Eurovision Song Contest 1980

25th Eurovision Song Contest
date	April 19, 1980
Host country	Netherlands
venue	Nederlands Congresgebouw , The Hague
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Marlous Fluitsma
Pause filler	The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band
participating countries	19th
winner	Ireland
First time participation	Morocco
Returning participants	Turkey
Withdrawn participants	Israel , Monaco
Voting rule	In each country a jury awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to the ten best songs.
◄ ESC 1979 • ESC 1981 ►

The 25th Eurovision Song Contest took place on April 19, 1980 in The Hague after the IBA of last year's winner Israel was unable to host the event for the second time in a row for financial reasons. Since the jumping in Dutch NOS set the date of the event on April 19, which coincided with the Israeli memorial day Yom HaZikaron in 1980 , Israel also decided not to participate. This was the last year so far that the country of the previous year's winner was not the host country.

venue

According to the rules, the Israeli broadcaster IBA had the right to hold the competition again after the victory in Jerusalem last year. For financial reasons, the IBA eventually returned this right to the EBU . It initially offered it to second-placed Spain, where RTVE planned to host it in Torremolinos , which, however, also failed. The BBC , which has so far hosted the event every time the previous year's winner did not want or could not, refused. After months of negotiations, including a rejection, the Dutch broadcaster NOS finally agreed to host the 1980 ESC. At the end of November 1979, The Hague was announced as the venue. Due to the enormous time pressure, the venues and large parts of the stage were reused from 1976 when the Netherlands last hosted the ESC.

particularities

Winner Johnny Logan with Katja Ebstein after the final

The winner was Irishman Johnny Logan with What's Another Year? in front of the theater by Katja Ebstein from Germany. But Switzerland was also satisfied with the result, Paola and Cinéma took 4th place, You are music by Blue Danube from Austria took 8th place.

In addition, Morocco took part for the first and only time, but without success. Bitakat picked up by Samira Bensaïd , who was penultimate, was also the only Arabic-language song in the history of the ESC for a long time. It was not until the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 that Israel took part with a title that, in addition to an English and Hebrew part, also had an Arabic-speaking part. In return, the representative of Luxembourg, Papa pingouin from Sophie & Magaly, achieved a high cult status. The song by Ralph Siegel and Bernd Opinion , who also wrote the German contribution, came in 9th.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1980

In 1980 Morocco took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first and only time. Turkey returned, but Monaco and Israel decided not to participate, so that, as in the previous year, 19 countries took part in the competition.

The following performers returned to the competition and all made the top 5:

country	Interpreter	Previous year of participation
Germany	Katja Ebstein	1970 , 1971
Netherlands	Maggie MacNeal	1974 (as part of Mouth & MacNeal )
Switzerland	Paola	1969

Voting procedure

In each country there was an eleven-member jury, which initially determined the ten best songs internally. Then the individual juries awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to these ten best songs. When the points were announced, there was an innovation: From this year onwards, the points awarded by a country were read out in ascending order of value of the points themselves (1, 2, 3, ... 12), while in previous years the ratings were announced according to the starting order (1979 for example: Italy 8 points, Ireland 5 points ... )

