Eurovision Song Contest 1971
Eurovision Song Contest 1971 | |
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Dates | |
Final | 3 April 1971 |
Host | |
Venue | Gaiety Theatre Dublin, Ireland |
Presenter(s) | Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir |
Musical director | Colman Pearce |
Directed by | Tom McGrath |
Supervisor | Clifford Brown |
Host broadcaster | Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) |
Website | eurovision |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 18 |
Debuting countries | Malta |
Returning countries | |
Non-returning countries | None |
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Vote | |
Voting system | Two-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points. |
Winning song | Monaco "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the 1970 contest with the song "All Kinds of Everything" by Dana. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was held at the Gaiety Theatre on 3 April 1971, and was hosted by Irish television presenter Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir.
Eighteen countries participated in the contest, equalling the record of the 1965 and 1966 editions. Austria returned after their two-year absence, while Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden all returned after having boycotted the competition the previous year. On the other hand, Malta competed for the first time.
The winner was Monaco with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", performed by Séverine, written by Yves Dessca, and composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre. This was Monaco's first and only victory in the contest. This was also the only time in the contest's history, where the second and third-placed entrants were also awarded.
Location
[edit]The contest was held at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, the capital and most populous city of Ireland.[1][2] This was the first time that the contest was held in Ireland. The Gaiety Theatre was selected as the venue for the 1971 contest as it was celebrating 100 years since its establishment in 1871.
Participating countries
[edit]Eurovision Song Contest 1971 – Participation summaries by country | |
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Malta made their début in this year's contest, while Austria, Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden all returned after a brief absence. This brought the total number of countries to eighteen.
Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | Songwriter(s) | Conductor |
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Austria | ORF | Marianne Mendt | "Musik" | German[a] |
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Robert Opratko |
Belgium | BRT | Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel | "Goeie morgen, morgen" | Dutch |
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Francis Bay |
Finland | YLE | Markku Aro and Koivisto Sisters | "Tie uuteen päivään" | Finnish | Rauno Lehtinen | Ossi Runne |
France | ORTF | Serge Lama | "Un jardin sur la terre" | French |
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Franck Pourcel |
Germany | HR[b] | Katja Ebstein | "Diese Welt" | German |
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Dieter Zimmermann |
Ireland | RTÉ | Angela Farrell | "One Day Love" | English |
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Noel Kelehan |
Italy | RAI | Massimo Ranieri | "L'amore è un attimo" | Italian |
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Enrico Polito |
Luxembourg | CLT | Monique Melsen | "Pomme, pomme, pomme" | French | Jean Claudric | |
Malta | MBA | Joe Grech | "Marija l-Maltija" | Maltese |
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Anthony Chircop |
Monaco | TMC | Séverine | "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" | French |
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Jean-Claude Petit |
Netherlands | NOS | Saskia and Serge | "Tijd" | Dutch | Dolf van der Linden | |
Norway | NRK | Hanne Krogh | "Lykken er..." | Norwegian | Arne Bendiksen | Arne Bendiksen |
Portugal | RTP | Tonicha | "Menina do alto da serra" | Portuguese |
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Jorge Costa Pinto |
Spain | TVE | Karina | "En un mundo nuevo" | Spanish |
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Waldo de los Ríos |
Sweden | SR | The Family Four | "Vita vidder" | Swedish | Håkan Elmquist | Claes Rosendahl |
Switzerland | SRG SSR | Peter, Sue and Marc | "Les Illusions de nos vingt ans" | French |
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Hardy Schneiders |
United Kingdom | BBC | Clodagh Rodgers | "Jack in the Box" | English | Johnny Arthey | |
Yugoslavia | JRT | Krunoslav Slabinac | "Tvoj dječak je tužan" (Твој дјечак је тужан) | Serbo-Croatian |
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Miljenko Prohaska |
Returning artists
[edit]Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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Jacques Raymond | Belgium | 1963 |
Katja Ebstein | Germany | 1970 |
Format
[edit]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 and Hugo performing the song "Goeie morgen, morgen", but Nicole was struck with a sudden illness days before the contest final, with Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel stepping in at short notice to perform the entry in their place. Reports suggested that Castel had not even had enough time to buy a suitable dress for the show.
