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Yugoslavia in 1966
Berta Ambroz
Song
Brez besed
Elza Budav
Composer(s)
Mojmir Sepe
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Biography
Berta Ambroz was a young and promising performer who already had some festival experience at the time. She was originally from Kranj. She was a regular performer at the festivals (mostly in Slovenia) in the 60's and 70's though she never became a professional singer. Later she disappeared from the scene and, unlike other popular singers from the 60's, she never participates at verious evergreen concerts. She even refused to participate in a very succesfull TV-series on the history of popular music in Slovenia.
"Brez besed" is one of the rare Slovenian songs whose cover version was released on record by a foreign singer, the Dutch artist Willeke Alberti (ESC 1994). Willeke sang the English version "Without words".
"Brez besed" became the first song in Slovenian to be performed at the ESC (the songs in 1961 and 1962 had been submitted by TV Ljubljana but were performed in Serbo-Croat). This caused an uproar in the hall at the national final and Berta Ambroz had a hard task to sing the reprise among whistles and boos. The audience was clearly on the side of Dragan Stojnic (singing "Dva novcica) and especially Dorde Marjanovic (singing "Najlepsi dan") who was some kind of a singer-god in Serbia at the time.
Originally the head of the JRT delegation in Luxembourg was supposed to be from TV Beograd and the conductor Ilija Genic but TV Ljubljana, who as winners had to pay for the whole thing, refused to send 4 people, saying that Mojmir Sepe could as well conduct and head the delegation.
Berta Ambroz missed the train to Luxembourg in Ljubljana so she hired a taxi and caught the train at the border of Jesenice. TV Ljubljana decided to refund her the cost only after the excellent result in Luxembourg.
Spanish TV had the idea to present Breta Ambroz in a TV-show together with Raphael (with which she shared 7th place at the ESC) but Berta had to refuse as she had already spent all her annual leave for the ESC itself.
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All Participations for Yugoslavia
| Year | Artist | Song | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Extra Nena | Ljubim te pesmama | 44 | 13 |
| 1991 | Baby Doll | Brazil | 1 | 21 |
| 1990 | Tajci | Hajde da ludujemo | 81 | 7 |
| 1989 | Riva | Rock me | 137 | 1 |
| 1988 | Srebrna Krila | Mangup | 87 | 6 |
| 1987 | Novi Fosili | Ja sam za ples | 92 | 4 |
| 1986 | Doris Dragovic | Zeljo moja | 49 | 11 |
| 1984 | Vlado and Isolda | Ciao amore | 26 | 18 |
| 1983 | Danijel | Dzuli | 125 | 4 |
| 1982 | Aska | Halo halo | 21 | 14 |
| 1981 | Seid-Memic Vajta | Leila | 35 | 15 |
| 1976 | Ambasadori | Ne mogu skriti svoju bol | 6 | 18 |
| 1975 | Pepel In Kri | Dan ljubezni | 22 | 13 |
| 1974 | Korni | Generacija 42 | 6 | 12 |
| 1973 | Zdravko Colic | Gori vatra | 65 | 15 |
| 1972 | Tereza | Muzika i ti | 87 | 9 |
| 1971 | Krunoslav Slabinac | Tvoj djecak je tuzan | 68 | 14 |
| 1970 | Eva Sršen | Pridi, dala ti bom cvet | 4 | 11 |
| 1969 | Ivan | Pozdrav svijetu | 5 | 13 |
| 1968 | Luci Kapurso and Hamo Hajdarhodzic | Jedan dan | 8 | 7 |
| 1967 | Lado Leskovar | Vse roze sveta | 7 | 8 |
| 1966 | Berta Ambroz | Brez besed | 9 | 7 |
| 1965 | Vice Vukov | Ceznja | 2 | 12 |
| 1964 | Sabahudin Kurt | Zivot je sklopio krug | 0 | 13 |
| 1963 | Vice Vukov | Brodovi | 3 | 11 |
| 1962 | Lola Novakovic | Ne pali svetlo u sumrak | 10 | 4 |
| 1961 | Ljiljana Petrovic | Neke davne zvezde | 9 | 8 |
