Eurovision Song Contest 1984
| 29th Eurovision Song Contest | |
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| date | 5th May 1984 |
| Host country |  Luxembourg
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| venue |  Théâtre Municipal , Luxembourg |
| Broadcasting television station | 
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| Moderation | Désirée Nosbusch |
| Pause filler | The Prague Theater of Illuminated Drawings |
| participating countries | 19th |
| winner |  Sweden
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| Returning participants |  Ireland
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| Withdrawn participants |  Greece , Israel
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| Voting rule | In each country a jury awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to the ten best songs. |
◄ ESC 1983 • ESC 1985 ►
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The 29th Concours Eurovision de la Chanson , the official title this year, took place on May 5, 1984 in the Théâtre Municipal (Municipal Theater) in Luxembourg . After Israel and Greece canceled their participation, only 19 nations took part.
The winners were the Herrey brothers with Diggi-loo Diggy-ley . The Swedish song about golden shoes landed in front of the Irish contribution Terminal 3, which Johnny Logan wrote for Linda Martin .
particularities
The German-language titles had little success this year: Mary Roos with the title Aufrecht geht'n by Michael Reinecke and Michael Kunze for Germany reached 13th place, What color is the sunshine? from the group Rainy Day took 16th place for Switzerland, Anita with the song Easy Away for Austria landed in last place.
Désirée Nosbusch , who was nineteen at the time, is still the youngest presenter of the competition.
Diggi-loo Diggy-ley was originally just the working title of the later winning song when there was no text for the composition. As an onomatopoeic expression of a good mood, this sequence of words should be retained in the chorus, but the title itself should be called “In golden shoes” (German equivalent: “On cloud seven”). Inadvertently, however, the song was submitted to the competition under its working title, which was particularly regrettable for lyricist Britt Lindeborg, who had to take heavy criticism for the title, which was in itself nonsensical.
Attendees
Ireland returned to the competition after a year off. Since Greece and Israel waived, the number of participants fell back to 19 countries. The following performers returned to the competition:
| country | Interpreter | Previous year of participation | Previous placement |
This year's placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Germany
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Mary Roos | 1972 | 3. (of 18) | 13. (−10) |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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Izolda Barudžija |
1982 (as a member of Aska ) 1983 (accompaniment vocals by Daniel ) |
14th (of 18) 4th (of 20) |
18. (−4 / -14) |
Voting procedure
In each country there was an eleven-member jury, which initially determined the ten best songs internally. Then the individual juries awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to these ten best songs.
Placements
| space | Start number | country | Interpreter | Song Music (M) and Text (T) |
language | Translation (unofficial) |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 |
Sweden
|
Herrey's |
Diggi-loo Diggy-ley M: Torgny Söderberg; T: Britt Lindeborg |
Swedish | - | 145 |
| 2. | 9 |
Ireland
|
Linda Martin |
Terminal 3 M / T: Johnny Logan |
English | - | 137 |
| 3. | 4th |
 Spain
|
Bravo |
Lady, Lady M: Miguel Blasco; T: Amaya Saizar |
Spanish | - | 106 |
| 4th | 10 |
 Denmark
|
Hot eyes |
Det 'lige det M: Søren Bundgaard; T: Keld Heick |
Danish | It is easy | 101 |
| 5. | 8th |
 Belgium
|
Jacques Zegers |
Avanti la vie M: Henri Seroka; T: Jacques Zegers |
French | Get on in life | 70 |
| 18th |
 Italy
|
Alice and Battiato |
I treni di Tozeur M: Franco Battiato ; T: Rosario Consentino, Giusto Pio |
Italian | The Tozeur trains | 70 | |
| 7th | 6th |
 United Kingdom
|
Belle and the Devotions |
Love Games M / T: Paul Curtis, Graham Sacher |
English | Love games | 63 |
| 8th. | 3 |
 France
|
Annick Thoumazeau |
Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles M: Vladimir Kosma; T: Charles Level |
French | As many lovers as stars | 61 |
| 9. | 16 |
 Finland
|
Kirka |
Hengaillaan M: Jukka Siikavire; T: Jussi Tuominen |
Finnish | Let's hang out | 46 |
| 10. | 2 |
Luxembourg
|
Sophie Carle |
100% d'amour M: Jean-Pierre Goussaud; T: Jean Beriat, Patrick James |
French | 100% love | 39 |
| 11. | 19th |
 Portugal
|
Maria Guinot |
Silêncio e tanta gente M / T: Maria Guinot |
Portuguese | Silence and so many people | 38 |
| 12. | 15th |
 Turkey
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Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra |
Halay M: Selçuk Başar; T: Ülkü Aker |
Turkish | - | 37 |
| 13. | 11 |
 Netherlands
|
Maribelle |
Ik hou van jou M / T: Peter van Asten, Richard Debois |
Dutch | I love you | 34 |
| 14th |
BR Germany
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Mary Roos |
Walking upright M: Michael Reinecke ; T: Michael Kunze |
German | - | 34 | |
| 15th | 7th |
.svg){kind=small} Cyprus