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	Points	image
01.	17th	Ireland	Johnny Logan	What's Another Year? M / T: Shay Healy	English	What's a year already?	143
02.	12	BR Germany	Katja Ebstein	Theater M: Ralph Siegel ; T: Bernd Opinion	German	-	128
03.	13	United Kingdom	Great Donna	Love Enough for Two M / T: Stephanie de Sykes, Stuart Slater	English	Enough love for two	106
04th	09	Switzerland	Paola	Cinéma M: Peter Reber; T: Peter Reber, Véronique Müller	French	movie theater	104
05.	15th	Netherlands	Maggie MacNeal	Amsterdam M: Frans Smit, Robert Verwey, Sjoukje Smit-van 't Spijker; T: Alex Alberts	Dutch	-	093
06th	06th	Italy	Alan Sorrenti	Not so che darei M / T: Alan Sorrenti	Italian	I don't know what I would give	087
07th	14th	Portugal	José Cid	Um grande, grande amor M / T: José Cid	Portuguese	A great love	071
08th.	01	Austria	Blue Danube	You are music M / T: Klaus-Peter Sattler	German	-	064
09.	04th	Luxembourg	Sophie & Magaly	Papa Pingouin M: Ralph Siegel , Bernd Opinion ; T: Pierre Delanoë, Jean-Paul Cara	French	Papa penguin	056
10.	08th	Sweden	Tomas Ledin	Just now! M / T: Tomas Ledin	Swedish	Just now!	047
11.	16	France	profile	Hé, hé m'sieurs dames M: Sylvano Sontorio; T: Richard de Bordeaux, Richard Joffo	French	Hey, hey, ladies and gentlemen	045
12.	18th	Spain	Trigo Limpio	Quédate esta noche M / T: José Antonio Martin	Spanish	Stay tonight	038
13.	03	Greece	Anna Vissi & The Epikouri Άννα Βίσση και Οι Επίκουροι	Autostop Ωτοστοπ M: Jick Nacassian; T: Rony Sofu	Greek	-	030th
14th	07th	Denmark	Bamses Venner	Tænker altid on dig M: Bjarne Gren Jensen; T: Flemming Jørgensen	Danish	I always think of you	025th
15th	02	Turkey	Ajda Pekkan	Petr'oil M: Atilla Özdemiroğlu; T: Şanar Yurdatapan	Turkish	oil	023
16.	11	Norway	Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta	Sámiid ædnan M: Sverre Kjelsberg; T: Ragnar Olsen	Norwegian a.	Land of the Sami	015th
17th	19th	Belgium	telex	Euro-vision M / T: Michel Moers, Dan Lacksman, Marc Moulin	French	-	014th
18th	05	Morocco	Samira Bensaïd سميرة سعيد	Bitakat raised بطاقة حب M: Abdel Ati Amenna; T: Malou Rouanne	Arabic	A message of love	007th
19th	10	Finland	Vesa-Matti Loiri	Huilumies M: Aarno Raninen; T: Vexi Salmi	Finnish	The flute player	006th

^a.with a title and a few words in Sami

Scoring

Map of scoring for the winning title from Ireland by country

Sustaining land		Forgiving country
country	Total	AUT	DOOR	GRC	LUX	MAR	ITA	DNK	SWE	CHE	FIN	NOR	GER	GBR	POR	NLD	FRA	IRL	ESP	BEL
Austria	064	-		1		3	4th	5	1	4th	5	6th	4th	6th	3	3	4th	10	4th	1
Turkey	023	3	-			12	8th
Greece	030th	5		-	1		2	2				4th		3	1	8th		4th
Luxembourg	056	1	1		-			4th	6th		3	7th		8th			7th	8th	3	8th
Morocco	007th					-	7th
Italy	087	2	6th	2			-	3	10	8th	6th	2	7th	4th	12	1	2	2	10	10
Denmark	025th			4th		2		-		6th	7th	1	5
Sweden	047		8th	10	10	6th	5		-	5			2						1
Switzerland	104	6th	2		5	7th	3	8th	2	-	12	10	10	7th	6th	10		12	2	2
Finland	006th										-	5					1
Norway	015th					4th						-	6th			2	3
BR Germany	128	8th	10		3	10	12	7th	5	7th	2		-	10	8th	12	10	5	12	7th
United Kingdom	106	7th	5		8th	8th		10	12	10	4th		3	-	7th	7th	5	6th	8th	6th
Portugal	071		4th	5	4th		10	6th	8th	2	1	8th	1		-	5	6th	7th		4th
Netherlands	093	12	12	6th	12				3	3	10		8th	2	4th	-	12	1	5	3
France	045		3	7th	2	1		1	4th	1		3		5		4th	-	3	6th	5
Ireland	143	10		12	7th		1	12	7th	12	8th	12	12	12	5	6th	8th	-	7th	12
Spain	038	4th	7th	8th	6th	5	6th								2				-
Belgium	014th			3										1	10					-

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

Statistics of the twelve-point allocation

number	country	received from
7th	Ireland	Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom
4th	Netherlands	France, Luxembourg, Austria, Turkey
3	Germany	Italy, Netherlands, Spain
2	Switzerland	Finland, Ireland
1	Italy	Portugal
	Turkey	Morocco
	United Kingdom	Sweden

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Eurovision Song Contest 1980  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small messages . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 20, 1979, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. 25 .
2. ^ Eurovision Song Contest 1980. In: esctoday.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012 ; accessed on May 20, 2020 (English). 
3. ^ When Opening Up became hard. In: eurovision.tv. May 13, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020 .