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((Short description|1956 song by Lys Assia))
((more citations needed|date=October 2013))
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| song         = ((flagicon|Switzerland)) "Refrain"
| image        = [[Image:Lys Assia - Refrain.jpg|200px]]
| 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       =
| lyrics       = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1956ch2 from Diggiloo Thrush]
| prev         = Das alte Karussell
| prev_link    = Das alte Karussell
| prev_year    = 1956
| next         = L'enfant que j'étais
| next_link    = L'enfant que j'étais
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"'''Refrain'''" is a song in [[French language|French]] co-written by [[Émile Gardaz]] and [[Géo Voumard]],<ref name=nyt>((cite news |title=Géo Voumard, a Founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/arts/music/05voumard.html |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 August 2008|access-date=2008-09-11))</ref> and performed by [[Lys Assia]]. The song represented [[Switzerland]] in the inaugural edition of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1956|Eurovision Song Contest in 1956]] and became the first winner of the contest.

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.

==Eurovision Song Contest==
The [[European Broadcasting Union]] which organises the contest allowed two entries from each country for the only time. Lys Assia was one of only two performers, alongside Luxembourg, to represent her country for both entries. That followed the Swiss national final which chose both of her interpretations out of eleven songs interpreted by several singers in Switzerland's different official languages.

The countries performed in the same order via two rounds and Assia had previously performed "[[Das alte Karussell]]" in [[German language|German]] as the second song of the evening. "Refrain" thus performed ninth, following the [[Netherlands]]' [[Corry Brokken]] with "[[Voorgoed voorbij]]" and preceding [[Belgium]]'s [[Mony Marc]] with "[[Le plus beau jour de ma vie]]". After the interval act, "Refrain" was declared the winner without revealing the other song's ranks nor the number of points to the winner as well.

Claims were raised that it won as a result of procedures which included a secret voting with an option for juries to vote for their own country's songs, alongside allowing the Swiss jury to vote on behalf of Luxembourg which couldn't send juries.<ref name="auto">Jan Feddersen: Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein. 1. Auflage. Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ((ISBN|3-455-09350-7)). S. 374.</ref>

The 25 May 1956 issue of the Italian newspaper ''[[La Stampa]]'', published the day after the contest, wrote that "Refrain" received 102 points, which represented 72.8% of potential the theoretical total available for each song. This is based on a claim that each jury member ranked each song between 1 and 10 points, meaning each song could have obtained a maximum of 120 to 140 points; depending on whether jury members also voted for their own country.<ref>((cite web |title=Canzoni tristi al concorso di Lugano |url=https://eurofestivalitalia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/La-Stampa-25-05-1956.pdf |date=25 March 1956|access-date=27 April 2020 |website=eurofestivalitalia.net |language=it))</ref>

The two songs were succeeded as Swiss representative at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1957|1957 contest]] by Assia again with "[[L'enfant que j'étais]]", and "Refrain" was succeeded as Contest winner in 1957 by [[Corry Brokken]] representing the Netherlands with "[[Net als toen]]".

==Other achievements==
Assia revealed in 2011 that she dedicated all royalties she made from the song to charity.<ref name=refrain>((cite news |title=Remembering Lys Assia: Twelve memorable moments |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/remembering-lys-assia-memorable-moments-life |website=eurovision.tv.com |date=26 March 2018 |access-date=5 January 2022))</ref>

Assia performed the song in 2005 as part of the interval acts of "[[Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest]]", which was broadcast to dozens of countries with a public voting competition to crown the best Eurovision song in the contest's history.<ref name=refrain/>

According to the data calculated at "Hit Parade Italia", which presents weekly and top 100 yearly positions for a mix of both Italian and international songs, "Refrain" is ranked the 50th most successful song in Italy in 1956.<ref>((cite news |title=The Most Successful singles of 1956 |url=https://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yends/hpe1956.htm |website=hitparadeitalia.it |date= |access-date=5 January 2022))</ref>

A cover version of "Refrain" sung by [[Mathé Altéry]], one of the French representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, was published in autumn 1956.<ref>((Cite news |date=December 1956 |title=45 & 78 Tours : Voix de femmes |work=Disques |publisher=Cado Radio |page=5 |language=fr |oclc=1185544788))</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==


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[[Category:Songs with music by Géo Voumard]]
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