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Eurovision Song Contest 1975

The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 22 March 1975 in the Sankt Eriks-Mässan in Stockholm, Sweden. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR), and presented by Karin Falck, the contest was held in Sweden following the country's victory at the 1974 contest with the song "Waterloo" by ABBA.

Eurovision Song Contest 1975
Dates
Final22 March 1975
Host
VenueSankt Eriks-Mässan
Stockholm, Sweden
Presenter(s)Karin Falck
Musical directorMats Olsson
Directed byBo Billtén
Executive supervisorClifford Brown
Executive producerRoland Eiworth
Host broadcasterSveriges Radio (SR)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/stockholm-1975
Participants
Number of entries19
Debuting countries Turkey
Returning countries
Non-returning countries Greece
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Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their ten favourite songs
Winning song Netherlands
"Ding-a-dong"
1974 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1976

Nineteen countries were represented at the contest – a new record number of participants. Turkey made its first entry, and France and Malta returned after a one- and two-year absence, respectively. Greece, after participating for the first time in the previous year's event, opted not to participate in 1975.

A new voting system was introduced at this contest; each country gave 12 points to its favourite, 10 points to its second favourite, and then 8 points to 1 point to other countries in descending order of preference. This numerical order of points awarded has since been used at every subsequent event as of 2024.

The winner was the Netherlands with the song "Ding-a-dong", composed by Dick Bakker, written by Will Luikinga [nl] and Eddy Ouwens, and performed by the group Teach-In. This was the Netherlands' fourth contest victory, matching the record number of contest wins previously set by France and Luxembourg. Having been the opening song of the contest, it was also the first time that a country had won from first position in the running order. The United Kingdom, Italy, France and Luxembourg rounded out the top five positions, with the UK achieving a record-extending ninth second-place finish.

Location edit

 
Sankt Eriks-Mässan, Stockholm – host venue of the 1975 contest

The 1975 contest took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 1974 contest with the song "Waterloo" performed by ABBA. It was the first time that Sweden had hosted the event.[1][2] The chosen venue was the Sankt Eriks-Mässan, an exhibition centre in the Älvsjö district in southern Stockholm opened in 1971; in 1976 the venue was renamed to Stockholmsmässan.[2][3]

The Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) had initially been reluctant to stage the event, mainly due to the high costs that came with it which would have been placed on the organisation. There had also been considerable pressure and disquiet from left-wing groups in the country that initially opposed the amount of money being spent by the public broadcaster on a commercial event, which subsequently developed into a wider protest against the general commercialisation of music in Sweden;[2][4][5][6] this led to street protests and a counter-festival, Alternativfestivalen [sv] ('the Alternative Festival'), being held during the week of Eurovision 1975.[5][6][7][8]

SR had attempted to negotiate with the European Broadcasting Union and other participating broadcasters to enact a form of cost-sharing to fund the event, however a solution failed to materialise prior to the contest and SR was ultimately faced with funding the contest alone. These discussions, however, did eventually lead to the introduction of a new financing system for 1976 and future event, with the running costs of the event being split across all participating countries.[2][9] Fears of the potential costs required to host the event should Sweden have won again, coupled with the pressure from left-wing groups, however meant that SR ultimately decided not to participate in the 1976 event.[2][5][10]

Participating countries edit

Eurovision Song Contest 1975 – Participation summaries by country
 
Ellen Nikolaysen represented Norway for the second time at this year's event

A total of nineteen countries participated in the 1975 contest – a new record number of participants. This included the first ever appearance of Turkey, and entries from France and Malta, which last participated in 1973 and 1972, respectively.[2][11] Broadcasters in Greece, which participated for the first time in 1974, and Austria, last seen in the contest in 1972, had also considered participating in the contest, however no entries from these countries were ultimately submitted;[9][11] Greece had reportedly decided against participating at a late stage, and may have opted to refuse to compete alongside Turkey following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[6][7][9]

