Eurovision Song Contest 1969

Eurovision Song Contest 1969
Dates
Final	29 March 1969
Host
Venue	Teatro Real; Madrid, Spain
Presenter(s)	Laurita Valenzuela
Conductor	Augusto Algueró
Directed by	Ramón Díez
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster	Televisión Española (TVE)
Interval act	"La España diferente" film
Website	eurovision.tv/event/madrid-1969
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	Austria
	Participation map Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1969;
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
Nul points	None
Winning song	France; "Un jour, un enfant"; Netherlands; "De troubadour"; Spain; "Vivo cantando"; United Kingdom; "Boom Bang-a-Bang";

The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

Four countries (the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and France) won the contest, the first time ever a tie had occurred. However, there was no rule at the time to cover such an eventuality, so all four countries were declared joint winners.[1]

France's win was their fourth, thus making it the first country to win the contest four times. The Netherlands' win was their third. Spain and the United Kingdom each won for the second time. And it was the first time that any country (Spain, in this case) had a winning ESC entry two years in a row. This is so far the only occasion Spain has hosted the contest, as well as their last win to date.

Location

Teatro Real, Madrid – host venue of the 1969 contest.

The venue selected to host the 1969 contest was the Teatro Real, an opera house located in Madrid. The theatre reopened in 1966 as a concert theatre and the main concert venue of the Spanish National Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. The final featured an onstage metal sculpture created by surrealist Spanish artist, Salvador Dalí.[2]

Format

The surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dalí was responsible for designing the publicity material for the 1969 contest as well as the metal sculpture which was used on stage.[1]

It was the first time that the contest resulted in a tie for first place, with four countries each gaining 18 votes. Since there was at the time no rule to cover such an eventuality, all four countries were declared joint winners. This caused an unfortunate problem concerning the medals due to be distributed to the winners as there were not enough to go round, so that only the singers received their medals on the night: the songwriters, to some disgruntlement, were not awarded theirs until after the date of the contest.[1]

Participating countries

Austria was absent from the contest,[1] officially because they could not find a suitable representative,[3] but it was rumoured that they refused to participate in a contest staged in Franco-ruled Spain.[4] Wales wanted to debut with Welsh language broadcaster BBC Cymru, and also made a national selection called Cân i Gymru, but in the end it was decided they would not participate in the competition – their participation was rejected because Wales is not a sovereign state. Only the BBC has the exclusive right to represent the United Kingdom.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who led the orchestra.[5] These are listed below.

Yugoslavia – Miljenko Prohaska
Luxembourg – Augusto Algueró
Spain – Augusto Algueró
Monaco – Hervé Roy
Ireland – Noel Kelehan
Italy – Ezio Leoni
United Kingdom – Johnny Harris
Netherlands – Frans de Kok
Sweden – Lars Samuelson
Belgium – Francis Bay
Switzerland – Henry Mayer
Norway – Øivind Bergh
Germany – Hans Blum
France – Franck Pourcel
Portugal – Ferrer Trindade
Finland – Ossi Runne

Returning artists

Five artists returned in this year's contest. Louis Neefs for Belgium who last represented the nation in 1967; Germany's Siw Malmkvist who was also the participant for Sweden in 1960. Romuald for Luxembourg who represented Monaco last time in 1964; Norway's Kirsti Sparboe who represented the Scandinavian nation twice before in 1965 and 1967; and finally Simone de Oliveira who also represented Portugal in 1965.[1]

