Eurovision Song Contest 1980
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Eurovision Song Contest 1980 | |
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Dates | |
Final | 19 April 1980 |
Host | |
Venue | Nederlands Congresgebouw The Hague, Netherlands |
Presenter(s) |
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Musical director | Rogier van Otterloo |
Directed by | Theo Ordeman |
Executive supervisor | Frank Naef |
Executive producer | Fred Oster |
Host broadcaster | Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) |
Website | eurovision |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 19 |
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Returning countries | ![]() |
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Vote | |
Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs |
Winning song | ![]() "What's Another Year" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in The Hague, Netherlands, and was organised by host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) – which agreed to stage the event after Israel, having won in both 1978 and 1979, declined to host it for a second successive year – and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest was held at the Nederlands Congresgebouw on 19 April 1980 and was hosted by Dutch actress Marlous Fluitsma, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the participating nation (in some cases, this was the same person providing the commentary).
Nineteen countries took part this year, with Monaco and the previous year's winner Israel deciding not to participate, and Turkey returning. Morocco, notably, made its only appearance in the contest.
The winner was Ireland with the song "What's Another Year", sung by Johnny Logan and written by Shay Healy.[1][2]
Location
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Israel, the winner of the 1979 contest, declined to host it for the second time in a row, as the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) could not fund another international production without extra resources, and the Israeli government turned down a request to extend the IBA budget. The EBU also scheduled the broadcast for the same day as the Yom HaZikaron holiday, which meant that Israel could not even participate at all, marking the only time that the previous year's winning country did not compete the following year. After Spain – the second-placed country of 1979 – and (reportedly) the United Kingdom both declined to host, the Netherlands ultimately agreed to host the show in a small-scale production. According to the first minister Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general,his father called his then counterpart at NOS and convinced him to take the "undesired honour", when he realised that the extra cost could paralyse the regular work of the IBA.[3]
The contest took place in The Hague at the Congresgebouw (presently known as the World Forum). The venue was constructed in 1969 and had previously hosted the contest in 1976.
Format
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The venue that had hosted the 1976 contest, the Congresgebouw, was again chosen to stage the contest. Because of the limited budget and time available, NOS decided to recycle several elements of the 1976 production such as several opening video sequences, the soundtrack and many pieces and elements that were being used in other broadcaster shows since then.Again, Roland de Groot took charge of the design. As with the 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries. Apart from this, the presenter, Marlous Fluitsma practically presented the contest almost entirely in Dutch, with exceptions in the protocol parts and in the voting where she used French and English according to tradition. Thus, the broadcaster host spent only US$725,000 on staging the show.
During the live interval act performance of San Fernando by The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band with the Lee Jackson dancers, Hans van Willigenburg intercut brief interviews with some of the participants backstage in the green room, speaking to the singers from Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands, each in their own language.
Australian-born Johnny Logan, representing his parents' country Ireland, was ultimately crowned the winner with the song "What's Another Year". This was Ireland's second victory in the competition, having previously won in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", coincidentally also held on Dutch soil. It was also the first time that a male solo artist (albeit with backing vocals) had won the contest since Udo Jürgens won for Austria in 1966.
Germany were the runner-up for this year. They would finish in second place again the following year, before finally winning in 1982. Germany would go on to finish second again in 1985 and 1987, making the 1980s their most successful decade in the contest. After relatively poor placings in the two previous years, the United Kingdom returned to form by coming third.
Song presenters
Each of the 19 contestants was presented by a presenter from that country.[4] Five countries took advantage and used their commentators from their respective broadcasters present in The Hague and they had the responsibility to also perform these function (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Portugal used their television commentators, while Turkey chose their radio commentator). Each of the songs was introduced in one of the official languages of the competing country.The UK presenter was incorrectly identified in the onscreen caption as 'Noel Edmunds' and the Finnish presenter as 'Heikki Haarma'.
