Eurovision Song Contest 1975

The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the with the song "Waterloo" by ABBA. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (SR), the contest was held at on 22 March 1975, and was hosted by Swedish television director Karin Falck. It was the first time that the contest had taken place in Sweden.
Nineteen countries participated in the contest, beating the previous record of eighteen, that was first set in the 1965 edition. France and Malta returned after their one-year and two-year absences, respectively. Turkey made its debut, while Greece decided not to enter after its debut the year prior.
The winner of the contest was the Netherlands who won with the song "Ding-a-dong", performed by Teach-In, written by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens, and composed by Dick Bakker. The country would not win again until .
== Location ==
The contest took place in Stockholm, the capital and largest city of Sweden, which has long been one of the country's cultural, media, political, and economic centres as well as the most populated urban area in Scandinavia.
The venue for the contest was (or Stockholm International Fairs in English). The main building is in Älvsjö – a southern suburb of Stockholm Municipality. It was constructed in 1971 and holds 4,000 people.
== Participating countries ==
Nineteen countries took part in the contest; As a result of Turkey competing in the competition for the very first time, Greece decided not to enter after its 1974 debut in protest at the Turkish participation due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus that had occurred the year before. Meanwhile, France and Malta returned to the contest after having been absent for one and two years, respectively .
Country	Broadcaster	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Songwriter(s) 	Conductor
 	BRT 	Ann Christy 	"" 	Dutch, English 	Mary Boduin 	Francis Bay
 	YLE 	 	"Old Man Fiddle" 	English 	 	Ossi Runne
 	TF1 	Nicole 	"" 	French 	 	Jean Musy
 	HR 	Joy Fleming 	"" 	German, English	 	Rainer Pietsch
 	RTÉ 	The Swarbriggs 	"That's What Friends Are For"	English 	 	Colman Pearce
 	IBA 	Shlomo Artzi 	"" () 	Hebrew 	 	Eldad Shrem
 	RAI 	Wess and Dori Ghezzi	"" 	Italian 	 	Natale Massara
 	CLT 	Géraldine 	"" 	French 	 	Phil Coulter
 	MBA 	Renato 	"Singing This Song" 	English 	 	Vince Tempera
 	TMC 	Sophie 	"" 	French 	 	André Popp
 	NOS 	Teach-In 	"Ding-a-dong" 	English 	 	Harry van Hoof
 	NRK 	Ellen Nikolaysen 	"Touch My Life with Summer" 	English 	 	Carsten Klouman
 	RTP 	Duarte Mendes 	"" 	Portuguese 	José Luis Tinoco 	Pedro Osório
 	TVE 	Sergio and Estíbaliz	"" 	Spanish 	Juan Carlos Calderón	Juan Carlos Calderón
 	SR 	Lars Berghagen 	"Jennie, Jennie" 	English 	Lars Berghagen 	Lars Samuelson
 	SRG SSR 	Simone Drexel 	"Mikado" 	German 	Simone Drexel 	Peter Jacques
 	TRT 	Semiha Yankı 	"" 	Turkish 	 	Timur Selçuk
 	BBC 	The Shadows 	"Let Me Be the One" 	English 	Paul Curtis 	Alyn Ainsworth
 	JRT 	 	"" 	Slovene 	 	Mario Rijavec
=== Returning artists ===
Artist 	Country	Previous year(s)
Ellen Nikolaysen 	 	(as part of Bendik Singers) (as part of Bendik Singers)
John Farrar (as part of The Shadows)	 	(as backing singer for Cliff Richard)
== Format ==
To introduce each song, all the artists were recorded on videotape painting a portrait of themselves during the rehearsal period, incorporating their nation's flag into the illustration. Some artists included their backing artists in the painting, others chose only to paint the lead singer.
This year a new scoring system was implemented. Each country would be represented by a jury of 11 members, at least half of whom had to be under the age of 26. Each jury member had to award every song a mark of between 1 and 5 points, but could not vote for their own nation's entry. The votes were cast immediately after the song was performed and collected by the adjudicator straight away. After the last song was performed, the jury secretary added up all the votes cast and awarded 12 points to the song with the highest score, 10 to the second highest score, then 8 to the third, and so forth down to 1 point for the song ranked 10th. The 12–1 points system remained in use until . Unlike today, the points were not given in order (from 1 up to 12), but in the order the songs were performed. The current procedure of announcing the scores in ascending order, beginning with 1 point, was not established until 1980.
== Contest overview ==
 	Country	Artist 	Song 	Points	Place
1 	 	Teach-In 	"Ding-a-dong" 	152 	1
2 	 	 	"That's What Friends Are For"	68 	9
3 	 	Nicole 	"" 	91 	4
4 	 	 	"" 	15 	17
5 	 	Géraldine 	"" 	84 	5
6 	 	 	"Touch My Life with Summer" 	11 	18
7 	 	 	"Mikado" 	77 	6
8 	 	 	"" 	22 	13
9 	 	 	"Let Me Be the One" 	138 	2
10	 	Renato 	"Singing This Song" 	32 	12
11	 	 	"" 	17 	15
12	 	 	"" 	40 	11
13	 	 	"" 	3 	19
14	 	Sophie 	"" 	22 	13
15	 	 	"Old Man Fiddle" 	74 	7
16	 	 	"" 	16 	16
17	 	Sergio and Estíbaliz	"" 	53 	10
18	 	 	"Jennie, Jennie" 	72 	8
19	 	Wess and Dori Ghezzi	"" 	115 	3
=== Spokespersons ===
Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1975 contest are listed below.
