Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
| Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1989 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija (JRT) | |||
| Country |  Yugoslavia | |||
| Selection process | National final | |||
| Selection date | 4 March 1989 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Rock Me" | |||
| Artist | Riva | |||
| Songwriters |
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| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 1st, 137 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Yugoslavia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "Rock Me", composed by Rajko Dujmić, with lyrics by Stevo Cvikić, and performed by the band Riva. The Yugoslavian participating broadcaster, Jugoslavenska radiotelevizija (JRT), selected its entry through a national final. The entry eventually won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first and only time for Yugoslavia.
Before Eurovision
[edit]National final
[edit]Jugoslavenska ratiotelevizija (JRT) held a national final to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989. The national final was a cooperation and competition between eight of the subnational broadcasters that made up JRT at the time: RTV Beograd (SR Serbia), RTV Ljubljana (SR Slovenia), RTV Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina), RTV Priština (SAP Kosovo), RTV Sarajevo (SR Bosnia and Herzegovina), RTV Skopje (SR Macedonia), RTV Titograd (SR Montenegro), and RTV Zagreb (SR Croatia).[1] Each broadcaster submitted their own songs, provided their own jury, and managed the broadcasting of the contest.[2]
The national final had several names in TV-guides from the time, such as: "Izbor jugoslovanske popevke za Pesem Evrovizije '89" in Slovene;[3] and "Izbor pesme JRT za Pesmu Evrovizije 89" in Serbo-Croatian.[4] The title card at the beginning of the national final read "Pesma Evrovizije '89 JRT Finale".[2] However, the national final along with every other Yugoslav national final has been referred to post hoc as Jugovizija by several sources.[5][6][7]
Competing entries
[edit]JRT opened a submission period for interested songwriters to submit entries to one of the eight subnational broadcasters until 15 December 1988.[1] Each subnational broadcaster selected one song to go forward to the national final, and up to three others to be sent to an expert JRT jury, consisting of members from all eight subnational broadcasters.[1][8] The expert JRT jury selected another eight entries from the submissions that were sent to it, therefore sixteen songs competed in total.[1] The expert JRT jury consisted of Vartkes Baronijan, Kiril Vangelov, Lado Leskovar, Nikica Kalogjera, Petar Jurić, Slobodan Bućevac, Milan Stupar, and Akil Koci.[9] Around 200 submissions were received in total by all sub-national broadcasters.[9]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Conductor | Broadcaster | Language | |
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| Composer(s) | Lyricist(s) | |||||
| Ana Kostovska | "Umesto da se ljubimo" (Уместо да се љубимо) | Gabor Lenđel | Željko Samardžić | Kornelije Kovač |  RTV Novi Sad
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Serbo-Croatian |
| BG Sound | "Voli me opet" (Воли ме опет) | Dejan Petković | Slobodan Marković | RTV Beograd
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| Biljana Krstić and Srđan Marjanović | "Još jedan poljubac za kraj" (Још један пољубац за крај) | Zdravko Đuranovic | Zdravko Đuranovic, Duška Maksimović | Radovan Papović | RTV Titograd
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| Caffe, Mojca and Marta | "Kadar sem sama" | Tomaž Kozlevčar | Miša Čermak | Emil Spruk |  RTV Ljubljana
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Slovene |
| Foto Model | "Neću da te delim" (Нећу да те делим) | Boban Džeferdanović | Slobodan Marković | RTV Novi Sad
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Serbo-Croatian | |
| Frenki | "Reka bez povratka" (Река без повратка) | Rade Radivojević | Goran Cvetković | Milivoje Marković | RTV Beograd
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| Jasna Zlokić | "Sve duge godine" (Све дуге године) | Rajko Dujmić | Stevo Cvikić | Nikica Kalogjera |  RTV Zagreb
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| Jelena Džoja and Ambasadori | "Kad ljubav umire" (Кад љубав умире) | Slobodan Vujović | Ranko Rihtman |  RTV Sarajevo
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| Lidija Kočovska and Family | "Tajna" (Тајна) | Dimitar Masevski | Ljupčo Stojanovski | Aleksandar Džambazov |  RTV Skopje
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Macedonian |
| Massimo Savić | "Plavi anđeo" (Плави анђео) | Zrinko Tutić | Zrinko Tutić, Miroslav Rus | Nikica Kalogjera | RTV Zagreb
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Serbo-Croatian |
| Pop Design | "Baby Blue" | Tadej Hrušovar | Janez Hvale | Stipica Kalogjera | RTV Ljubljana
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Slovene |
| Riva | "Rock Me" | Rajko Dujmić | Stevo Cvikić | Nikica Kalogjera | RTV Zagreb
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Serbo-Croatian |
| Toni Janković | "Pričaj mi" (Причај ми) | Faruk Hasanbegović | Cornelia Schoenfeld-Oljača | Ranko Rihtman | RTV Sarajevo