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Andy Paul |
Anna Maria Lena (Άννα Μαρία Λένα) M / T: Andy Paul |
Greek | - | 31 |
| 16. | 17th |
 Switzerland
|
Rainy Day |
What color is the sunshine? M / T: Günter Loose |
German | - | 30th |
| 17th | 5 |
 Norway
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Dollie de Luxe |
Lenge leve livet M / T: Benedicte Adrian, Ingrid Bjørnov |
Norwegian | Long live life | 29 |
| 18th | 12 |
Yugoslavia
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Vlado and Izolda |
Ćao amore M: Slobodan Bucevac; T: Milan Peric |
Croatian | Bye my love | 26th |
| 19th | 13 |
 Austria
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Anita |
Simply away M: Brigitte Seuberth; T: Walter Müller |
German | - | 5 |
Scoreboard
| country | Points |
SE |
LU |
FR |
IT |
NO |
UK |
CY |
BE |
IE |
DK |
NL |
YU |
AT |
DE |
TK |
FI |
CH |
IT |
PT |
Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sweden |
145 | 6th | 6th | 4th | 10 | 7th | 12 | 7th | 12 | 12 | 10 | 4th | 12 | 12 | 3 | 8th | 10 | 6th | 4th | 18th | |
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Luxembourg |
39 | - | - | 7th | - | - | 7th | - | 5 | 5 | - | 8th | - | - | 4th | - | - | 3 | - | 7th | |
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France |
61 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 6th | 3 | 10 | - | - | 12 | - | 8th | - | - | - | 4th | 7th | 7th | 10 | |
|
Spain |
106 | 10 | 8th | 10 | 6th | 4th | 6th | 3 | 7th | 7th | 2 | 2 | 6th | - | 12 | - | 3 | 8th | 12 | 16 | |
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Norway |
29 | 8th | 7th | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 6th | 2 | - | - | 7th | |
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United Kingdom |
63 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 8th | 2 | 2 | 8th | 1 | 4th | 1 | 2 | 7th | 1 | 4th | - | 10 | 6th | 16 | |
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Cyprus |
31 | 4th | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4th | 10 | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | |
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Belgium |
70 | - | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 8th | - | 3 | 4th | 5 | 10 | - | 1 | 10 | 11 | |
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Ireland |
137 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4th | 8th | 10 | 12 | 3 | 7th | - | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7th | 12 | 12 | 2 | 17th | |
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Denmark |
101 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 6th | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8th | 10 | 3 | 6th | 4th | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 18th | |
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Netherlands |
34 | - | 2 | 7th | 8th | - | 1 | - | - | 6th | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | 7th | |
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Yugoslavia |
26th | - | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 8th | 2 | - | - | - | 6th | |
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Austria |
5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
|
BR Germany |
34 | - | - | 4th | - | 7th | 2 | - | 6th | - | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
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Turkey |
37 | 6th | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 4th | 2 | - | 1 | 10 | - | - | 3 | 6th | - | - | 8th | |
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Finland |
46 | 7th | - | 5 | 1 | 5 | - | 4th | - | - | 6th | - | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6th | - | - | 3 | 11 | |
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Switzerland |
30th | 1 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 1 | 5 | - | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4th | - | 7th | |
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Italy |
70 | - | 10 | - | 12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | 6th | 7th | 12 | 7th | 8th | 9 | |
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Portugal |
38 | - | 4th | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 7th | - | 8th | - | - | 8th | - | 6th |
* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.
Statistics of the twelve-point allocation
| number | country | received from |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Sweden |
Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Cyprus |
| 4th |
Ireland
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Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland |
| 2 |
Belgium
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France, Luxembourg |
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Denmark
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Norway, United Kingdom | |
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Italy
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Finland, Spain | |
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Spain
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Portugal, Turkey | |
| 1 |
France
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Netherlands |
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Cyprus
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Yugoslavia |