Austria – Chris Lohner
Turkey – Şebnem Savaşçı
Greece – Kelly Sakakou
Luxembourg – Michèle Etzel
Morocco – Mohammed Bouzidi
Italy – Beatrice Cori
Denmark – Jørgen de Mylius
Sweden – Ulf Elfving
Switzerland – Lyliam Stambac
Finland – Heikki Harma
Norway – Åse Kleveland (Norwegian representative in the 1966 contest, later host of the 1986 contest held in Bergen)
Germany – Carolin Reiber
United Kingdom – Noel Edmonds
Portugal – Eládio Clímaco
Netherlands – Marlous Fluitsma
France – Évelyne Dhéliat
Ireland – Thelma Mansfield
Spain – Mari Cruz Soriano
Belgium – Arlette Vincent
Participating countries
After Israel announced its non-participation, Morocco entered into the contest instead. Monaco also withdrew from the contest, and would not return until 2004.
Conductors
With the exception of Belgium, each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[5][4] This was the only contest to feature a Black conductor conducting an entry, that being Italy's conductor Del Newman.
Austria – Richard Oesterreicher
Turkey – Attila Özdemiroğlu
Greece – Jick Nacassian
Luxembourg – Norbert Daum
Morocco – Jean Claudric
Italy – Del Newman
Denmark – Allan Botschinsky
Sweden – Anders Berglund
Switzerland – Peter Reber
Finland – Ossi Runne
Norway – Sigurd Jansen
Germany – Wolfgang Rödelberger
United Kingdom – John Coleman
Portugal – Jorge Machado
Netherlands – Rogier van Otterloo
France – Sylvano Santorio
Ireland – Noel Kelehan
Spain – Javier Iturralde
Belgium – No conductor
Returning artists
Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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Paola del Medico | ![]() |
1969 |
Katja Ebstein | ![]() |
1970, 1971 |
Maggie MacNeal | ![]() |
1974 (part of Mouth and MacNeal) |
Participants and results
R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Language[6][7] | Points | Place[8] |
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Blue Danube | "Du bist Musik" | German | 64 | 8 |
2 | ![]() |
Ajda Pekkan | "Pet'r Oil" | Turkish | 23 | 15 |
3 | ![]() |
Anna Vissi and the Epikouri | "Autostop" (Ωτοστόπ) | Greek | 30 | 13 |
4 | ![]() |
Sophie and Magaly | "Papa Pingouin" | French | 56 | 9 |
5 | ![]() |
Samira Bensaïd | "Bitaqat Hub" (بطاقة حب) | Arabic | 7 | 18 |
6 | ![]() |
Alan Sorrenti | "Non so che darei" | Italian | 87 | 6 |
7 | ![]() |
Bamses Venner | "Tænker altid på dig" | Danish | 25 | 14 |
8 | ![]() |
Tomas Ledin | "Just nu!" | Swedish | 47 | 10 |
9 | ![]() |
Paola | "Cinéma" | French | 104 | 4 |
10 | ![]() |
Vesa-Matti Loiri | "Huilumies" | Finnish | 6 | 19 |
11 | ![]() |
Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta | "Sámiid ædnan" | Norwegian[a] | 15 | 16 |
12 | ![]() |
Katja Ebstein | "Theater" | German | 128 | 2 |
13 | ![]() |
Prima Donna | "Love Enough for Two" | English | 106 | 3 |
14 | ![]() |
José Cid | "Um grande, grande amor" | Portuguese[b] | 71 | 7 |
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Maggie MacNeal | "Amsterdam" | Dutch | 93 | 5 |
16 | ![]() |
Profil | "Hé, hé M'sieurs dames" | French | 45 | 11 |
17 | ![]() |
Johnny Logan | "What's Another Year" | English | 143 | 1 |
18 | ![]() |
Trigo Limpio | "Quédate esta noche" | Spanish | 38 | 12 |
19 | ![]() |
Telex | "Euro-Vision" | French | 14 | 17 |
Detailed voting results
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The scoring system implemented in 1975 remained the same; each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, countries were required to declare their scores in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.
