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Eurovision Song Contest 1962
Dates
Final	18 March 1962
Host
Venue	Villa Louvigny Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)	Mireille Delannoy
Director	Jos Pauly René Steichen
Musical director	Jean Roderès
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.
Winning song	France "Un premier amour"
1961 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1963

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. The host was the Luxembourgish speaker Mireille Delannoy.

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

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.

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.

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.

Participating countries

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

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.

•  Finland – George de Godzinsky
•  Belgium – Henri Segers
•  Spain – Jean Roderès
•  Austria – Bruno Uher [de]
•  Denmark – Kai Mortensen
•  Sweden – Egon Kjerrman
•  Germany – Rolf-Hans Müller [de]
•  Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
•  France – Franck Pourcel
•  Norway – Øivind Bergh
•   Switzerland – Cédric Dumont [fr]
•  Yugoslavia – Jože Privšek
•  United Kingdom – Angela Morley
•  Luxembourg – Jean Roderès
•  Italy – Cinico Angelini
•  Monaco – Raymond Lefèvre

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)

Results

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

Scoreboard

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.

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.

1.  Monaco – TBC
2.  Italy – Enzo Tortora
3.  Luxembourg – Robert Diligent
4.  United Kingdom – Alex Macintosh
5.  Yugoslavia – Mladen Delić
6.   Switzerland – Alexandre Burger [fr]
7.  Norway – Kari Borg Mannsåker [no]
8.  France – André Valmy
9.  Netherlands – Ger Lugtenburg [nl]
10.  Germany – Klaus Havenstein
11.  Sweden – Tage Danielsson
12.  Denmark – Ole Mortensen [da]
13.  Austria – Emil Kollpacher
14.  Spain – Luis Marsillach [es]
15.  Belgium – Arlette Vincent
16.  Finland – Poppe Berg [fi]

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]
	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
Norway	NRK, NRK P1	Odd Grythe
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]
Sweden	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Jan Gabrielsson [sv]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]
	TSR	French: Pierre Tchernia
	TSI	Italian: Renato Tagliani
United Kingdom	BBC TV	David Jacobs
	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]

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External links

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