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Second quarter final
France: another part of the 1970 televised final broadcast
The 1970 process to choose the French entry lasted seven weeks. The first four shows each saw four entrants and only one was selected by juries from all around the country to move forward to the semi finals. The following two rounds each saw a match between the winners of the quarter finals and the winners of the semi finals were competing against each other in the final. This mini-show was in fact part of the famous program Musicolor.
The show to be presented on Télé Mélody next week is the second quarter final, first broadcast on 17th January 1970. The four performers competing were:
- Anne Gascoin - Symbalina
- Isabelle Aubret & Daniel Béretta - Olivier, Olivia
- Guy Bonnet - L’enfant et le marin
- Les Troubadours - De l’autre côté des collines
Aubret and Béretta won this quarter final and they would also win the semi final, as we know they would be in the final. Guy Bonnet had his first out of two entries in this show (which means he has two entries out of the 16 songs played on TV). L'enfant et le marin is the B-side of Marie Blanche, he took his revenge over Aubret & Béretta one month after with. Another remarkable participation is the one of Les Troubadours’, whose female voice is the 1961 Swiss entrant, Franca di Rienzo. The trio returned to the French selection in 1976, but was eliminated in the second semi final. Their song, Trois petits soldats, placed 7th - out of 7.
Télé Mélody's aim is to broadcast 50’s to 80’s TV programs. From 29th November to 5th December, they will screen Top aux Soeurs Kessler, a show dedicated to the twins who represented Germany in 1959. The girls perform French standards but also share a performance with Udo Jürgens, made of Merci, chérie and Warum, nur warum, the Austrian entries in 1966 and 1964 respectively.
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hi again Jeff
you were right. those "bastards" just broadcast the show without the Eurovision part. I just wonder why the announcement both in Platine and on the channel website includes all or part of the selecion performances.
Hi Jeff,
Télé Melody has a partnership with Platine Magazine, and the magazine detailed every show they broadcast. So they write the complete list of artists part of the 17/01/70's Musicolor as follows : Enrico Macias (3 songs), Nino Ferrer, Nicole Croisille (4 songs including one with Guy Marchand), Guy Marchand alone (4 songs), Georges Guétary, Pia Colombo, Maria de Rossi, Maddly Bamy, and then : Isabelle Aubret & Daniel Béretta, Les Troubadours, Guy Bonnet and Anne Gascouin. The first two have the title of their song, not the last 2.
So let's hope that this time they will not cut the Eurovision part. We'll soon know it as the first broadcast is scheduled on Sunday at 15:30 CET. Télé Melody's own website gives a program which is not exactly the same. By the same, Anne Gascouin and her song (with letters missing... making the word everything but not French !!!) is published, but not the 3 others ! What a suspense !
No Dominique, this program was already aired a few weeks ago and the 4 songs of the French selection were not included.
France could do with looking back in time and having a decent selection process for once.
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