The 1997 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 11th OGAE Second Chance Contest, organised between members of the international Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 fan club OGAE

OGAE

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 to select the best song not to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest through each country's national finals. 17 countries took part in the contest, organised by OGAE Germany in Hanover

Hanover

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, Germany

Germany

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Six countries that took part in the 1996 Contest

OGAE Second Chance Contest 1996

The 1996 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 10th OGAE Second Chance Contest, organized by the members of international Eurovision Song Contest fan club OGAE to select the best song not to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest through their national finals...

 withdrew for the Contest in 1997: Belgium

Belgium

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, Finland

Finland

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, Israel

Israel

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, Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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 and Romania

Romania

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 all withdrew after being relegated from the Eurovision Song Contest 1997

Eurovision Song Contest 1997

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, and Russia

Russia

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 was forced to withdraw after not holding televised national finals to select their entry for Eurovision 1997. Italy

Italy

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 made its return to the contest for the first time since 1991.

Italy was the winner of the Contest with the song "Storie" by Anna Oxa

Anna Oxa

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. This was Italy's first win in Second Chance, and the first win for a non-Scandinavian country. Second place went to Darren Holden of Ireland

Ireland

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, while third place went to girl group All About Angels from Germany. Durtingthe voting the 17 competing entries were joined by 5 guest juries from Austria

Austria

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, France

France

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, Israel

Israel

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, Switzerland

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 and Luxembourg

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Participants

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	National final	Place	Points
01		Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...	N-Mix	"Där en ängel hälsat på"	Where an angel has been	2nd	4	132
02		Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...	Giorgos Stamataris	"Xechnas"	You forget	2nd	17	1
03		Slovene	M4M	"Objemi me nezno"	Hold me tender	4th	16	11
04		Turkish Turkish language Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...	Pınar Karakoç	"Sen Nerede Ben Orada"	Wherever you are I'm there	2nd	6	123
05		Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...	Anna Oxa Anna Oxa Anna Oxa is an Italian singer of Albanian descent, well-known through her numerous appearances in the televised Italian song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1978, at the age of sixteen, she took second place with the song "Un'emozione da poco" at the Sanremo Festival...	"Storie"	Tale	2nd	1	165
06		German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....	All About Angels	"Engel"	Angel	7th	3	147
07		English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Joanne May	"You Stayed Away Too Long"	—	3rd	7	104
08		Bosnian Bosnian language Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....	Alma Čardžić	"Godine"	Years	Unplaced	14	20
09		Norwegian Norwegian language Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...	Manjari Manjari The word "manjari" is of sanskrit origin that primarily means a collection. e.g."katha manjari" . It is used in many Indian languages like Hindi and Kannada...	"Lys"	Light	2nd	5	128
10		Portuguese Portuguese language Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...	Raquel Alão	"Quando eu te beijo"	When I kiss you	3rd	15	19
11		Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...	Mrs. Einstein	"Dat liefde zo moet zijn"	That's the way love is	3rd	12	29
12		English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Darren Holden	"Suddenly"	—	2nd	2	164
13		English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	Catherine Vigar	"The Call"	—	2nd	13	28
14		Hungarian Hungarian language Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....	Melinda és Lui	"Talán"	Maybe	14th	11	40
15		Danish Danish language Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...	Jette Torp Jette Torp Jette Torp is a Danish singer and entertainer. Born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, the family moved to Ry near Skanderborg in Jutland when she was five years old.She studied music first at Århus University then at Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus....	"Utopia"	Utopia	2nd	9	60
16		Estonian Estonian language Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various émigré communities...	Pearu Paulus	"Meeletu soov"	Uncontrollable desire	5th	10	42
17		Croatian Croatian language Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...	Lana Cenčić	"Ti si super, ti si mrak"	You're super, you're cool	16th	8	63