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Refrain (song)

Eurovision Song Contest
SongSwitzerland "Refrain"
Year1956
CountrySwitzerland
ArtistLys Assia
LanguageFrench
ComposerGéo Voumard
LyricistÉmile Gardaz
ConductorFernando Paggi
Finals performance
Final result1st
Final pointsN/A
prevDas alte Karussell
nextL'enfant que j'étais

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"Refrain" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, co-written by Émile Gardaz and Géo Voumard, performed by Lys Assia representing Switzerland. It was the first-ever winner of the Contest, but not the first-ever performance by Switzerland. This apparent anomaly is due to the rules of the 1956 Contest allowing (for the only time to date) each competing country to be represented by two songs. Assia represented Switzerland singing both songs (one of only two performers to do this), and had previously performed "Das alte Karussell" in German ("Refrain" was sung in French).

The song is in the classic chanson mode and laments the lost loves of the singer's "adolescence" (the French original reads "vingt ans", which can also be rendered "twenties" in English).

The song was performed 9th on the night of the contest, following the Netherlands' Corry Brokken with "Voorgoed voorbij" and preceding Belgium's Mony Marc "Le plus beau jour de ma vie". It was the winner of the contest, however the number of points given to it was never revealed.

The song was succeeded as Contest winner in 1957 by Corry Brokken representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen".

The song was accompanied at the 1956 contest by Assia with "Das alte Karussell" and was succeeded as Swiss representative at the 1957 contest by Assia with "L'enfant que j'étais".


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Preceded by
None
Eurovision Song Contest winners
1956
Succeeded by
Net als toen by Corry Brokken


Songs of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956

"Amami se vuoi" * "Aprite le finestre" * "Das alte Karussell" * "De vogels van Holland" * "Il est là" * "Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück" * "Le plus beau jour de ma vie" * "Le temps perdu" * "Les amants de minuit" * "Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" * "Ne crois pas" * "Refrain" (winner) * "So geht das jede Nacht" * "Voorgoed voorbij"

Eurovision Song Contest winning songs

1950s"Refrain" * "Net als toen" * "Dors, mon amour" * "Een beetje"
1960s"Tom Pillibi" * "Nous les amoureux" * "Un premier amour" * "Dansevise" * "Non ho l'età" * "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" * "Merci, Chérie" * "Puppet on a String" * "La, la, la" * "Boom Bang-a-Bang" * "Un jour, un enfant" * "De troubadour" * "Vivo cantando"
1970s"All Kinds of Everything" * "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" * "Après toi" * "Tu te reconnaîtras" * "Waterloo" * "Ding-A-Dong" * "Save Your Kisses for Me" * "L'oiseau et l'enfant" * "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" * "Hallelujah"
1980s"What's Another Year" * "Making Your Mind Up" * "Ein bißchen Frieden" * "Si la vie est cadeau" * "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" * "La det swinge" * "J'aime la vie" * "Hold Me Now" * "Ne partez pas sans moi" * "Rock Me"
1990s"Insieme: 1992" * "Fångad av en stormvind" * "Why Me?" * "In Your Eyes" * "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" * "Nocturne" * "The Voice" * "Love Shine a Light" * "Diva" * "Take Me to Your Heaven"
2000s"Fly on the Wings of Love" * "Everybody" * "I Wanna" * "Everyway That I Can" * "Wild Dances" * "My Number One" * "Hard Rock Hallelujah" * "Molitva" * "Believe" * "Fairytale"
2010s"Satellite"



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