I would love to see a film about Jean-Claude Pascal's life. From fighting in the war to fashion designer for Dior to film actor to winning Eurovision with a song about two men and their forbidden love. Like that whole period of 20 something years of his life ought to make an interesting story. ❤
@@Cilla0415 I know, with C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique..sadly not the same result. Shared 11th with I believe Denmark? Could be wrong about that. I would have ranked it higher though. It is a very nice song. I also love his rendition of Ma jeunesse fout le camp. The 'colour' of his voice is so beautiful if that makes sense. Such a distinguished gentleman with a long diverse career. Gotta love him. I hope he had a happy private life.
Yes totally!!! He won a medal from the French Army for his role in the liberation of Strasbourg whe he was 18! It seems larger than life! I really hope he managed to have a successful love life for these times, that he made the most of what was possible back in the days.
This was very interesting! "Nous les amoureux" is one of my favorite winning songs, but I had no idea about the 1961 contest being so eventful beyond that.
Loving these videos and am very pleased to have been given a copy of Jean Claude's vinyl single (it's actually an EP of 4 songs) recently. So I can celebrate this wonderful winner from the year of my birth, whenever I like. It really was a favourite of mine, even before I heard the back story, but love it even more now.
Really enjoyed this video, I’m certainly surprised about the Allisons as they look very alike, although I think there was far less diversity in fashion and hairstyles back then so people did tend to look very similar. I suppose you could say the same about musical diversity too, all the guys singing in French sound like Jacques Brel to me, not that I mind that at all. Hope you’ll be making lots more videos like this to keep us entertained until the next contest. Greetings from the U.K. 🇬🇧
Thats interesting, I think many love songs can be suited for any type of relationship, if they dont use the he/she but just me and you it can fit anyone. Anyway Italy's entry Al di la is still a pretty famous song I think all Italians over a certain age know it.
Los países europeos no tenían ningún problema en venir a España a disfrutar del buen tiempo y de las playas. La gente no tiene la culpa de tener que vivir bajo una dictadura...Nadie nos ayudó en Europa. Fueron México, argentina, entre otros quienes nos ayudaron a salir adelante. Gracias a nuestros hermanos. Actualmente, tampoco le importamos mucho a Europa por lo que se ve.
Thanks, this is really interesting! It was sucha brave move and also a clever one since the song can be interpreted in many ways. However it also shows how closeted gay men had to be back then.
Pity, that Finland's first entry was so bland. However, the singer who performed it, Laila Kinnunen, was in Finland one of the most iconic representatives of her time, who had many other very popular songs. Probably another of them would probably have succeeded better. She tried to win the right to represent Finland four more times, but didn't succeed. It seems that the songs written for ESC weren't as good as the other songs she sang. This, BTW, seems to be a recurrent phenomenon in the Finnish Eurovision history (until this year).
Those were the days when you could have a polite conversation with the audience after making a mistake. These days there'd be booing and cries of conspiracy.
I would love to see a film about Jean-Claude Pascal's life. From fighting in the war to fashion designer for Dior to film actor to winning Eurovision with a song about two men and their forbidden love. Like that whole period of 20 something years of his life ought to make an interesting story. ❤
And he came back in 1981 too.
@@Cilla0415 I know, with C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique..sadly not the same result. Shared 11th with I believe Denmark? Could be wrong about that. I would have ranked it higher though. It is a very nice song. I also love his rendition of Ma jeunesse fout le camp. The 'colour' of his voice is so beautiful if that makes sense. Such a distinguished gentleman with a long diverse career. Gotta love him. I hope he had a happy private life.
Yes totally!!! He won a medal from the French Army for his role in the liberation of Strasbourg whe he was 18! It seems larger than life! I really hope he managed to have a successful love life for these times, that he made the most of what was possible back in the days.
This was very interesting! "Nous les amoureux" is one of my favorite winning songs, but I had no idea about the 1961 contest being so eventful beyond that.
