Eurovision 1995: Ireland’s secret win | Super-cut with animated scoreboard
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- An edited down version of the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin (once again) with a scoreboard using today’s technology. Nothing but a fun lockdown project.
This edit will give a flavour of the evening (13th May) with Terry Wogan’s commentary. Mostly.
In life, sometimes there’s things that you just have to ‘get through’, and for me, 1995 was one. It’s probably a reflection on how busy I am at the minute, and the challenging branding for this contest which made this one a bit of a slog. That’s not to say that 1995 is a bad show, although, judging by the quality of recordings on TH-cam I am guessing this isn’t much a fan favourite either.
I always thought that this was another landslide, but actually the points allocation is tighter than I had imagined - with the result being sealed up much later than 1994, but not as late at 1993 (which is hard to beat!) - I guess you could judge it as an average Contest in that sense.
Two favourites for the Contest, Spain and Sweden were up there, but the controversially lyric-light Norwegian entry, which contained largely Irish violin playing won the day. Note the lack of support from other Nordic countries - Sweden wanted the song pulled! Rolf Løvland, the producer had sat in The Point a year earlier, watched Riverdance and knew exactly how to bring about Norway’s second victory: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
My favourite story though, is that the Russian ‘edit’ of the show put their entry last in the running order and then they didn’t show the voting, giving the impression that they had won. Luckily for the Russian’s, the relegation zone had been suspended for a new way of picking the songs for 96. Let’s hope they do better there. Eek.
Elsewhere in Europe, the Bosnian war took a darker step than anyone had imagined, with conditions in Srebrenica and Sarajevo worsening. In July, mass murder would take place in one, and the siege of the other would lead to an international response with NATO planes in the sky. It would be in this year that the conflict would end. Nearer to The Point - agreements and progress were taking shape in relation to peace in Northern Ireland, mentioned by Mary Kennedy to heartfelt applause. With the Schengen Agreement coming into force in Europe too, the run up to the Contest wasn’t all bad news.
DESIGN AND THE BOARD
The 95 logo is a great piece of design that furthers the theme of the mid-90s Eurovision…a sort of neo-Celticism, if that’s a thing. What’s clear though, is that the logo designers didn’t talk to the rest of the production. We’re back to 1980s level of mismatch between the logo and the rest of the show. I tried to align them better, but the result started to look a bit like something from The Simpsons. The answer? Do exactly what the set and graphic designers did, make it dark and green and go back to water, like 94. I’ve attempted to add some more logo type elements, but I’m not sure how successful they are.
When picking typefaces, I have to have a full slate of diacritics (the little bits added to letters), and so that limits me from picking many display typefaces that mimicked the ‘eurovision’ in the logo - (which looks hand drawn). Whilst looking for Celtic alternatives, I found K-Type’s Irish Penny (www.k-type.com/fonts/irish-penny/), based on Irish pre-decimal coinage. Excuse the insular G, but the free version didn’t appear to have a latinised G available! The floating ‘E’s are from Karroo Small Caps on dafont.com but it couldn’t do the complex names in this show. I think Irish Penny gives it a romantically Irish look, which the use of Helvetica misses out.
I did use Helvetica Now for numbers etc - it’s a Monotype reworking of the 1957 classic- plenty already said about that typeface elsewhere!
TRANSFER NEWS (source: Wiki)
How did we get to 23? Well:
Only 6 were relegated from 93 as Italy pulled out of 94, giving Cyprus a reprieve. Those 6 were invited back, but Luxembourg also pulled out making:
BACK: 5 (BEL, DEN, ISR, SLO, TUR - all of whom returned strong!)
RELEGATED IN 94: EST, FIN, LIT, NED, ROM, SLO, SUI.
So (25 - 7) +5 = 23.
INTERVAL ACT
As good as Riverdance - there, I said it.
CREDITS
Another ‘Go raibh maith agat’ to Brendan M for helping with the Irish!
@Mosè Michielin for higher quality version
@Lucas ESC Archive for Wogan
@Eirchive for RTÉ News recording
Flags: countryflags.com (Cyprus altered), Bosnia: Wikipedia.
Satellite: flaticon.com
The green sea photo: Elion Jashari on Unsplash
All Copyright goes to BBC for Wogan, and to RTÉ.
00:00 RTÉ News preview
03:18 Intro
11:06 Song super-cut
35:23 Interval act
39:26 Voting intro
40:38 The reorder board 95
1:19:03 Recap & reprise - เพลง
Mary’s comment about it being 25 years since Dana won is quite scary. It means the time between Dana’s win and this contest and this contest and the present day is the same. In 1995, 1970 seemed an awful long time ago, yet 1995 doesn’t feel that long ago at all.
