The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special 1991)

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Gigliola Cinquetti

Self - Host

Toto Cutugno

Self - Host

Carola Häggkvist

Self - Swedish Entry: 1st Place

Amina Annabi

Self - French Entry: 2nd Place

Moshe Datz

Self - Israeli Entry: 3rd Place

Orna Datz

Self - Israeli Entry: 3rd Place

Sergio Dalma

Self - Spanish Entry: 4th Place

Sandra Studer

Self - Swiss Entry: 5th Place
(as Sandra Simó)

Georgina

Self - Maltese Entry: 6th Place

Paul Giordimaina

Self - Maltese Entry: 6th Place

Peppino Di Capri

Self - Italian Entry: 7th Place

Dulce Pontes

Self - Portuguese Entry: 8th Place

Elena Patroclou

Self - Cyprian Entry: 9th Place

Kim Jackson

Self - Irish Entry: 10th Place

Samantha Womack

Self - United Kingdom Entry: 10th Place
(as Samantha Janus)

Reyhan Karaca

Self - Turkish Entry: 12th Place

Can Ugurluer

Self - Turkish Entry: 12th Place

Izel Çeliköz

Self - Turkish Entry: 12th Place

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Trivia
The presenters were the two Italian winners of the Eurovision song contest; Gigliola Cinquetti who won in 1964, and Toto Cutugno who won in 1990. The problem was that nobody had asked them if they could speak English or French, as a consequence the entire contest was presented in Italian which was very inappropriate as most viewers were non-Italians and did not understand a word of what they said. A little bit of chaos also happened during the voting when scrutineer Frank Naeff had to help Cutugno several times because of the many times he didn't understand which country was getting which amount of points from each jury.

Connections
Featured in Granada Reports: 31 August 2017: Evening Bulletin (2017)

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Brazil
Written by Zoran Vracevic and Bebi Dol (as Dragana Saric)
Performed by Bebi Dol
Conducted by Slobodan Markovic

The presentation was chaotic, the stage strange and the organisation lacking to say the least but the songs were first rate this year and were not poor.

Toto set new lows in presentation though!

The real winner for me was the French entry by Amina, it was such a great song and deserved to win. The RAI orchestra ruined the Greek entry which was outstanding - how on earth could that have happened in a professional orchestra? The EBU scrutineers Frank Naef was getting visibly annoyed throughout the voting which was chaos itself. Terry Wogan was at the height of his powers and was excellent.