Eurovision Song Contest 1971

The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 3 April 1971 at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, and presented by Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), who staged the event after winning the 1970 contest for Ireland with the song "All Kinds of Everything" by Dana.

Eurovision Song Contest 1971
Date and venue
Final	3 April 1971
Venue	Gaiety Theatre Dublin, Ireland
Organisation
Organiser	European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
EBU scrutineer	Clifford Brown
Production
Host broadcaster	Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)
Director	Tom McGrath
Musical director	Colman Pearce
Presenter	Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	Malta
Returning countries	Austria  Finland  Norway  Portugal  Sweden
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1971
Vote
Voting system	Two-member juries from each country; each juror scored each song between one and five
Winning song	Monaco "Un banc, un arbre, une rue"
1970 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1972 Event page at eurovision.tv

Broadcasters from eighteen countries participated in the contest, equalling the record of the 1965 and 1966 editions. Austria returned after their two-year absence, while Finland, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden all returned after having boycotted the competition the previous year. On the other hand, Malta competed for the first time.

The winner was Monaco with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", performed by Séverine, written by Yves Dessca, and composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre. This was Monaco's first and only victory in the contest. This was also the only time in the contest's history, where the second and third-placed entrants were also awarded.

Location

The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin – host venue of the 1971 contest

The 1971 contest was held in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the 1970 contest with the song "All Kinds of Everything" performed by Dana. It was the first time that the contest was hosted in Ireland.^[1][2] The selected venue was the Gaiety Theatre; opened in 1871, the staging of the contest coincided with the venue's centenary anniversary.^[3][4]

Within hours of Ireland's win at the 1970 contest, the director-general of the Irish public broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), Thomas P. Hardiman, confirmed that the broadcaster intended to stage the contest;^[5][6] however the staging of the contest in Ireland was not confirmed until a meeting of a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) committee in Helsinki in April 1970.^[6][7][8] The Gaiety was confirmed as the venue in July 1970, with other Dublin venues considered including the Main Hall of the Royal Dublin Society and the Great Hall of University College Dublin.^[3][9][10] An audience of around 700 was expected to be present in the contest venue, with around 400 seats removed to accommodate the orchestra and technical equipment.^[11]

Participants

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1971 – Participation summaries by country
Austria Belgium Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia

Malta made their début in this year's contest, while Austria, Finland, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden all returned after a brief absence. This brought the total number of countries to eighteen.

Two of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Jacques Raymond had represented Belgium in 1963 and Katja Ebstein had represented Germany in 1970.

Eurovision Song Contest 1971 participants^[12][13]

