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The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was the 21st edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague , Netherlands , following the country's victory at the 1975 contest with the song " Ding-a-dong " by Teach-In .
The 1976 winner for the United Kingdom, Brotherhood of Man, holds the record of the highest average score per participating country, with an average of 9.65 points received per country. 2011 Azerbaijani winners Ell and Nikki hold the lowest average score for a winning song under that system, receiving 5.14 points per country.
The track was the biggest selling single of 1976 in the UK and the sixth biggest selling for the 1970s in Britain, with sales well in excess of 1 million copies. Globally, the track attained sales of over 6 million, making it the biggest selling winning single in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. [5]
They won the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest with "Save Your Kisses for Me". Created in 1969 by songwriter and record producer Tony Hiller, Brotherhood of Man was initially an umbrella title for a frequently-changing line-up of session singers. Early on, they scored a worldwide hit with the song "United We Stand".
On 3 April 1976, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague hosted by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), and broadcast live throughout the continent. Brotherhood of Man performed "Save Your Kisses for Me" first on the evening, preceding Switzerland 's " Djambo, Djambo " by Peter, Sue and Marc .
Brother of a Man won Eurovision in 1976 (PA) ... (2012) and Blue’s “I Can” (2011) took part there was no top-five winner since Jade Ewen’s “It’s My Time” (2009) until Essex singer ...
France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with "Un, deux, trois". Prior to the contest most observers noted that the 1976 contest was the easiest for many years to predict, with " Un, deux, trois " and the United Kingdom 's " Save Your Kisses for Me " as the only ...
Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) held the national final at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague (the same venue where the Eurovision final was to take place) on 18 February 1976, hosted by Willem Duys. Five songs took part, with the winner being decided by eleven regional juries who each had 10 points to allocate between the songs.