held on November 20, 2004, in Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway with a live television show of 2 hours and 15 minutes presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui which was broadcast in 20 countries and viewed by 100 million people.
The contest was won by 9-year-old María Isabel with her song Antes muerta que sencilla (Better dead than simple).
She received the award out of the hands of Dino Jelusic, who won the contest in 2003.
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 The House of Eurovision - Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest is De vogels van Holland by Jetty Pearl.
In the Dutch national finals of 1956,1957 and 1958, tv-viewers were allowed to vote for their favourite song, but not by phone.
The United Kingdom wanted to compete in the first song contest in 1956, but they were too late.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1962: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Eurovision Song Contest 1962
The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th Eurovision, it was held in Luxembourg on March 18th and the presenter was Mireille Delanoy[?].
Isabelle Aubret[?] was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Un Premier Amour[?].
Each Country had a Jury who awarded 3, 2, 1 points for their top three songs.
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 Isabelle Aubret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 representing France and singing "" (A first love) with music composed by and lyrics by.
In 1968, she returned to the contest, again representing France, finishing third, and singing "La source" (The spring) with music by and lyrics by, and.
Aubret won the French national gymnastics championship in 1958.
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