Kategorie: National Finals


  • The Norwegian Final was held on March 3rd at the Centralteatret in Oslo, hosted by Jan Voigt. Each of the songs were performed twice (by different performers) – once with a small band and once with an orchestra. Although the original winner was „Jag har aldri vært så glad i no’en som deg“, the composer…

  • The Swedish Final was held on March 9th in Stockholm, hosted by Magnus Banck. The winning song was chosen by the votes of 11 regional juries. 1 Du är en vårvind i April You’re a spring wind in April Svante Thuresson 21 2nd 2 Jag vill tro I want to believe Anna-Lena Löfgren 5 6th…

  • The Dutch Final was held on February 28th at The Tivoli in Utrecht, hosted by Elles Berger. 1 Annemarie Annemarie René Frank 75 3rd 2 Ik wil van alles I want everything Gonnie Baars 47 4th 3 Morgen Tomorrow Ronnie Tober 122 1st 4 Hé, moet je bij mij zijn Hey, do you have to…

  • The Irish Final was held on March 3rd at the RTE TV Studios in Dublin, hosted by Brendan O’Reilly. The winning song was chosen by the votes of 10 regional juries. 1 Gleann na smol Anna McGoldrick 5 5th 2 Bright butterfly Tony Kenny ? ? 3 Since the spring Frances McDermott ? ? 4 Chance…

  • The UK Final was held on March 5th at the BBC TV Studios in London, hosted by Cilla Black. All of the songs were sung by Cliff Richard, and the winning song was chosen by postcard voting. The results were announced on March 12th, but only to the nearest hundred votes for each song. 1…

  • Irish Semifinal 1968

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    Semi-Final 1 – February 6th 1 Bright butterfly Tony Kenny F 2 Grown up world Joan Connolly – 3 Happy Leslie Cooke – 4 Kinsale Pat Lynch F 5 One love two Tina F 6 Why Dawn Knight – 7 Woman beside the phone Deirdre Wynne – 8 You’re not there at all Frankie McBride…

  • The Portuguese Final was held on March 4th at the Estúdio da Tóbis in Lisbon, hosted by Maria Fernanda & Henrique Mendes. The winner was chosen by the votes of 18 regional juries. 1 Vento não vou contigo I am not going without you wind Mirene Cardinalli 11 8th= 2 Fui ter com a madrugada…

  • The Yugoslav Final was held at the TV Studios in Ljubljana on February 19th, hosted by Tomaz Tercek. The winning song was chosen by a jury of 9 people. If you know any more of the voting results then please mail me: national_finals@hotmail.com 1 Nocu me ostavljas You leave me at night Zafir Hadzimanov ? ? 2 Meni…

  • The Belgian Final was held at The Amerikaans Theater in Brussels on February 25th, hosted by Jan Theys. There were 9 semi-finals before the final, and in each semi-final the three top placed songs went forward to the next semi-final, and to qualify for the final you had to „survive“ 3 semi-finals. The participants in…

  • The Swiss Final was held on January 21st at the TSI TV Studios in Lugano. The winning song was chosen by an „expert“ jury, and only the winner was announced. 1 Toi You Eveline Anden ? 2 Karussell – karussell Carousel – carousel Brigitt Petry ? 3 Farò come vuoi I’ll do as you like…