Sad truth: the older you are, the faster time flies! When you are a child one week could seen like ages, especially if there is something to look forward to!
Unbelievably we might be seeing one of these artists again on the Eurovision stage in 2024 - Justyna Steczkowska from Poland who sang Sama here has recorded a new song playing on the popularity of The Witcher and there's heavy suggestions Poland are looking at sending it to Malmo this year. 1995 was 29 years ago and it seems like yesterday!
I have to say something? The answer is yes, another magnificent scoreboard, and finally i can see how Spain, my country, reaches up the second place, good job once again AMAZING, thank you from Spain, muchas gracias desde España 🇪🇸🇪🇦
¡Muchas gracias! Spain rocked this year (and to be honest, they are usually my fave). Thanks for watching!
Spain should’ve won
What a great job you've done with the scoreboard. I love the little touches - the translated country names, the font - and what memories of 1995 come flooding back. Brilliant video.
I just love Terry Wogan's reaction of France's 12 points. Tbh I love his commentary during all's 90 decade
Greece's performance was great.
Such an amazing entry from Slovenia! One of my all time favourites!
I like the host, she's so classy 🥰
I simply can't get enough of these graphics! You've been doing such a splendid job with these videos!
I honestly can’t wait for the 1996 virtual reality soundtrack. Please also include the 360 angle mode as well.
Wonderful, as always. Now I am excited for 1996
Another great job! One of my favorite contests (a year before my all-time favorite) with the best winner ever!
Top ten for me:
1. 🇳🇴 Norway
2. 🇪🇸 Spain
3. 🇨🇾 Cyprus
4. 🇮🇱 Israel
5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
6. 🇮🇪 Ireland
7. 🇭🇷 Croatia
8. 🇸🇪 Sweden
9. 🇩🇰 Denmark
10. 🇵🇱 Poland
Honorable mentions:
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇮🇸 Iceland
- 🇲🇹 Malta
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia
Without exaggeration, every single one of those songs is on my all-time list. The rest aren’t even that bad, just less remarkable by comparison. Except Germany maybe.
@@SuperJNG18 My top 10 in points:
1p 🇮🇪 Ireland
2p 🇩🇰 Denmark
3p 🇦🇹 Austria
4p 🇲🇹 Malta
5p 🇭🇷 Croatia
6p 🇸🇮 Slovenia
7p 🇫🇷 France
8p 🇳🇴 Norway
10p 🇮🇱 Israel
12p 🇪🇸 Spain
Cyprus 🇨🇾 💖
You did an excellent job! Bravo! Your video is amazing! 🙏🙂
Here goes. The top four songs I reckon are going to give me lots of listening in the next few weeks!
12 - Spain : got this song constantly on repeat this week already , great performance and the orchestra really worked well. Anabel Conde might be a one hit wonder but what a hit!
10 - Norway - knew about this one and downloaded to my library before watching this , and it's a masterpiece in it's own right. I do think it's a shame recent Eurovisions don't feature instruments in their song.
8 - Poland - I think I might end up down a rabbit hole with Justyna Steczkowza very soon too....
7 - Greece - love the panpipes in this and the whole feel of this
6 - France - like the uptempo and motown feel
5 - Cyprus - some good instruments and layered vocal work
4 - Sweden - a great solo performance
3 - Slovenia - admirable solo and good ballad
2 - Belgium - quite like the vocals/guitar/rock feel
1 - United Kingdom - a very catchy and upbeat song but not really my style
Sweden got the same number of points in 1995 and 1996
And the same placement too!
I *hope* this is coincidence.
@@thereorderboard Christer Bjorkman was not involved in it, so we can safely state it was all pure coincidence LOL Had it been something after 2012 the story would have been ... different to put it midly.
Fun fact: Mary Kennedy went on the Irish version of Dancing With the Stars and danced to Nocturne during Most Memorable Year Week
A bit of a where are they now - Secret Garden (Norway) and Justyna Steczkowska (Poland) have both done really well out of this contest , even to this day. In the case of the former - becoming one of the biggest selling classical artists duos, selling over 5m albums.
Justyna's also done very well and seems massive in Poland , her latest album Szamanka released last year (2022) is really well put together . I reckon the only reason she's not known worldwide is most of her music is in Polish language.
Anabel Conde really enjoyed her time with Eurovision - reappearing ten years later with Andorra. She decided to pursue a career with her other passion - being a primary school teacher eventually but enjoyed her time with the contest. She's still got it - there's a recording of her singing Vuelve Conmigo as part of a concert last year on TH-cam!