Ellen Nikolaysen competed in the contest for Norway for a second time, having previously participated in 1973 as a member of the Bendik Singers.[12] Additionally, John Farrar, a member of the Shadows representing the United Kingdom, had previously supported Cliff Richard at the 1973 contest as a backing vocalist.[13]

Production and format edit

The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR). Roland Eiworth [sv] served as executive producer, Bo Billtén [sv] served as producer and director, Bo-Ruben Hedwall [sv] served as designer, and Mats Olsson served as musical director, leading the orchestra.[11][17] A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.[12]

Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration.[18][19] As in 1973 and 1974, artists were able to perform in any language, and not necessarily that of the country their represented.[20][21] A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance. Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only backing tracks, however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers.[18][22][23]

Rehearsals in the contest venue for the competing began on Wednesday 19 March, with each participating act having a 50-minute slot on stage to perform through their entry with the orchestra; the first rehearsals for all countries were held over two days on 19 and 20 March and were conducted without their stage costumes. A second round of rehearsals, this time in costume, was held for all acts on 21 March, with each country given 20 minutes on stage; this was followed that evening by a complete run-through of the whole show, including dummy voting. Technical rehearsals were held on the morning of 22 March, and a second full dress rehearsal was held that afternoon ahead of the live contest.[9] Some of the participating acts performed their songs in a different language at the dress rehearsals, which were also heard by the juries, and in the live contest; specifically, the Yugoslav and Portuguese acts performed their entries in English in the dress rehearsal, and then in Slovene and Portuguese in the final, respectively.[6] The Dutch entrants were given an additional rehearsal shortly before the live transmission; this was requested by Dick Bakker, the composer of the Dutch song, who felt that during the general rehearsals the sound qualify was noticeably poorer during their entry, the first to perform each time, and that the sound technicians needed time to fix their equipment, which was generally done during their rehearsal slot.[9]

There was a tight security situation at the venue in the run-up to, and during, the event;[6][7][24] the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) had received intelligence reports that the contest may become a target of the West German far-left militant group the Red Army Faction (RAF). The threat to the contest did not ultimately materialise, however one month after the event the RAF targeted the West German embassy in Stockholm.[6][7]

Voting procedure edit

Following the abandoned attempt at introducing a new voting system at the previous year's event, plans for a new system to replace both the system used between 1971 and 1973 and that used in 1974 came to fruition in autumn 1974. A sub-group, comprising individuals from Germany's ARD, Sweden's SR, and Finland's YLE, was set-up, and various new voting systems were proposed: ARD suggested that each country should identify its top nine entries and award points ranging between 1 and 10, while YLE proposed a scoring system to award points to eight countries, with the favourite of each country given 14 points, then 10, 7 and 5–1. The Finnish broadcaster also proposed as an compromise awarding to nine countries 10 and 8–1 points. Based on the above ideas, the United Kingdom's BBC proposed the 12, 10 and 8–1 pattern which was later adopted for this contest, and which had been used in all subsequent editions.[11][25]

Each country had a jury of eleven members ranging from ages 16 to 60, with a recommendation that there should be a balance between the sexes and that half should be under 25 years old. Each jury members awarded each song a score between one and five immediately after it had been performed, with no abstentions allowed and without voting for the country they represented. The song which gained the most votes received 12 points, followed by 10 points to the song which got the second highest number of votes, and then between 8 and 1 points for the third- to tenth-placed songs. Ties for any of the positions would be decided by a show of hands.[11][26] The order of presenting the points by each country's spokesperson was done in performance order; it would not be until 1980 that the points would be awarded in ascending order, starting at 1 point and finishing with 12 points.[2][26]

Contest overview edit

 
Members of Teach-In at Schipol Airport prior to the contest
 
Teach-In and the songwriters of "Ding-a-dong" at Schipol Airport following the contest, with the medallions awarded to the songwriters

