Refrain (song)

Refrain (song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Switzerland Refrain


caption =
year = 1956
country = Switzerland
artist = Lys Assia
as =
with =
language = French
languages =
composer = Géo Voumard
lyricist = Émile Gardaz
conductor = Fernando Paggi
place = 1st
points = N/A
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1956ch2 from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Das Alte Karussell
prev_year = 1956
prev_link = Das Alte Karussell
next = L'Enfant Que J'Étais
next_link = L'Enfant Que J'Étais"Refrain" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, co-written by Émile Gardaz and Géo Voumard, cite news |first= |last=|title=Géo Voumard, a Founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Dies at 87 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/music/05voumard.html|work=Agence France-Presse |publisher=New York Times|date=2008-08-08 |accessdate=2008-09-11] 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 succeeded as Contest winner in 1957 by Corry Brokken representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen".

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