Anabel looks exactly like a primary school teacher 😂
Woohoo. 1995 is here! Can’t wait to watch later when I have some free time :)
A few other things I couldn’t fit in the description:
The into to this show was great I felt, loved the 60 second fly around Ireland that struck right with the romantic view of Ireland that was so popular during this time, as well adding hints to the future. Hopefully, this justifies my use of the Irish Penny typeface. . Unfortunately, the copyright owners of the Cranberries wanted to ruin it for everyone and stop it being in this edit. Love the reference to 19:02GMT in the video, which is roughly when the video would have been played live. I edited down the retrospective to just feature the reorderboard years!
I think this is one of the strongest sets we’ve seen. It looks remarkable different for the Hungarian song, compared to the UK. The only issue was how dark the programme looked, as I’ve said before, it really didn’t fit with the logo design at all.
I’ve kept one of the non-Latin script lower thirds for the song titles…Russian, Hebrew and Greek were given their own straps as far as I could see. Nice touch by RTÉ!
I decided to keep some of the incredibly inaccurate Wogan sections out, just because of time. In the intro to the first song, he said that Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia were all performing in the Contest for the first time…then called them ‘Baltic countries’ where I assume he meant ‘Balkan’. I always think Wogan is a man of the people though, and I expect there was a fair bit of ignorance about the geography of Eastern Europe still at this time…sort of would have expected him to know that Bosnia had been in the Contest before though!
Incidentally, the audio on all of the videos of this Contest are quite bad, I could have spent another day equalising the sound! I can tell that some of the ‘whole show’ videos are bits and pieces stuck together, so I thank those who did that work. We lose Wogan’s audio towards the end of the voting - I can only hope he was more accurate at the end of the actual broadcast!
There was a ‘squeeze back’ in the scoreboard this year too, but unlike in 1994 it was straight on rather than ‘barn dooring’ the spokespeople in the shot. However, instead of waiting for the first point to be awarded, often the scoreboard went full screen during the first point, making operation for me really difficult, the German jury didn’t have one at all (like Switzerland in 94), so the time on the squeeze back so short it wasn’t worth showing at all (I have to go full screen a few frames ahead of the actual programme to avoid it looking messy).
Also, apologies if some of the text is too small, only after review did I think it perhaps unreadable in places (most viewers are on their phones) - I just went with the right balance of type sizes I felt at the time!
At least, you uploaded an amazing video that surpasses all our expectations in the best way! So I love your video. Congratulations from me! 🥳
The Hebrew was gibberish lol. They were out there trying to write “Amen” in Wingdings
@@SuperJNG18, LOL I agree!
What’s meant by barn dooring? I do think the straight on split screen with the juries and the scoreboard as opposed to the angle from 1994 did look better? But as I think I said for ‘94, it was a wasted opportunity for RTÉ to redesign the scoreboard.
That stage is so dark. Not sure why they went for that. As you mention, it’s out of step with the branding.
@@mrjdsworld80, agreed
Great graphics with song shown as the points are allocated. This should be done in the real event.... Well done.
Fun Fact the Irish song Dreaming sung by Eddie Friel caused some controversy following plagiarism allegations due to similarities to a Julie Felix song called "Moonlight".
Now Father Ted and Dougal enter the 1996 Eurosong Contest. They write new words for a Norwegian entry and try to pass it off as their own.
Show: Father Ted
Episode no: Series 2; Episode 5
Featured Music: The Divine Comedy
Original air date: 5 April 1996
They tried to enter the B side but heard it in the lift.
My lovely horse.
You made the 1995 scoreboard oh so pretty! I like the combination of the water graphics and the Celtic font. It must have taken a lot of work, which was worth it. Pity you couldn't have gotten the other language fonts, though.
As for the contest, I do have a soft spot of it. The slowness of it all and the ethereal influences (including the dark stage) contrast with what's on the charts, but there's still some good songs to be found. The ones in my top five are especially beautiful, and amongst my favorites of all-time.
1 pt: SLO
2 pt: ISR
3 pt: TUR
4 pt: POL (I actually prefer this to To nie ja, haha! My second favorite Polish entry, after Ale Jestem in 1997).
5 pt: ESP (This took me a while to grow on. Also, that orchestration has to be one of the best, if not the best of all-time. How would've Eurovision changed had this won?)
6 pt: FRA
7 pt: DEN
8 pt: CYP -- Yeah yeah, fire, haha! That said, I love this one so much--it's equal parts epic and determined, with a message that still resonates to this day. The orchestration adds to the drama of this song, and Alex delivers this well. Probably my favorite entry from Cyprus.
10 pt: NOR: My second-favorite winner ever and my favorite Norwegian entry ever! It's serene yet mournful, with a haunting atmosphere all around. Fionnuala works magic with the violin, and it makes it sound like it's crying. An absolute gem, why isn't this my favorite? Well...