* José María Íñigo
* Sven Lindahl
* Ray Moore
== Detailed voting results ==
 	 	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"	scope="col"
rowspan="19" 	Netherlands	152 	 	8 	5 	8 	10 	12 	6 	8 	12 	12 	3 	12 	4 	10 	10 	7 	12 	12 	1
Ireland 	68 	6 	 	6 	 	 	4 	7 	1 	6 	4 	12 	 	 	 	1 	4 	3 	10 	4 	
France 	91 	8 	12 	 	 	 	 	3 	 	8 	7 	2 	7 	1 	7 	 	12 	8 	8 	8 	
Germany 	15 	 	 	 	 	8 	 	 	 	 	3 	 	 	 	 	 	 	4 	 	 	
Luxembourg 	84 	12 	10 	3 	 	 	 	 	7 	3 	5 	 	6 	5 	 	5 	8 	6 	4 	10 	
Norway 	11 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2 	 	 	 	 	7 	
Switzerland 	77 	7 	2 	10 	6 	2 	1 	 	 	5 	6 	8 	 	7 	5 	4 	2 	 	 	12 	
Yugoslavia 	22 	3 	4 	 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	5 	 	 	 	 	1 	 	7 	 	
United Kingdom	138 	4 	3 	12 	10 	12 	7 	8 	12 	 	8 	10 	10 	 	12 	7 	5 	10 	5 	3 	
Malta 	32 	1 	 	8 	 	5 	2 	4 	2 	 	 	7 	1 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Belgium 	17 	5 	 	 	7 	 	 	 	3 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2 	 	
Israel 	40 	10 	1 	1 	1 	1 	5 	2 	 	1 	 	1 	 	6 	 	3 	 	 	6 	2 	
Turkey 	3 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	3 	 	 	 	 	 	
Monaco 	22 	 	 	 	3 	4 	 	 	 	2 	1 	 	2 	 	 	2 	3 	 	 	5 	
Finland 	74 	 	5 	 	12 	6 	10 	12 	5 	4 	 	 	8 	 	8 	 	 	1 	3 	 	
Portugal 	16 	 	 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	12 	 	 	 	2 	 	 	
Spain 	53 	 	7 	 	5 	 	3 	5 	4 	 	 	4 	4 	3 	4 	8 	 	 	 	6 	
Sweden 	72 	 	 	7 	 	7 	8 	1 	6 	7 	2 	 	3 	8 	6 	6 	6 	5 	 	 	
Italy 	115 	 	6 	4 	4 	3 	6 	10 	10 	10 	10 	6 	5 	10 	1 	12 	10 	7 	1 	 	
=== 12 points ===
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
6 	 	, , , , ,
4 	 	, , ,
2 	 	,
2 	 	,
1 	 	
1 	 	
1 	 	
1 	 	
1 	 	
== Broadcasts ==
Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast via Intervision to Eastern European countries, and in Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Jordan and South Korea. A planned broadcast in Chile by TVN was prevented by , following pressure from the Swedish Musicians' Union in opposition to the military dictatorship in the country.
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s) 	Commentator(s) 	
 	BRT 	BRT 	 	
 	BRT 	BRT Radio 1 	 	
 	RTB 	RTB 	 	
 	YLE 	TV1 	 	
 	YLE 	 	 	
 	TF1 	TF1 	Georges de Caunes 	
 	ARD 	 	Werner Veigel 	
 	RTÉ 	RTÉ 	Mike Murphy 	
 	RTÉ 	RTÉ Radio 	 	
 	IBA 	Israeli Television 	 	
 	RAI 	, 	Silvio Noto 	
 	CLT 	 	 	
 	MBA 	TVM, Radio Malta 	Norman Hamilton 	
 	 	 	 	
 	NOS 	 	Willem Duys 	
 	NRK 	, NRK 	John Andreassen 	
 	RTP 	 	 	
 	TVE 	TVE 1 	José Luis Uribarri	
 	SR 	TV1 	Åke Strömmer 	
 	SR 	SR P3 	 	
 	SRG SSR 	TV DRS 	 	
 	SRG SSR 	TSR 	 	
 	SRG SSR 	TSI 	 	
 	SRG SSR 	RSR 1 	Robert Burnier 	
 	TRT 	 	 	
 	BBC 	BBC1 	Pete Murray 	
 	BBC 	BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2	Terry Wogan 	
 	BFBS 	BFBS Radio 	Terry Wogan 	
 	JRT 	TV Koper-Capodistria 	 	
 	JRT 	 	 	
 	JRT 	TV Zagreb 1 	 	
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s) 	
 	ORF 	FS2 	Ernst Grissemann 	
 	DR 	DR TV 	Per Møller Hansen 	
 	MTV 	MTV1 	 	
 	RÚV 	 	Dóra Hafsteinsdóttir	
 	KBS 	KBS 	 	
== Notes ==
== References ==
== External links ==
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Category:Music competitions in Sweden
Category:1975 in music
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Category:1970s in Stockholm
Category:March 1975 events in Europe