The BBC were worried about the possible audience reaction to the UK 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. However, Rodgers still received death threats from the IRA for representing the UK.[8]
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.[9]
This was only RTÉ's second outside broadcast in colour. The contest was broadcast in Iceland, the United States and Hong Kong several days later.[10]
In between each song, a film depicting the tourist highlights of each nation using stock footage provided by the participant tourism bureaus was seen, accompanied by a piece of organ music chosen to complement the country.
This is the only time in the contest's history where the second and third placing entrants were also awarded.
Contest overview
[edit]R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
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1 | Austria | Marianne Mendt | "Musik" | 66 | 16 |
2 | Malta | Joe Grech | "Marija l-Maltija" | 52 | 18 |
3 | Monaco | Séverine | "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" | 128 | 1 |
4 | Switzerland | Peter, Sue and Marc | "Les Illusions de nos vingt ans" | 78 | 12 |
5 | Germany | Katja Ebstein | "Diese Welt" | 100 | 3 |
6 | Spain | Karina | "En un mundo nuevo" | 116 | 2 |
7 | France | Serge Lama | "Un jardin sur la terre" | 82 | 10 |
8 | Luxembourg | Monique Melsen | "Pomme, pomme, pomme" | 70 | 13 |
9 | United Kingdom | Clodagh Rodgers | "Jack in the Box" | 98 | 4 |
10 | Belgium | Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel | "Goeiemorgen, morgen" | 68 | 14 |
11 | Italy | Massimo Ranieri | "L'amore è un attimo" | 91 | 5 |
12 | Sweden | The Family Four | "Vita vidder" | 85 | 6 |
13 | Ireland | Angela Farrell | "One Day Love" | 79 | 11 |
14 | Netherlands | Saskia and Serge | "Tijd" | 85 | 6 |
15 | Portugal | Tonicha | "Menina do alto da serra" | 83 | 9 |
16 | Yugoslavia | Krunoslav Slabinac | "Tvoj dječak je tužan" | 68 | 14 |
17 | Finland | Markku Aro and Koivisto Sisters | "Tie uuteen päivään" | 84 | 8 |
18 | Norway | Hanne Krogh | "Lykken er..." | 65 | 17 |
Detailed voting results
[edit]A new voting system was introduced in this year's contest: each country sent two jury members, one aged over 25 and the other under 25 (with at least ten years' difference between their ages), with both awarding each country (except their own) a score of between one and five points.
While this meant that no country could score fewer than 34 points (and in the event all eighteen scored at least 52), it had one major problem: some jury members tended to award only one or two points. Whether this was done to increase their respective countries' chances of winning is not known for sure, but this shortcoming was nonetheless plain.[9] However, the system remained in place for the 1972 and 1973 contests.
Total score
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Austria
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Malta
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Monaco
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Switzerland
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Germany
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Spain
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France
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Luxembourg
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United Kingdom
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Belgium
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Italy
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Sweden
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Ireland
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Netherlands
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Portugal
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Yugoslavia
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Finland
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Norway
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Contestants
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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
[edit]Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.
N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 10 points |
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6 | Monaco | Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Yugoslavia |
2 | Spain | France, Monaco |
Finland | Belgium, United Kingdom | |
1 | Portugal | Spain |
Broadcasts
[edit]Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.[14]
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Greece, Iceland, Morocco and Tunisia, in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania via Intervision, and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and the United States.[15][16]
Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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Australia | Network 7 | [16] | ||
Czechoslovakia | ČST | ČST1[c] | [47] | |
Hungary | MTV | MTV[d] | [48] | |
Iceland | RÚV | Sjónvarpið[e] | Björn Matthíasson | [49] |
Poland | TP | Telewizja Polska[f] | [50] | |
United States | PBS[g] | [51][52] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Specifically Viennese German
- ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[7]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 11 April 1971 at 22:55 (CET)[47]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 21 April 1971 at 11:00 (CET)[48]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 18 April 1971 at 21:25 (WET)[49]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 24 April 1971 at 22:15 (CEST)[50]
- ^ Delayed broadcast on 18 April 1971 at 22:00 EST (03:00 UTC)[51]
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