The contest was held on 22 March 1975, beginning at 21:00 (CET) and lasting 2 hours and 12 minutes.[11][12] The contest was presented by the Swedish television presenter, producer and director Karin Falck.[2][27] Following the confirmation of the nineteen participating countries, a draw was held in Geneva on 24 January 1975 to determine the running order (R/O) of the contest.[9]

The contest was opened by a film montage portraying various cultural stereotypes of Sweden and the Swedish people. Each entry was preceded by a video postcard, which served as an introduction to that country's entry and to create a transition between entries to allow stage crew to make changes on stage;[28][29] the postcards showed each country's entrant backstage painting a portrait of themselves and the flag of their nation onto a blank canvas.[30][31] The interval act was entitled "The World of John Bauer" (Swedish: John Bauers värld), comprising a montage of examples of the Swedish illustrator's work, particularly from his anthology Among Gnomes and Trolls, set to music from the orchestra.[30][32] The medallions awarded to the winning songwriters were presented by the Secretary-General of the European Broadcasting Union Henrik Hahr [sv].[30][32]

The winner was the Netherlands represented by the song "Ding-a-dong", composed by Dick Bakker, written by Will Luikinga [nl] and Eddy Ouwens, and performed by Teach-In.[33] It was the Netherlands' fourth contest win, following victories in 1957, 1959 and 1969; the Netherlands thus joined France and Luxembourg as the countries with the most contest wins at that point.[26][34] It was additionally the first time that the song which was performed first had gone on to win the contest.[2][26] The United Kingdom came second for a record-extending ninth time, and Malta, which had come last in its two previous contest appearances, achieved their best result to date with a twelfth-place finish.[26][35] Turkey, meanwhile, finished in last place on its debut appearance.[36]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1975[26][37]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1   Netherlands Teach-In "Ding-a-dong" 152 1
2   Ireland The Swarbriggs "That's What Friends Are For" 68 9
3   France Nicole "Et bonjour à toi l'artiste" 91 4
4   Germany Joy Fleming "Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein" 15 17
5   Luxembourg Géraldine "Toi" 84 5
6   Norway Ellen Nikolaysen "Touch My Life with Summer" 11 18
7    Switzerland Simone Drexel "Mikado" 77 6
8   Yugoslavia Pepel in kri[b] "Dan ljubezni" 22 13
9   United Kingdom The Shadows "Let Me Be the One" 138 2
10   Malta Renato "Singing This Song" 32 12
11   Belgium Ann Christy "Gelukkig zijn" 17 15
12   Israel Shlomo Artzi "At Ve'Ani" 40 11
13   Turkey Semiha Yankı "Seninle Bir Dakika" 3 19
14   Monaco Sophie "Une chanson c'est une lettre" 22 13
15   Finland Pihasoittajat "Old Man Fiddle" 74 7
16   Portugal Duarte Mendes "Madrugada" 16 16
17   Spain Sergio and Estíbaliz "Tú volverás" 53 10
18   Sweden Lars Berghagen "Jennie, Jennie" 72 8
19   Italy Wess and Dori Ghezzi "Era" 115 3

Spokespersons edit

Each country nominated a spokesperson, connected to the contest venue via telephone lines and responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.[18][38] Known spokespersons at the 1975 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results edit

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries.[26] The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in performance order.[26][30] The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below, with voting countries listed in the order in which they presented their votes.

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1975[40][41]
Total score
Netherlands
Ireland
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Norway
Switzerland
Yugoslavia
United Kingdom
Malta
Belgium
Israel
Turkey
Monaco
Finland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Italy
Contestants
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 edit

The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another. The winning country is shown in bold. The Netherlands received the maximum score of 12 points from six of the voting countries, with the United Kingdom receiving four sets of 12 points, Finland and France each receiving two sets of maximum scores, and Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland receiving one maximum score each.[40][41]