12 pt: GRE -- Because this song equal parts deep and thoughtful. From the ancient Greek in the beginning to Elina's delicate vocals, it's a spiritual experience all around. I also like the lyrics, discussing a political issue in a subtle way, and they tell a compelling story! This is the song that got me hooked onto 1990s Eurovision, and my second favorite Greek entry ever.
Thanks for uploading this video all the best for the videos to come. I have a request! Please do scoreboards from 1975 to 1979 please.
Thank you!!
the legendary voice of the norwegian jury spokesman :)
I love how Israel single-handedly wraps it up. Before their voting, five countries could have still won it (Norway, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, France). Yet their jury - who didn’t even give 12 points to the eventual winners - ensured that Norway couldn’t be caught!
That's what's great about us Jews: we're indecisive most of the time, but in the clutch, we're always the ones tying the bow around the situation for everyone else!
@@SuperJNG18 yes
They say about us 12 Jews 15 opinions
@@SimsMoyal True that
I'm happy we gave 12 points to Spain, the worthy winner of that night.
Nocturne sounded to me, even then, as a very outdated elevator tune.
Secret Garden Norway my all time favorite winner!!🇳🇴
Two Israeli flashbacks in this year's contest. One half of Duo Datz wrote this year's entry and both of them can be seen at the Israeli table in the green room. Of course, the other more obvious Israeli flashback is that Daniel Pe'er, the wonderful co-host from 1979 presents the Israeli votes.
Also, Paul Reynolds, the RTÉ reporter at 3:12 has been RTÉ's crime correspondent for many years - make of that what you will.
Many flashbacks of the 22 traditional countries.
France : Royaume-Uni 12 points
"L'entente cordiale. Bonjour et bonsoir Monsieur Chirac" 😂😂😂 Gotta love Terry Wogan
This channel is amazing and you deserve way way more views and subs than this!
Spain was the big surprise on that night.No one thinked about the fact that an underated song could be ranked better than the favorite scandinavian songs.As i read on some european newspapers when the researshals have started she turned the game and surprised who was at the The Point Theater. 23 years later,some people made comparations between her and Eleni Fourera in 2018.
I remember a behind-the-scenes video about Iceland's '95 experience (Bo almost pulled a Bjorn Skifs and wanted to sing in English but chickened out at the last second) that had a table with the betting odds in the background (or at least one bookmaker's odds, prominently displayed, for Bo to jokingly shake his head in disapproval at since he knew full well '95 wasn't going to be Iceland's year). Let me see if I can find it.
Here's the whole video:
th-cam.com/video/llRzTS7Hsn4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JustIcelandic
And, best as I can make out, here were the betting odds:
4-1 Sweden
6-1 Denmark
7-1 Slovenia
8-1 Ireland
8-1 United Kingdom
10-1 Norway
10-1 Belgium
10-1 Spain
10-1 Croatia
12-1 Israel
12(?)-1 Germany
(Between 12 and 14)-1 France
14-1 Poland
14-1 Russia
16-1 Turkey
16-1 Cyprus
20-1 Portugal
20-1 Iceland
25-1 Malta
33-1 Austria
50-1 Hungary
50-1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
If Wikipedia is to be believed (is it ever?) the big favorites were Sweden and Slovenia, followed closely by Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Norway, and Spain. That mostly seems to track. Spain and Norway are actually at the exact same odds (as are Croatia, who'd also do well, and Belgium, who really wouldn't). I'm guessing Ireland is that high by virtue of their hat-trick of wins, since most people seem to think this entry was definitely not a sleeper hit the way "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" was. Germany's also surprisingly high, and Austria's way lower than I'd expect (it doesn't really scream "failure," does it? It's catchy and melodic, pretty contemporary. How's it lower than Russia?).
@@SuperJNG18 As brazilian,i discovery Eurovision by the Televisión Española who is still today on the cable network.In 1995,i didn't have cable on home,but they make a series about the contest's history and they showed the reactions all over the country result at this year and also some swedish friends tell me about the fact that the nordics are in some feud about the norwegian song and all are was in a boycotting action to themselfs.Noctune was a groundbreaking song,but polemic too.
@@SuperJNG18 i forget to tell you that in Eurovision,Wikipedia is a confient font.
@@debonidaniel I'm an American and I'm pretty sure no American network carried this back in the '90s (although it was four years to the day before I was born, fun fact), so I came to it a few years ago. I know all about the controversy. I think it was much ado about nothing and countries like Spain and Sweden were eating sour grapes that Norway stole their thunder with something outside the typical Eurovision mold. (Also I think you mean "polarizing" not "polemic").
I’m gonna book this for viewing tomorrow but I grabbed a sneak preview of the scoreboard and once again a first class production from yourself...thank you so much. Some little titbits and trivia’s:
- Mary Kennedy was the replacement host for ESC 1981 and was on standby to take over should anything happen to Doireann. She auditioned for 93 and 94 and almost did not get 95 as it was offered to actress Alison Doody who accepted but soon after pulled out.
