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  Encyclopedia: Eurovision Song Contest 1969
The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the twelfth Eurovision and was held on 8 April 1967 in Austria.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the fifteenth Eurovision and was held on March 21, 1970 in the Netherlands.
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 1969 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the fourteenth Eurovision and was held on March 29, 1969 in Madrid.
Austria did not wish to enter this Eurovision because it did not want to send a singer to a country that was ruled by a dictator (Francisco Franco was ruling Spain at the time).
Salvador Dalí was responsible for the publicity of this Eurovision.
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 Encyclopedia: Eurovision Song Contest 1980
The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 19, 1980 in The Hague.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on March 31, 1979 in Jerusalem.
Eurovision Song Contest Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union.
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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 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
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.
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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
The winner of the contest is decided by each country assigning points (currently 1 to 8, 10 and 12) to their favourite ten entries.
Countries entering the contest for the first time often score highly as well, as voters are generally sympathetic to newly forged nations.
The maximum duration of each song is three minutes, and the musicians and songs selected for the contest tend towards very commercial pop, although there are exceptions.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1969 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
This was the first Eurovision when there had been a tie for first place with four countries gaining 18 points.
There was only enough for the singers and not the songwriters, who eventually got theirs after the contest.
Unfortunately as Liechtenstein had no broadcasting company at all and hence not a member of the EBU, they were not allowed to participate.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1973 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
With Helga Guitton as the presenter, the contest was won by Anne-Marie David who represented Luxembourg, with her song "Tu Te Reconnaitras".
The language rule that only allowed countries to enter songs that were sung in any of their national languages was dropped, this led to some countries to sing in English.
The event was marked with a scandal as the Spanish song, Eres tú, was accused of plagiarism due to suggestions that it was merely a rewrite of the Yugoslav) entry from the 1966 contest (Brez besed sung by Berta Ambrož).
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 Eurovision Song Contest 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be the forty-ninth Eurovision and will be held on May 12, 2004 and May 15, 2004, in Turkey.
It is the first Eurovision Song Contest to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and one grand finale held on Saturday.
Under the new format, byes into the final will be given to the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain (as the four largest countries in Europe), Turkey (as the 2003 contest winners) and the nine remaining highest placed finishers in the 2003 contest.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1970 - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
With Willy Dobbe as the presenter, the contest was won by Dana who represented Ireland, with the song "All Kinds of Everything".
Due to the four-way tie in 1969, lots were drawn to choose which country would host this Eurovision.
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_1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
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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 Eurovision Song Contest - UKGameshows
The Eurovision Song Contest, the self-proclaimed "Greatest Gameshow on Earth" is an international institution.
The contest was first staged in Switzerland in 1956, and the UK has participated every year except 1956 and 1958.
But there's one thing an Eurovision synopsis wouldn't be complete without, the one Factor X that is Terry Wogan, he who has been commentating for the television viewers since the early seventies (for the more serious minded amongst you, put your telly on mute and listen to Ken Bruce on Radio 2).
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1969 - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
was the forteenth Eurovision and was held on March_29, 1969 in Spain.
With Laurita_Valenzuela as the presenter, the contest was a draw and won between Salomé who represented Spain, with her song "Vivo Cantando", Lulu who represented the United Kingdom, with her song "Boom Bang-a-bang", Lenny_Kuhr who represented the Netherlands, with her song "De Troubadour" and Frida_Boccara who represented France, with her song "Un Jour, un Enfant".
Salvador_Dalí was responsible for the publicity of this Eurovision.
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 Eurovision Song Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
The 1969 contest went down as the strangest in Eurovision history after four countries won the contest.
One of the winners, Spanish singer Salomé;, caused uproar by actually moving during her performance: dancing at Eurovision was not allowed at the time.
