After letting my jury take a few weeks off after the 2012 contest it was time for us to go back fifty years to the knockoff Dior dresses and Sinatra-like crooning of the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest.
Since Luxembourg's entrant won the previous years contest, Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion hosted the contest from their studio, Villa Louvigny, on March 1962.
No new countries entered, so the same sixteen countries in 1961 participated this year. Some countries even sent the same singer.
Fud Leclerc "Ton Nom" Belgium
Leclerc made his fourth and final appearance representing Belgium in the 1962 contest, coming in last place, garnering nul points from the European juries. We were kinder to him. He came in ninth.
We were much less kind to this song:
Camillo Felgen "Petit bonhomme" Luxembourg
The European juries though this was the third best song in the contest. The Alaskan jury put him last, the second time Felgen has come in last in our voting.
But for the winner of the contest, we agreed with the voters on the night. The French entry was the winner.
Isabelle Aubret "Un premier amour" France
Aubret's song was a runaway winner in the European juries, but it came in first in what is our closest vote ever. Aubret just pipped this song for first place:
Lola Novaković "Ne pali svetla u sumrak" Yugoslavia
At the end of the voting of our voting, the two songs were tied, with an equal number preferring each of the two songs, so I had to invite another person to vote--and Aubret won by just one point.
So, Alaskans agreed with Europe again, and next is 1963, one of the more interesting contests in Eurovision history, so look for our post in the next few weeks.
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