Bring this series back please! It's really good to learn more about the early ESC years😊
Soon
I love "Nous les amoureux" and its history but I knew nothing about the rest of the 1961 contest. Thanks for another interesting and well-made video!
Thanks for watching Nella
I can't wait until you get to 1969! Your research and information is so in-depth and highly researched! I love your channel.
Thank you Priscilla;
I love these Eurovision history videos ❤we want more ! Greetings from a Greek living in Germany 🎉
More coming soon ;)
@@eurovisionhistoriesfinde deine Videos und deine Moderation hammermega 😊
Amazing video as always! Love how much research and facts you’ve put into this one. Well done!
Thank youuu
Loving these videos and am very pleased to have been given a copy of Jean Claude's vinyl single (it's actually an EP of 4 songs) recently. So I can celebrate this wonderful winner from the year of my birth, whenever I like. It really was a favourite of mine, even before I heard the back story, but love it even more now.
Really enjoyed this video, I’m certainly surprised about the Allisons as they look very alike, although I think there was far less diversity in fashion and hairstyles back then so people did tend to look very similar. I suppose you could say the same about musical diversity too, all the guys singing in French sound like Jacques Brel to me, not that I mind that at all. Hope you’ll be making lots more videos like this to keep us entertained until the next contest. Greetings from the U.K. 🇬🇧
Hi Anna Thanks for watching! I will do more. 1962 coming soon ;)
Jean-Claude Pascal came back 10 years later, in 1971, like Gigliola Cinquetti who won in 1964 and came back in 1974. :)
He came back 20 years later in 1981
@@thomasfrank6827 you're right !
Monaco also sent a song about spring: "Ce n'est pas le jour de gloire, de victoire ni le jour de l'an, c'est le jour du printemps"
Yes please more videos on esc history ❤️❤️
Thats interesting, I think many love songs can be suited for any type of relationship, if they dont use the he/she but just me and you it can fit anyone. Anyway Italy's entry Al di la is still a pretty famous song I think all Italians over a certain age know it.
Yes, I am 30 and I like Al di là very much, it is one of the most beautiful Italian entries in the first '60.
Wth, I've always thought that The Allisons were brothers 😂. How did they look so similar?!
The complete mood change from Germany 🇩🇪 1961 and Croatia 🇭🇷 2008 is really something to behold 😂😂!
Haha true. But kinda both oldish people "rapping"
@@eurovisionhistories no. I don’t think Germany 🇩🇪 1961 could has “rapping” in any point in it. 😂😂
Check the whole song. There are some parts where is is more speaking than singing. In 1961 that might have been called Sprechgesang ;)
@@eurovisionhistories I did check it out before but it just didn’t stick for me, not even the speaking parts.
Los países europeos no tenían ningún problema en venir a España a disfrutar del buen tiempo y de las playas. La gente no tiene la culpa de tener que vivir bajo una dictadura...Nadie nos ayudó en Europa. Fueron México, argentina, entre otros quienes nos ayudaron a salir adelante. Gracias a nuestros hermanos. Actualmente, tampoco le importamos mucho a Europa por lo que se ve.
Thanks, this is really interesting! It was sucha brave move and also a clever one since the song can be interpreted in many ways. However it also shows how closeted gay men had to be back then.
Pity, that Finland's first entry was so bland. However, the singer who performed it, Laila Kinnunen, was in Finland one of the most iconic representatives of her time, who had many other very popular songs. Probably another of them would probably have succeeded better.
She tried to win the right to represent Finland four more times, but didn't succeed. It seems that the songs written for ESC weren't as good as the other songs she sang. This, BTW, seems to be a recurrent phenomenon in the Finnish Eurovision history (until this year).
Those were the days when you could have a polite conversation with the audience after making a mistake. These days there'd be booing and cries of conspiracy.
Wait for 1963 ;)
@@eurovisionhistories O.K., I believe there were some voting irregularities.
Yes
United Kingdom was the best by a million miles in my opinion