"This is how our Directors see Sweden - a yellow submarine in a sardine can!!" Wogan at his very best. I thought that the presenter was excellent considering she was so young. She didn't ever get flustered and looked stunning.
This Eurovision will be remembered in the history of music because it had the honor of having hosted on its stage one of the greatest composers, musical researchers, authors, philosopher, poet of the contemporary era, Maestro Battiato and the magnificent pianist Alice who, by class, elegance, vocal skills has no equal in that context that understands little or nothing about art and music. My 96-year-old grandmother, looking at these events, said with an air of compassion that the juries were birds that did not know how to recognize the seeds, and peace to her soul she was right!
Eurovision didn`t deserve such a talent like maestro Franco Battiato...I understand that Italy left the ESC during many years...the winning song was pure shit.
The Dutch entry is one of those songs where no one in the Netherlands knows it was a Eurovision entry! The overtures with past Luxembourg hits are amazing. They really had some great winners!!
Ridiculous Dutch jury (I am Dutch), giving NO points to Italy. Even though the staging is boring, the song is my ever number 1 Eurovision song. It is too beautiful.
To add some extra information: the entire stage, lightning and a team of technicians were flew in from The Netherlands (Dutch NOB). The designer of the stage is Roland de Groot who also designed the stages of the contests held in The Netherlands in 1970, 1976 and 1980
Oh, I really loved the concept of the changing backgrounds, but I didn't know that all of them was designed by the same person. He really needs to design another eurovision stage in the future.
Roland de Groot's stage designs were amazing. Definitely one of the best stage designers of the pre-LED screen era of Eurovision. He even managed to make a very good stage design for the 1980 contest on a very tight budget. I would love to have him design one more stage, but he's in his 80s and stage design for Eurovision has evolved significantly since then. Although, it would be cool to maybe have someone else design a future Eurovision stage in his style.
My first Euro Song Contest. I was 7, and watched it on my grandparents B&W television. It was fun to see it all - the music, the scoring board - and I'm glad that you let the portuguese song to go almost in full. Here's an anedctote: on the the night of the portuguese song contest, the musicians decided to make a strike - yes, you heard well, a strike! - and all the songs were sing "a capella". Except for one, the Maria Guinot, because of the piano. Guess who won?
Absolutely adore the backing music at the very beginning, a medley of the melodies of Nous les Amoreux, Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son and Dann Kamst Du.
Fantastic concept here AND execution! Brilliant! A comment about the booing after the UK entry... I understood it was connected to the UK's off stage backing singers who were supposedly (and allegedly, of course!) providing ALL the vocals for the singers on stage. Some delegations (Scaninavian, I heard) protested to no avail and showed their contempt by booing the performance... I don't know if this is 100% true... shrouded in the mists of time no doubt.
I listened to a podcast with the songwriter Paul Curtis recently. He said it was members of the press in the audience due to the football hooliganism. He could be wrong of course. He denied there being any offstage backing vocals. Whatever the reason, the booing was totally out of order. Don’t take hard feelings out on the performers, they did great!
I’ve noticed the theatre name changing constantly as well - the closing credits and the official records refer to the venue as the “Théâtre Municipal ” Desiree calls it the “New Theatre” and Terry refers to it as the “Kirchberg Theatre” (Kirchberg is where it’s located.) It now seems to be called the Grand Théâtre. Helga in ‘73 also refers to it as the “New Theatre” so I assume this is a colloquial name.
The Reason is: ItÄs all of them. Theatre munipical just means it's the city theater, Desiree calls it new theater because there is an older one and the location of the theater is the Kirchberg area.
Cities where the points were awarded from and languages this year Sweden: Stockholm (English) Luxembourg: Luxembourg (French) France: Paris (French) Spain: Madrid (English) Norway: Oslo (English) United Kingdom: London (English) Cyprus: Nicosia (English) Belgium: Brussels (French) Ireland: Dublin (English) Denmark: Copenhagen (English) Netherlands: Hilversum (English) Yugoslavia: Skopje (French) Austria: Vienna (English) Germany: Munich (French) Turkey: Ankara (English) Finland: Helsinki (English) Switzerland: Bern (French) Italy: Rome (French) Portugal: Lisbon (French)
The only time in ESC-history so far that we were NOT among the favorites prior to the contest and still won. In fact many of the chefs on SVT didn´t even watched the broadcast on the evening but they did switch channel when the telephones started to rang with journalists asking about the arrangement of the contest 1985
The oposite what happened in 1985 in Norway when the boss watched the Eurovision and hardy understood what happened and wondered how on earth we could host this the following year!
