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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1962**
Date:	13 February 1962
Presenter:	Bengt Feldreich Bengt Feldreich Bengt Walter Feldreich is a Swedish journalist and teacher. He is father to Sten Feldreich.Feldreich began with working at AB Radiotjänst in 1950. He has since that been news presenter for many popular science programs, including Snillen spekulerar. He has also been news presenter for the...
Venue:	Cirkus Cirkus (Stockholm) Cirkus is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, that holds 1,650 people. It was built in 1892 and originally used as a circus , but is today mostly used for concerts and musical shows.-External links:*... , Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Voting:	Postcard voting
Winner:	Sol och vår performed by Inger Berggren Inger Berggren Inger Berggren is a Swedish singer who began singing in Thore Swanerud's orchestra, and later sang with Thore Ehrling, Simon Brehm, and Göte Wilhelmsson. Her biggest hits were "The Sun and the Spring" and "Elisabeth Serenade", both in 1962... /Lily Berglund
Winner's result at Eurovision 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... :	Seventh place

Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

1962 (known as Eurovisionsschlagern, svensk final) was the selection for the fifth song to represent Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

at the 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...

. It was the fourth time that this system of picking a song had been used. One singer performed the song with a large orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

and one with a smaller orchestra. Seven songs were submitted to SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

for the competition, of which one was disqualified. The final was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV

SVT1

SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

but was not broadcast on radio. Inger Berggren performed Sol och vår at Eurovision.

Results

Place	Artist¹	Artist²	Song	Songwriters	Votes
1st	Inger Berggren Inger Berggren Inger Berggren is a Swedish singer who began singing in Thore Swanerud's orchestra, and later sang with Thore Ehrling, Simon Brehm, and Göte Wilhelmsson. Her biggest hits were "The Sun and the Spring" and "Elisabeth Serenade", both in 1962...	Lily Berglund	Sol och vår Sol och vår "Sol och vår" is a song by Swedish singer Inger Berggren, that represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962, performed in Swedish. The title literally translates as "Sun and Spring", but the Swedish expression 'Att sol och våra någon', 'sun and spring'-ing somebody, means tricking a...	Ulf Källqvist, Åke Gerhard	102327
2nd	Monica Zetterlund Monica Zetterlund Eva Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish singer and actress.-Biography:Zetterlund was a singer particularly noted for her jazz work. She began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English...	Carli Tornehave	När min vän	Owe Thörnqvist	74077
3rd	Carli Thornehave	Otto Brandenburg Otto Brandenburg Otto Herman Max Brandenburg was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.-Filmography:Styrmand Karlsen Sømand i knibe Mine tossede drenge Prinsesse for en dag...	Anne-Li	Per Lindqvist	13401
4th	Otto Brandenburg Otto Brandenburg Otto Herman Max Brandenburg was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.-Filmography:Styrmand Karlsen Sømand i knibe Mine tossede drenge Prinsesse for en dag...	Östen Warnebring	Lolo-Lolita	Bobbie Ericson, Bo Eneby	11848
5th	Lily Berglund	Inger Berggren Inger Berggren Inger Berggren is a Swedish singer who began singing in Thore Swanerud's orchestra, and later sang with Thore Ehrling, Simon Brehm, and Göte Wilhelmsson. Her biggest hits were "The Sun and the Spring" and "Elisabeth Serenade", both in 1962...	Sagans underbara värld	Britt Lindeborg	6885
6th	Östen Warnebring	Mona Grain	Trollen ska trivas	Ulf Peder Olrog	4001

1: Performer with large orchestra
2: Performer with smaller orchestra

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