1969, Music: Eurovision Song Contest

The 14th Eurovision Song Contest was held on Saturday 29 March 1969 at the "Teatro Real", Madrid, Spain. Laurita Valenzuela presented the festival and the musical director was Augusto Algueró. Sixteen countries took part in the contest with Austria deciding not to participate that year.

Salomé with "Vivo cantando" for Spain

Lenny Kuhr with "De troubadour" for the Netherlands

At the close of voting, four countries were controversially declared joint-winners: the United Kingdom with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" by Lulu, Spain with "Vivo cantando" by Salomé, the Netherlands with "De troubadour" by Lenny Kuhr, and France with "Un jour, un enfant" by Frida Boccara. It was the first time in the history of the contest that a tie had occurred, and as there was no tiebreaker rule in place at the time, all four countries were declared joint winners. 

Frida Boccara with "Un jour, un enfant" for France

Lulu with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" for the United Kingdom

No	Country	Artist	Song	Language	Points	Place
1	Yugoslavia	Ivan and 4M	"Pozdrav svijetu"	Serbo-Croatian	5	13
2	Luxembourg	Romuald	"Catherine"	French	7	11
3	Spain	Salomé	"Vivo cantando"	Spanish	18	1
4	Monaco	Jean Jacques	"Maman, maman"	French	11	6
5	Ireland	Muriel Day and the Lindsays	"The Wages of Love"	English	10	7
6	Italy	Iva Zanicchi	"Due grosse lacrime bianche"	Italian	5	13
7	United Kingdom	Lulu	"Boom Bang-a-Bang"	English	18	1
8	Netherlands	Lenny Kuhr	"De troubadour"	Dutch	18	1
9	Sweden	Tommy Körberg	"Judy, min vän"	Swedish	8	9
10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	"Jennifer Jennings"	Dutch	10	7
11	Switzerland	Paola del Medico	"Bonjour, Bonjour"	German	13	5
12	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli"	Norwegian	1	16
13	Germany	Siw Malmkvist	"Primaballerina"	German	8	9
14	France	Frida Boccara	"Un jour, un enfant"	French	18	1
15	Portugal	Simone de Oliveira	"Desfolhada portuguesa"	Portuguese	4	15
16	Finland	Jarkko and Laura	"Kuin silloin ennen"	Finnish	6	12

Frida Boccara with "Un jour, un enfant" for France

Salomé with "Vivo cantando" for Spain

Lenny Kuhr with "De troubadour" for the Netherlands

Lulu with "Boom Bang-a-Bang" for the United Kingdom

1972, Music: Eurovision Song Contest

The 17th Eurovision Song Contest was held on Saturday 25 March 1972 at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Moira Shearer presented the festival and of the 18 participants the Greek singer Vicky Leandros won for Luxembourg with "Après toi", written by Klaus Munro and Yvess Dessca, and composed by Munro and Mario Panas.

It was the third victory for Luxembourg, following their wins in 1961 with "Nous les amoureux" by Jean-Claude Pascal and "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall in 1965.

Vicky Leandros after her victory for Luxembourg with "Après toi"

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Germany	Mary Roos	"Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben"	3	107
02	France	Betty Mars	"Comé-comédie"	11	81
03	Ireland	Sandie Jones	"Ceol an Ghrá"	15	72
04	Spain	Jaime Morey	"Amanece"	10	83
05	United Kingdom	The New Seekers	"Beg, Steal or Borrow"	2	114
06	Norway	Grethe Kausland & Benny Borg	"Småting"	14	73
07	Portugal	Carlos Mendes	"A festa da vida"	7	90
08	Switzerland	Véronique Müller	"C'est la chanson de mon amour"	8	88
09	Malta	Helen and Joseph	"L-imħabba"	18	48
10	Finland	Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor	"Muistathan"	12	78
11	Austria	Milestones	"Falter im Wind"	5	100
12	Italy	Nicola Di Bari	"I giorni dell'arcobaleno"	6	92
13	Yugoslavia	Tereza Kesovija	"Muzika i ti"	9	87
14	Sweden	Family Four	"Härliga sommardag"	13	75
15	Monaco	Anne-Marie Godart & Peter MacLane	"Comme on s'aime"	16	65
16	Belgium	Serge & Christine Ghisoland	"À la folie ou pas du tout"	17	55
17	Luxembourg	Vicky Leandros	"Après toi"	1	128
18	Netherlands	Sandra & Andres	"Als het om de liefde gaat"	4	106