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Marianne Mendt	"Musik"	German[a]	Manuel Rigoni Richard Schönherz [de]	Robert Opratko [de]
Belgium	BRT	Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel	"Goeie morgen, morgen"	Dutch	Paul Quintens Phil Van Cauwenbergh	Francis Bay
Finland	YLE	Markku Aro and Koivisto Sisters [fi]	"Tie uuteen päivään"	Finnish	Rauno Lehtinen	Ossi Runne
France	ORTF	Serge Lama	"Un jardin sur la terre"	French	Jacques Demarny [fr] Henri Dijan Alice Dona	Franck Pourcel
Germany	HR[b]	Katja Ebstein	"Diese Welt"	German	Fred Jay [de] Dieter Zimmermann [de]	Dieter Zimmermann
Ireland	RTÉ	Angela Farrell	"One Day Love"	English	Ita Flynn Donald Martin	Noel Kelehan
Italy	RAI	Massimo Ranieri	"L'amore è un attimo"	Italian	Giancarlo Bigazzi Enrico Polito [it] Gaetano Savio	Enrico Polito
Luxembourg	CLT	Monique Melsen	"Pomme, pomme, pomme"	French	Pierre Cour Hubert Giraud	Jean Claudric [fr]
Malta	MBA	Joe Grech	"Marija l-Maltija"	Maltese	Joe Grech Charles Mifsud	Anthony Chircop
Monaco	TMC	Séverine	"Un banc, un arbre, une rue"	French	Jean-Pierre Bourtayre Yves Dessca [fr]	Jean-Claude Petit
Netherlands	NOS	Saskia and Serge	"Tijd"	Dutch	Gerrit den Braber Joop Stokkermans	Dolf van der Linden
Norway	NRK	Hanne Krogh	"Lykken er..."	Norwegian	Arne Bendiksen	Arne Bendiksen
Portugal	RTP	Tonicha	"Menina do alto da serra"	Portuguese	Nuno Nazareth Fernandes [pt] José Carlos Ary dos Santos	Jorge Costa Pinto [pt]
Spain	TVE	Karina	"En un mundo nuevo"	Spanish	Tony Luz [es] Rafael Trabucchelli [es]	Waldo de los Ríos
Sweden	SR	The Family Four	"Vita vidder"	Swedish	Håkan Elmquist [sv]	Claes Rosendahl [sv]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Peter, Sue and Marc	"Les Illusions de nos vingt ans"	French	Peter Reber [de] Maurice Tézé [fr]	Hardy Schneiders [nl]
United Kingdom	BBC	Clodagh Rodgers	"Jack in the Box"	English	David Myers John Worsley	Johnny Arthey
Yugoslavia	JRT	Krunoslav Slabinac	"Tvoj dječak je tužan" (Твој дјечак је тужан)	Serbo-Croatian	Zvonimir Golob [hr] Ivica Krajač [hr]	Miljenko Prohaska

Format

The overall costs to organize the contest was £65,000, which was bigger than the original estimate of £30,000.^[15]

For the first time, each participating broadcaster was required to televise all the songs in "previews" prior to the live final. Belgium's preview video featured Nicole and Hugo performing the song "Goeie morgen, morgen", but Nicole was struck with a sudden illness days before the contest final, with Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel stepping in at short notice to perform the entry in their place. Reports suggested that Castel had not even had enough time to buy a suitable dress for the show.

The BBC were worried about the possible audience reaction to the British song due to the hostilities raging in Northern Ireland. They specifically selected a singer from Northern Ireland, Clodagh Rodgers, who was popular in both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, to ease any ill-feeling from the Dublin audience. However, Rodgers still received death threats from the IRA for representing the United Kingdom.^[16]

Groups of up to six people were allowed to perform for the first time, with the rule in previous contests of performing either solo or as a duet abolished.^[17]

In between each song, a film depicting the tourist highlights of each nation was shown, using stock footage provided by the participant tourism bureaus, accompanied by a piece of organ music chosen to complement the country.

This is the only time in the contest's history where the second and third placing entrants were also awarded.

Contest overview

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1971^[18]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Austria	Marianne Mendt	"Musik"	66	16
2	Malta	Joe Grech	"Marija l-Maltija"	52	18
3	Monaco	Séverine	"Un banc, un arbre, une rue"	128	1
4	Switzerland	Peter, Sue and Marc	"Les Illusions de nos vingt ans"	78	12
5	Germany	Katja Ebstein	"Diese Welt"	100	3
6	Spain	Karina	"En un mundo nuevo"	116	2
7	France	Serge Lama	"Un jardin sur la terre"	82	10
8	Luxembourg	Monique Melsen	"Pomme, pomme, pomme"	70	13
9	United Kingdom	Clodagh Rodgers	"Jack in the Box"	98	4
10	Belgium	Jacques Raymond and Lily Castel	"Goeiemorgen, morgen"	68	14
11	Italy	Massimo Ranieri	"L'amore è un attimo"	91	5
12	Sweden	The Family Four	"Vita vidder"	85	6
13	Ireland	Angela Farrell	"One Day Love"	79	11
14	Netherlands	Saskia and Serge	"Tijd"	85	6
15	Portugal	Tonicha	"Menina do alto da serra"	83	9
16	Yugoslavia	Krunoslav Slabinac	"Tvoj dječak je tužan"	68	14
17	Finland	Markku Aro and Koivisto Sisters	"Tie uuteen päivään"	84	8
18	Norway	Hanne Krogh	"Lykken er..."	65	17

Detailed voting results

The Netherlands' Saskia and Serge finished 6th with their entry "Tijd".

