Home Composed Song Contest 1994

Contest overview

1993 winner Bengt Carlvik was due to organise the 1994 Home Composed Song Contest; indeed, he sent out entry forms and received the entries, but personal problems meant that he was forced to hand over the organisation to Morten Boldt Hansen from Denmark. In the wake of this inevitable delay, the 1994 contest was not fully concluded until early 1995.

There was some turnover of composers this year. Of course, Bengt Carlvik himself did not enter, and Y. Sapir from Israel also said goodbye to the competition. Meanwhile, Michael Constantinides from Cyprus and Martin Faulkner from the United Kingdom made their debuts - the latter posing a problem of nomenclature which was resolved geographically, the U.K. being subdivided into "North" and "South" for the purpose of the competition. The issue of how exactly to refer to multiple entries from the same country would persist for some years.

Despite the churn on the participant side of things, the number of entries remained the same: ten songs went into battle, seven of them with lyrics this time.

The voting was evenly spread, with no song receiving more than one maximum score. In the end, it was first-time entrants Cyprus who took a tight victory - and for the third year in succession, the same entrant claimed both first and second place. A 15-year-old Michael Hadjiyiannis (as his name was transliterated for the purpose of the competition) would have no cause to dwell on his second place for too long, though - his career was destined to go far beyond the Home Composed arena...

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Denmark	Don't Wanna Lose You	Morten Boldt Hansen	Morten Boldt Hansen	n/a	3	21
02	Cyprus	Birthday Candle	Pierre Bezos	Michael Constantinides	Michael Constantinides	1	24
03	Denmark	Forever	Morten Boldt Hansen	Morten Boldt Hansen	Morten Boldt Hansen	6	11
04	Italy	The Long Way Home	Fabio Giuntini	Fabio Giuntini	n/a	5	12
05	Italy	Love Is Like The Wind	Fabio Giuntini	Fabio Giuntini	n/a	4	16
06	United Kingdom North	Exit This World	Jaded	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	10	8
07	Cyprus	Pictures	Michael Hadjiyiannis	Michael Constantinides	Michael Constantinides	2	23
08	United Kingdom South	The Crazy World Of Davey Joyce	Ace Frehmen	Ace Frehmen	Ace Frehmen	9	9
09	United Kingdom South	Richard's Song (Prader Willi)	Ace Frehmen	Ace Frehmen	Ace Frehmen	8	10
10	United Kingdom North	Misery	Jaded	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	6	11

Scoreboard

	Juries
						Total
Don't Wanna Lose You		8	5	4	4	21
Birthday Candle	4		6	8	6	24
Forever		4	2	5		11
The Long Way Home	1	6		3	2	12
Love Is Like The Wind	8	5		2	1	16
Exit This World					8	8
Pictures	6		8	6	3	23
The Crazy World Of Davey Joyce	3	1	4	1		9
Richard's Song (Prader Willi)	5	2	3			10
Misery	2	3	1		5	11

Media

HCSC 1994 winner: Pierre Bezos - Birthday Candle

Recap of all HCSC 1994 songs in draw order