ESC History Podcast – The story of Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest is not one of dominating glory. Just two victories in more than half a century of trying. But it is an engrossing tale. It’s in part about a nation’s cultural redemption The first ESC was 11 years & 16 days after the end of the european war. [...]
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Eurovision History Chat with Bell and Freeman: Germany
Posted: January 27, 2012 by hikarufreeman in Australia, ESC History, Eurovision Through the Years, Germany, Worldwide FansTags: Eurovision, Joy 94.9
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Eurovision History Chat: Yugoslavia
Posted: January 20, 2012 by hikarufreeman in ESC History, Eurovision Through the Years, Former participantsESC History Chat – 20 years ago, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began its breakup culminating in the eventual independence of all its former member republics, most of which have joined Eurovision as independent countries. Within Eurovision, Yugoslavia, as a Communist country that looked West while many of its neighbours looked East, provided [...]
Eurovision History Chat: Norway
Posted: January 12, 2012 by hikarufreeman in Editorial, ESC History, NorwayTags: Eurovision Song Contest, Joy 94.9, Norway
Eurovision Podcast – Norway has been a Eurovision ever present since 1960 when the beloved Voi Voi announced its presence to the rest of the continent. As you will hear in this podcast, the Norwegians have scaled the heights and plumbed the depths since them. Their FOUR “nul points” have saddled them with a [...]
Full Videos of All Eurovision Song Contests from 1956 to 2003 on YouTube
Posted: December 3, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in ESC HistoryEurovision – It’s an early christmas present for Eurovision fans: Full Videos of all Eurovision Song Contests from 1956 up to 2003 have been uploaded on YouTube. Especially younger fans will now be able to experience the special moments and greatest victories of their favourite contest. The YouTube user Euroensiklopediya has not uploaded all [...]
ESC History: First song ever performed on Eurovision
Posted: November 7, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in ESC History, NetherlandsESC History – Did you know that the first song ever performed at a Eurovision Song Contest was “De vogels van Holland” by Jetty Pearl from the Netherlands? It was 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, when 7 countries started the tradition that today is one of the biggest media events each year. Just this first year [...]
ESC History: Carola the ‘little witch’
Posted: November 13, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC History, SwedenSweden – The Eurovision Song Contest 1991 in Rome ended in a tie. Sweden’s “Carola” and France’s “Amina” had both received 146 points. Carola was the sole winner tough, as the rules at that time stated, that the song having received more top marks (12 points) was the winner. When the final result appeared on [...]
ESC History: Garbage bags for Switzerland
Posted: October 28, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC HistorySwitzerland – In the current dry spell (Eurovision news-wise) we will look into a little Eurovision history once again: 1979 was an interesting year in ESC History: Germany sent a gang of crazy people (seemingly) from Mongolia to Jerusalem and Israel won the second time in a row. But Switzerland surpassed even Germany in bizarreness [...]
EBU – October 19, 1955: At a meeting in the Palazzo Corsini in Rome the EBU General Assembly agreed to the organizing of a “European Grand Prix” to be held in Lugano in the spring of 1956. The Eurovision Song Contest, that would become the biggest music event on the planet was born.In the January [...]
ESC History: How a Eurovision song started a revolution
Posted: October 11, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC History, PortugalPortugal – The 19th Eurovision Song Contest 1974 in Brighton was an important one in every respect. Not only did four young Swedes start their worldwide career there, which made them the most successful band Eurovision ever “produced”, but another song became important in a political sense. During the contest “E depois do adeus” by [...]
ESC History: Corinna May gets disqualified in 1999
Posted: October 5, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC HistoryDo you remember when Corinna May was disqualified from representing Germany in 1999? Corinna May had won the national final with her anthem “Hör den Kindern einfach zu” (Just listen to the children) in front of Sürpriz, who eventually represented Germany in Jerusalem that year. What had happened?
… that Lohengrin Filipello, the very first host of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, is still the only male host, who presented the entire show by himself? After the first edition mostly women hosted the show and only in the 80s the tradition of a male and a female host presenting the show
… that Israel is the only winner not to participate the next year? Israel had won the contests in 1978 with “Yizhar Cohen & Alpha Beta” and “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” and in 1979 on home ground with “Milk & Honey with Gali” and “Hallelujah”. Because of financial difficulties they did not only give the right to host [...]
Do you remember, when many countries boycotted the contest? In 1970 all the Scandinavian countries, Austria and Portugal boycotted the event because of the voting system. The year before in 1969 4 countries had been declared winner: the Netherlands, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. All of these 4 had received 18 points. This peculiar [...]
ESC History 4: Sweden wins with a margin of 0 points
Posted: June 27, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC HistoryDo you remember when Sweden won with a margin of … no points. It was 1991 in Rome. Sweden and France had fought a tough fight during the voting. When the last jury had announced their votes, Carola from Sweden and Amina from France had the same amount of points (146). According to the rules [...]
Do you remember when a Swedish host lost her dress? It was 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lill Lindfors was the host of the evening. Many see her as the best host ever, because of this little performance at the beginning of the voting procedure:
Do you remember when a Spanish entry had some problems? No, no! I’m not talking about this year, when Jimmy Jump “crept” into the Spanish presentation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. 20 years earlier the Spanish duo “Azucar Moreno” had the starting position number 1 in Zagreb and had huge acoustical problems. The conductor [...]
ESC History (1): Nicole sings reprise in 4 languages
Posted: June 1, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in ESC HistoryDo you remember when Germany won and sang the reprise in 4 languages? It was 1982 in Harrogate in the United Kingdom. Germany had just achieved their first victory after 27 years of unsuccessful participation. Nicole (18) started to sing the reprise. First in the normal German version, then in English, French and Dutch and [...]
