Eurovision Song Contest 1977

22nd Eurovision Song Contest
date	May 7, 1977
Host country	United Kingdom
venue	Wembley Conference Center , London
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Angela Rippon
Pause filler	Mr. Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Men
participating countries	18th
winner	France
Returning participants	Sweden
Withdrawn participants	Yugoslavia
Voting rule	In each country a jury awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and one point to the ten best songs.
◄ ESC 1976 • ESC 1978 ►

The 22 Euro Vision Song Contest took place on May 7, 1977 London district Wembley instead. As in the previous year , France and Great Britain were at the top, but with swapped places. This time the gap was 15 points. Originally the competition was supposed to take place five weeks earlier, but had to be postponed due to a strike by the BBC cameramen .

particularities

Artist of the winning title, Marie Myriam , in 2007

For the first time an African country, namely Tunisia , should take part in the contest; it was already drawn at starting position 4, but withdrew for a short time (because Israel participated) and made no further attempt to participate afterwards.

A rule change said that all contributions must be made in the respective national language. However, this was announced at relatively short notice; At this point in time, the songs of Germany and Belgium, each in English, had already been selected and were therefore given a special permit.

The German contribution was selected internally without a public preliminary decision. After the poor performance in the two previous years, the entertainment directors of the ARD broadcasters decided in 1976 to send the then well-known pop group Silver Convention to the Eurovision Song Contest in London . Singers Linda Übelherr , Penny McLean and Ramona Wulf insisted on singing their title in English and were supported by producers Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze . At the end of 1976 Linda Übelherr left the group and was replaced by Rhonda Heath . Three songs were submitted, of which the title Telegram was selected by the ARD entertainment directors as the German contribution. The title was revealed to the public on March 9, 1977 on How would you like it? presented with Hans Joachim Kulenkampff . Silver Convention took 8th place at the Eurovision Song Contest in London with 55 points. Telegram was Silver Convention's final top 30 listing.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC but not in 1977

Sweden returned, but Yugoslavia did not take part, so that again 18 countries competed this year. Tunisia had already agreed, but withdrew at short notice.

Voting procedure

The voting procedure that had been introduced in 1975 was used. In each country there was an eleven-member jury, which initially determined the ten best songs internally. Then the individual jurors awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points to these ten best songs.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	18th	France	Marie Myriam	L'oiseau et l'enfant M: Jean-Paul Cara; T: Joe Gracy	French	The bird and the child	136
02.	09	United Kingdom	Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran	Rock Bottom M / T: Lynsey de Paul , Mike Moran	English	At the bottom	121
03.	01	Ireland	The Swarbriggs Plus Two	It's Nice to Be in Love Again M / T: Tommy Swarbrigg, Jimmy Swarbrigg	English	It's nice to be in love again	119
04th	02	Monaco	Michèle Torr	Une petite française M: Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint; T: Jean Albertini	French	A little French woman	096
05.	10	Greece	Pascalis , Marianna , Robert and Bessy Πασχάλης, Μαριάννα, Ρόμπερτ και Μπέσυ	Mathema Solfege (Μάθημα σολφέζ) M: Giorgos Hatzinasios; T: Sevy Tilliaku	Greek	Solmization lessons	092
06th	12	Switzerland	Pepe Lienhard Band	Swiss Lady M / T: Peter Reber	German a.	Swiss	071
07th	17th	Belgium	Dream Express	A Million in One, Two, Three M / T: Luc Smets	English 1	A million in the blink of an eye	069
08th.	06th	BR Germany	Silver Convention	Telegram M: Sylvester Levay ; T: Michael Kunze	English 1	telegram	055
09.	14th	Spain	Mickey	Enseñame a cantar M / T: Fernando Arbex	Spanish	Teach me to sing	052
10.	16	Finland	Monica Aspelund	Lapponia M: Aarno ranines; T: Monica Aspelund	Finnish	Lapland	050
11.	11	Israel	Ilanite אילנית	Ahava hi shir lishnayim (אהבה היא שיר לשניים) M: Eldad Shrim; T: Edna Peleg	Hebrew	Love is a song for two	049
12.	03	Netherlands	Heddy Lester	De mallemolen M: Frank Affolter; T: Wim Hogenkamp	Dutch	The carousel	035
13.	15th	Italy	Mia Martini	Libera M: Salvatore Fabrizio; T: Luigi Albertelli	Italian	Free	032
14th	08th	Portugal	Os amigos	Portugal no coração M: Fernando Tordo; T: José Carlos Ary dos Santos	Portuguese	Portugal in the heart	019th
15th	05	Norway	Anita Skorgan	Casanova M: Svein Strugstad; T: Dag Nordtømme	Norwegian	-	018th
16.	07th	Luxembourg	Anne-Marie B.	Brother Jacques M / T: Pierre Cour, Guy Béart	French	brother Jacob	017th
17th	04th	Austria	Butterflies	Boom Boom Boomerang M: Schurli Herrnstadt , Herbert Zöchling-Tampier, Willi Resetarits ; T: Lukas Resetarits	German a.	-	011
18th	13	Sweden	Forbes	Beatles M: Claes Bure; T: Sven-Olof Bagge	Swedish	-	002

