Eurovision Song Contest 1974

19th Eurovision Song Contest
date	April 6, 1974
Host country	United Kingdom
venue	The Dome , Brighton
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Katie Boyle
Pause filler	The wombles
participating countries	17th
winner	Sweden
First time participation	Greece
Withdrawn participants	France
Voting rule	Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title.
◄ ESC 1973 • ESC 1975 ►

The 19th Eurovision Song Contest took place on April 6, 1974 in the English seaside resort of Brighton . The BBC stepped in as the host at short notice after last year's winner Luxembourg decided not to host the competition again. The event was broadcast in 32 countries and seen by 500 million television viewers. The English TV presenter Katie Boyle presented the Eurovision Song Contest for the fourth time.

particularities

Logo of the band ABBA

The event is considered to be one of the great moments of the competition: for the Swedish group ABBA , victory was the start of an international career.

As part of the 50th Anniversary Show of the Eurovision Song Contest , Waterloo was voted the best song of the Grand Prix out of all 50 winning titles in 2005.

Nevertheless, with 15% jury votes received after 1969, this was the vote with the relatively worst result for the winning title.

Malta withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons, but intended to participate with the selected song Paċi Fid Dinja (Peace in the World) by Enzo Guzman. This has been confirmed by the performer. Malta wanted to return to the competition in 1975.

Three weeks after the competition, on April 25, 1974, the Portuguese contribution E depois do adeus became the symbolic song of the Carnation Revolution .

The event was broadcast on Italian television with a delay of more than five weeks, as a referendum on the admission of divorce was scheduled in Italy for May 12, 1974 and the RAI authorities were able to influence voting behavior through the Italian contribution Sì (Yes) from Gigliola Cinquetti wanted to prevent.

For the first time a title by Ralph Siegel was performed at the Grand Prix. With the song Bye, Bye, I Love You composed by him , Ireen Sheer took 4th place for Luxemburg.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1974

For the first time Greece took part in the Eurovision Song Contest. France originally wanted to start with the title La vie à 25 ans by Dani , but after the death of President Georges Pompidou four days before the competition, participation was canceled due to national mourning. 17 countries took part.

Voting procedure

Two days before the competition, it was decided to return to the voting procedure that was in place from 1967 to 1970 and from 1957 to 1961. In each country there were again 10 jury members who were each allowed to give one vote to a song. The results were communicated by telephone and publicly.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	08th	Sweden	ABBA	Waterloo M: Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus ; T: Stikkan Anderson	English	Waterloo	24
02.	17th	Italy	Gigliola Cinquetti	Sì M / T: Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat, Corrado Conti	Italian	Yes	18th
03.	12	Netherlands	Mouth and MacNeal	I See a Star M: Hans van Hemert; T: Gerrit the Braber	English	I see a star	15th
04th	02	United Kingdom	Olivia Newton-John	Long Live Love M / T: Valerie Avon, Harold Spiro	English	Long live love	14th
04th	09	Luxembourg	Ireen Sheer	Bye, Bye, I Love You M: Ralph Siegel ; T: Michael Kunze	French a.	Goodbye i love you	14th
04th	10	Monaco	Romuald	Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va M: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre; T: Michel Jourdan	French	The one who stays and the one who leaves	14th
07th	06th	Israel	Caveret כוורת	Natati la khayay (נתתי לה חיי) M: Dani Sanderson; T: Dani Sanderson, Alon Oleartchick	Hebrew	I gave her my life	11
07th	13	Ireland	Tina Reynolds	Cross Your Heart M / T: Paul Lyttle	English	Swear (to me)	11
09.	03	Spain	Peret	Canta y sé feliz M / T: Pedro Pubill Calaf	Spanish	Sing and be happy	10
09.	11	Belgium	Jacques Hustin	Fleur de liberté M: Jacques Hustin ; T: Franck F. Gérald	French	Flower of freedom	10
11.	05	Greece	Marinella Μαρινέλλα	Krasi, thalasa kai t'agori mou (Κρασί, θάλασσα και τ 'αγόρι μοu) M: Giorgos Katsaros; T: Pythagoras	Greek	The wine, the sea and my friend	07th
12.	07th	Yugoslavia	Korni grupa Корни Група	Generacija '42 (Генерација '42) M / T: Kornelije Kovač	Serbian	Generation '42	06th
13.	01	Finland	Carita	Keep Me Warm M: Eero Koivistoinen; T: Hector	English	Keep me warm	04th
14th	04th	Norway	Anne-Karine Strøm	The First Day of Love M: Frode Thingnæs; T: Philip A. Kruse	English	The first day of love	03
14th	14th	BR Germany	Cindy and Bert	The summer melody M: Werner Scharfenberger ; T: Kurt Feltz	German	-	03
14th	15th	Switzerland	Piera Martell	My call for you M / T: Pepe Ederer	German	-	03
14th	16	Portugal	Paulo de Carvalho	E depois do Adeus M: José Calvário; T: José Niza	Portuguese	And after saying goodbye	03

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Scoring

Map of the scoring for the winning title from Sweden by country

In the table, the sequence of occurrences is given in the vertical bar. The chronological point reading is evident from the position in the horizontal row.

country	Points	FI	LU	IL	NO	UK	YU	GR	IE	DE	PT	NL	SE	IT	MC	CH	BE	IT	Voting
Finland	04th		-	2	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	03
United Kingdom	14th	1	-	-	-		4th	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	3	08th
Spain	10	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	-		3	-	-	-	06th
Norway	03	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	1	-	03
Greece	07th	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	1	4th	2	-	-	-	-	-	04th
Israel	11	-	-		-	2	-	-	1	-	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	3	06th
Yugoslavia	06th	1	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	1	2	05
Sweden	24	5	1	2	2	-	1	-	1	2	1	3		1	-	5	-	-	11
Luxembourg	14th	-		2	-	-	2	1	3	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	2	09
Monaco	14th	-	2	1	1	-	-	-	1	2	1	-	1	2		1	2	-	10
Belgium	10	-	3	-	2	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	03
Netherlands	15th	1	-	1	1	-	3	2	1	1	1		3	-	-	-	1	-	10
Ireland	11	-	2	1	2	1	-	-		-	-	-	2	2	1	-	-	-	07th
BR Germany	03	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-		-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	03
Switzerland	03	-	-	-	-	1	-	-		1	-	-	-	-	-		1	-	03
Portugal	03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	1	-	2	-	-	02
Italy	18th	2	1	1	-	5	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	2	4th	-	1		09

See also

• German preliminary decision 1974
• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Eurovision Song Contest 1974  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SuperSeventies.com (English). Retrieved September 7, 2017