The contest was plagued by mass misunderstanding and technical upset.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
With Laurita Valenzuela as thepresenter, the contest was a draw and won between Salomé who represented Spain, withher song "Vivo Cantando", Lulu who represented the United Kingdom,with her song "Boom Bang-a-bang", LennyKuhr who represented the Netherlands, with her song "De Troubadour" and Frida Boccara who represented France,with her song "Un Jour, un Enfant".
There was only enough for the singers and not the songwriters, who eventually got theirs afterthe contest.
Austria did not wish to enter this Eurovision because it did not want to send a singer to a country that was ruled by a" dictator ", FranciscoFranco was ruling Spain at the time.
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
With Laurita Valenzuela as the presenter contest was a draw and won between Salomé who represented Spain with her song Cantando" Lulu who represented the United Kingdom with song "Boom Bang-a-bang" Lenny Kuhr who represented Netherlands with her song "De Troubadour" and Boccara who represented France with her song Jour un Enfant".
This was the first Eurovision when there been a tie for first place with countries gaining 18 points.
Unfortunately as Liechtenstein had no broadcasting at all and hence not a member the EBU they were not allowed to participate.
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She was joint-winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (1969) with "Boom-Bang-a-Bang", which reached No.2 in the British charts.
She sang the title song for the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974).
She wrapped songs like “To Sir With Love” and “The Man With The Golden Gun” with a powerful, stirring vocal style that earned her several hits and made her an international star.
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 The Eurovision Song Contest
The Irish Republic had a tendency to dominate the contest for quite a few years -but analyzing the figures since the contest began in 1956, most critics agree that the UK has had the most consistent success.
Eurovision 2005 had 39 countries taking part and dare I say it, politics (never far away), can seriously damage your chances.
As the contest proceeds you all eat and drink what you've collected for each country while their song is on the air.
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 Articles - Eurovision Song Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
The remaining exception to this is France, which resolutely sings in its native tongue (or tongues, having used Breton and Caribbean patois on occasions), and defends the dual-language policy of the presentation whereby scores and points are announced in both English and French.
The French song in 2001 was sung with a closing verse in English and this was the first and to date only use of English in a French entry.
The presenters of the contest connect by satellite to each country's jury in turn, inviting the spokesperson for each national jury to read out that country's votes in French or English, although French is usually only used by the countries in which it is spoken (Monaco, Belgium, France, and sometimes Switzerland).
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 Eurovision Song Contest 1969: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Eurovision Song Contest 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
Eurovision Song Contest 1969: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Eurovision Song Contest 1969
The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th Eurovision, it was held in Madrid, Spain on March 29th and the presenter was Laurita Valenzuela[?].
There were four winners of this Eurovision (As there was no rule for a tie at this time.); Frida Boccara[?] with Un Jour Un Enfant[?], Lennie Kuhr[?] with De Troubadour, Salome with Vivo Cantando[?] and Lulu with Boom Bang A Bang[?].
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 Eurovision Song Contest Trivia and Fun Facts about The Eurovision Song Contest
Italy boycotted the 1981 Eurovision Song contest, saying that it was too old fashioned, while the following year France ducked out saying that the cost was too great for such mediocre results.
Finland, not to be outdone by their Scandanavian neighbours scored nul points in the 1982 competition with a song protesting about the building of a nuclear power station.
The youngest ever winner of the Eurovision Song contest was 13 year old Sandra Kin from Belgium in 1986.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Eurovision Song Contest
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.
Each participating country chooses a contestant through a national competition.
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 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
You Too Long" as a potential entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
In June 1969 Empty Sky was released, and John was...
Salvador Dalí; was responsible for the publicity of this Eurovision.
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 Eurovision Song Contest and Junior Eurovision Song Contest Page
For all those people who are interested in the Eurovision Song Contest (both adult and junior version), here are the results with songs, artists and score results.
The 2004 Junior Eurovision Song Contest Results and Details hosted in Norway on 20 November 2004.
Visit Gina G's new website (She is also in the UK Final of the 2005 Eurovision).
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