Results

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language[6]	Place	Points
01	Yugoslavia	Ivan & 4M	"Pozdrav svijetu"	Croatian	13	5
02	Luxembourg	Romuald	"Catherine"	French	11	7
03	Spain	Salomé	"Vivo cantando"	Spanish	1	18
04	Monaco	Jean Jacques	"Maman, Maman"	French	6	11
05	Ireland	Muriel Day & The Lindsays	"The Wages of Love"	English	7	10
06	Italy	Iva Zanicchi	"Due grosse lacrime bianche"	Italian	13	5
07	United Kingdom	Lulu	"Boom Bang-a-Bang"	English	1	18
08	Netherlands	Lenny Kuhr	"De troubadour"	Dutch	1	18
09	Sweden	Tommy Körberg	"Judy, min vän"	Swedish	9	8
10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	"Jennifer Jennings"	Dutch	7	10
11	Switzerland	Paola del Medico	"Bonjour, Bonjour"	German	5	13
12	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli"	Norwegian	16	1
13	Germany	Siw Malmkvist	"Primaballerina"	German	9	8
14	France	Frida Boccara	"Un jour, un enfant"	French	1	18
15	Portugal	Simone de Oliveira	"Desfolhada portuguesa"	Portuguese	15	4
16	Finland	Jarkko & Laura	"Kuin silloin ennen"	Finnish	12	6

Scoreboard

Although neither jury made any errors in their announcements, scrutineer Clifford Brown asked both the Spanish and the Monegasque juries to repeat their scores. No adjustments were made to the scoring as a result of the repetition.

Lenny Kuhr's dress

The final results of ESC 1969

		Total score	Yugoslavia	Luxembourg	Spain	Monaco	Ireland	Italy	United Kingdom	Netherlands	Sweden	Belgium	Switzerland	Norway	Germany	France	Portugal	Finland
		Results
Contestants	Yugoslavia	5			1							1					3
	Luxembourg	7	1			3				1		1			1
	Spain	18	1	2		3	1					3		1	3	2	2
	Monaco	11			2			4		2	2	1
	Ireland	10							1	1	1		3		1			3
	Italy	5	1			1	1										1	1
	United Kingdom	18	2	4				3		1	5				1		1	1
	Netherlands	18		2		1		3				1	4	1		6
	Sweden	8								1				3			1	3
	Belgium	10			2				3	1			2	2
	Switzerland	13	2				3		2			1		1	2			2
	Norway	1									1
	Germany	8	3		2							1		1		1
	France	18		1		2	4		4	2	1		1		1		2
	Portugal	4			2							1				1
	Finland	6		1	1		1			1				1	1

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1969 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. The voting order was the same as the running order of the performances. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting stations they represented are also included in the table below.[1]

Country	Spokespersons	Commentator	Broadcaster
Austria	Non-participating country	Willy Kralik	ORF
Belgium	Eugène Senelle[7]	Herman Verelst	BRT
Belgium	Eugène Senelle[7]	Paule Herreman	RTB
Brazil	Non-participating country	TBC	TV Tupi
Chile		TBC	Canal 9
Czechoslovakia		TBC	Československá televize
East Germany		TBC	Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Finland	Poppe Berg	Aarno Walli	TV-ohjelma 1 and Yleisohjelma
France	Jean-Claude Massoulier[8]	Pierre Tchernia	Deuxième Chaîne ORTF[9]
Germany	Hans-Otto Grünefeldt	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach	ARD Deutsches Fernsehen
Hungary	Non-participating country	TBC	Magyar Televízió
Ireland	John Skehan	Gay Byrne	RTÉ Television
Ireland	John Skehan	Kevin Roche	Radio Éireann
Italy	Mike Bongiorno	Renato Tagliani	Secondo Programma
Luxembourg	TBC	Jacques Navadic	Télé-Luxembourg
Monaco	TBC	Pierre Tchernia	Télé Monte Carlo
Morocco	Non-participating country	TBC	SNRT
Netherlands	Leo Nelissen	Pim Jacobs[10]	Nederland 1
Norway	Janka Polanyi	Sverre Christophersen[11]	NRK
Norway	Janka Polanyi	Erik Heyerdahl	NRK P1
Poland	Non-participating country	TBC	TVP
Portugal	Maria Manuela Furtado	Henrique Mendes	RTP1
Romania	Non-participating country	TBC	TVR1
Soviet Union	Non-participating country	TBC	CT USSR
Spain	Ramón Rivera	José Luis Uribarri	TVE1
Spain	Ramón Rivera	Miguel de los Santos	Primer Programa RNE
Sweden	Edvard Matz[12]	Christina Hansegård[13]	Sveriges Radio-TV and SR P3
Switzerland	Alexandre Burger	Theodor Haller	TV DRS
		Georges Hardy	TSR
		Giovanni Bertini	TSI
Tunisia	Non-participating country	TBC	ERTT
United Kingdom	Colin-Ward Lewis	David Gell[14] and Michael Aspel[15][16]	BBC 1
United Kingdom	Colin-Ward Lewis	Pete Murray[14]	BBC Radio 1
Yugoslavia	Gordana Bonetti	Miloje Orlović	Televizija Beograd
		Mladen Delić	Televizija Zagreb
		Tomaž Terček	Televizija Ljubljana

