Eurovision Song Contest 1969

14th Eurovision Song Contest
date	March 29, 1969
Host country	Spain
venue	Teatro Real , Madrid
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Laurita Valenzuela
Pause filler	La España Diferente - in picture and sound.
participating countries	16
winner	Spain , Netherlands , France , United Kingdom
Withdrawn participants	Austria
Voting rule	Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title.
◄ ESC 1968 • ESC 1970 ►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 was the 14th competition of its kind since the event was launched by Eurovision . It took place on March 29, 1969 in Madrid in Spain under the official title of 14th Gran Premio de la Canción de Eurovisión , as last year's winner had come from this country.

particularities

Four different performers and countries won the competition:

• Salomé for Spain with the song Vivo cantando
• Lulu for Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the song Boom Bang-a-Bang
• Lenny Kuhr for the Netherlands with the song De troubadour
• Frida Boccara for France with the song Un jour, un enfant.

As there were no rules for a tie, all four countries were declared winners.

Spain was the first participating country to win twice in a row. Only the participants in Luxembourg, Israel and Ireland succeeded in doing this again.

The youngest participant in a Eurovision Song Contest until then came from Monaco. Jean-Jacques , who sang the song Maman, Maman , was only twelve years old.

The program was moderated by the Spanish announcer Laurita Valenzuela. The artist Salvador Dalí was responsible in advance for the advertising and partly for the artistic design.

As early as 1968, a single in France with the label “La chanson officielle du Liechtenstein pour le Grand Prix Eurovision 1969” (Liechtenstein's official contribution to the Grand Prix Eurovision 1969) was released. However , this had nothing to do with Liechtenstein's serious attempt to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, if only because the country is still not an EBU member and is therefore not allowed to take part in the competition. The title “Un beau matin” (One beautiful morning) sung by Vetty is a parody of the French duo of authors Jacques Martin (text) and Jean Baïtzouroff (music) of the Eurovision competition and the style of the songs presented there. The title can be found as a gag on the 3-CD sampler "Eurovision - Les plus belles chansons françaises" compiled by Patrick Campistron, but also as a winking reminder not to take the Eurovision Song Contest so seriously.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1969

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  Lenny Kuhr , interpreter of the Dutch winner's title, on her return in 1969

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  Frida Boccara , interpreter of the French winner's title, 1969

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  Lulu , interpreter of the British title, 1969

This year there were only 16 participants, as Austria decided not to take part because Spain was still a dictatorship at the time.

Voting procedure

The same voting procedure applied as in previous years. 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.	03	Spain	Salomé	Vivo cantando M: Maria José de Cerato; T: Aniano Alcalde	Spanish	I live singing	18th
	07th	United Kingdom	Lulu	Boom Bang-a-Bang M: Alan Moorhouse; T: Peter Warne	English	-	18th
	08th	Netherlands	Lenny Kuhr	De troubadour M: David Hartsema; T: Lenny Kuhr	Dutch	The trobador	18th
	14th	France	Frida Boccara	Un jour, un enfant M: Emile Stern; T: Eddy Marnay	French	One day, one child	18th
05.	11	Switzerland	Paola del Medico	Bonjour, bonjour M: Henry Mayer; T: Jack Stark	German a.	Hello Hello	13
06th	04th	Monaco	Jean-Jacques	Maman, maman M / T: Jo Perrier	French	Mom mom	11
07th	05	Ireland	Muriel Day	The Wages of Love M / T: Michael Reade	English	The reward of love	10
	10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	Jennifer Jennings M: Paul Quintens; T: Phil van Cauwenbergh	Dutch	-	10
09.	09	Sweden	Tommy Koerberg	Judy, min van M: Roger Wallis; T: Britt Lindeborg	Swedish	My friend Judy	08th
	13	BR Germany	Siw Malmkvist	Prima ballerina M / T: Hans Blum	German	-	08th
11.	02	Luxembourg	Romuald	Cathérine M: Paul Mauriat, André Borgioli; T: André di Fusco	French	-	07th
12.	16	Finland	Jarkko yes Laura	Kuin silloin ennen M: Toivo Kärki; T: Juha Vainio	Finnish	Like in these times	06th
13.	01	Yugoslavia	Ivan & M's	Pozdrav svijetu M / T: Milan Lentić	Croatian	Greetings to the world	05
	06th	Italy	Iva Zanicchi	The large lacrime bianche M: Piero Soffici; T: Carlo Daiano	Italian	Two big white tears	05
15th	15th	Portugal	Simone de Oliveira	Desfolhada M: Nuño Nazareth Fernandes; T: José Carlos Ary dos Santos	Portuguese	Heavy loss	04th
16.	12	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	Oj, oj, oj, så glad any shall be bli M / T: Arne Bendiksen	Norwegian	Ui, ui, ui how happy i will be	01

^a. with French title

Scoring

country	Points	YU	LU	IT	MC	IE	IT	UK	NL	SE	BE	CH	NO	DE	FR	PT	FI	Voting
Yugoslavia	05		-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1			-	-	3	-	3
Luxembourg	07th	1		-	3	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	5
Spain	18th	1	2		3	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	3	2	2	-	9
Monaco	11	-	-	2		-	4th	-	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Ireland	10	-	-	-	-		-	1	1	1	-	3	-	1	-	-	3	6th
Italy	05	1	-	-	1	1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	5
United Kingdom	18th	2	4th	-	-	-	3		1	5	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	8th
Netherlands	18th	-	2	-	1	-	3	-		-	1	4th	1	-	6th	-	-	7th
Sweden	08th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1		-	-	3	-	-	1	3	4th
Belgium	10	-	-	2	-	-	-	3	1	-		2	2	-	-	-	-	5
Switzerland	13	2	-		-	3	-	2	-	-	1		1	2	-	-	2	7th
Norway	01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-		-	-	-	-	1
BR Germany	08th	3	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1		1	-	-	5
France	18th	-	1	-	2	4th	-	4th	2	1	-	1	-	1		2	-	9
Portugal	04th	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1		-	3
Finland	06th	-	1	1	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	-		5

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.

German qualification

The German qualification took place on February 22, 1969.

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Feddersen: A song can be a bridge. 1st edition. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 . P. 104.