A new voting system was introduced in this year's contest: each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one aged over 25 and the other under 25 (with at least ten years' difference between their ages), with both awarding each country (except their own) a score of between one and five.

While this meant that no entry could score fewer than 34 votes (and in the event all eighteen scored at least 52), it had one major problem: some jury members tended to award only one or two votes. Whether this was done to increase their respective countries' chances of winning is not known for sure, but this shortcoming was nonetheless plain.^[17] However, the system remained in place for the 1972 and 1973 contests.

Detailed voting results^[19][20]

		Total score	Austria	Malta	Monaco	Switzerland	Germany	Spain	France	Luxembourg	United Kingdom	Belgium	Italy	Sweden	Ireland	Netherlands	Portugal	Yugoslavia	Finland	Norway
Contestants	Austria	66		3	5	2	7	2	3	2	3	3	6	4	6	3	5	4	3	5
	Malta	52	4		2	2	3	5	3	2	3	4	4	2	4	5	2	2	3	2
	Monaco	128	4	5		10	10	2	8	4	8	10	4	10	9	9	8	10	7	10
	Switzerland	78	5	5	4		6	2	6	2	6	3	7	4	5	5	6	4	4	4
	Germany	100	6	5	7	6		8	8	2	6	7	6	6	5	5	7	7	5	4
	Spain	116	4	8	10	5	7		10	4	7	4	5	6	9	6	7	7	9	8
	France	82	3	2	8	8	5	5		2	5	3	4	4	6	9	5	5	3	5
	Luxembourg	70	2	7	6	3	2	4	5		6	3	3	2	5	3	6	4	5	4
	United Kingdom	98	4	8	8	6	5	2	8	4		8	3	5	7	5	7	6	6	6
	Belgium	68	3	2	5	4	2	2	5	2	6		3	5	4	6	6	3	6	4
	Italy	91	4	6	9	8	6	6	9	2	6	2		7	6	2	3	8	2	5
	Sweden	85	7	4	4	9	4	2	5	2	5	6	6		3	9	3	6	4	6
	Ireland	79	7	6	6	3	4	5	7	2	6	3	6	2		5	4	5	4	4
	Netherlands	85	6	2	6	5	4	5	7	2	5	2	2	6	5		9	5	6	8
	Portugal	83	4	3	6	2	5	10	8	5	6	4	4	2	3	5		6	5	5
	Yugoslavia	68	6	2	4	2	7	6	6	2	3	2	5	2	5	4	4		3	5
	Finland	84	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	2	10	10	2	4	6	3	8	6		6
	Norway	65	3	3	6	4	2	2	5	2	7	6	2	2	7	2	5	4	3

10 votes

Below is a summary of all perfect 10 scores that were given during the voting.

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 10 votes
6	Monaco	Belgium,  Germany,  Norway,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Yugoslavia
2	Spain	France,  Monaco
	Finland	Belgium,  United Kingdom
1	Portugal	Spain

