Eurovision Song Contest 1969
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1969 |
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| Final | 29 March 1969 |
| Presenter(s) | Laurita Valenzuela |
| Conductor | Augusto Algueró |
| Director | Ramón Díez |
| Host broadcaster |  TVE |
| Venue | Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain |
| Winning song |  France"Un Jour, Un Enfant"  Netherlands"De Troubadour" Spain"Vivo Cantando"  United Kingdom"Boom Bang-a-Bang" |
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| Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 points to their favourite song. | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries |  Austria |
| Nul points | None |
| Interval act | La España diferente |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| ◄1968 • 1970► | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th in the series. It was the first time that the contest resulted in a tie for first place, with four countries each gaining 18 points. 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. Had the later tie-break rule been in place, France would have been the overall winner.
Austria declined to enter the contest because it did not want to send a singer to a country ruled by a dictator, namely Spain (under the rule at the time of Francisco Franco). As the writer and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in his book The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, since Spain's winning margin in 1968 had been by a single point, and Austria had awarded the country's song two points, it could be argued that the Austrians were in part responsible for sending the contest to Madrid in the first place. [1] 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.
Liechtenstein wanted to participate in the 1969 contest, and got as far as choosing the song Un beau matin ("A Beautiful Morning") to represent it. Unfortunately, the country – having no broadcasting company of its own and thus not being a member of the EBU – was not allowed to participate.
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.
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Yugoslavia | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 18 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finland | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[edit] Other Interesting Facts
- Jean Jacques, representing Monaco, became one of the youngest Eurovision participants, at just 12 years old.
- Salomé caused a stir because her outfit was made of porcelain (and weighed almost 30 pounds). She caused controversy when she danced during her song, which was a violation against the EBU's rules at that time.
- Muriel Day was the first singer from Northern Ireland to represent the Republic of Ireland.
- There are conflicting reports that before the contest started, host Laurita Valenzuela asked EBU voting scrutineer, Clifford Brown what would happen if there was a tie. He assured her that it would never happen. After she announces there are 4 winners, she laughs and asks him in French to tell her who the winners were "exactly".
- ESC 1969 was the second to be filmed and transmitted in colour, even though TVE did not have colour equipment at the time. It had to rent colour TV cameras from the ARD German network. The colour transmission was distributed through the EBU network as well the east-European Intervision network, and through satellite also to Puerto Rico, Chile and Brazil. In Spain itself the broadcast was seen in black and white because the local transmitters did not support colour transmissions.
- Benny Hill once parodied this in his very first episode for Thames.
[edit] References
- ^ O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3
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