Number 1 Luxembourg: Vicky Leandros with "Après toi"

Number 2  United Kingdom: The New Seekers with "Beg, Steal or Borrow"

Number 3 Germany: Mary Roos with "Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben"

Trivia

• Monaco was unable to stage the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest after their win with Séverine's song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" in 1971 so the BBC stepped in.
• Writer and composer Klaus Munro also conducted the orchestra at the contest.
• Yves Dessca also wrote the lyrics for "Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue" that won the previous year.

Vicky Leandros with the winning song "Après toi"

The Full 1972 Eurovision Song Contest

1965, Music: Eurovision Song Contest

The 10th Eurovision Song Contest was held on Saturday 20 March 1965 at the "Sala di Concerto della RAI", Naples, Italy. Renata Mauro presented the festival and of the 18 participants the French singer France Gall won for Luxembourg with "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", a song composed and written by Serge Gainsbourg. 

Luxembourg won for the second time, the first victory was in 1961 with "Nous les amoureux" sung by Jean-Claude Pascal.

Winner France Gall

France Gall with writer/composer Serge Gainsbourg

Trivia

• For the second time, Belgium (Lize Marke), Finland (Viktor Klimenko), Germany (Ulla Wiesner), and Spain (Conchita Bautista) scored "null points".
• 1965 was the debut of Ireland.
• The Swedish entry by Ingvar Wixell was sung in English. This led to the rule that all participants had to perform their songs using one of their national languages in the 1966 edition.
• Three artists returned for a second time: Udo Jürgens (Austria, previous participation in 1964), Conchita Bautista (Spain, previously participation in 1961) and Vice Vukov (Yugoslavia, previous participation in 1963).

First place: France Gall with "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" for Luxembourg

Second place: Kathy Kirby with "I Belong" for The United Kingdom

Third place: Guy Mardel with "N'avoue jamais" for France

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Netherlands	Conny van den Bos	"'t Is genoeg"	11	5
02	United Kingdom	Kathy Kirby	"I Belong"	2	26
03	Spain	Conchita Bautista	"¡Qué bueno, qué bueno!"	15	0
04	Ireland	Butch Moore	"Walking the Streets in the Rain"	6	11
05	Germany	Ulla Wiesner	"Paradies, wo bist du?"	15	0
06	Austria	Udo Jürgens	"Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen"	4	16
07	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Karusell"	13	1
08	Belgium	Lize Marke	"Als het weer lente is"	15	0
09	Monaco	Marjorie Noël	"Va dire à l'amour"	9	7
10	Sweden	Ingvar Wixell	"Absent Friend"	10	6
11	France	Guy Mardel	"N'avoue jamais"	3	22
12	Portugal	Simone de Oliveira	"Sol de inverno"	13	1
13	Italy	Bobby Solo	"Se piangi, se ridi"	5	15
14	Denmark	Birgit Brüel	"For din skyld"	7	10
15	Luxembourg	France Gall	"Poupée de cire, poupée de son"	1	32
16	Finland	Viktor Klimenko	"Aurinko laskee länteen"	15	0
17	Yugoslavia	Vice Vukov	"Čežnja"	12	2
18	Switzerland	Yovanna	"Non, à jamais sans toi"	8	8

First place: France Gall with "Poupée de cire, poupée de son"

Recap of all 18 songs