Eurovision Song Contest 1971

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Eurovision Song Contest 1971
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Dates
Final 3 April 1971
Host
Venue Gaiety Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s) Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir
Conductor Colman Pearce
Director Tom McGrath
Executive supervisor Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Interval act Bunratty Castle Entertainers
Participants
Number of entries 18
Debuting countries  Malta
Returning countries
Withdrawing countries None

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         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1971
Vote
Voting system Each country had two jury members, one aged between 16 and 25 and another aged between 26 and 55. They each awarded 1 to 5 points for each song immediately after it was performed (other than the song from their own country) & the votes were collected and counted as soon as they were cast. The juries watched the show on TV from a backstage area of the theatre and then appeared on stage to confirm their scores.
Nul points None
Winning song  Monaco
"Un banc, un arbre, une rue"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1970 • 1971 • 1972►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the sixteenth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Dublin, Ireland. The new voting system that was introduced in this Eurovision did have one big problem: some juries gave fewer points out than others. Whether this was done in some cases to increase their respective countries' chances of winning is impossible to say, but the shortcomings of the system were nevertheless plain.[1]

Monaco's win was their first and only victory. The song was performed by a French singer, living in France, sung in French, conducted by a French native and written by a French team. Séverine later claimed she never visited Monaco before or after her victory - a claim easily disproved by the preview video submitted by Télé-Monte-Carlo featuring the singer on location in the Principality.[2]

Location

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin - host venue of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest

The contest was held at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, the capital and most populous city of Ireland.[3][4] This was the first time that the contest was held in Ireland.

Format

For the first time, each participating broadcaster was required to televise all the songs in "previews" prior to the live final. Belgium's preview video featured Nicole & Hugo performing the song "Goeiemorgen, morgen", but Nicole was struck with a sudden illness days before the contest final, with Jacques Raymond & Lily Castel stepping in at very short notice to perform the entry in their place. Reports suggested that Castel hadn't even had enough time to buy a suitable dress for the show.

The BBC were worried about the possible audience reaction to the British song due to the hostilities raging in Northern Ireland. They specifically selected a singer from Northern Ireland, Clodagh Rodgers who was popular in both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, to ease any ill-feeling from the Dublin audience. Despite this choice, Clodagh still received death threats from the IRA for representing the UK.

Groups of up to six people were allowed to perform for the first time, with the rule in previous contests of performing either solo or as a duet abolished.[1] This was only RTÉ's second outside broadcast in colour. The contest was broadcast in Iceland, USA & Hong Kong a few days later.[5]

Participating countries

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Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Malta made their début in this year's contest, along Austria, Finland, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden, who all returned after a brief absence from the contest. This brought the total number of countries to eighteen.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[6]

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Returning artists

Two artists returned to the competition this year. Belgium's Jacques Raymond who last performed for the nation in 1963; and Katja Ebstein for Germany who last participated in 1970.

Results

Draw Country Language[7] Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Austria Viennese Marianne Mendt "Musik" Music 16 66
02  Malta Maltese Joe Grech "Marija l-Maltija" Mary, the Maltese girl 18 52
03  Monaco French Séverine "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" A bench, a tree, a street 1 128
04   Switzerland French Peter, Sue and Marc "Les illusions de nos vingt ans" The illusions of our youth 12 78
05  Germany German Katja Ebstein "Diese Welt" This world 3 100
06 23x15px Spain Spanish Karina "En un mundo nuevo" In a new world 2 116
07  France French Serge Lama "Un jardin sur la terre" A garden on earth 10 82
08  Luxembourg French Monique Melsen "Pomme, pomme, pomme" Apple, apple, apple 13 70
09  United Kingdom English Clodagh Rodgers "Jack In The Box" — 4 98
10  Belgium Dutch Lily Castel & Jacques Raymond "Goeiemorgen, morgen" Good morning, morning 14 68
11  Italy Italian Massimo Ranieri "L'amore è un attimo" Love is a moment 5 91
12  Sweden Swedish Family Four "Vita vidder" White horizons 6 85
13  Ireland English Angela Farrell "One Day Love" — 11 79
14  Netherlands Dutch Saskia & Serge "Tijd" Time 6 85
15  Portugal Portuguese Tonicha "Menina do alto da serra" High ridge girl 9 83
16  Yugoslavia Croatian Krunoslav Slabinac "Tvoj dječak je tužan" Your boy is sad 14 68
17  Finland Finnish Markku Aro & Koivistolaiset "Tie uuteen päivään" A way to a new day 8 84
18  Norway Norwegian Hanne Krogh "Lykken er" Happiness is 17 65