For the voting sequence, Marlous Fluitsma used a unique telephone to speak to the nineteen jury spokespersons, although the phones were simply props and were not connected.
Total score
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Austria
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Turkey
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Greece
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Luxembourg
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Morocco
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Italy
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Denmark
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Finland
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Norway
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Germany
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United Kingdom
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Portugal
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Netherlands
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France
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Ireland
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Spain
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Belgium
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Contestants
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Austria | 64 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | |||
Turkey | 23 | 3 | 12 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
Greece | 30 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | |||||||||||
Luxembourg | 56 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
Morocco | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
Italy | 87 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | ||||
Denmark | 25 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
Sweden | 47 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Switzerland | 104 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Finland | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Norway | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Germany | 128 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 7 | ||||
United Kingdom | 106 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | |||||
Portugal | 71 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
Netherlands | 93 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
France | 45 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | |||||||
Ireland | 143 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 12 | ||||
Spain | 38 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Belgium | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 12 points |
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Spokespersons
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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1980 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.
Austria – Jenny Pippal
Turkey – Başak Doğru
Greece – Niki Venega
Luxembourg – Jacques Harvey
Morocco – Kamal Irassi
Italy – Mariolina Cannuli
Denmark – Bent Henius
Sweden – Arne Weise
Switzerland – Michel Stocker
Finland – Kaarina Pönniö
Norway – Roald Øyen
Germany – TBC
United Kingdom – Ray Moore[4]
Portugal – Teresa Cruz
Netherlands – Flip van der Schalie
France – Fabienne Égal
Ireland – David Heffernan
Spain – Alfonso Lapeña
Belgium – Jacques Olivier
Broadcasts
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Each national broadcaster sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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TVB Jade (delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980) | Cantonese: Mary Hon (韓馬利), English: Tang Ying-mun (鄧英敏) | [16] |
TVB Pearl (delayed broadcast on 20 April 1980) | English: Melvin Wong Kam-sang (黃錦燊) | [16][17] | |
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TVB 2 | Serbo-Croatian: Milovan Ilić | |
TVZ 1 | Serbo-Croatian: Oliver Mlakar | ||
TVL 1 | Slovene: Tomaž Terček |
Notes
- ^ Although the song was performed in Norwegian, the title and sentence in the lyrics "Sámiid ædnan" is in Northern Sami.
- ^ Also contains words in Italian, French, German and English
- ^ Broadcast via TSR; see Radio TV - Je vois tout, 17 April 1980
References
- ^ "Eurovision 1980 Results: Voting & Points". Eurovisionworld. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ The Eurovision Song Contest, retrieved 27 September 2018
- ^ Lapid, Yair, Memories After my Death, Jerusalem: Keter Books, 2010 (ISBN 978-965-07-1792-6), p. 239 (in Hebrew)
- ^ a b c d e f Roxburgh, Gordon (2016). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume Three: The 1980s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 39–55. ISBN 978-1-84583-118-9.
- ^ "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1980". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1980". 4Lyrics.eu. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Final of The Hague 1980". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ "Results of the Final of The Hague 1980". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1980 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Radio · TV". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 19 April 1980. p. 71. Retrieved 14 November 2022. (subscription required)
- ^ "Brittivinoilua euroviisuista". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 22 April 1980. p. 17. Retrieved 14 November 2022. (subscription required)
- ^ "Au Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 17 April 1980.
- ^ "Au Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 17 April 1980.
- ^ "Grand Final: 1980, 1980, Eurovision Song Contest". BBC.
- ^ a b "歐洲歌唱大賽‧無線衞星直播!". TV Week (香港電視) (in Traditional Chinese) (650): 12. 18 April 1980.
- ^ "Television". South China Morning Post. 20 April 1980. p. 10.
External links
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