Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1969Vote Voting system Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs. Nul points None Winning song ← 1968 Eurovision Song Contest 1970 → The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th in the series.
Four countries (the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and France) won the contest, the first time ever a tie had occurred. However, there was no rule at the time to cover such an eventuality, so all four countries were declared joint winners.[1]
France's win was their fourth. France became the first country to win the contest four times. The Netherlands' win was their third. Spain and the United Kingdom each won for the second time. And it was the first time that any country (Spain, in this case) had a winning ESC entry two years in a row. This is so far the only occasion Spain has hosted the contest.
Contents 1 Location 2 Format 3 Participating countries 3.1 Conductors 3.2 Returning artists 4 Results 5 Scoreboard 6 International broadcasts and voting 7 References 8 External links Location
Teatro Real, Madrid – host venue of the 1969 contest.
The venue selected to host the 1969 contest was the Teatro Real, an opera house located in Madrid. The theatre reopened in 1966 as a concert theatre and the main concert venue of the Spanish National Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. The final featured an onstage metal sculpture created by surrealist Spanish artist, Salvador Dalí.[2]
Format The surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dalí was responsible for designing the publicity material for the 1969 contest as well as the metal sculpture which was used on stage.[1]
It was the first time that the contest resulted in a tie for first place, with four countries each gaining 18 votes. Since there was at the time no rule to cover such an eventuality, all four countries were declared joint winners. This caused an unfortunate problem concerning the medals due to be distributed to the winners as there were not enough to go round, so that only the singers received their medals on the night: the songwriters, to some disgruntlement, were not awarded theirs until after the date of the contest.[1]
Had the later tie-break rule been in place (the country receiving the highest score from any other country, as used in 1991), the Netherlands would have won, having received 6 points from France. United Kingdom would then have been runner up, having received 5 points from Sweden. On the other hand, with the present tie-break rule been in place (i.e. the song receiving votes from the most countries, then the song receiving the most high votes in case of another tie), France would have been the overall winner, with Spain in 2nd place. Both countries received votes from 9 countries, but France received 4 points from 2 countries whereas Spain received 3 points as their highest vote.
Participating countries Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Austria was absent from the contest[1] , officially because they could not find a suitable representative [3] , but it was rumoured that they refused to participate in a contest staged in Franco-ruled Spain.[4] Wales wanted to debut with Welsh language broadcaster BBC Cymru, and also made a national selection called Cân i Gymru, but in the end it was decided they would not participate in the competition – their participation was rejected because Wales is not a sovereign state. Only the BBC has the exclusive right to represent the United Kingdom.
Conductors Each performance had a conductor who led the orchestra.[5] These are listed below.
Returning artists Five artists returned in this year's contest. Louis Neefs for Belgium who last represented the nation in 1967; Germany's Siw Malmkvist who was also the participant for Sweden in 1960. Romuald for Luxembourg who represented Monaco last time in 1964; Norway's Kirsti Sparboe who represented the Scandinavian nation twice before in 1965 and 1967; and finally Simone de Oliveira who also represented Portugal in 1965.[1]