References

"Eurovision Song Contest 1969". EBU. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
"Cultural Institutions: Teatro Real". esMADRID.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
"Eurovisionsfest ohne Österreich". Arbeiter-Zeitung. Vienna, Austria. 15 January 1969.
O'Connor, John Kennedy (2005). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History.
"Conductors 1969". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
"Eurovision Song Contest 1969". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
"Drieluik Madrid, met een viertal kanshebbers naar het uur H", Emiel Janssens, Gazet van Antwerpen, 29 maart 1969
Tchernia, Pierre et al. (29 March 1969). 14ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1969 [14th Eurovision Song Contest 1969] (Television production). Spain: TVE, ORTF (commentary).
Christian Masson. "1969 – Madrid". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
"Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
Sverre Christophersen was the commentator during the broadcast, however the connection between Madrid and Oslo was disabled slightly midway through the broadcast.Janka Polanyi entered as a temporary commentator before NRK used the commentary from the Swedish feed. Just before the voting began, NRK managed regain the connection, thus Christophersen was back as commentator.
"Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 80. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs For Europe The United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. UK: Telos. p. 483. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
"Eurovision Song Contest, Grand Final: 1969". BBC. 29 March 1969. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
"Eurovision 1969". Songs4europe.com. 29 March 1969. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.

External links

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[ESC1969-1] "Eurovision Song Contest 1969". EBU. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[Cultural_Institutions:_Teatro_Real-2] "Cultural Institutions: Teatro Real". esMADRID.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2009.

[3] "Eurovisionsfest ohne Österreich". Arbeiter-Zeitung. Vienna, Austria. 15 January 1969.

[History-4] O'Connor, John Kennedy (2005). The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History.

[Conductors-5] "Conductors 1969". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[6] "Eurovision Song Contest 1969". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[7] "Drieluik Madrid, met een viertal kanshebbers naar het uur H", Emiel Janssens, Gazet van Antwerpen, 29 maart 1969

[8] Tchernia, Pierre et al. (29 March 1969). 14ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1969 [14th Eurovision Song Contest 1969] (Television production). Spain: TVE, ORTF (commentary).

[9] Christian Masson. "1969 – Madrid". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 10 August 2012.

[10] "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).

[11] Sverre Christophersen was the commentator during the broadcast, however the connection between Madrid and Oslo was disabled slightly midway through the broadcast.Janka Polanyi entered as a temporary commentator before NRK used the commentary from the Swedish feed. Just before the voting began, NRK managed regain the connection, thus Christophersen was back as commentator.

[12] "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.

[13] Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 80. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2

[Roxburgh-14] Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs For Europe The United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. UK: Telos. p. 483. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.

[15] "Eurovision Song Contest, Grand Final: 1969". BBC. 29 March 1969. Retrieved 10 August 2012.

[16] "Eurovision 1969". Songs4europe.com. 29 March 1969. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.