Eurovision Song Contest 1980

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).

Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Dates
Final19 April 1980
Host
VenueNederlands Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s)
Musical directorRogier van Otterloo
Directed byTheo Ordeman
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Executive producerFred Oster
Host broadcasterNederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countries Morocco
Returning countries Turkey
Non-returning countries
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of Europe
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1980
Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul pointsNone
Winning song Ireland
"What's Another Year"

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
The Nederlands Congresgebouw, host venue of the 1980 contest

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 first 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
Katja Ebstein during rehearsals
Maggie MacNeal during rehearsals

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'.

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.

Returning artists
Artist Country Previous year(s)
Paola del Medico  Switzerland 1969
Katja Ebstein  Germany 1970, 1971
Maggie MacNeal  Netherlands 1974 (part of Mouth and MacNeal)

Participants and results
R/O Country Artist Song Language[6][7] Points Place[8]
1  Austria Blue Danube "Du bist Musik" German 64 8
2  Turkey Ajda Pekkan "Pet'r Oil" Turkish 23 15
3  Greece Anna Vissi and the Epikouri "Autostop" (Ωτοστόπ) Greek 30 13
4  Luxembourg Sophie and Magaly "Papa Pingouin" French 56 9
5  Morocco Samira Bensaïd "Bitaqat Hub" (بطاقة حب) Arabic 7 18
6  Italy Alan Sorrenti "Non so che darei" Italian 87 6
7  Denmark Bamses Venner "Tænker altid på dig" Danish 25 14
8  Sweden Tomas Ledin "Just nu!" Swedish 47 10
9  Switzerland Paola "Cinéma" French 104 4
10  Finland Vesa-Matti Loiri "Huilumies" Finnish 6 19
11  Norway Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta "Sámiid ædnan" Norwegian[lower-alpha 1] 15 16
12  Germany Katja Ebstein "Theater" German 128 2
13  United Kingdom Prima Donna "Love Enough for Two" English 106 3
14  Portugal José Cid "Um grande, grande amor" Portuguese[lower-alpha 2] 71 7
15  Netherlands Maggie MacNeal "Amsterdam" Dutch 93 5
16  France Profil "Hé, hé M'sieurs dames" French 45 11
17  Ireland Johnny Logan "What's Another Year" English 143 1
18  Spain Trigo Limpio "Quédate esta noche" Spanish 38 12
19  Belgium Telex "Euro-Vision" French 14 17

Detailed voting results
Johnny Logan performing his winning song "What's Another Year"

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.

Detailed voting results[9][10]
Total score
Austria
Turkey
Greece
Luxembourg
Morocco
Italy
Denmark
Sweden
Switzerland
Finland
Norway
Germany
United Kingdom
Portugal
Netherlands
France
Ireland
Spain
Belgium
Contestants
 Austria 6413451456463341041
Turkey 233128
Greece 30512243184
Luxembourg 5611463787838
Morocco 77
Italy 8726231086274121221010
Denmark 25426715
Sweden 478101065521
Switzerland 104625738212101076101222
Finland 651
Norway 154623
Germany 12881031012757210812105127
United Kingdom 106758810121043775686
Portugal 71454106821815674
Netherlands 931212612331082412153
France 453721141354365
Ireland 143101271127128121212568712
Spain 384786562
Belgium 143110

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
7  Ireland Belgium,  Denmark,  Germany,  Greece,  Norway,  Switzerland,  United Kingdom
4  Netherlands Austria,  France,  Luxembourg,  Turkey
3  Germany Italy,  Netherlands,  Spain
2  Switzerland Finland,  Ireland
1  Italy Portugal
 Turkey Morocco
 United Kingdom Sweden

Spokespersons

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.

  1.  Austria – Jenny Pippal
  2.  Turkey – Başak Doğru
  3.  Greece – Niki Venega
  4.  Luxembourg – Jacques Harvey
  5.  Morocco – Kamal Irassi
  6.  Italy – Mariolina Cannuli
  7.  Denmark – Bent Evold
  8.  Sweden – Arne Weise[11]
  9.  Switzerland – Michel Stocker
  10.  Finland – Kaarina Pönniö
  11.  Norway – Roald Øyen
  12.  Germany – TBC
  13.  United Kingdom – Ray Moore[4]
  14.  Portugal – Teresa Cruz
  15.  Netherlands – Flip van der Schalie
  16.  France – Fabienne Égal
  17.  Ireland – David Heffernan
  18.  Spain – Alfonso Lapeña
  19.  Belgium – Jacques Olivier

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] 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)
 Austria ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann [13][14][15]
 Belgium RTBF RTBF1 Unknown [16][17][18][19]
BRT TV1 Unknown [17][19]
 Denmark DR DR TV Jørgen de Mylius [20][21]
 Finland YLE TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma Heikki Harma [22][23][24]
 France TF1 Patrick Sabatier [18][25][26][27]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Ado Schlier [14][19][28][29]
 Greece ERT ERT Mako Georgiadou [30][31][32]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ 1 Larry Gogan [33][34][35]
RTÉ Radio 1 Unknown
 Italy RAI Rete Due[lower-alpha 3] Michele Gammino [36][37][38]
 Luxembourg CLT RTL Télé-Luxembourg Jacques Navadic [17][18][39]
 Morocco RTM RTM Unknown [40]
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 2 Pim Jacobs [19][41][42]
Hilversum 1 Willem van Beusekom
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet Knut Aunbu [43][44]
NRK Erik Heyerdahl
 Portugal RTP RTP1 Unknown [45][46][47]
RDP Programa 1 Unknown
 Spain TVE TVE 1 Miguel de los Santos [48][49][50]
 Sweden SVT TV1 Ulf Elfving [11][23][44][51]
RR SR P3 Kent Finell [11][44]
 Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Theodor Haller [14][25][52]
TSR Georges Hardy
TSI[lower-alpha 4] Unknown
 Turkey TRT TRT Televizyon Unknown [53][54]
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Terry Wogan [4][55][56][57][58]
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 Steve Jones
BFBS BFBS Radio Andrew Pastouna [4]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið[lower-alpha 5] Björn Baldursson [59]
 Israel IBA Israeli Television[lower-alpha 6] Unknown [60]
Reshet Bet, Reshet Gimel Unknown [61]

Notes
  1. Although the song was performed in Norwegian, the title and sentence in the lyrics "Sámiid ædnan" is in Northern Sami.
  2. Also contains words in Italian, French, German and English
  3. Deferred broadcast at 22:00 CEST (20:00 UTC)[36]
  4. Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR[14]
  5. Delayed broadcast on 26 April 1980 at 21:30 WET (21:00 UTC)[59]
  6. Deferred broadcast on 20 April at 21:30 IST (19:30 UTC)[60]

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