Venue: Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France Date: Saturday,18 March 1961 Presentation: Jacqueline Joubert Voting: Per country, 10 jurymembers each awarded 1 point to their favourite song. Number of countries: 16
Funny that it still not very common among the LGBTQ+scene that Jean-Claude Pascal was the first gay man to win the ESC (although he was still 'in the closet' at that time) - and he won with a song that was a hidden plea against those who were still judging homosexuality as a crime.
ESC March 18, 1961 Cannes, France 🇫🇷 Time stamps 3:35 Opening remarks and Introduction of the contestants by presenter Jacqueline Joubert 07:55 🇪🇸 Spain (contest debut) "Estando contigo" ("Being with you") Conchita Bautista - 8 points, 9th place out of 16 11:00 🇲🇨 Monaco "Allons, allons les enfants" ("Let's go, let's go children") Colette Dereal - 6 points, tied for 10th place out of 16 13:46 🇦🇹 Austria "Sehnsucht" ("Longing") Jimmy Makulis - 1 point, tied for 15th place out of 16 17:23 🇫🇮 Finland (contest debut) "Valoa ikkunassa" ("Light in the window") Laila Kinnunen - 6 points, tied for 10th place out of 16 21:21 Yugoslavia (contest debut) "Neke davne zvezde" ("Some distant stars") Ljiljana Petrovic - 9 points, 8th place out of 16 25:20 🇳🇱 Netherlands "Wat een dag" ("What a day") Greetje Kauffeld - 6 points, tied for 10th place out of 16 28:59 🇸🇪 Sweden "April, April" Lill-Babs - 2 points, 14th place out of 16 31:51 🇩🇪 Germany "Einmal sehen wir uns wiederer" ("One day we'll see each other once again") Lale Andersen - 3 points, 13th place out of 16 36:07 🇫🇷 France "Printemps, avril carillone" ("Springtime, April rings") Jean-Paul Mauric - 13 points, 4th place out of 16 39:47 🇨🇭 Switzerland "Nous aurons demain" ("We'll have tomorrow") Franca di Rienzo - 16 points, 3rd place out of 16 🥉 43:29 🇧🇪 Belgium "September, gouden roos" ("September, golden rose") Bob Benny - 1 point, tied for 15th place out of 16 47:39 🇳🇴 Norway "Sommer I palma" ("Summer in Palma") Nora Brockstedt - 10 points, 7th place out of 16 51:36 🇩🇰 Denmark "Angelique" Dario Campeotto - 12 points, tied for 5th place out of 16 55:25 🇱🇺 Luxembourg "Nous les amoureux" ("We, the lovers") Jean-Claude Pascal - 31 points, 1st place out of 16 🏆🥇 58:53 🇬🇧 United Kingdom "Are you sure?" The Allisons - 24 points, 2nd place out of 16 🥈 1:01:20 🇮🇹 Italy "Al di la" ("Beyond") Betty Curtis - 12 points, tied for 5th place out of 16 1:05:35 Interval act. Ballet performed by Tessa Beaumont and Max Bozzoni 1:10:22 voting begins 1:10:44 🇮🇹 Italian jury. Most points given to Luxembourg (3/10) 1:11:40 🇬🇧 British jury. 2 points each given to Finland, France and Switzerland 1:13:09 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish jury. Most points given to the UK (8/10) 1:14:10 🇩🇰 Danish jury. Most points given to Italy (4/10) 1:15:20 🇳🇴 Norwegian jury. Most points given to Denmark (8/10) 1:16:09 🇧🇪 Belgian jury. Most points given to Norway (5/10) 1:16:55 🇨🇭 Swiss jury. Most points given to the UK (7/10) 1:17:55 🇫🇷 French jury. 2 points each given to Spain, Yugoslavia and Sweden 1:19:23 🇩🇪 German jury. Most points given to Luxembourg (5/10) 1:20:15 🇸🇪 Swedish jury. Most points given to Switzerland (4/10) 1:21:19 🇳🇱 Dutch jury. Most points given to the UK (3/10) 1:22:18 Yugoslavian jury. Most points given to Luxembourg (5/10) 1:23:46 🇫🇮 Finnish jury. 3 points each given to Monaco and Luxembourg 1:24:48 🇦🇹 Austrian jury. Most points given to Luxembourg (4/10) 1:25:45 voting points error found and corrected with the UK score 1:26:28 🇲🇨 Monegasque jury. Most points given to Luxembourg (4/10) 1:27:35 🇪🇸 Spanish jury. Most points given to the UK (3/10) 1:28:49 Announcement of the winning