Distribution of 12 points awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975[40][41]
N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
6   Netherlands   Israel,   Malta,   Norway,   Spain,   Sweden,   United Kingdom
4   United Kingdom   France,   Luxembourg,   Monaco,   Yugoslavia
2   Finland   Germany,    Switzerland
  France   Ireland,   Portugal
1   Ireland   Belgium
  Italy   Finland
  Luxembourg   Netherlands
  Portugal   Turkey
   Switzerland   Italy

Broadcasts edit

Broadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks; non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest. 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.[19]

In addition to the participating nations, the contest was also reportedly aired, live or deferred, by broadcasters in Eastern European countries via Intervision, in countries bounding the Mediterranean Sea, and in Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Jordan and South Korea.[2][9] A planned broadcast in Chile by its public broadcaster Televisión Nacional de Chile was prevented by Sveriges Radio, following pressure from the Swedish Musicians' Union in opposition to the Chilean military dictatorship.[42][43][44][45] The contest was reported to have had a possible maximum audience of over 700 million people.[24]

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

Notes edit

  1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[16]
  2. ^ a b Credited on screen as "Ashes and Blood"
  3. ^ Deferred broadcast on 23 March at 15:15 CET (14:15 UTC)[65]
  4. ^ Delayed broadcast on 20 April 1975 at 16:05 CET (15:05 UTC)[76]
  5. ^ Delayed broadcast on 13 April 1975 at 21:10 WET (21:10 UTC)[77]
  6. ^ Delayed broadcast on 25 April 1975 at 19:35 KST (22:35 UTC)[78]