Results Draw Country Artist Song Language[6] Place Points 01 "Pozdrav svijetu" 13 5 02 "Catherine" 11 7 03 "Vivo cantando" 1 18 04 "Maman, Maman" French 6 11 05 "The Wages of Love" 7 10 06 "Due grosse lacrime bianche" 13 5 07 "Boom Bang-a-Bang" English 1 18 08 "De troubadour" 1 18 09 "Judy, min vän" 9 8 10 "Jennifer Jennings" Dutch 7 10 11 "Bonjour, Bonjour" 5 13 12 "Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli" 16 1 13 "Primaballerina" German 9 8 14 "Un jour, un enfant" French 1 18 15 "Desfolhada portuguesa" 15 4 16 "Kuin silloin ennen" 12 6
Scoreboard The final results of ESC 1969
Results Yugoslavia 5 1 1 3 Luxembourg 7 1 3 1 1 1 Spain 18 1 2 3 1 3 1 3 2 2 Monaco 11 2 4 2 2 1 Ireland 10 1 1 1 3 1 3 Italy 5 1 1 1 1 1 United Kingdom 18 2 4 3 1 5 1 1 1 Netherlands 18 2 1 3 1 4 1 6 Sweden 8 1 3 1 3 Belgium 10 2 3 1 2 2 Switzerland 13 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 Norway 1 1 Germany 8 3 2 1 1 1 France 18 1 2 4 4 2 1 1 1 2 Portugal 4 2 1 1 Finland 6 1 1 1 1 1 1
International broadcasts and voting The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1969 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting stations they represented are also included in the table below.[1]
Voting order Country Spokespersons Commentator Broadcaster 01 Gordana Bonetti Miloje Orlović Tomaž Terček 02 TBC 03 Ramón Rivera Miguel de los Santos 04 TBC 05 Kevin Roche 06 Renato Tagliani 07 Colin-Ward Lewis [7] and Michael Aspel[8] [9] [7] 08 Leo Nelissen [10] 09 Edvard Matz[11] Christina Hansegård[12] 10 Ward Bogaert Herman Verelst 11 Alexandre Burger Theodor Haller Georges Hardy Giovanni Bertini 12 Janka Polanyi Sverre Christophersen[13] Erik Heyerdahl 13 Hans-Otto Grünefeldt Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach 14 Jean-Claude Massoulier[14] [15] 15 Maria Manuela Furtado 16 Aarre Elo Aarno Walli - (Non-participating country) Willy Kralik - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC - (non-participating country) TBC
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Eurovision Song Contest 1969
Countries
Final(by final results) (winner) (winner) (winner) (winner) Switzerland Monaco Ireland Belgium Sweden Germany Luxembourg Finland Yugoslavia Italy Portugal Norway Withdrawn
Artists
Final(by final results) Salomé Lulu Lenny Kuhr Frida Boccara Paola Del Medico Jean Jacques Muriel Day Louis Neefs Tommy Körberg Siw Malmkvist Romuald Jarkko & Laura Iva Zanicchi Simone de Oliveira Kirsti Sparboe Withdrawn
Songs
Final(by final results) "Vivo cantando" "Boom Bang-a-Bang" "De troubadour" "Un jour, un enfant" "Bonjour, Bonjour" "Maman, Maman" "The Wages of Love" "Jennifer Jennings" "Judy, min vän" "Primaballerina" "Catherine" "Kuin silloin ennen" "Pozdrav svijetu" "Due grosse lacrime bianche" "Desfolhada portuguesa" "Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli" Withdrawn
("Withdrawn" refers to entries that withdrew after applying to enter)
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Represented years
Chronological order 1968 1969 1973 1976 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1992 1998 2000 2001 2002 2006 2008 2012 2013 2014
Represented countries
Alphabetical order Austria Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Israel Luxembourg Norway Russia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
Represented artists
Alphabetical order Anne-Marie David Bobbysocks! Brotherhood of Man Conchita Wurst Dana International Dima Bilan Emmelie de Forest Herreys Johnny Logan Lordi Loreen Natasha St-Pier Nicole Olsen Brothers Rosa López
Represented songs
Alphabetical order "Believe / Never Let You Go" (medley) "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" "Diva" "Ein bißchen Frieden" "Euphoria" "Fly on the Wings of Love" "Hard Rock Hallelujah" "Je n'ai que mon âme" "La, la, la / Vivo cantando / Eres tú / Europe's Living a Celebration" (medley) "La det swinge" "Only Teardrops" "Rise Like a Phoenix" "Save Your Kisses for Me" "Tu te reconnaîtras" "What's Another Year / Why Me? / Hold Me Now" (medley)
(Note: "Withdrawn" refers to entries that withdrew after applying to enter)
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