Les amants de minuit

"Les amants de minuit"
Eurovision Song Contest 1956 entry
Country	Luxembourg
Artist(s)	Micheline Caré
As	Michèle Arnaud
Language	French
Composer(s)	Simone Laurencin
Lyricist(s)	Jacques Lassry
Conductor	Jacques Lassry
Finals performance
Final result	2nd
Final points	-
Appearance chronology
◄ "Ne crois pas" (1956)
"Amours mortes (tant de peine)" (1957) ►

"Les amants de minuit" (French pronunciation: [lez‿amɑ̃ də minɥi], English: The Midnight Lovers) was the second Luxembourgish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 (the rules of this Contest and no other allowing two entries per country), performed in French by French singer Michèle Arnaud.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The song is in the chanson style popular in the early years of the Contest. Arnaud describes the meeting of two "midnight lovers", and sings that only the night knows what passes between them before they return to their normal lives in the morning.

The song was performed thirteenth on the night (following France's Dany Dauberson with "Il est là" and preceding Italy's Tonina Torielli with "Amami se vuoi"). As the scoreboard of this Contest has never been made public, no statements about score or placing can be made, however the song did not win.

The song was accompanied at the 1956 contest by Arnaud with "Ne crois pas" and was succeeded as Luxembourgish representative at the 1957 contest by Danièle Dupré with "Amours mortes (tant de peine)".

References

↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1956 (Lugano)". eurovisiontimes.wordpress.com. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
↑ "Les Amants De Minuit Music Video". ovguide.com. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
↑ "Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007". archive.is. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
↑ "ESC 1956 Luxembourg - Michèle Arnaud - Les Amants De Minuit". youtube.com. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

Sources and external links

Eurovision Song Contest 1956

Countries

Final (in order of appearance)	Netherlands Switzerland Belgium Germany France Luxembourg Italy

Artists

First performance	Jetty Paerl Lys Assia Fud Leclerc Walter Andreas Schwarz Mathé Altéry Michèle Arnaud Franca Raimondi

Second performance	Corry Brokken Lys Assia Mony Marc Freddy Quinn Dany Dauberson Michèle Arnaud Tonina Torrielli

Songs

First performance	"De vogels van Holland" "Das alte Karussell" "Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" "Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück" "Le temps perdu" "Ne crois pas" "Aprite le finestre"

Second performance	"Voorgoed voorbij" "Refrain" "Le plus beau jour de ma vie" "So geht das jede Nacht" "Il est là" "Les amants de minuit" "Amami se vuoi"

(Note: all countries performed twice)

Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1956 1957 1958 ~~1959~~ 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 ~~1994 to 2017~~

Artists

1950s	Michèle Arnaud Danièle Dupré Solange Berry ~~1959~~

1960s	Camillo Felgen Jean-Claude Pascal Camillo Felgen Nana Mouskouri Hugues Aufray France Gall Michèle Torr Vicky Leandros Chris Baldo & Sophie Garel Romuald

1970s	David Alexandre Winter Monique Melsen Vicky Leandros Anne-Marie David Ireen Sheer Geraldine Jürgen Marcus Anne-Marie B Baccara Jeane Manson

1980s	Sophie & Magaly Jean-Claude Pascal Svetlana Corinne Hermès Sophie Carle Margo, Franck Olivier, Diane Solomon, Ireen Sheer, Chris & Malcolm Roberts Sherisse Laurence Plastic Bertrand Lara Fabian Park Café

1990s	Céline Carzo Sarah Bray Marion Welter & Kontinent Modern Times ~~1994 to 1999~~

2000s	~~2000 to 2009~~

2010s	~~2010 to 2016~~

Songs

1950s	"Ne crois pas" (1956) "Les amants de minuit" (1956) "Amours mortes (tant de peine)" "Un grand amour" ~~1959~~

1960s	"So laang we's du do bast" "Nous les amoureux" "Petit bonhomme" "À force de prier" "Dès que le printemps revient" "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" "Ce soir je t'attendais" "L'amour est bleu" "Nous vivrons d'amour" "Catherine"

1970s	"Je suis tombé du ciel" "Pomme, pomme, pomme" "Après toi" "Tu te reconnaîtras" "Bye Bye I Love You" "Toi" "Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment" "Frère Jacques" "Parlez-vous français?" "J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux"

1980s	"Papa Pingouin" "C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique" "Cours après le temps" "Si la vie est cadeau" "100% d'amour" "Children, Kinder, Enfants" "L'amour de ma vie" "Amour, Amour" "Croire" "Monsieur"

1990s	"Quand je te rêve" "Un baiser volé" "Sou fräi" "Donne-moi une chance" ~~1994 to 1999~~

2000s	~~2000 to 2009~~

2010s	~~2010 to 2016~~

(Note: Entries scored out are when Luxembourg did not compete)

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