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eurovision, song, contest, 1975, 20th, edition, eurovision, song, contest, held, march, 1975, sankt, eriks, mässan, stockholm, sweden, organised, european, broadcasting, union, host, broadcaster, sveriges, radio, presented, karin, falck, contest, held, sweden,. The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest held on 22 March 1975 in the Sankt Eriks Massan in Stockholm Sweden Organised by the European Broadcasting Union EBU and host broadcaster Sveriges Radio SR and presented by Karin Falck the contest was held in Sweden following the country s victory at the 1974 contest with the song Waterloo by ABBA Eurovision Song Contest 1975DatesFinal22 March 1975HostVenueSankt Eriks Massan Stockholm SwedenPresenter s Karin FalckMusical directorMats OlssonDirected byBo BilltenExecutive supervisorClifford BrownExecutive producerRoland EiworthHost broadcasterSveriges Radio SR Websiteeurovision wbr tv wbr event wbr stockholm 1975ParticipantsNumber of entries19Debuting countries TurkeyReturning countries France MaltaNon returning countries GreeceParticipation map Competing countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1975VoteVoting systemEach country awarded 12 10 8 1 points to their ten favourite songsWinning song Netherlands Ding a dong 1974 Eurovision Song Contest 1976 Nineteen countries were represented at the contest a new record number of participants Turkey made its first entry and France and Malta returned after a one and two year absence respectively Greece after participating for the first time in the previous year s event opted not to participate in 1975 A new voting system was introduced at this contest each country gave 12 points to its favourite 10 points to its second favourite and then 8 points to 1 point to other countries in descending order of preference This numerical order of points awarded has since been used at every subsequent event as of 2024 update The winner was the Netherlands with the song Ding a dong composed by Dick Bakker written by Will Luikinga nl and Eddy Ouwens and performed by the group Teach In This was the Netherlands fourth contest victory matching the record number of contest wins previously set by France and Luxembourg Having been the opening song of the contest it was also the first time that a country had won from first position in the running order The United Kingdom Italy France and Luxembourg rounded out the top five positions with the UK achieving a record extending ninth second place finish Contents 1 Location 2 Participating countries 3 Production and format 3 1 Voting procedure 4 Contest overview 4 1 Spokespersons 5 Detailed voting results 5 1 12 points 6 Broadcasts 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksLocation edit nbsp Sankt Eriks Massan Stockholm host venue of the 1975 contest The 1975 contest took place in Stockholm Sweden following the country s victory at the 1974 contest with the song Waterloo performed by ABBA It was the first time that Sweden had hosted the event 1 2 The chosen venue was the Sankt Eriks Massan an exhibition centre in the Alvsjo district in southern Stockholm opened in 1971 in 1976 the venue was renamed to Stockholmsmassan 2 3 The Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio SR had initially been reluctant to stage the event mainly due to the high costs that came with it which would have been placed on the organisation There had also been considerable pressure and disquiet from left wing groups in the country that initially opposed the amount of money being spent by the public broadcaster on a commercial event which subsequently developed into a wider protest against the general commercialisation of music in Sweden 2 4 5 6 this led to street protests and a counter festival Alternativfestivalen sv the Alternative Festival being held during the week of Eurovision 1975 5 6 7 8 SR had attempted to negotiate with the European Broadcasting Union and other participating broadcasters to enact a form of cost sharing to fund the event however a solution failed to materialise prior to the contest and SR was ultimately faced with funding the contest alone These discussions however did eventually lead to the introduction of a new financing system for 1976 and future event with the running costs of the event being split across all participating countries 2 9 Fears of the potential costs required to host the event should Sweden have won again coupled with the pressure from left wing groups however meant that SR ultimately decided not to participate in the 1976 event 2 5 10 Participating countries editFurther information List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1975 Participation summaries by countryBelgiumFinlandFranceGermanyIrelandIsraelItalyLuxembourgMaltaMonacoNetherlandsNorwayPortugalSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited KingdomYugoslavia nbsp Ellen Nikolaysen represented Norway for the second time at this year s event A total of nineteen countries participated in the 1975 contest a new record number of