- Several ideas were seriously considered by RTÉ to make the 95 contest feasible. Ardmore studios in Wicklow was one, and it would have been similar to what was done in 88 (big stage, small audience, clever camera tricks). They also did negotiate with BBC for a co-production and produce the show in Northern Ireland but in the end a cash boost from the Irish Government allowed it to return to the Point Theatre. Several postcards were filmed in Northern Ireland.
- The total cost of ESC 95 came in at €1.9m. While smaller than 93 and 94, all three combined cost RTÉ a staggering €7.4m, not including 97 which cost RTÉ a further €2.5m!
as you forget to tell that RTÉ has made this contest with a majority of public funds,as they don't find sponsors as in 1993 (the horse's arena owner payed all) and in 1994 (when Guinesd Brewery and tecnology enterprises give a big money)
@@debonidaniel The owner of Green Glens Arena did not pay for 93. He suggested his arena to RTÉ, just like Harry Crosbie offered his Point Theatre, and was paid a fee.
Had Irish government not given the cash boost, which would you think had been the eventual option? Wicklow 1995 or a coproduction with the BBC in Belfast?
I think 1995 was an amazing year for Eurovision lovers: Norway, Spain, Denmark - the Top 4 have never been better
Totally agree - went into thinking it was dull, actually such a good show!
@@thereorderboard the show aged very well. I like the stage now much better than then. While I like 1994 or 1996 less now.
I agree, it doesn't happen often that the so many of my favorite top 10 also in in the top 10. I think it never happened for me again ;)
Yay¡ Amazing work. Another year where spain deserved to win.
14:59 - Umm, that’s the Netherlands that got 0pts two years running (1962 and 1963). The closest Norway got to that was 0pts in 1978 and again in 1981, with no songs in between doing so.
The only other country that accomplished that feat was Germany in 1964 and 1965
Great show! Pretty bland year all together, liked quite a few songs but nothing sticks out during the voting sequence.. unlike Norway! Great winner, thanks for the vid! 🥰
The only quibble I have is that (if you skip forward) it takes a second to find the little flashing symbol so I know who's voting - if the voting country was highlighted it'd be simple.
Thank you so much are you going to do the older contests as well? Like 1957 - 1979
Yes, but the current project is getting to 2002. Expect 1957-1979 throughout 2021!
@@thereorderboard I am the most excited for your 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1978 and 2001 scoreboards!!! Thank you so much I love Eurovision votings so much
Spain were robbed
The missing song is Croatia (An Chróit): Magazin & Lidija - Nostalgia.
p.s to my previous comment - there's a good chance we might be seeing Justyna Steczkowska again at Eurovision in the near future I reckon :) - she's recorded a new song playing on the popularity of The Witcher and it's very different to this , a very modern take.
What a great winner Norway was that year. Although as the title says secretly it was also Ireland's win.
The best of the best winner song of all .
I know I keep saying this, but why did RTÉ hate so much showing points received?
Cities where the points were awarded from this year (all juries used English unless otherwise stated)
Poland: Warsaw
Ireland: Dublin
Germany: Dresden
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Sarajevo (French)
Norway: Oslo
Russia: Moscow
Iceland: Reykjavík
Austria: Vienna
Spain: Madrid
Turkey: Ankara
Croatia: Zagreb
France: Paris (French)
Hungary: Budapest
Belgium: Brussels (French)
United Kingdom: London
Portugal: Lisbon
Cyprus: Nicosia
Sweden: Malmö
Denmark: Copenhagen
Slovenia: Ljubljana
Israel: Jerusalem
Malta: Valletta
Greece: Athens
Out of interest, do you reckon you’d consider doing a redux on 1995, given the availability of higher quality footage now?
Hi - I'd consider it, but I don't think this is the most thrilling of sequences so it's not that high up my list unfortunately.
Ok this year the best song won (very rare at Eurovision) but .... come on ... wasnt Vuelve conmigo a fantastic song??? Anabel kiiiiiiled it, what an amazing power voice, i hope she did well in her carrier after this, i my mind the best song Spain ever send
Thank you again for a great production. I remember watching this with great excitement and I thought that the disappearing stairs at the start was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. I also think that Mary is the best of the Irish presenters particularly due to her obvious proficiency in French and Irish, her greeting each juror in their own language and her warmth.
(a cheeky favour to ask - as 97 will be the last Irish hosting, could you use Irish as the main language on the scoreboard - I think all followers are familiar with the Irish words for countries now!)
