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1991
VENUE

Cinecitta, Rome

ENTRIES

22

HOSTS

Gigliola Cinquetti

Toto Cotugno

DEBUTS

None

Italy had won in 1990 and so this rather reluctant competitor had to stage the contest. The venue was originally to be San Remo, home of the famous song festival that was a big part of the original inspiration for Eurovision, however security concerns forced a move to Rome and the legendary Cinecitta sound studio. It was not, it has to be said, the most professional production ever. Co-hosts were Italy's two winners Gigliola Cinquetti and Toto Cotugno, the latter completely losing it during the voting and having to be practically carried by Gigliola and the inscrutable scrutineer Frank Neff. There were also cameramen darting about, on-camera, during the songs which was really distracting.

This was the last contest until 1998 when frothy europop had a foothold before the classic (mostly Irish) ballad style took over. Yugoslavia's oxymoronic Bebi Doll kicked things off and nineteen songs later, Samantha Janus came on like Bebi's daughter to sing a song about global poverty while dressed like a hooker.  Among others, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus delivered string of classic Eurovision ballads.

We had the first tie since 1969, and what do you know, they'd actually thought of a tie breaker. In indecent time, Sweden were declared the winner as while they and France both had the same number of twelves, the Scandinavians had more tens. It was perhaps unfortunate for the image of the contest that a ground breaking effort like France's mesmeric entry didn't win, but rules are rules, and Carola was due some luck after the fabulous "Framling" missed out eight years earlier.  For the first time since 1966 the top two songs were performed next to each other, although to be fair two of the four-way tie winners in 1969 were adjacent.

Yugoslavia  Brasil Baby Doll  21
Iceland Nína Stefán & Eyfi 15
Malta Could It Be Paul Geordimaina & Georgina 6
Greece I Anixi Sofia Vossou 13
Switzerland Canzone Per Te Sandra Simó  5
Austria Venedig Im Regen Thomas Forstner 22
Luxembourg Un Baiser Volé Sarah Bray 14
Sweden Fångad Av En Stormvind Carola  1
France Le Dernier Qui A Parlé Qui A Raison Amina 2
Turkey Iki Dakika Izel Çelikoz, Rayhan Karaca & Can Ugurluer 12
Ireland Could It Be That I'm In Love Kim Jackson 10
Portugal Lusitana Paixão Dulce 8
Denmark Lige Der Hvor Hjertet Slår Anders Frandsen  19
Norway Mrs Thompson Just 4 Fun 17
Israel Kan  Duo Datz 3
Finland Hullu Yö Kaija 20
Germany Dieser Traum Darf Niemals Sterben  Atlantis 2000 18
Belgium Geef Het Op Clouseau 16
Spain Bailar Pegados Sergio Dalma 4
United Kingdom A Message To Your Heart  Samantha Janus 10
Cyprus S.O.S Elena Patroclou 9
Italy Comme È Doce O Mare Peppino Di Capri 7
WINNER:

Sweden

Carola FANGAD AV

EN STORMVIND

by

Carola

 

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