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.^[21] In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Greece, Iceland, Morocco, and Tunisia; in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania via Intervision; and in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritania, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and the United States.^[22][23] Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Turkey have been reported to broadcast on radio.^[24] At least 28 commentators were reportedly in the contest, with an estimated 500 million viewers reported in the media.^[15][24]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	FS1	Ernst Grissemann	[25][26]
Belgium	BRT	BRT	Anton Peters	[27]
		BRT 2 Omroep Brabant [nl]	Fred Braeckman [nl]	[28]
	RTB	RTB	Paule Herreman	[29]
		RTB 1		[28]
Finland	YLE	TV-ohjelma 1		[30]
		Yleisohjelma [fi], Ruotsinkielinen ohjelma	Matti Paalosmaa [fi]
France	ORTF	Deuxième Chaîne	Georges de Caunes	[31][32]
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hanns Verres [de]	[29][33]
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ	Noel Andrews	[34]
		RTÉ Radio	Kevin Roche
Italy	RAI	Programma Nazionale TV, Secondo Programma	Renato Tagliani [it]	[35][36]
Luxembourg	CLT	Télé-Luxembourg		[29]
Malta	MBA	MTS, National Network	Victor Aquilina	[37][38]
Netherlands	NOS	Nederland 1	Pim Jacobs	[39]
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet, NRK[c]	Sverre Christophersen [no]	[40]
Portugal	RTP	I Programa	Henrique Mendes	[22][41]
	ENR	Emissora Nacional Programa 1
Spain	TVE	TVE 1	Joaquín Prat	[23]
	RNE	Radio Nacional		[42]
		Radio Peninsular de Barcelona [es][d]	Ricardo Fernández Deu [es]	[42][43]
	Cadena SER[e]			[44]
Sweden	SR	TV1	Åke Strömmer	[52]
		SR P3	Ursula Richter [sv]	[53]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Theodor Haller [de]	[54]
		TSR	Georges Hardy [fr]	[55]
		TSI		[56]
		Radio Beromünster[f]		[57]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC1	Dave Lee Travis	[58]
		BBC Radio 2[g]	Terry Wogan	[68]
	BFBS	BFBS Radio[h]	John Russell	[13][69]
Yugoslavia	JRT	TV Beograd		[70]
		TV Ljubljana 1		[71]
		TV Skopje		[70]
		TV Zagreb		[72]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	Network 7			[23]
Czechoslovakia	ČST	I. program [cs][i]	Ivan Úradníček	[74][73]
Greece	EIRT	EIRT		[75]
Hungary	MTV	MTV[j]		[76]
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið[k]	Björn Matthíasson	[77]
Poland	TP	Telewizja Polska[l]		[78]
Romania	TVR	Programul 1[m]		[79]
United States	PBS[n]			[80]

Notes

1. Specifically Viennese German
2. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD^[14]
3. Deferred broadcast on NRK at 22:30 (CET)^[40]
4. Deferred broadcast at 24:00 (CET)^[42][43]
5. Simulcast on Radio Castellón [es],^[44] Ràdio Girona [ca],^[45] Radio Las Palmas,^[46] Radio Murcia [es],^[47] Radio Rioja,^[48] Radio San Sebastián,^[49] Radio Sevilla [es],^[50] and Radio Valladolid [es].^[51]
6. Delayed broadcast on 5 April 1971 at 22:30 (CET)^[57]
7. Simulcast on BBC Radio 1,^[59] BBC Radio Blackburn,^[60] BBC Radio Birmingham,^[61] BBC Radio Durham,^[62] BBC Radio Leicester,^[63] BBC Radio London,^[64] BBC Radio Newcastle,^[65] BBC Radio Oxford,^[66] BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent,^[67] and BBC Radio Teesside.^[65]
8. Delayed broadcast in Akrotiri and Dhekelia in a shortened format on 17 April 1971 at 23:15 (EET)^[69]
9. Delayed broadcasts on 11 April 1971 in Bratislava at 21:30 (CET)^[73] and in Prague at 22:55 (CET);^[74] simulcast in color on II. program [cs] in Bratislava
10. Delayed broadcast on 21 April 1971 at 11:00 (CET)^[76]
11. Delayed broadcast on 18 April 1971 at 21:25 (WET)^[77]
12. Delayed broadcast on 24 April 1971 at 22:15 (CEST)^[78]
13. Deferred broadcast in a shortened format the following day at 22:20 (EET)^[79]
14. Delayed broadcast on 18 April 1971 at 22:00 (EST)^[80]