I was delighted that Ireland didn't win this year as I'm sure were RTÉ. This year's Irish selection effectively inspired the 'Song for Europe' episode of Father Ted and its song 'My Lovely Horse' as the far superior song finished 2nd in the national final.
Norway was not an undeserving or unworthy winner. However, it was not my favourite of this year or of all-time winners or Norwegian entries. I also think that Israel, France and UK (you guys should have sent 'I Need You' by Deuce) were overrated while Austria and Cyprus should have done better.
My points (as Gaeilge):
An Phortaingéil - pointe amhain
An tSlovéin - dhá phointe
An tSualainn - trí phointe
An Iorua - ceithre phointe
An Ghreig - cuig phointe
An Danmhairg - sé phointe
An Pholainn - seacht bpointe
An Ostair - ocht bpointe
An Chipir - deich bpointe
agus ar deireadh...
AN SPÁINN - DHÁ PHOINTE DHÉAG - maybe not a great song but an amazing performance and the second best ever Spanish Eurovision song after Quedate Conmigo in 2012 (Spain being one of my least favourite countries in Eurovision)
I think the UK should have sent “One Gift of Love”, the song that came second in the UK’s ASFE. Far superior to Love City Groove - what the hell were the UK televoters thinking?
@@JeSuisRene I actually remember watching that contest and thinking that "One Gift of Love" was the best. Actually it would have done better in Eurovision than "I Need You", which wasn't great live (but I still think its amazing). I remember guys in my school insisting Love City Groove would win - fools. Didn't even deserve 10th place. It wasn't as bad as Ireland sending Dustin the Turkey to be fair.
@@meskbren I’m not sure, but One Gift of Love really does sound like a prequel to Love Shine a Light, and in a positive way! Where on the board do you think the UK would have ended up if we sent One Gift of Love?
@@meskbren My only fear with “I Need You” is that it - along with “Love City Groove”, actually - probably would have been too modern for the juries’ tastes. We were ranked 10th/11th with LCG, even “Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit” the following year only did as well as 8th.
@@JeSuisRene I think One Gift of Love would have been top 5 - probably Top 3 (with Spain and Norway) as it was rather anthemic - and yes a prequel to LSAL. I agree that 'I Need You' would have been too modern for jury tastes but it was still better than Ooh Ah.
Its funny to see how ireland norway, sweeden, denmark, they vote themselves and not to others … the rest they vote them as always … thats why its impossible to win eurovision for countries as malta, spain, france… This was the difference.
You're basically right, however the expansion of the contest to more countries and the 50%/50% voting system made it a little easier for others to win. For example Israel, Portugal, Ukraine.
I can't stand any block voting and the Scandinavian one is second worst to the Eastern block.
16:12 The winner seems to be a Flea´s sister. The bassist and original member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Could someone justify the fact that Denmark back in those days while they never voted for Greece they always voted for Cyprus????
What a great Eurovision Contest this was ! Started off with a false note *cough*, but it picked up very fast. What a contrast with 1994.
I only gave 4 songs less than 5 out of 10 on my personal scale (in comparison in 1994 more than half got less than 5 from me).
I was 14 years old at the time and I remember I was in love with the Spain song and possible also with Anabel ☺ But deep inside I liked the Norwegian entry even more, maybe the most deserved winner that I can remember. A timeless song at Eurovision and a start of a lovely peaceful revolution in Eurovision. Any other year in the 10 before this one Anabel would have won. For me this 1995 contest was the start of the modern Eurovision and that was for the good, in my humble opinion.
This is my top 10 :
12 Norway
10 Spain
8 France
7 Cyprus
6 Greece
5 Austria
4 Hungary
3 Denmark
2 United Kingdom
1 Croatia
Poland ended last for me, and possible enters into my top 10 of worst songs ever performed at Eurovision. Luckily they came first so we could heal quickly from our ears bleeding.
In the ambience of what you say, the difference between 1995 and 2000 is tremendous. But this is rather explicable on the basis of the hi tech revolution possibilities that accompanied the said period of time. I fully disagree about Poland, it was a masterpiece fairly overlooked and as a friend of mine stated at the time she tried and managed to correlate her voice to a musical intstrument during the high note.
SWEDISH JURY NOT VOTE FOR NORWAY-NUL POINTS. GOD! SERIOUSLY??
31:52 ❤ Slovenia ❤
Congratulations- comhghairdeachas - to whoever translated the Irish. Tá sé go hiontach ar fad. Mo cheol thú👍🎉👏👏👏
From 1995 we have lost:
Davor Popover - Bosnia & Herzegovina
What font did you use?
