| "Un jour, un enfant" | |
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| Single byFrida Boccara | |
| from the albumUn jour, un enfant | |
| Language | French |
| B-side | "Belle Du Luxembourg" |
| Released | 1969 |
| Genre | Ballad |
| Length | 2:42 |
| Label | Philips |
| Composer | Emil Stern |
| Lyricist | Eddy Marnay |
| Eurovision Song Contest 1969 entry | |
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| Finals performance | |
| Final result | 1st |
| Final points | 18 |
| Entry chronology | |
| ◄ "La source" (1968) | |
| "Marie-Blanche" (1970) ► | |
| Official performance video | |
| "Un jour, un enfant" onYouTube | |
"Un jour, un enfant" (French pronunciation:[œ̃ʒuʁœ̃n‿ɑ̃fɑ̃]; "A Day, a Child") is a song recorded by French singerFrida Boccara, with music composed byEmil Stern and lyrics byEddy Marnay. Itrepresented France in theEurovision Song Contest 1969 held inMadrid, and became one of the four winning songs.
Boccara recorded the song in five languages: French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.
"Un jour, un enfant" was written by composerEmil Stern and lyricistEddy Marnay. The song is a classicalballad, describing the wonders of the world as seen by a child.[1]
Boccara recorded the song in five languages: French, English –as "Through the Eyes of a Child"–, German –"Es schlägt ein Herz für dich", translated: "A Heart Beats for You"–, Spanish –"Un día, un niño", translated: "A Day, a Child"–, and Italian –"Canzone di un amore perduto", translated: "Song of a Lost Love"–.[1]
TheOffice de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) internally selected the song asits entrant for the14th edition of theEurovision Song Contest.[2]
On 29 March 1969, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at theTeatro Real in Madrid hosted byTelevisión Española (TVE), and broadcast live throughout the continent. Boccara performed "Un jour, un enfant" fourteenth on the night, followingGermany's "Primaballerina" bySiw Malmkvist and precedingPortugal's "Desfolhada portuguesa" bySimone de Oliveira.Franck Pourcel conducted the live orchestra in the performance of the French entry.[3]
At the close of voting, the song had received 18 points, the same number of points asSpain's "Vivo cantando" bySalomé, theUnited Kingdom's "Boom Bang-a-Bang" byLulu, and theNetherlands's "De troubadour" byLenny Kuhr. As there was no tiebreaker rule in place at the time, all four countries were declared joint winners.[4][5]
The song was succeeded as (joint) contest winner in1970 byIreland's "All Kinds of Everything" byDana. It was succeeded as French representative that year by "Marie-Blanche" byGuy Bonnet.
"Un jour, un enfant" was included in Boccara's first studio album of the same name.[6] Boccara performed her song in the Eurovision twenty-fifth anniversary showSongs of Europe held on 22 August 1981 inMysen.[7]
| Chart (1969) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[8] | 24 |
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)| Preceded by "La, la, la" byMassiel | Eurovision Song Contest winners co-winner with "De troubadour" byLenny Kuhr, "Vivo cantando" bySalomé and "Boom Bang-a-Bang" byLulu 1969 | Succeeded by |
