Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Switzerland was represented by the group Rainy Day with the song "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" (What colour is the sunshine?) at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on 5 May. Rainy Day won the rights to represent Switzerland, from winning the national final that took place on 4 February 1984.
| Eurovision Song Contest 1984 | ||||
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| Country |  | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Concours Eurovision 1984 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 4 February 1984 | |||
| Selected entrant | Rainy Day | |||
| Selected song | "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 17th, 30 points | |||
| Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Before Eurovision
Concours Eurovision 1984
Swiss Italian broadcaster RTSI was in charge of broadcasting the selection for the Swiss entry for the 1984 Contest. The national final was held at the RTSI studios in Lugano, hosted by Ezio Guidi and Natascha Giller. Nine songs were submitted for the 1984 national final and the winning song was chosen by 3 regional juries (DRS, TSR, TSI), a press jury, and an expert jury. Unusually, the votes from the regional juries were combined as one result, whose points were allocated based on the total number of points each song received from the said juries, and the points from the other juries were added on from there.
Other participants included past and future Swiss representatives including Arlette Zola (1982) and Carol Rich (1987).
| Final – 4 February 1984 | |||||||
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| Draw | Artist | Song | Regional Jury |
Press Jury |
Expert Jury |
Total | Place |
| 1 | Nando Morandi & Mauro Monti | "Liberi" | 4 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 5 |
| 2 | Andy L. | "Musica" | 7 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 6 |
| 3 | Milo & Pina | "Piccola sarà" | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | Martin Richard Trio | "(Je veux) vivre d'amour" | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 5 | Carol Rich | "Tokyo-boy" | 5 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 7 |
| 6 | Manuela Felice | "Wo die Lieder sind" | 10 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 3 |
| 7 | Krypton | "Per te" | 2 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 2 |
| 8 | Arlette Zola | "Emporte-moi" | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 3 |
| 9 | Rainy Day | "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" | 8 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 1 |
| Detailed Regional Jury Votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draw | Song | DRS | TSR | TSI | Total | Points |
| 1 | "Liberi" | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
| 2 | "Musica" | 8 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 7 |
| 3 | "Piccola sarà" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | "(Je veux) vivre d'amour" | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 3 |
| 5 | "Tokyo-boy" | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 5 |
| 6 | "Wo die Lieder sind" | 5 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 10 |
| 7 | "Per te" | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 8 | "Emporte-moi" | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 6 |
| 9 | "Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein?" | 10 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 8 |
At Eurovision
On the night of the contest Rainy Day performed 17th, following Finland and preceding Italy. At the close of the voting Switzerland had picked up 30 points (The highest mark awarded was 10 points from the United Kingdom) placing Switzerland in 16th place out of 19 entries. The Swiss jury awarded its 12 points to Ireland.
The Swiss conductor at the contest was Mario Robbiani.
External links
- (in French) Swiss National Final 1984