Scoreboard

Saskia & Serge finishing 6th with their entry "Tijd"
Results
Total Score Austria Malta Monaco Switzerland Germany Spain France Luxembourg United Kingdom Belgium Italy Sweden Ireland Netherlands Portugal Yugoslavia Finland Norway
Contestants Austria 66 3 5 2 7 2 3 2 3 3 6 4 6 3 5 4 3 5
Malta 52 4 2 2 3 5 3 2 3 4 4 2 4 5 2 2 3 2
Monaco 128 4 5 10 10 2 8 4 8 10 4 10 9 9 8 10 7 10
Switzerland 78 5 5 4 6 2 6 2 6 3 7 4 5 5 6 4 4 4
Germany 100 6 5 7 6 8 8 2 6 7 6 6 5 5 7 7 5 4
Spain 116 4 8 10 5 7 10 4 7 4 5 6 9 6 7 7 9 8
France 82 3 2 8 8 5 5 2 5 3 4 4 6 9 5 5 3 5
Luxembourg 70 2 7 6 3 2 4 5 6 3 3 2 5 3 6 4 5 4
United Kingdom 98 4 8 8 6 5 2 8 4 8 3 5 7 5 7 6 6 6
Belgium 68 3 2 5 4 2 2 5 2 6 3 5 4 6 6 3 6 4
Italy 91 4 6 9 8 6 6 9 2 6 2 7 6 2 3 8 2 5
Sweden 85 7 4 4 9 4 2 5 2 5 6 6 3 9 3 6 4 6
Ireland 79 7 6 6 3 4 5 7 2 6 3 6 2 5 4 5 4 4
Netherlands 85 6 2 6 5 4 5 7 2 5 2 2 6 5 9 5 6 8
Portugal 83 4 3 6 2 5 10 8 5 6 4 4 2 3 5 6 5 5
Yugoslavia 68 6 2 4 2 7 6 6 2 3 2 5 2 5 4 4 3 5
Finland 84 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 2 10 10 2 4 6 3 8 6 6
Norway 65 3 3 6 4 2 2 5 2 7 6 2 2 7 2 5 4 3

10 points

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

N. Contestant Voting nation
6 Monaco Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia
2 Finland Belgium, United Kingdom
Spain France, Monaco
1 Portugal Spain

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1971 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.[1]

Voting order Country Jury members Commentator Broadcaster
01  Austria Beatrix Neundlinger Ernst Grissemann FS1
Hubert Gaisbauer Hitradio Ö3
02  Malta Spiro Sillato and Gaetan Abela[8] Victor Aquilina[8] MTV
TBC TBC
03  Monaco TBC Georges de Caunes Télé Monte Carlo
TBC TBC
04   Switzerland TBC Theodor Haller TV DRS
Georges Hardy TSR
Giovanni Bertini TSI
TBC TBC
05  Germany TBC Hanns Verres ARD Deutsches Fernsehen[9]
Wolf Mittler Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2
06 23x15px Spain Noelia Afonso and Francisco Madariaga Joaquín Prat TVE1[10]
Miguel de los Santos Primer Programa RNE
07  France TBC Georges de Caunes Deuxième Chaîne ORTF[11]
TBC France Inter
08  Luxembourg TBC Jacques Navadic Télé-Luxembourg
Camillo Felgen RTL Radio
09  United Kingdom Gay Lowe and Jeremy Patterson-Fox[12] Dave Lee Travis BBC1[13]
Terry Wogan BBC Radio 1[14]
John Russel British Forces Radio[15]
10  Belgium TBC Herman Verelst BRT
Janine Lambotte RTB
Nand Baert BRT Radio 1
André Hagon RTB La Première
11  Italy TBC Renato Tagliani Programma Nazionale
Renato Tagliani Secondo Programma Radio
12  Sweden Eva Blomqvist and Putte Wickman[16] Åke Strömmer SR TV1[16]
Ursula Richter SR P3[16]
13  Ireland TBC Noel Andrews RTÉ Television
Kevin Roche Radio Éireann[17]
14  Netherlands Jos Cléber Pim Jacobs Nederland 1[18]
TBC TBC
15  Portugal Pedro Albergaria and Luís Filipe Costa[19] Henrique Mendes RTP1[19]
TBC RDP Antena 1
16  Yugoslavia Miso Kukic and Zoran Krzisnik[20] Milovan Ilić Televizija Beograd
Oliver Mlakar Televizija Zagreb
Tomaž Terček Televizija Ljubljana
TBC TBC
17  Finland Markku Veijalainen and Vieno Kekkonen[21] Heikki Seppälä TV-ohjelma 1[22]
Poppe Berg YLE Radio 1
18  Norway Sten Fredriksen and Liv Ustemd Sverre Christophersen NRK[23]
Erik Heyerdahl NRK P1
-  Greece (Non-participating country) Mako Georgiadou EIRT
-  Iceland (Non-participating country) TBC RÚV

References

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Bibliography

  • The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History, John Kennedy O'Connor, Carlton Books Ltd, ISBN 1-84442-994-6

External links

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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "It was all in the game", Fred Barry, Times of Malta, 7 April 1971
  9. ↑ Rau, Oliver (OGAE Germany)
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  12. ↑ "Dubliner Jury bestochen?", Hamburger Abendblatt, 6 April 1971
  13. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest 1971 BBC Archive
  14. ↑ Wogan quits Eurovision role
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  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 88. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
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  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "A África também vai ver o Grande Prémio da Eurovisão", Diário de Lisboa, 3 April 1971
  20. ↑ Vladimir Pinzovski
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  23. ↑ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
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