Watching the voting, it's really hard to believe 🇸🇪Sweden won this contest when they were struggling in the voting & didn't take their first clear lead until 10 countries into the voting.
Their was some controversy For Uk act Some were booing cause of the song was a rip off The supremes or they had some backing singers. But it did have a happy ending were the singer who did love game sued and won her case
My top 10 for 1984 including and with out my own country. It is about the song you love not the country. One of the few of our own entries I love and has become a classic in our own country: 12 points Portugal! 10 points Belgium 8 points Netherlands 7/8 points Finland 6/7 points Italy 5/6 points Denmark 4/5 points Norway 3/4 points Spain 2/3 points Sweden 1/2 points France 0/1 point Germany
My absolute favourite is 🇹🇷 Turkey! Halay is a melody that deserves more points in my opinion. Only reason why the juries did not award them as much is because they don’t know the beautiful poetic verses done by the acclaimed Turkish singers.
Ha ha! That's a great spot. I guess this is the year where I use the flags large enough for them not to be crunched by the video quality restrictions so much you can't spot the pantone colour shift and the change in olive branches! I'm due to update my flag library soon anyway, with new countries appearing in the 1990s, so I'll make the change then!
Lovely presentation thank you. I feel that Terminal 3 was robbed this year - DiggiLoo was one of the worst ever winners. Anyway my points (and I can't vote for my own country Ireland obviously) for 1984 are: 1p Austria 2p Germany 3p Yugoslavia 4p Luxembourg (but not the live performance!) 5p Spain 6p Finland 7p Belgium 8p Portugal 10p Netherlands 12p Italy - who should have won. It is OK for Terminal 3 to finish second to I Treni di Tozeur.
@@thereorderboard Sorry but Why Me was the best in 92 (well, maybe Italy that year too) and it was my first ever Irish Eurovision winner so I have to disagree. I will give my points when you upload that year.
thereorderboard : Eurovision Terminal 3 should have won in 1984, I really don’t like Why Me. Even then, One Step out of Time is my 10th of 1992. The win in 1992 should have been Italy imo.
Hi - this is done in Viz Artist from VizRT. It's a programme that broadcasters use for things like this, amongst other things! It's a programme I use in my day job, but you can download a free version from their website. There's a fair bit of coding within it to create this but it's a good programme to get to grips with if you're interested in broadcast design. I know there's lots of fans who recreate on After Effects, and that must be very time consuming!
Honestly, the design of the scoreboard is perfect, it captures the visuals very well, the theater looks lush and verrry 80's, but Swedes winning? Hmmm... It should've been Linda Martin's year or the Italian year, cause these two were the most remembered by me. I also liked the Portugese song, it kinda has that timeless factor that felt current in 2023 even. No interval act? Hmmm... I do have to say those short vids were very cool tho, probably they ate the budget the most, but that's not the creme the la creme... The girl. My god, she's beautiful but jesus lady, we get it, you're a polyglot, we don't need to hear it every 10 seconds! The best (?) bit came in 19:54, what in the daddy issues is going on??? Aren't you 19 or something? She is an upgrade from last year's polyglot but my god, she so anal about it it's sucking all the fun
Hi Euro Geeks! (I love your insta)...I use broadcast technology, but I'm looking to get it done via HTLM/CSS/Javascript and a decent animation library in future. I've a how-to video on the channel, which gives a bit of an insight.
The 1984 Eurovision didn't have a single winning song, including the Swedish one. But it wasn't as bad as the other songs, and that's the best thing I can say about it:)
Sadly yes, I opened youtube mobile version in browser and here is the message that Jugovizija channel shows: "This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted." That channel was great, so many unique videos missing now.
Eurovision Russian Fan oh no, that’s not good. I hope this isn’t a purge of those channels which have uploaded old Eurovision clips. They’re really important for those pre-2004 contests.
This is bad news! Makes me think I should grab what I need for future videos whilst I can...I used that channel a lot, it was a great resource! I'm hoping the fact these videos are chopped up and straight reproductions mean I covered under the fail dealing defence, which allows review and commentary on copyrighted material. To be honest I find it so odd to think that they think it's harming anything - we're just enjoying the content and RU-vid are great at identifying and pointing out who owns the copyright!
Probably the worst contest of the 80s. In fact it's so 80s it hurts the eye. Most songs are awful, but I'd single out Both Turkey and Sweden as the best of the evening.
Wenn man glaubt, es kann nicht schlimmer kommen, wird es noch schlimmer. Sorry, ich sehe den ESC seit 1977 live, aber dieser war abgesehen vom Italienischen Betrag der schwächste
