Eurovision 1962 - France

Isabelle Aubret performing “Un Premier Amour“ (“A First Love“), the French entry at the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest. France’s 3rd win in 5 years may sound too much. but this entry simply deserved it hands down! Although I personally prefer the studio version, whose sparer, subtler arrangement gets more under your skin, this is still a magical, entrancing melody beautifully sung by Isabelle, who really magnetizes the camera. Six years later, in 1968, she’d return to the contest with another ESC classic,