participants This included the first ever appearance of Turkey and entries from France and Malta which last participated in 1973 and 1972 respectively 2 11 Broadcasters in Greece which participated for the first time in 1974 and Austria last seen in the contest in 1972 had also considered participating in the contest however no entries from these countries were ultimately submitted 9 11 Greece had reportedly decided against participating at a late stage and may have opted to refuse to compete alongside Turkey following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 6 7 9 Ellen Nikolaysen competed in the contest for Norway for a second time having previously participated in 1973 as a member of the Bendik Singers 12 Additionally John Farrar a member of the Shadows representing the United Kingdom had previously supported Cliff Richard at the 1973 contest as a backing vocalist 13 Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 12 14 15 Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter s Conductor nbsp Belgium BRT Ann Christy Gelukkig zijn Dutch English Mary Boduin Francis Bay nbsp Finland YLE Pihasoittajat Old Man Fiddle English Hannu KarlssonKim KuusiArthur Ridgway Spencer Ossi Runne nbsp France TF1 Nicole Et bonjour a toi l artiste French Jeff BarnelPierre Delanoe Jean Musy nbsp Germany HR a Joy Fleming Ein Lied kann eine Brucke sein German English Michael HolmRainer Pietsch Rainer Pietsch nbsp Ireland RTE The Swarbriggs That s What Friends Are For English Jimmy SwarbriggTommy Swarbrigg Colman Pearce nbsp Israel IBA Shlomo Artzi At Ve Ani את ואני Hebrew Shlomo ArtziEhud Manor Eldad Shrem nbsp Italy RAI Wess and Dori Ghezzi Era Italian Andrea Lo VecchioShel Shapiro Natale Massara nbsp Luxembourg CLT Geraldine Toi French Phil CoulterPierre CourBill Martin Phil Coulter nbsp Malta MBA Renato Singing This Song English Sammy GaleaM Iris Misfud Vince Tempera nbsp Monaco TMC Sophie Une chanson c est une lettre French Boris BergmanAndre Popp Andre Popp nbsp Netherlands NOS Teach In Ding a dong English Dick BakkerWill LuikingaEddy Ouwens Harry van Hoof nbsp Norway NRK Ellen Nikolaysen Touch My Life with Summer English Svein HundnesJohnny Sareussen Carsten Klouman nbsp Portugal RTP Duarte Mendes Madrugada Portuguese Jose Luis Tinoco Pedro Osorio nbsp Spain TVE Sergio and Estibaliz Tu volveras Spanish Juan Carlos Calderon Juan Carlos Calderon nbsp Sweden SR Lars Berghagen Jennie Jennie English Lars Berghagen Lars Samuelson nbsp Switzerland SRG SSR Simone Drexel Mikado German Simone Drexel Peter Jacques nbsp Turkey TRT Semiha Yanki Seninle Bir Dakika Turkish Hikmet Munir EbciogluKemal Ebcioglu Timur Selcuk nbsp United Kingdom BBC The Shadows Let Me Be the One English Paul Curtis Alyn Ainsworth nbsp Yugoslavia JRT Pepel in kri b Dan ljubezni Slovene Tadej HrusovarDusan Velkaverh Mario RijavecProduction and format editThe Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was produced by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio SR Roland Eiworth sv served as executive producer Bo Billten sv served as producer and director Bo Ruben Hedwall sv served as designer and Mats Olsson served as musical director leading the orchestra 11 17 A separate musical director could be nominated by each country to lead the orchestra during their performance with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor 12 Each participating broadcaster submitted one song which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration 18 19 As in 1973 and 1974 artists were able to perform in any language and not necessarily that of the country their represented 20 21 A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country s performance Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental only backing tracks however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers 18 22 23 Rehearsals in the contest venue for the competing began on Wednesday 19 March with each participating act having a 50 minute slot on stage to perform through their entry with the orchestra the first rehearsals for all countries were held over two days on 19 and 20 March and were conducted without their stage costumes A second round of rehearsals this time in costume was held for all acts on 21 March with each country given 20 minutes on stage this was followed that evening by a complete run through of the whole show including dummy voting Technical rehearsals were held on the morning of 22 March and a second full dress rehearsal was held that afternoon ahead of the live contest 9 Some of the participating acts performed their songs in a different language at the dress rehearsals which were also heard by the juries and in the live contest specifically the Yugoslav and Portuguese acts performed their entries in English in the dress rehearsal and then in Slovene and Portuguese in the final respectively 6 The Dutch entrants were given an additional rehearsal shortly before the live transmission this was requested by Dick Bakker the composer of the Dutch song who felt that during the general rehearsals the sound qualify