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| Trio Rona | "Fjollat" | Vlora Januzi | Shefqet Hoxha-Sheki | RTV Priština
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Albanian | |
| Vesna Ivić and Tedi Bajić | "Pregrni me nežno" (Прегрни ме нежно) | Kiril Cvertkovski | Aleksandar Džambazov | RTV Skopje
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Macedonian | |
| Zdravko Škender and Intervali | "Ogan gori" (Оган гори) | Slave Dimitrov | Vasil Pujovski | |||
Final
[edit]The national final was held in the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad at 21:00 CET on 4 March 1989, and was organised by RTV Novi Sad.[3][10] The show was hosted by Dina Čolić and Bosko Negovanović.[2] The RTV Novi Sad Orchestra accomponied each performance, with different conductors for each entry.[2] Interval acts were provided by the RTV Novi Sad Orchestra, Moulin Rouge, Josipa Lisac, and Daniel.[2]
The results were decided by three jurors in each of the eight subnational broadcasters handing out points in a 7-5-3-2-1 fashion, with 7 points going to their favourite song.[2]
The contest was broadcast on several channels of JRT. It is known to have been broadcast on television on Televizija Zagreb 1, Televizija Ljubljana 1, Televizija Beograd 1, Televizija Priština, and Televizija Novi Sad.[3][4]
| R/O | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jelena Džoja and Ambasadori | "Kad ljubav umire" | 26 | 7 |
| 2 | Caffe, Mojca and Marta | "Kadar sem sama" | 13 | 12 |
| 3 | BG Sound | "Voli me opet" | 54 | 3 |
| 4 | Massimo Savić | "Plavi anđeo" | 65 | 2 |
| 5 | Zdravko Škender and Intervali | "Ogan gori" | 18 | 10 |
| 6 | Riva | "Rock Me" | 66 | 1 |
| 7 | Trio Rona[a] | "Fjollat" | 7 | 15 |
| 8 | Toni Janković | "Pričaj mi" | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | Vesna Ivić and Tedi Bajić | "Pregrni me nežno" | 38 | 4 |
| 10 | Pop Design | "Baby Blue" | 20 | 9 |
| 11 | Jasna Zlokić | "Sve duge godine" | 34 | 5 |
| 12 | Ana Kostovska | "Umesto da se ljubimo" | 14 | 11 |
| 13 | Frenki | "Reka bez povratka" | 4 | 16 |
| 14 | Lidija Kočovska and Family | "Tajna" | 29 | 6 |
| 15 | Biljana Krstić and Srđan Marjanović | "Još jedan poljubac za kraj" | 26 | 7 |
| 16 | Foto Model | "Neću da te delim" | 10 | 13 |
| R/O | Song | RTV Sarajevo | RTV Ljubljana | RTV Beograd | RTV Zagreb | RTV Skopje | RTV Priština | RTV Novi Sad | RTV Titograd | Total | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zlatko Daniš
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Miroljub Mitrović
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Branka Šaper
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Dimitar Čemkov
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Gjon Gjevelekaj
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Ivana Vitalić
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Mirsad Serhatlić
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Bojan Bajramović
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Rade Vojvodić
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| 1 | "Kad ljubav umire" | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 26 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | "Kadar sem sama" | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | "Voli me opet" | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 54 | ||||||||
| 4 | "Plavi anđeo" | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 65 | ||||||||||
| 5 | "Ogan gori" | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | "Rock Me" | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 66 | |||||||||||
| 7 | "Fjollat" | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Pričaj mi" | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "Pregrni me nežno" | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 38 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | "Baby Blue" | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 | "Sve duge godine" | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 34 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Umesto da se ljubimo" | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | "Reka bez povratka" | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | "Tajna" | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 29 | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | "Još jedan poljubac za kraj" | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 26 | |||||||||||||||||
| 16 | "Neću da te delim" | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
At Eurovision
[edit]The contest was broadcast on television on: TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, and TV Zagreb 1, all with commentary provided by Oliver Mlakar;[11][12][13][14] and on TV Ljubljana 1 and TV Prishtina.[12][15]
Riva was the twenty-second and last performer on the night of the contest, following Germany. Their song "Rock Me" won the contest with a score of 137 points and won the contest.[16]
Voting
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Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Due to technical issues during the performance, Trio Rona was allowed to perform again after all the performances.
References
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