Eurovision Song Contest 1971

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.

Eurovision Song Contest 1971
Dates
Final3 April 1971
Host
VenueGaiety Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s)Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir
Musical directorColman Pearce
Directed byTom McGrath
Executive supervisorClifford Brown
Host broadcasterRadio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/dublin-1971
Participants
Number of entries18
Debuting countries Malta
Returning countries
Non-returning countriesNone
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of Europe
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1971
Vote
Voting systemTwo-member juries (one aged 16 to 25 and the other 25 to 55) rated songs between one and five points.
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Monaco
"Un banc, un arbre, une rue"

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. 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. This was also the only time in the contest's history, where the second and third-placed entrants were also awarded.

Location
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.

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 and Hugo performing the song "Goeiemorgen, 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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.

Voting system

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.[4] However, the system remained in place for the 1972 and 1973 contests.

Participating countries
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

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.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[6][7] This marked the first contest to feature someone other than the musical director conducting the host country's entry; Noel Kelehan conducted Ireland's entry instead of musical director Colman Pearce (who would subsequently conduct the Irish entries between 1972 and 1975). This would consequently be the first contest in which the musical director did not conduct any of the competing entries, followed by 1972, 1974-1976, 1978-1979, 1990,[lower-alpha 1] and 1997.

Returning artists
Artist Country Previous year(s)
Jacques Raymond  Belgium 1963
Katja Ebstein  Germany 1970

Participants and results

This is the only time in the contest's history where the second and third placing entrants were also awarded.

R/O Country Artist Song Language[8][9] Points Place[10]
1  Austria Marianne Mendt "Musik" Viennese German 66 16
2  Malta Joe Grech "Marija l-Maltija" Maltese 52 18
3  Monaco Séverine "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" French 128 1
4  Switzerland Peter, Sue and Marc "Les Illusions de nos vingt ans" French 78 12
5  Germany Katja Ebstein "Diese Welt" German 100 3
6  Spain Karina "En un mundo nuevo" Spanish 116 2
7  France Serge Lama "Un jardin sur la terre" French 82 10
8  Luxembourg Monique Melsen "Pomme, pomme, pomme" French 70 13
9  United Kingdom Clodagh Rodgers "Jack in the Box" English 98 4
10  Belgium Lily Castel and Jacques Raymond "Goeiemorgen, morgen" Dutch 68 14
11  Italy Massimo Ranieri "L'amore è un attimo" Italian 91 5
12  Sweden Family Four "Vita vidder" Swedish 85 6
13  Ireland Angela Farrell "One Day Love" English 79 11
14  Netherlands Saskia and Serge "Tijd" Dutch 85 6
15  Portugal Tonicha "Menina do alto da serra" Portuguese 83 9
16  Yugoslavia Krunoslav Slabinac "Tvoj dječak je tužan" (Твој дјечак је тужан) Serbo-Croatian 68 14
17  Finland Markku Aro and Koivisto Sisters "Tie uuteen päivään" Finnish 84 8
18  Norway Hanne Krogh "Lykken er..." Norwegian 65 17

Detailed voting results
The Netherlands' Saskia and Serge finished 6th with their entry "Tijd".
Detailed voting results[11][12]
Total score
Austria
Malta
Monaco
Switzerland
Germany
Spain
France
Luxembourg
United Kingdom
Belgium
Italy
Sweden
Ireland
Netherlands
Portugal
Yugoslavia
Finland
Norway
Contestants
 Austria 6635272323364635435
Malta 5242235323442452232
Monaco 12845101028481041099810710
Switzerland 7855462626374556444
Germany 10065768826766557754
Spain 1164810571047456967798
France 8232885525344695535
Luxembourg 7027632456332536454
United Kingdom 9848865284835757666
Belgium 6832542252635466364
Italy 9146986692627623825
Sweden 8574494252566393646
Ireland 7976634572636254544
Netherlands 8562654572522659568
Portugal 83436251085644235655
Yugoslavia 6862427662325254435
Finland 844444434210102463866
Norway 6533642252762272543

10 points

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 10 points
6  Monaco  Belgium,  Germany,  Norway,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Yugoslavia
2  Spain  France,  Monaco
 Finland  Belgium,  United Kingdom
1  Portugal  Spain

Jury members

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1971 contest along with the names of the two jury members who voted for their respective country. Each country announced their results in groups of three.

  1.  Austria – Beatrix Neundlinger and Jochen Lieben
  2.  Malta – Gaetan Abela and Spiro Sillato[13]
  3.  Monaco – Unknown
  4.  Switzerland – Unknown
  5.  Germany – Kirsten Ludwig and Wolfgang Henk
  6.  Spain – Noelia Afonso and Francisco Madariaga
  7.  France – Claude Crémieux and Jacques Ourevitch
  8.  Luxembourg – Mady Heinen and Michel Klein[14]
  9.  United Kingdom – Jeremy Paterson Fox and Gay Lowe[7]
  10.  Belgium – Unknown
  11.  Italy – Unknown
  12.  Sweden – Eva Blomqvist and Putte Wickman[15]
  13.  Ireland – Vivienne Colgan and Ken Steward[16]
  14.  Netherlands – Jos Cleber[17] and Unknown
  15.  Portugal – Pedro Albergaria and Luís Filipe Costa[18]
  16.  Yugoslavia – Mišo Kukić and Zoran Kržišnik
  17.  Finland – Markku Veijalainen and Vieno Kekkonen[19]
  18.  Norway – Sten Fredriksen and Liv Usterud[20]

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.[21]

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.[18]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS1 Ernst Grissemann [22][23][24]
 Belgium BRT BRT Unknown [25][26]
RTB RTB Unknown [27]
 Finland YLE TV-ohjelma 1 Unknown [28][29]
Yleisohjelma, Ruotsinkielinen ohjelma Matti Paalosmaa
 France ORTF Deuxième Chaîne Unknown [27][30][31]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Unknown [27][26][30][32]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ Unknown [33][34][35]
RTÉ Radio Unknown
 Italy RAI Programma Nazionale, Secondo Programma Renato Tagliani [36][37][38]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg Unknown [27][39]
 Malta MTPBS MTS, National Network Victor Aquilina [13][40][41]
 Monaco Télé Monte-Carlo Unknown [42]
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 1 Pim Jacobs [26][43]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet, NRK Sverre Christophersen [44][45]
 Portugal RTP I Programa Henrique Mendes [18][46][47]
Emissora Nacional Programa 1 Unknown
 Spain TVE TVE 1 Joaquín Prat [48][49][50]
RNE Radio Nacional Unknown [49]
 Sweden SR TV1 Åke Strömmer [15][29][45][51]
SR P3 Ursula Richter
 Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Theodor Haller [30][52][53][54]
TSR Georges Hardy
TSI Unknown
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Dave Lee Travis [7][55][56][57][58]
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 Terry Wogan
BFBS BFBS Radio John Russell [7]
 Yugoslavia JRT TV Ljubljana 1 Unknown [59][60][61]
TV Zagreb Unknown
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Greece EIRT EIRT Mako Georgiadou [62]
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið[lower-alpha 2] Björn Matthíasson [63]

Notes
  1. Although the appointed musical director, Igor Kuljerić, did not conduct any entries, assistant musical director Stanko Selak, who assembled the orchestra, conducted the Cypriot entry.
  2. Delayed broadcast on 18 April 1971 at 21:25 WET (21:25 UTC)[63]

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