🔴 1962 Eurovision Song Contest Full Show from Luxembourg (French Commentary by Pierre Tchernia)

Date: 18 March 1962 - Host Venue: Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter: Mireille Delannoy - Musical director: Jean Roderès
Directed by Jos Pauly, René Steichen
Host broadcaster: Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT)
Interval act: Achille Zavatta

The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the 1961 contest with the song "Nous les amoureux" by Jean-Claude Pascal. This was the first time Luxembourg hosted the event. The contest was held at the Villa Louvigny on Sunday 18 March 1962 and was hosted by Mireille Delannoy. Sixteen countries participated in the contest – the same that took part the year prior.

The winner was France with the song "Un premier amour", performed by Isabelle Aubret, written by Roland Valade and composed by Claude Henri Vic. This was France's third victory in the contest in just five years, following their wins in 1958 and 1960. It was also the third consecutive winning song performed in French.

For the first time in the contest's history, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, and Spain all scored the infamous nul points.

The 1962 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in Luxembourg City. The venue chosen to host the 1962 contest was the Villa Louvigny. The building served as the headquarters of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, the forerunner of RTL Group. It is located in Municipal Park, in the Ville Haute quarter of the centre of the city.

After France's entry had been performed, there was a short power failure rendering the screens dark. There also seemed to be an even shorter power failure during the Netherlands entry, when viewers around Europe only saw darkness on their television screens when the Netherlands performed. The power failure seemed to affect the Netherlands score during the voting. Nevertheless, the song turned out to be popular in Europe after the contest
This year marked the second jury voting system change in the contest's history, moving away from a point per favourite song from 10-member juries to the allocation of 3, 2 and 1 points given to the top three favourite songs from each country's 10-member jurors' ratings.

Results
Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points
01 Finland Marion Rung "Tipi-tii" Finnish 7 4
02 Belgium Fud Leclerc "Ton nom" French 13 0
03 Spain Victor Balaguer "Llámame" Spanish 13 0
04 Austria Eleonore Schwarz "Nur in der Wiener Luft" German 13 0
05 Denmark Ellen Winther "Vuggevise" Danish 10 2
06 Sweden Inger Berggren "Sol och vår" Swedish 7 4
07 Germany Conny Froboess "Zwei kleine Italiener" German 6 9
08 Netherlands De Spelbrekers "Katinka" Dutch 13 0
09 France Isabelle Aubret "Un premier amour" French 1 26
10 Norway Inger Jacobsen "Kom sol, kom regn" Norwegian 10 2
11 Switzerland Jean Philippe "Le retour" French 10 2
12 Yugoslavia Lola Novaković "Ne pali svetla u sumrak" (Не пали светла у сумрак) Serbo-Croatian 4 10
13 United Kingdom Ronnie Carroll "Ring-A-Ding Girl" English 4 10
14 Luxembourg Camillo Felgen "Petit bonhomme" French 3 11
15 Italy Claudio Villa "Addio, addio" Italian 9 3
16 Monaco François Deguelt "Dis rien" French 2 13