Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Dates
Final 19 April 1980
Host
Venue Nederlands Congresgebouw
The Hague, Netherlands
Presenter(s) Marlous Fluitsma
Hans van Willigenburg (Green Room)
Conductor Rogier van Otterloo
Director Theo Ordeman
Executive supervisor Frank Naef
Host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Interval act The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band
Participants
Number of entries 19
Debuting countries  Morocco
Returning countries  Turkey
Withdrawing countries  Israel
 Monaco
Vote
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points None
Winning song  Ireland
"What's Another Year"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1979 1980 1981►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 19 April 1980 in The Hague. The presenter was 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. The contest was won by Johnny Logan, representing Ireland with a song called "What's Another Year".

Israel, winners in 1979, declined to host the show for the second time in a row, as the IBA could not fund another international production, and the Israeli government turned down a request to extend the IBA budget. Moreover, the date that was eventually set for the 1980 contest by the European Broadcasting Union coincided with Israel's Day of Remembrance for their casualties of war, so Israel was forced to withdraw. After Spain, the 2nd-place winner of 1979, and reportedly the UK, refused to host, the Netherlands finally agreed to host the show in a small-scale production. According to Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general, Lapid called his 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.[1]

The same venue in The Hague used in 1976 - the Congresgebouw - was chosen, with parts of the opening film from 1976 being reused in the introduction and the same set designer (Roland de Groot) taking charge of the design. As with the recent 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries. NOS spent just US$725,000 on the project.


Morocco joined the Eurovision family for the first (and so far only) time. Monaco withdrew, and would not return until the 2004 semi final.

Australian-born Johnny Logan representing Ireland was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, "What's Another Year". This was Ireland's second time winning the competition, having won in 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", which was also held on Dutch soil.

Germany were runners-up this year. They would finish in second place again the following year, finally winning it in 1982. Germany would go on to finish second again in 1985 and 1987, making the 1980s their most successful decade. United Kingdom returned to form by coming third.

Location

For more details on the host city, see The Hague.
Nederlands Congresgebouw - host venue of the 1980 contest.

The Hague is the seat of government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the capital city of the province of South Holland. It is also the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Located in the west of the Netherlands, The Hague is in the centre of the Haaglanden conurbation and lies at the southwest corner of the larger Randstad conurbation.

Format

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 cast their votes 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.

Conductors

For each nation's performance, the orchestra was conducted by the following:

  •  Austria - Richard Österreicher
  •  Turkey - Atilla 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 national representative

Results

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

Notes

a.^ Although the song was completely in Norwegian, the title is in the North Sami dialect of the Sami languages.

Score sheet

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

The Netherlands gained a strong lead early on, getting the maximum 'douze points' from three of the first four voting countries. This was not to last, however, as Germany and eventually Ireland overtook them.

Results
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
The table is ordered by appearance

12 points

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

N. Contestant Voting nation
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

Returning artists

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

Song Presenters

Each song was introduced by a presenter from the national country.

^All the introductions were made in the language in which the song was performed, with the exception of Ireland. Thelma Mansfield introduced the song in Irish, whereas the song was performed in English.

Commentators

Television

Radio

Spokespersons

National jury members

References

  1. Yair Lapid, "Memoires After my Death", Keter Books, Jerusalem 2010 (ISBN 978-965-07-1792-6), p. 239 (in Hebrew)
  2. "Eurovision Song Contest 1980". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  3. Dellanoi, Dietmar (OGAE Austria)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Eurovision Song Contest 1980" at the Internet Movie Database
  5. Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)
  6. "Selostajat ja taustalaulajat läpi vuosien? • Viisukuppila". Viisukuppila.fi. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  7. Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
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