Recollections from Artists in Swiss Selections (1982-1987)
Hello, this is Lewis in his first Blogger post! I figured this would be a good way to document any information I come across regarding Swiss national finals that I have little to no sources of online, but have claims to back my sources thanks to the various people I’ve contacted. Since late 2024, I’ve been heavily researching on Swiss national finals before 2000, because there were several years that were barely documented online, despite the information being easily available on Swiss newspaper archives, such as Scriptorium, E-Newspapers.ch, and Archivio digitale Sbt dei Quotidiani e Periodici (SBT), which are the three main online Swiss news archives I use to find my sources. Since then, I’ve found several results of Swiss finals from the 50s and 60s, all of the song titles from the 1959 semifinals, and confirmation of the 1962 (and maybe 1958) selection(s) being internal, despite conflicting online sources. In February this year, I rediscovered news clippings that mentioned regional...