Amerivision Song Contest 1976
edit| Amerivision Song Contest 1976 | |
|---|---|
| Dates | |
| Final | September 4 1976 |
| Host | |
| Venue | PNE Agrodome Vancouver, Canada |
| Presenter(s) | David Marsden |
| Host broadcaster | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 17 |
| Returning countries |  Nicaragua Puerto Rico |
| Non-returning countries |  Bolivia |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their ten favourite songs |
| Winning song |  Brazil"Malandro" |
The Amerivision Song Contest 1976 was the twenty-first edition of the annual Amerivision Song Contest, organised by the American Broadcasting Union (ABU) and host broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The edition was hosted in PNE Agrodome, in Vancouver, Canada, as the country earned the right to host the contest by winning the previous edition.
This edition saw the return of Nicaragua and Puerto Rico to the contest, as well as the first withdraw of Bolivia and Brazil becoming the first country to win the contest four times.
Host picking
editThirty-two canadian venues showed interest in hosting the event, the bolded bid was the selected one.
Participating countries
edit| Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | English title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Barbados
|
CBC TV 8 | Jackie Opel | "Tears From My Eyes" | English | |
| Brazil
|
Tupi | Elza Soares | "Malandro" | Portuguese | "Trickster" |
 Canada
|
CBC | Heart | "Dreamboat Annie" | English | |
 Chile
|
UCV | Chamal | "Según el favor del viento" | Spanish | "According to the Direction of the Wind" |
 Colombia
|
Canal 1 | Isadora | "Caminando" | "Walking" | |
 Guadeloupe
|
FR3 | Exile One | "Jamais voir ça" | French | "Never Seen That" |
 Jamaica
|
JBC | Susan Cadogan | "Hurt So Good" | English | |
 Martinique
|
FR3 | Marius Cultier | "Eso guédé" | Antillean Creole | "That's What I Got" |
 Mexico
|
Las Estrellas | José José | "El príncipe" | Spanish | "The Prince" |
| Nicaragua
|
TV-2 | Kako & Camilo Azuquita | "La candado y la llave" | "The Lock and the Key" | |
 Panama
|
RPC | Tony Silvester | "Magic Touch" | English | |
 Paraguay
|
SNT | Digno García | "Besame mucho" | Spanish | "Kiss Me So Much" |
 Peru
|
América | Los Pasteles Verdes | "En mi viejo San Juan" | "In My Old San Juan" | |
 Puerto Rico
|
Telemundo | Danny Rivera | "Tú vives en mi pensamiento" | "You Live in My Thoughts" | |
 Trinidad and Tobago
|
TTT | Tony Wilson | "I Like Your Style" | English | |
 United States
|
NBC | The Doobie Brothers & James Taylor | "Takin' It to the Streets" | ||
 Uruguay
|
Canal 10 | Yalta | "Poeta al sur" | Spanish | "Poet by the South" |
Returning artists
edit| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marius Cultier | Martinique
|
1974 |
| José José | Mexico
|
1969 |
| Digno García | Paraguay
|
1967 |
Contest overview
edit Winner
| R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martinique
|
Marius Cultier | "Eso guédé" | 86 | 4 |
| 2 | Colombia
|
Isadora | "Caminando" | 42 | 12 |
| 3 | United States
|
The Doobie Brothers & James Taylor | "Takin' It to the Streets" | 74 | 5 |
| 4 | Brazil
|
Elza Soares | "Malandro" | 133 | 1 |
| 5 | Puerto Rico
|
Danny Rivera | "Tú vives en mi pensamiento" | 57 | 8 |
| 6 | Paraguay
|
Digno García | "Besame mucho" | 46 | 10 |
| 7 | Panama
|
Tony Silvester | "Magic Touch" | 94 | 3 |
| 8 | Canada
|
Heart | "Dreamboat Annie" | 31 | 14 |
| 9 | Guadeloupe
|
Exile One | "Jamais voir ça" | 34 | 13 |
| 10 | Jamaica
|
Susan Cadogan | "Hurt So Good" | 29 | 15 |
| 11 | Nicaragua
|
Kako & Camilo Azuquita | "La candado y la llave" | 64 | 6 |
| 12 | Peru
|
Los Pasteles Verdes | "En mi viejo San Juan" | 9 | 17 |
| 13 | Uruguay
|
Yalta | "Poeta al sur" | 43 | 11 |
| 14 | Barbados
|
Jackie Opel | "Tears From My Eyes" | 17 | 16 |
| 15 | Mexico
|
José José | "El príncipe" | 51 | 9 |
| 16 | Chile
|
Chamal | "Según el favor del viento" | 60 | 7 |
| 17 | Trinidad and Tobago
|
Tony Wilson | "I Like Your Style" | 113 | 2 |
Detailed voting results
editTotal score
|
Martinique
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Colombia
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United States
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Brazil
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Puerto Rico
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Paraguay
|
Panama
|
Canada
|
Guadeloupe
|
Jamaica
|
Nicaragua
|
Peru
|
Uruguay
|
Barbados
|
Mexico
|
Chile
|
Trinidad and Tobago
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contestants
|
Martinique
|
86 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||||||
| Colombia
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42 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| United States
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74 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| Brazil
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133 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 10 | ||||
| Puerto Rico
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57 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
| Paraguay
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46 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Panama
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94 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
| Canada
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31 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Guadeloupe
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34 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Jamaica
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29 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nicaragua
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64 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | |||||||
| Peru
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9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Uruguay
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43 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||
| Barbados
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17 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Mexico
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51 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||
| Chile
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60 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Trinidad and Tobago
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113 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 7 | |||
12 points
editBelow is a summary of all 12 points received:
| N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 12 points |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Brazil
|
Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay
|
| 3 | Trinidad and Tobago
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Canada, Jamaica, Martinique
|
| 2 | Martinique
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Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago
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| Panama
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Colombia, Nicaragua
| |
| United States
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Brazil, Puerto Rico
| |
| 1 | Jamaica
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Barbados
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| Nicaragua
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Panama
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