was noticeably poorer during their entry the first to perform each time and that the sound technicians needed time to fix their equipment which was generally done during their rehearsal slot 9 There was a tight security situation at the venue in the run up to and during the event 6 7 24 the Swedish Security Service SAPO had received intelligence reports that the contest may become a target of the West German far left militant group the Red Army Faction RAF The threat to the contest did not ultimately materialise however one month after the event the RAF targeted the West German embassy in Stockholm 6 7 Voting procedure edit Further information Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest Following the abandoned attempt at introducing a new voting system at the previous year s event plans for a new system to replace both the system used between 1971 and 1973 and that used in 1974 came to fruition in autumn 1974 A sub group comprising individuals from Germany s ARD Sweden s SR and Finland s YLE was set up and various new voting systems were proposed ARD suggested that each country should identify its top nine entries and award points ranging between 1 and 10 while YLE proposed a scoring system to award points to eight countries with the favourite of each country given 14 points then 10 7 and 5 1 The Finnish broadcaster also proposed as an compromise awarding to nine countries 10 and 8 1 points Based on the above ideas the United Kingdom s BBC proposed the 12 10 and 8 1 pattern which was later adopted for this contest and which had been used in all subsequent editions 11 25 Each country had a jury of eleven members ranging from ages 16 to 60 with a recommendation that there should be a balance between the sexes and that half should be under 25 years old Each jury members awarded each song a score between one and five immediately after it had been performed with no abstentions allowed and without voting for the country they represented The song which gained the most votes received 12 points followed by 10 points to the song which got the second highest number of votes and then between 8 and 1 points for the third to tenth placed songs Ties for any of the positions would be decided by a show of hands 11 26 The order of presenting the points by each country s spokesperson was done in performance order it would not be until 1980 that the points would be awarded in ascending order starting at 1 point and finishing with 12 points 2 26 Contest overview edit nbsp Members of Teach In at Schipol Airport prior to the contest nbsp Teach In and the songwriters of Ding a dong at Schipol Airport following the contest with the medallions awarded to the songwriters The contest was held on 22 March 1975 beginning at 21 00 CET and lasting 2 hours and 12 minutes 11 12 The contest was presented by the Swedish television presenter producer and director Karin Falck 2 27 Following the confirmation of the nineteen participating countries a draw was held in Geneva on 24 January 1975 to determine the running order R O of the contest 9 The contest was opened by a film montage portraying various cultural stereotypes of Sweden and the Swedish people Each entry was preceded by a video postcard which served as an introduction to that country s entry and to create a transition between entries to allow stage crew to make changes on stage 28 29 the postcards showed each country s entrant backstage painting a portrait of themselves and the flag of their nation onto a blank canvas 30 31 The interval act was entitled The World of John Bauer Swedish John Bauers varld comprising a montage of examples of the Swedish illustrator s work particularly from his anthology Among Gnomes and Trolls set to music from the orchestra 30 32 The medallions awarded to the winning songwriters were presented by the Secretary General of the European Broadcasting Union Henrik Hahr sv 30 32 The winner was the Netherlands represented by the song Ding a dong composed by Dick Bakker written by Will Luikinga nl and Eddy Ouwens and performed by Teach In 33 It was the Netherlands fourth contest win following victories in 1957 1959 and 1969 the Netherlands thus joined France and Luxembourg as the countries with the most contest wins at that point 26 34 It was additionally the first time that the song which was performed first had gone on to win the contest 2 26 The United Kingdom came second for a record extending ninth time and Malta which had come last in its two previous contest appearances achieved their best result to date with a twelfth place finish 26 35 Turkey meanwhile finished in last place on its debut appearance 36 Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 26 37 R O Country Artist Song Points Place 1 nbsp Netherlands Teach In Ding a dong 152 1 2 nbsp Ireland The Swarbriggs That s What Friends Are For 68 9 3 nbsp France Nicole Et bonjour a toi l artiste 91 4 4 nbsp Germany Joy Fleming Ein Lied kann eine Brucke sein 15 17 5 nbsp Luxembourg Geraldine Toi 84 5 6 nbsp Norway Ellen Nikolaysen Touch My Life with Summer 11 18 7 nbsp