German singer has her first singing lesson
Best of Scandinavia
Polen is wailing like a cat :)
Croatia 🇭🇷❤️
Why reorder board 94? Its 95
One of my strongest memories of 1995 was how much I hated our entry (the Irish entry.) I know it was a running joke that by now RTÉ were purposely sending rubbish but this song is so bad it makes you think there was truth to it. I also recall a plagiarism scandal arising on the eve of the contest and there were rumours the song was going to be pulled. I heard the song it was reportedly plagiarised from (some folk song) and they were very, very similar.
The song was called 'Moonlight' by Julie Felix and even the lyrics were very similar. Of course the whole episode of selecting Ireland's entry inspired the 'Song for Europe' episode of Father Ted.
@@meskbren I knew it was Julie something or other. The surname escaped me.
@@meskbren "Myyyy looovely hooorse"! 😂😂 The whole series was brilliant, but that particular episode was an extraordinary craicer! 🤣🤣😎🍺🍀🇮🇪
If RTÉ really didn't want to win again, you'd think the rules would have gotten changed by now. Allowing the host not to participate (but they can use the time saved for another interval act and just do whatever with it), ending the language rule earlier (WHY was this a thing ever? Why did the EBU think it had a prerogative to enforce language preservation at this contest? ) or using sample audience votes if televoting wasn't possible yet. I'm proud of our wins but it's annoying that they annoy people so much when we won them fair and square, and if RTÉ didn't want to win this many times themselves even, what the hell was going on?
Why did you say all of them return strong? On the video i see that Belgium scored only 8 points and 20th place
I feel Belgium were really underrated this year, though it does suffer from being in a strong year.
I notice you didn't highlight the bottom 6 or 7 "danger zone" countries, and I think you should have done. I've read somewhere that the EBU decided to replace the relegation system with the audio qualifier AFTER the ESC 1995 was over. It appears then that, at the time of ESC 1995, the EBU wanted to relegate the bottom 6 or 7 countries from ESC 1996, so that the countries forced to miss ESC 1995 (Switzerland, Slovakia, Romania, Finland, Netherlands, Estonia, Lithuania) could return automatically for ESC 1996. The statement "Primarily to appease Germany, who had been relegated from the contest after their poor showing in 1995, all interested parties were invited to select a song that would take part in a preliminary audio-only competition ..." on page 144 of the book "The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History" by John Kennedy O'Connor (2005 and 2010 editions) suggests that the original plan was to relegate the bottom 6 or7 of ESC 1995, and that the audio qualifier to replace relegation was decided upon after ESC 1995.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. With regards to the relegation, you stepped on why I couldn't highlight the danger zone in your point of information: '6 or 7' creates an issue and leaves me to guess whether it was 6 or 7. I suppose there's ways I could have got around it, but overall I think it was right to leave it out. I've tried to make it clear the relegation is a bit of nice guide which has the benefit of us knowing how it panned out - I'm aware that the EBU doesn't really draw up it's 'rules' or decide how many were relegated until the beginning of the new season (although I expect there were times when longer term planning was involved). Hopefully it didn't spoil your enjoyment too much.
Numerous Irish newspapers reported the day BEFORE the 1995 contest that the relegation system had been dropped and in 1996, all countries (except the 1995 winner) would have to go through a “screening” process (as they called it) whereby separate international juries would chose their top 22 songs to go through. Terry still mentions the “relegation zone” so perhaps it wasn’t well known that relegation was going, but it had definitely been announced it was on the way out. So this board is right not to include the relegation zone.
Wogan still. A Irish national. Until 2005. ....
Cyprus and Greece the best friends........
A great video as always. As always I have my own comments to add!
- the lookback video to celebrate 40 years of the contest was a great idea but poorly executed. They skipped lots of years. While I can understand this for the older contests (footage maybe not have been readily available at the time), wiping Corinne Hermès from Eurovision history was unacceptable. Yes, I get Ireland didn’t compete in 1983 but since they start the recap at 1960, it clearly isn’t coinciding with Ireland’s history in the contest (which started in 1965.) I really don’t think there is any excuse for leaving her out, it had only been 12 years (at the time) since she had won.
- one of the lead performers in the interval act, Brian Kennedy (seen at 37:53 for example) went on the represent Ireland 11 years later in Athens
- it took me years to figure out where Mary was standing for the voting. The stage was dark so where could she be since it was so bright? I always assumed she was to the side of the stage but an RTÉ archive photograph I found a few weeks back showed her standing right in the centre of the stage. Obviously I didn’t recognise the stage lit up
- I think I preferred the songs of ‘94 but the presentation of ‘95. The songs were very weak in 1995
- in the run up to the contest in Ireland I recall Spain wasn’t considered a front runner at all, and Denmark were at one point considered the favourite to finish last
- I’ll never figure out how that dated French song did so well though
Agree with you about the French song. I love Spain, it is my favourite song this year but I do think it has more to do with Anabel Conde's amazing performance than the song itself. I also remember being surprised at Denmark doing so well at the time but I like it now. However, I also agree with you that 95 was quite weak song-wise and my top two song (Spain and Cyprus) are the only ones that I actively like.
