| 1967 - Italy - Non Pensare A Me
- Claudio Villa |
| During
the rehearsals it was discovered that this song had been
released too early, and it was replaced with another song by
the same artist. |
| 1968 - Norway - Jag
Har Aldri Vćrt Sĺ Glad I No'en Som Deg - Odd Borre (above) |
| This song swept the Norwegian
final but was swiftly removed when the similarities to
Cliff's "Summer Holiday" were at first listen
blindingly obvious, especially when the saintly Cliff was
actually one of Odd's opponents in 1968!. |
| 1970 -Portugal
- Onde Vais Rio Que Eu Canto - Sergio Borges |
| Was withdrawn as a protest
against the 1969 result and scoring system. |
| 1974 - France - La Vie A Vingt-Cinque Ans
- Dani |
| This song featured
in the previews and was withdrawn days before the contest
after the sudden death of
President Pompidou. |
| 1976 - Germany - Der Star - Tony Marshall |
| Disqualified because it had
been previously performed in public. |
| 1976 - Liechtenstein
- Little Cowboy - Biggi Bachmann |
| Was chosen but the Alpine
nation didn't have a TV station so was ineligible. |
| 1979 - Turkey - Seviyorum - Maria Rita Epik & Grup 21
Peron |
| Was selected as the
Turkish entry, but the contest was in Jerusalem and other
Arabic nations persuaded Turkey to withdraw. |
| 1980 - Israel - Pizmon
Chozer - Ha'ahum ve Ha'ahayot |
| Chosen as the
Israeli entry but the Dutch hosts scheduled the 1980 contest
to coincide with Remembrance Day in Israel so was withdrawn. |
| 1982 -Greece - Sarantapente
Kopelles - Themis Adamantidis |
| Selected by Greece,
who subsequently withdrew from the contest. NB. the singer
bore no relation to the British New Romantic star of the
time. |
| 1986 - Greece - Wagon-Lit - Polina |
| Selected by Greece,
who subsequently withdrew from the contest because the date
clashed with a religious festival. |
| 1988 - Cyprus - Thimame - Yiannis Demetriou |
| Finished
3rd in the 1984
Cypriot final, then won the internal selection for 1988. Doh!
Was included on the then-annual Norwegian "unofficial"
compilation album with the other 1988 entries. |
| 1990 - Austria - Das Beste
- Duett |
| Won the National final but was
discovered to have been entered in the 1988 German heats, dq. |
| 1992 - Switzerland - Soleil Soleil
- Geraldine Olivier |
| Was rejected as a French
language entry to the Swiss final but then won as a German
sung entry. The French Swiss complained and was DQ. |
| 1997 - Greece An Den
Agapissis Den Tha Agapissi
-
Dimosthenis Stringlis |
| This was selected but Greek TV demanded that
the composer be replaced by another singer. Stringlis
refused so the song was ditched. |
| 1999 - Bosnia - Starac I More
- Hari Mata Hari |
| One month after
winning the final it was discovered that the song had been
released in Finland two years earlier by a different singer.
The singer went on to finish third at Eurovision in 2006. |
| 1999 - Germany - Den Kindern Einfach Zu
-Corinna May |
| The winning song had been
released on a single in 1997 by another singer. Corinna
went on to represent Germany in 2002. |
| 2002 - Lithuania - We All - B'Avarija |
| Was withdrawn when it
emerged
that a Lithuanian language version of the song had been
released in 2001. Lithuania's replacement finished second
last. |
| 2004 - France - L'aissez
Moi Le Temps - Jonathan Cerrada |
| French television announced this as the entry
but it was very soon replaced with another song by the same
artist. |
| 2005 - Lebanon - Quand Tout
S'Enfuit - Aline Lahoud |
| Was forced to
withdraw when Lebanese television could not guarantee
transmitting the Israeli entry. |
| 2005 - Belarus - Boy And Girls
- Angelica
Agurbash |
| Was
totally arbitrarily withdrawn by the Belarussians (and
replaced with another song from the same singer) due to bad
reviews on internet sites (!). |
| 2006 - Serbia &
Montenegro - Moja Ljubavi - No Name |
| This Montenegran
song won the 2005 national final but Serbian TV protested
that the voting of Montenegran jurors was partisan and
proposed a second final with different voting. Montenegran
TV believed that their song had won fairly and squarely.
The two sides could not agree before the entry deadline so
Serbia & Montenegro withdrew from the contest. |
| 2006 - France -
Nous C'est Vous - Virginie Pouchin |
| The French song
for 2006 was commissioned from a top French songwriter. Many
weeks later after a bewilderingly long talent show the
singer was chosen. It became clear quite soon that the song
and singer were not well suited. After a short impasse the
songwriter came up with a brand new song! |
| 2009 -
Hungary - If You Wanna Party - Márk Zentai |
| After an
internal trawl through submitted songs, Hungarian chose to
send Mark to Moscow with an upbeat Europop tune, only for it
to come to light just days later that the song had been
released with different lyrics in Sweden in 2005!. |
| 2009 -
Hungary - Magányos Csónak - Katya Tompos |
| The Hungarian's
next choice was singer/actress Katya with a more
sophisticated ballad, however very soon Ms Tompos decided
that her stage commitments meant she couldn't fulfill the
Moscow gig in May (remember the whole circus lasts about a
fortnight). Rather than select another singer to interpret
the song, the TV station chose a completely different third
entry. |
| 2009 -
Georgia - We Don't Wanna Put In - Stefane & 3G |
| Just months
after the war in South Ossetia, Georgia in a public final
chose to send to Moscow a retro disco number with thinly
veiled digs at Russia and Vladimir Putin. The contest
organizers demanded the lyrics be changed, but Georgian TV
refused and so did not appear in the 2009 contest. |
