Eurovision Song Contest 1971

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the Template:Escyr with the song "All Kinds of Everything" by Dana. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Script error: No such module "Lang". (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 Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr editions. Template:Esccnty returned after their two-year absence, while Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty all returned after having boycotted the competition the previous year. On the other hand, Template:Esccnty competed for the first time.

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang".", 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

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Gaiety Theatre, Dublin – host venue of the 1971 contest.

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.

Participants

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Two of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Jacques Raymond had represented Template:Esccnty and Katja Ebstein had represented Template:Esccnty. In addition, María Jesús Aguirre and Mercedes Valimaña, who provided backing vocals for Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty, and Cristina Fernández who did so in 1970, returned as backing singers for Spain as Template:Ill.[3]

Eurovision Song Contest 1971 participants[4][5]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
Template:Esc ORF Marianne Mendt "Script error: No such module "Lang"." GermanTemplate:Efn Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc BRT Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Dutch Template:Hlist Francis Bay
Template:Esc YLE Markku Aro and Template:Ill "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Finnish Rauno Lehtinen Ossi Runne
Template:Esc ORTF Serge Lama "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc HRTemplate:Efn Katja Ebstein "Script error: No such module "Lang"." German Template:Hlist Dieter Zimmermann
Template:Esc RTÉ Angela Farrell "One Day Love" English Template:Hlist Noel Kelehan
Template:Esc RAI Massimo Ranieri "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Italian Template:Hlist Enrico Polito
Template:Esc CLT Monique Melsen "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc MBA Joe Grech "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Maltese Template:Hlist Anthony Chircop
Template:Esc TMC Séverine "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Jean-Claude Petit
Template:Esc NOS Saskia and Serge "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Dutch Template:Hlist Dolf van der Linden
Template:Esc NRK Hanne Krogh "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Norwegian Arne Bendiksen Arne Bendiksen
Template:Esc RTP Tonicha "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Portuguese Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc TVE Karina "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Spanish Template:Hlist Waldo de los Ríos
Template:Esc SR The Family Four "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Swedish Template:Ill Template:Ill
Template:Esc SRG SSR Peter, Sue and Marc "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc BBC Clodagh Rodgers "Jack in the Box" English Template:Hlist Johnny Arthey
Template:Esc JRT Krunoslav Slabinac "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Serbo-Croatian Template:Hlist Miljenko Prohaska

Format

The overall costs to organize the contest was £65,000, which was bigger than the original estimate of £30,000.[6]

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 "Script error: No such module "Lang".", 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 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 United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.[7]

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.[8]

In between each song, a film depicting the tourist highlights of each nation was shown, using stock footage provided by the participant tourism bureaus, 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

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1971[9]
R/O Country Artist Song Votes Place
1 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 66 16
2 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 52 18
3 Template:Esc Séverine "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 128 1
4 Template:Esc Peter, Sue and Marc "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 78 12
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 100 3
6 Template:Esc Karina "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 116 2
7 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 82 10
8 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 70 13
9 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Jack in the Box" 98 4
10 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Lily Castel "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 68 14
11 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 91 5
12 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 85 6
13 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "One Day Love" 79 11
14 Template:Esc Saskia and Serge "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 85 6
15 Template:Esc Tonicha "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 83 9
16 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 68 14
17 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Koivisto Sisters "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 84 8
18 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 65 17

Detailed voting results

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The Netherlands' Saskia and Serge finished 6th with their entry "Tijd".

A new voting system was introduced in this year's contest: each participating broadcaster appointed 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.

While this meant that no entry could score fewer than 34 votes (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 votes. Whether this was done to increase their respective countries' chances of winning is not known for sure, but this shortcoming was nonetheless plain.[8] However, the system remained in place for the Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr.

Detailed voting results[10][11]
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rowspan="18" Template:Vert header 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 votes

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 10 votes
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2 Template:Esc Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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1 Template:Esc Template:Esc

Broadcasts

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.[12] 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.[13][14] Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Turkey have been reported to broadcast on radio.[15] At least 28 commentators were reportedly in the contest, with an estimated 500 million viewers reported in the media.[6][16]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu ORF FS1 Ernst Grissemann [17][18]
Template:Flagu BRT BRT Anton Peters [19]
Template:Ill Template:Ill [20]
RTB RTB Paule Herreman [21]
RTB 1 Template:N/A [20]
Template:Flagu YLE Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [22]
Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill
Template:Flagu ORTF Script error: No such module "Lang". Georges de Caunes [23][24]
Template:Flagu ARD Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [21][25]
BFBS BFBS Radio Template:N/A [15]
Template:Flagu RTÉ RTÉ Noel Andrews [26]
RTÉ Radio Kevin Roche
Template:Flagu RAI Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [27][28]
Template:Flagu CLT Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [21]
Template:Flagu MBA MTS, National Network Victor Aquilina [29][30]
Template:Flagu NOS Script error: No such module "Lang". Pim Jacobs [31]
Template:Flagu NRK Script error: No such module "Lang"., NRKTemplate:Efn Template:Ill [32]
Template:Flagu RTP Script error: No such module "Lang". Henrique Mendes [13][33]
ENR Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A
Template:Flagu TVE TVE 1 Joaquín Prat [14]
RNE Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [34]
Template:IllTemplate:Efn Template:Ill [34][35]
SER Template:Ill rowspan="8" Template:N/A [36]
Template:Ill [37]
Radio Las Palmas [38]
Template:Ill [39]
Radio Rioja [40]
Radio San Sebastián [41]
Template:Ill [42]
Template:Ill [43]
Template:Flagu SR TV1 Åke Strömmer [44]
SR P3 Template:Ill [45]
Template:Flagu SRG SSR TV DRS Template:Ill [46]
TSR Template:Ill [47]
TSI Template:N/A [48]
Radio BeromünsterTemplate:Efn Template:N/A [49]
Template:Flagu BBC BBC1 Dave Lee Travis [50]
BBC Radio 2Template:Efn Terry Wogan [51]
Template:Flagu JRT Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [52]
TV Ljubljana 1 Template:N/A [53]
TV Skopje Template:N/A [52]
TV Zagreb Template:N/A [54]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu Network 7 Template:N/A [14]
Template:Flagu ČST ČST1Template:Efn Ivan Úradníček [55]
Template:Flagu BFBS BFBS RadioTemplate:Efn John Russell [5][56]
Template:Flagu EIRT EIRT Template:N/A [57]
Template:Flagu MTV MTVTemplate:Efn Template:N/A [58]
Template:Flagu RÚV Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn Björn Matthíasson [59]
Template:Flagu TP Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn Template:N/A [60]
Template:Flagu TVR Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn Template:N/A [61]
Template:Flagu PBSTemplate:Efn Template:N/A [62]

Notes

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References

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Bibliography

  • The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History, John Kennedy O'Connor, Carlton Books Ltd, Template:ISBN

External links

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