German Schlager Festival 1962

German Schlager Festival 1962
Preliminary decision data
country	BR Germany
Broadcasting station
Producing broadcaster	, , ,
place	Kurhaus , Baden-Baden
date	17th February 1962
Time	8:15 pm ( CET )
Preliminary rounds	4th
Preliminary round dates	January 12, 1962 January 19, 1962 January 26, 1962 February 2, 1962
Moderation
Klaus Havenstein

The second German Schlager Festival took place on February 17, 1962 in the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden . After the somewhat subdued response to the first event from the previous year, the decision was made in autumn 1961 to send the winner of the 1962 Schlager Festival to the Eurovision Grand Prix . Since this event was already announced on March 18, 1962, the Schlager Festival had to be held early.

format

From 245 titles, a jury selected 24 contributions for 12 performers, who were presented to the audience in four TV preliminary decisions. Each interpreter sang two songs in the preliminary round, of which the better rated entered the final. These broadcasts were on January 12 ( Hessischer Rundfunk ), January 19 ( Süddeutscher Rundfunk ), January 26 ( Westdeutscher Rundfunk ) and February 2 ( Bayerischer Rundfunk ).

There remained 12 titles that competed against each other in the final on February 17th in Baden-Baden, moderated by Klaus Havenstein . In the final, six broadcaster juries (BR, WDR, HR, SFB, SR and SWF) and four hall juries (each consisting of 30 members) rated their three favorites, which they gave one, two or three points. In the end, a jury awarded three extra points because there was a tie in first place. Actually, juries from Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Bremen were also supposed to judge in the finals, which was not due to the flood in Hamburg the day before. Also due to the storm surge , unlike originally planned, the final could not be broadcast live on television.

The event generated a divided response. Nevertheless, some of the titles in the final round in Baden-Baden could be found in the charts and some of them have become evergreens today. Above all the winning title, which finally represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 in Luxembourg on March 18, but only achieved a 6th place there. Conny's single sold over a million copies and was also released in Dutch, English, French and Italian.

Placements

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Conny Froboess: Two little Italians   DE 1 01/29/1962 (30 weeks)   NO 1 04/21/1962 (21 weeks) Carmela Corren: A rose from Santa Monica   DE 3 02/26/1962 (22 weeks) Siw Malmkvist: The ways of love   DE 19th 02/26/1962 (17 weeks) Margot Eskens: You can't buy a heart   DE 19th 02/26/1962 (17 weeks) Jimmy Makulis: I only have you in life   DE 43 04/30/1962 (4 weeks) Bill Ramsey: Hilly Billy Banjo Bill   DE 47 02/26/1962 (4 weeks) Ann-Louise Hanson: Sing 'little bird   DE 48 March 26, 1962 (5 weeks)

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	Points
1.	01	Conny Froboess	Two little Italians M: Christian Bruhn ; T: Georg Buschor	19th
2.	06th	Siw Malmkvist	The ways of love M: Hans Wittstadt ; T: Günther Schwenn	18th
3.	09	Margot Eskens	You can't buy a heart M: Wilhelm Carstensen ; T: Peter Lach	08th
4th	07th	Pirkko Mannola & Wyn Hoop	Mama wants to see you M: Margarete Bette-Dahm ; T: Kurt Eliot	06th
5.	08th	Ralf Bendix	Spanish wedding M: Heinz Gietz ; T: Hans Bradtke	05
6th	02	Rita Paul	La luna romantica M / T: Alexander Gordan	02
	05	Peggy Brown	The Lexikon d'amour M: Günter Tilgert ; T: Willy Schlöter	02
7th	08th	Bill Ramsey	Hilly Billy Banjo Bill M / T: Günter Fuhlisch	01
	09	Ann-Louise Hanson	Sing 'little bird M: Joe Menke ; T: Rudolf Simson	01
	10	Carmela Corren	A rose from Santa Monica M: Heinz Alisch ; T: Walter Richter	01
8th.	03	Jimmy Makulis	I only have you in life M: Heino Gaze ; T: Günther Schwenn	00
	04th	Peter Beil	An Italian in love M: Heinz Reinfeld ; T: Bruno Balz	00

See also

• List of music competitions and prizes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Razumovsky, Andreas: "Rosää from Santa Monika. A festival of hits". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 21, 1962, p. 24
2. ↑ musicline.de
3. ↑ Positions of German hits in the Dutch Top40
4. ↑ norwegiancharts.com