And you're right about skipping the entries in the 80s but leaving out 'Ein bisschen Frieden' was the atrocity for me (I'm not a huge fan of 'Si la vie est cadeaux')
Oh yeah, I only figured out Mary was centre stage for the voting recently too!
@@meskbren at least Nicole had her image included- Corinne was literally wiped from Eurovision history. I hope she wasn’t watching!
@@mrjdsworld80 oh I didn't notice (shows you how high Corinne is up my radar). That was a bit below the belt of them.
@@meskbren I’m guessing their defence was “we weren’t there in 1983, so as far as we’re concerned, it never happened.”
I disagree. I prefer the songs of 1995 but the production of 1994. The production the previous year just feels so much tighter, though there are more songs that I actively like in 1995. Though Mary was a very good presenter! Also, the result is much more satisfying this time round as compared to the previous year, for me anyway.
Can anyone tell if the Norwegian musicians on stage were actually playing? I think nowdays the rule is that any instrument on stage cannot be heard.
So if that's the case back then, and the singer had like 20 seconds out of the entire song, shouldn't the Irish orchestra take the prize?
You were allowed play the instruments live on stage in 1995.
@@occono3543 I wish this were still the case for modern contests
The biography of Norway's conductor Geir Langslet in All Conductors of Eurovision (all-conductors-of-eurovision.blogspot.com/1998/05/geir-langslet.html, successor site to And the Conductor Is...) says that Fionnuala's violin parts were live.
I think that the 1996 could be a big problem,as they trying to made the voting with the new tecnologies avaliable at the time,as the chroma key.
What's the name of font for points?
It's Helvetica bold. If you have a Mac, it's probably called Helvetica Neue. There's a new version from Monotype, and some weights are free: www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now (not an ad...I just like great typefaces!)
Love city Grove 10th place...it ok
Just a question. Are there people.....or fans around.......who like to create 'non-reordered-boards' as of 2003 and onwards? I'm curious how that looks like 🤔. I mean, then you're more focused on the running order of each entry (which could be a nice screw-up for the later producer decided running order). It also shows at large what the influence of the running order is.
this could be an suggestion.But the idea here is the fact that real time scoreboard turning a special feature in Eurovision and the static scoreboardings don't give to us the real situation of the voting process when the voting are very tight as happened in 1991.I remember the impact when 2003 they introduced the realtime scoreboard,was a tight year.
@@debonidaniel But that is your opinion. I think when you look at the voting procedures from 1988, 1991 and 1998 without your re-arranging visuals, it stays excited and even tense when the points let it to be tense. What's an impact for you, is different for someone else. I love your wonderful visuals. The EBU should hire you ;-). But for the sake of a bit of retro too, it would be great to see how today's scoreboards since 2003 look like if they weren't rearranged. Let the viewer puzzle a bit... Thus I hope you will also do some scoreboards retro-style. Is also great for the older fans as well ;-).
@@gertscomplex7568 i don't watch the contest before 1997,and i watch some old contests on the youtube or another plataforms.Realtime television give another logic for a many events,as Miss Universe pageant,elections all over thr world,the Olympics and of course Eurovision.The idea of the realtime scoreboard come from the swedes who was used this on the Melofestivalen and of couse the major changes on the contest come from Sweden.
@@debonidaniel so you would not like to do others a favour 😊?
@@gertscomplex7568 could be a new thing and this sound good to me.
SPAIN THE BEST SONG🎉🎉🎉🎉
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This is the flag of Ivory Coast, not Ireland.
Spain deserved to win 😿
Norway 1995 is the best song in the history of the Eurovision
Not really a song. More like a tune.
@@ponyclub3198 national anthem lol
No. Just no
@@DeeJay_78 yes
@@Harel_Israel once again, no. It’s not a proper song. Just my opinion.
🇦🇱 MIRA KONÇI - TË SOTMEN JETO
My top 5:
1. Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. Iceland
3. Russia
4. Portugal
5. Cyprus
If RTÉ really didn't want to win again, you'd think the rules would have gotten changed by now. Allowing the host not to participate (but they can use the time saved for another interval act and just do whatever with it), ending the language rule earlier (WHY was this a thing ever? Why did the EBU think it had a prerogative to enforce language preservation at this contest? ) or using sample audience votes if televoting wasn't possible yet. I'm proud of our wins but it's annoying that they annoy people so much when we won them fair and square, and if RTÉ didn't want to win this many times themselves even, what the hell was going on?
The fact the violinist is Irish. Ireland really was Eurovision. Pity it’s gone now
Spain should have won...