Switzerland Simone Drexel Mikado 77 6 8 nbsp Yugoslavia Pepel in kri b Dan ljubezni 22 13 9 nbsp United Kingdom The Shadows Let Me Be the One 138 2 10 nbsp Malta Renato Singing This Song 32 12 11 nbsp Belgium Ann Christy Gelukkig zijn 17 15 12 nbsp Israel Shlomo Artzi At Ve Ani 40 11 13 nbsp Turkey Semiha Yanki Seninle Bir Dakika 3 19 14 nbsp Monaco Sophie Une chanson c est une lettre 22 13 15 nbsp Finland Pihasoittajat Old Man Fiddle 74 7 16 nbsp Portugal Duarte Mendes Madrugada 16 16 17 nbsp Spain Sergio and Estibaliz Tu volveras 53 10 18 nbsp Sweden Lars Berghagen Jennie Jennie 72 8 19 nbsp Italy Wess and Dori Ghezzi Era 115 3 Spokespersons edit Each country nominated a spokesperson connected to the contest venue via telephone lines and responsible for announcing in English or French the votes for their respective country 18 38 Known spokespersons at the 1975 contest are listed below nbsp Spain Jose Maria Inigo 39 nbsp Sweden Sven Lindahl 6 nbsp United Kingdom Ray Moore 26 Detailed voting results editJury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries 26 The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed with the spokespersons announcing their country s points in English or French in performance order 26 30 The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below with voting countries listed in the order in which they presented their votes Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 40 41 Total score Netherlands Ireland France Germany Luxembourg Norway Switzerland Yugoslavia United Kingdom Malta Belgium Israel Turkey Monaco Finland Portugal Spain Sweden Italy Contestants 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 edit The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another The winning country is shown in bold The Netherlands received the maximum score of 12 points from six of the voting countries with the United Kingdom receiving four sets of 12 points Finland and France each receiving two sets of maximum scores and Ireland Italy Luxembourg Portugal and Switzerland receiving one maximum score each 40 41 Distribution of 12 points awarded at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 40 41 N Contestant Nation s giving 12 points 6 nbsp Netherlands nbsp Israel nbsp Malta nbsp Norway nbsp Spain nbsp Sweden nbsp United Kingdom 4 nbsp United Kingdom nbsp France nbsp Luxembourg nbsp Monaco nbsp Yugoslavia 2 nbsp Finland nbsp Germany nbsp Switzerland nbsp France nbsp Ireland nbsp Portugal 1 nbsp Ireland nbsp Belgium nbsp Italy nbsp Finland nbsp Luxembourg nbsp Netherlands nbsp Portugal nbsp Turkey nbsp Switzerland nbsp ItalyBroadcasts editBroadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks non participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest 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 19 In addition to the participating nations the contest was also reportedly aired live or deferred by broadcasters in Eastern European countries via Intervision in countries bounding the Mediterranean Sea and in Hong Kong Iceland Japan Jordan and South Korea 2 9 A planned broadcast in Chile by its public broadcaster Television Nacional de Chile was prevented by Sveriges Radio following pressure from the Swedish Musicians Union in opposition to the Chilean military dictatorship 42 43 44 45 The contest was reported to have had a possible maximum audience of over 700 million people 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 nbsp Belgium BRT BRT 46 BRT Radio 1 47 RTB RTB 46 nbsp Finland YLE TV1 Heikki Seppala fi 42 48 Rinnakkaisohjelma fi Erkki Melakoski fi nbsp France TF1 Georges de Caunes 49 nbsp Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Werner Veigel 50 51 nbsp Ireland RTE RTE Mike Murphy 52 53 RTE Radio 54 nbsp Israel IBA Israeli Television 55 nbsp Italy RAI Programma Nazionale Secondo Programma Silvio Noto 56 nbsp Luxembourg CLT RTL Tele Luxembourg 57 nbsp Malta MBA TVM Radio Malta Norman Hamilton 58 59 nbsp Monaco Tele Monte Carlo nbsp Netherlands NOS Nederland 2 Willem Duys 50 60 nbsp Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet NRK John Andreassen 61 nbsp Portugal RTP I Programa 62 nbsp Spain TVE TVE 1 Jose Luis Uribarri 63 64 nbsp Sweden SR TV1 Ake Strommer 6 61 SR P3 Ursula Richter sv nbsp Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS 49 TSR Georges Hardy fr TSI c 65 RSR 1 Robert Burnier 66 nbsp Turkey TRT TRT Televizyon 67 nbsp United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Pete Murray 12 68 BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 Terry Wogan 12 69 70 BFBS BFBS Radio 12 nbsp Yugoslavia JRT TV Koper Capodistria 56 TV Ljubljana 1 sl 71 TV Zagreb 1 72 Broadcasters and commentators in non participating countries Country Broadcaster Channel s Commentator s Ref s nbsp Austria ORF FS2 Ernst Grissemann 73 74 nbsp Denmark DR DR TV Per Moller Hansen 75 nbsp Hungary MTV MTV1 d 76 nbsp Iceland RUV Sjonvarpid e Dora Hafsteinsdottir 77 nbsp South Korea KBS KBS f 78 Notes edit On behalf of the German public broadcasting 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