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How could it be that Nicole & Hugo came last ?
Even today this song stands out.
And Finland acheived their highest placing with their worst song!
The mysteries of the Eurovision 
By the way I've seen the contests from '57, '69, '70, '74, '75 '77, '78, '79, '80 and '82 lasts months and on the contrary of what some people here suggest there is no neigbourvoting, at least not in the way that it's common today.
germany should have won the 1973 contest
JUNGER TAG - is a outstanding song...realy great....
Ulpi, you can find torrents of the 1973 and 1977 contests in good quality on Piratebay.
The UK jurors didn't award Abba and Sweden any points in 1974 I suppose that was direct retaliation against Sweden and the 1810-1812 Anglo-Swedish War. If only we could get hold of the Government papers relating to the votes.
Biased jurors? That's a bit of a big leap logically! We're watching the contest 33 years later after living with these songs for a long time, on the night the jurors heard them for a couple of times before and voted accordingly. To accuse them of being biased especially to say that they were angry that Spain had beaten the UK in 1968 and voted accordingly is far fetched to say the least! I don't think many in Spain would suggest that.
I cannot watch the stream on my Mac... will anyone ever think about Mac and Linux users? We're not a minority anymore...
Erm, it's a two way street.
In 1971, the Spanish gave the UK the minimum despite the fact that the UK finished 4th. In return, the UK awarded 7 points to Spain, who finished 2nd.
The next year, the UK awarded 3 points to Spain, and Spain awarded the UK the minimum AGAIN, receiving 3 points from the UK in return.
In 1973, Spain received 4 from the UK, and gave the UK 4 in return.
In total, the UK gave 14 points to Spain, and Sapin gave the UK only 8 points. So it would seem that the Spanish judges were worse than the UK jurors were.
Very interesting...
The 1973 contest illustrates that any voting process can be tainted by biased jurors. Look what happened to Spain. While most countries gave them high marks, only three coutries, among them the UK, awarded Spain only 4 points or less. Had the UK jurors had their heads out of their butts, they would had awarded Spain more points, and Spain would had won, the way it should have been. Who knows, maybe they were still upset about La La La losing to Congratulations in 68. And yet again , UK placed right behind Spain. Amusing.
once again I heard romanian new version and same impression....
I doubt this yell from start is delightful!in fact makes U run and hide!!
this tune can be use to the end to fascinate not to terrify(MAKES U STARTLE)!
arggg have to use iexplorer firefox does not liek the site
SPAIN WAS THE BEST, BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF LEVEL.
MOCEDADES FOREVER!!!
AMAYA URANGA AND HEAR GREAT VOICE CONQUERED THE EUROPEAN HEARTS.
THANKS TO THE UK FOR ITS POOR AND MISERABLE POINTS, THEY RUINED THE SPANISH PARTY.
THANKS UK
I must say, it was a very very nice contest, but it's the (tragical) wonder, why Belgium had finish last. I think it was one of the best songs. ( also ireland, Luxemburg and Spain)
I had never seen this show before and I was suppries how funny it was 
My favorites where of course Eres Tu - but I agree for the most on the top - Finland had a very good song this year, so did UK, Israel and Luxembourg. But Spain should have won for sure. Also I was very surprised to see the norwegian song doing so well the swedish song this year I had never heard before and it was great I think very good. A shame Switzerland didnt do better - that was a good song as well
I loved the clown in the break . I had a good laugh when I saw the interval act hehe. eventhough I prefer the interval acts of today better than then...but it was still funny
And the voting. we should have that kind of voting back again - I think it would be more fair if every country gave points to ALL the countries. Or just ranging ALL the countries from 1st to 24th in the final - I am sure that Norway wouldnt have come last so many times if they had done that every year....
PLEASE HELP ME!!
Vote for your fave semi-final song!!!
Send me your votes(12-10-8-7...)
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here is the new version !
@aj international*
Where can I find the new version for the icelandic song?
well the best in 1973 was israel with ey sham, a great ballad but you are summer was good too..
1973 again....I have been watching this last year already, wouldn't it be better if you show some other years instead, for example 1996? Or others that you didn't show last year already.
But I have to admit in 1973 there were some great songs so it was a great contest that year. My favourite was Power to all our friends, fantastic song. Shame it didn't win.
grazie anch'io Adrian B.
Bene!!!!!ben fatto!!!FORTE ROMANIA!!go Romania!Nr 1 FOR ROMANIA ,12 points on stage!!!!
w s wrote:
"In the official Eurovision book from last year it was mentioned that the juror from Switzerland was responsible for another voting system. But I've seen a lot of the older contests last year and a lot of the things mentioned in the book are simply not true. I think the author has a big fantasy."
You are completely right, w s. That book is not an official history but an official FAIRYTALE of the ESC.
I would like to thank these three websites including EUROVIL for these series of weekends of past Eurovisions till the 51st Eurovision song contest.....Thanky You SO Much. 
Adrian B. the new version of Tornero is amazing - I love the more upbeat dance track! I could do without the yelling part in the beginning, but what a smart idea - it will for sure get the viewers attention! And if the stage show is anything like the video, then it's going to be quite the show!
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Hi there!!
Delighted to be able to finally see how the scoring system with the 2 jurors worked as I didn't quite understand it. I think it s a shame that more previous contests are not shown like this on the net since we have all this technology.
Michael!
I think you an me have much the same taste hehe
@kent
i agree 100% with you about slvia nott
In the official Eurovision book from last year it was mentioned that the juror from Switzerland was responsible for another voting system. But I've seen a lot of the older contests last year and a lot of the things mentioned in the book are simply not true. I think the author has a big fantasy.
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