song 1:31:18 Winner's reprise "Nous les amoureux" Jean-Claude Pascal 🇱🇺 Final Results: 0:55:25 1 - 🇱🇺 Luxembourg🥇🏆/ 31 pts 0:58:53 2 - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom🥈/ 24 pts 0:39:47 3 - 🇨🇭 Switzerland🥉/ 16 points 0:36:07 4 - 🇫🇷 France / 13 points 0:51:36 5 - 🇩🇰 Denmark (tie) / 12 points 1:01:20 5 - 🇮🇹 Italy (tie) / 12 points 0:47:39 7 - 🇳🇴 Norway / 10 points 0:21:21 8 - Yugoslavia / 9 points 0:07:55 9 - 🇪🇸 Spain / 8 points 0:11:00 10 - 🇲🇨 Monaco (tie) / 6 points 0:17:23 10 - 🇫🇮 Finland (tie) / 6 points 0:25:20 10 - 🇳🇱 Netherlands (tie) / 6 points 0:31:51 13 - 🇩🇪 Germany / 3 points 0:28:59 14 - 🇸🇪 Sweden / 2 points 0:13:46 15 - 🇦🇹 Austria (tie) / 1 point 0:43:29 15 - 🇧🇪 Belgium (tie) / 1 point
@@montserratestevezramirez833 ah yes! Haha I love Eurovision, so I used some of my initial COVID self-quarantine time to learn more about the first decade and a half of the contest and write out the details for some of the videos.
Hace ya 62 años que Conchita Bautista cantó este tema de Augusto Alguero -precisamente en ese 1961 se casaba con Carmen Sevilla- y dejando aparte la clasificación de la canción tras las votaciones , hay que reconocer que la canción tenía su gancho y que la intérprete estuvo muy bien .
News Note 5. 1961 Eurovision Presenter was Jacqueline Joubert (1921 - 2005). She Died Aged 83. This Was the 2nd of 2 Eurovision Song Contests which She Presented.
10,204 View's So Far: Monday February 22 - 2021. Eurovision Song Contest Number 06. Year 1961. Venue: Cannes France. Winner: Luxembourg 1st Win. Current Roll of Honour: Wins: France 2 Netherlands 2 Luxembourg 1 Switzerland 1.
@@stephenfoster4178 This was the best song and should also have won by default as the rules then were that each entry had to be written and sung by a national, and Luxembourg's song was written by a French composer and sung by a French film star Jean-Claude Pascal. The result should have been rescinded but it wasn't only because John Alford and Bob Day of the Allisons were such a couple of nice blokes. In 2015 John (the tall one) was interviewed and said, “Somebody did take me to one side at the time and said: ‘You do know technically you won?’ I was only 21 and had been brought up not to question your elders, we were very new in the business and very nervous not to say anything out of place. So we said we didn’t mind as our record was a hit in Britain and the Eurovision was very low-key at that point.”
... well maybe he was gay - but mostly in the closet at that time - and he had just won with a song that was a hidden plea against those who were still judging homosexuality as a crime.
The rules then were that each entry had to be written and sung by a national, and Luxembourg's song was written by a French composer and sung by a French film star Jean-Claude Pascal. The result should have been rescinded but it wasn't only because John Alford and Bob Day of the Allisons were such a couple of nice blokes. In 2015 John (the tall one) was interviewed and said, “Somebody did take me to one side at the time and said: ‘You do know technically you won?’ I was only 21 and had been brought up not to question your elders, we were very new in the business and very nervous not to say anything out of place. So we said we didn’t mind as our record was a hit in Britain and the Eurovision was very low-key at that point.”
plusieurs FRANCAIS participent au 6 ème concours EUROVISION JEAN-PAUL MAURIC pour la FRANCE JEAN-CLAUDE PASCAL pour le LUXEMBOURG COLETTE DEREAL pour MONACO
Festival de Eurovisión de 1961, no veo relación con la situación política actual... cuántas tonterías hay que leer!! Por cierto, Conchita Bautista mereció una puntuación mejor!
