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1999
VENUE

Binyaney Ha'ouma Centre, Jerusalem

ENTRIES

23

HOSTS

Dafna Dekel, Sigal Sachmon, Yigal Ravid

DEBUTS

None

 

Another Eurovision in Jerusalem, twenty years after the last one, and a nice mix of the traditional and modern. A long march around the historic sites to open the show and Dana International climaxing a rather preposterously OTT interval presentation. Israel's first win had coincided with the advent of a double-handed presentation in 1978, and this year we were regaled with three presenters!. It all seemed a bit too much, maybe it was an excuse for the "march" into the arena and the rather bizarre ad-break interval routine of the two ladies toasting "life" with glasses of red wine covered in cellophane to protect their frocks.

At long last, the EBU bowed to the inevitable and for the first time since 1977, any language could be used. On the whole it was the countries of Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic and the Benelux who took advantage of this. Surpriz, Surpriz, the contest ended up being a two-way fight between two of these, Sweden's brazenly retro "Take Me To Your Heaven" and Iceland's more contemporary "All Out Of Luck", which featured two male dancers (a ploy to be copied by Russia the following year, with similar results).

This year also featured a great deal of intrigue (and I must stress we are only talking "alleged" here). There were rumours that one of the Maltese trio mimed her whole performance and that the Lithuanian votes were announced in the wrong order (Ireland 12???). What we do know is that Croatia did infringe the rules with a backing track with some male vocals on. They got their wrists slapped and their point score adjusted (for future calculations on who's in and who's out).

Lithuania  Strazdas  Aiste 20
Belgium  Like The Wind  Vanessa Chinitor 12
Spain  No Quiero Escuchar  Lydia 23
Croatia  Marija Magdalena   Doris Dragovic 4
United Kingdom  Say It Again  Precious 12
Slovenia  For A Thousand Years  Darja Švajger 11
Turkey  Dön Artik  Tuba Onal 16
Norway  Living My Life Without You  Stig Van Eijk  14
Denmark  This Time  Trine Jepsen & Michael Teschl 8
France  Je Veux Donner Ma Voix  Nayah  19
Netherlands  One Good Reason  Marlayne 8
Poland  Przytul Mnie Mocno  Mieczyslaw Szczesniak 18
Iceland  All Out Of Luck  Selma 2
Cyprus  Tha 'Nai Erotas  Marlain 22
Sweden  Take Me To Your Heaven  Charlotte Nilsson 1
Portugal Como Tudo Começou  Rui Bandeira 21
Ireland  When You Need Me  Mullans 17
Austria  Reflection  Bobbie Singer 10
Israel  Happy Birthday  Eden 5
Malta Believe 'N Peace  Times 3 15
Germany Reise Nach Jerusalem   Sürpriz 3
Bosnia  Putnici   Dino & Beatrice 7
Estonia  Diamond Of Night  Evelin Samuel & Camille  6
WINNER:

Sweden

Charlotte Nilsson TAKE ME TO

YOUR HEAVEN

by

Charlotte Nilsson

 

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