¹ Belgium and Germany's exemption contributions in English, see introduction

^a. with English title

Scoring

Map of the scoring for the winning title from France by country

Sustaining land		Forgiving country
country	Total	IRL	MCO	NLD	AUT	NOR	GER	LUX	POR	GBR	GRC	ISR	SUI	SWE	ESP	ITA	FIN	BEL	FRA
Ireland	119	-	8th	1	5	12	5	8th	1	12	10	12	8th	12	4th	8th		3	10
Monaco	096	5	-		8th	1	6th	1	6th	7th	12	2	6th	10	8th	12	5	2	5
Netherlands	035	3	3	-						1	1	1	7th		1			10	8th
Austria	011		5		-	2					3						1
Norway	018th					-		3	2	2				1		5		5
BR Germany	055	1	1	3	2		-	2	8th	8th	8th	5		5	5	6th			1
Luxembourg	017th	2						-							7th		8th
Portugal	018th		2	2			1		-				4th			3			6th
United Kingdom	121		12	7th	12	7th	10	12	12	-		8th		8th	3	2	4th	12	12
Greece	092		10	10	4th	4th	4th	6th	10	5	-	3	1	7th	12	1	6th	6th	3
Israel	049	7th	7th	5	3	5						-	10	3	6th			1	2
Switzerland	071	6th			10	10		5	4th	4th	6th	4th	-			4th	10	8th
Sweden	002						2							-
Spain	052			6th	1		7th	7th		3	4th		3		-	7th	7th	7th
Italy	033	8th	6th				3		3				2		2	-	2		7th
Finland	050	12		4th	6th	8th					2	7th	5	2			-		4th
Belgium	069	4th		12		6th	8th	4th	7th	10	5	6th		4th			3	-
France	136	10	4th	8th	7th	3	12	10	5	6th	7th	10	12	6th	10	10	12	4th	-

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.
The scoreboard had indicated some errors during the live show. Two errors remained uncorrected until the end of the show and were only corrected afterwards. The Greek jury gave two 4 points to Spain and Austria (in addition to three for Finland, two for the Netherlands and one for the United Kingdom). This has been corrected to four points for Spain, three for Austria, two for Finland, one for the Netherlands and none for the United Kingdom. The French jury awarded three points to Greece and Israel (in addition to two points for Germany), and one point to Austria and Belgium. This has been corrected to three points for Greece, two for Israel, one for Germany and none for Austria and Belgium.

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net
• 22nd Eurovision Song Contest 1977 on eurovision-deutschland.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.fernsehserien.de/wie-haetten-sies-denn-gern/im-tv