Eurovision 1970: Saint Dana of Eurovision | Song super cut and animated scoreboard
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- An edited down version of the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 from Amsterdam, with a scoreboard using today’s technology. This all started as a lockdown project!
This edit will give a flavour of the evening (Saturday 21 March, 10pm UK time) with a mixture of commentary from RTÉ and firstly, NOS.
Of course, one of the requirements of sainthood is to perform a miracle, and in Amsterdam we got one. Or more importantly, in the weeks and months following the Contest where ‘All Kinds of Everything’ sold remarkably well and became a top 10 hit across Europe. Why did we we need a miracle? Following 1969’s four-way tie, the Contest was widely criticised. The decision appeared to have prompted several countries to boycott this year, meaning the Contest opened with the lowest number of countries since 1959.
As @riva1958allan’s research notes, the tied result was only really a totem pole issue on which to hang Scandinavia’s disquiet about language rules in the Contest. The abstentions were mainly from Scandinavia, and with Denmark already out, that bloc was reduced to zero. Additionally, Portugal didn’t return, although andtheconductoris.eu notes that RTP were unhappy with how ‘Desfolhada portuguesa’ had performed…and similarly, I wonder if ORF in Vienna had continued to stay away as they were still scratching their heads over ‘Tausend Fenster’ performance in London.
Only now were the consequences of Ingvar Wixell’s decision to sing in English in 1965 really showing through - the Scandinavian music industry was operating mainly in English, and besides, with only one win amongst the bloc, it was looking increasingly that French and English had an advantage…although we’d just had two Spanish victories, Italian had triumphed in 1964 and even a minimally German song…the language perhaps most disadvantaged in these first 25-years after World War Two, had won in 1966.
With the walkout and the voting method ‘under review’, the Contest was on shaky ground, bandaged up with television’s most potent medicine: high viewing figures.
Despite the disquiet, apparently all four winning nations entered the ballot to host in 1970. Perhaps unremarkably, the broadcaster with the longest gap since last hosting won the day: NOS (newly born from the Dutch radio and television services). If you want a clear example of how quickly television production has progressed, look at the last Dutch organised show in 1958!
Back in 58, a line up like 1970’s would have probably resulted in a Francophone victory - three of the singers were French. In the end, this was an Anglophone dominated Contest (solidifying the Scandi point of view), with two citizens of the UK going for victory. Once again, the UK had the most recognised artist, and favourite, in Welsh-born Mary Hopkin (the BBC were clearly doing the national rounds, with Lulu being Scottish and the following artist being Northern Irish).
Hopkin and all-Ireland singer, Rosemary Brown (Dana to you and me) had a similar televisual quality that made this show interesting: the feeling that the audience were picking a new star. A potent format for television through the ages, a talent show had started Hopkin’s career before she became one of the first artists signed to Apple Records (The Beatles) - she was now an establish artist of course. Dana had entered for 1969 but got through this year and was largely unknown. Singing a pleasingly ‘Sound of Music’-esque song, viewers felt they were watching something new I expect, especially when told she was a schoolgirl from a rundown part of Derry (enticingly named Bogside)- a city embroiled in The Troubles too. All miracles have a whiff of hyperbole about them of course, and Dana being nearer to her 19th birthday than school age didn’t matter - with high sales of the record, Eurovision was saved.
DESIGN AND THE BOARD
I’ve been looking forward to doing this board, mainly for the prominent use of typography (Futura) in the song credits and I wanted to see how this would translate into a full board. Roland de Groot’s striking stage design was the only way forward for this one, unfortunately because of the need to show the data quite clearly, I didn’t really play around with light as much as I could have done (do take note of how light is used in this show, especially around the arcs and spheres and how different each entry looks…this is very new stuff compared to what we’ve had before, now taken for granted of course). The actual board was quite un-sexy in its design, still using Futura though, but in its bold and condensed form. This Contest also has our first real logo too, and a great piece of design it is too.
TRANSFER NEWS (source: Wiki)
OUT: FIN, NOR, SWE, POR.
INTERVAL ACT
The Don Lurio Dancers
CREDITS
@SvenskTV (many thanks once again); @ESC Stuff for RTÉ comms.
Flags: countryflags.com
00:00 Intro
04:54 Song super-cut
26:58 Interval
29:12 Voting intro
30:34 The reorder board 70
42:01 Recap, data & reprise - Hudba
Factoid: only seven points stopped the United Kingdom winning four years in a row (winners 1967, one point off victory in 1968, joint winners 1969, six points off victory in 1970). Fact courtesy of Eurovision’s official biographer John Kennedy O’Connor.
I think it more accurate to say that vote rigging stopped the UK winning
1968 was rigged for uk
@@badriahdaud6445 How so? It didn't win
@@oiooi6460it was said that in 1968 that the Francisco Franco rigged the system
A few other things I couldn’t fit in the description:
A big thank you again to those who’ve supported the channel on ko-fi/thereorderboard, including those repeat donations! If you follow me you can still see the updates on ko-fi, but I’m still grateful! You can also follow me on Twitter too @thereorderboard. Many thanks to @Frédéric TONTON for a quick French language help…some of these songs have confusing lyrics! I’m going to be taking a few weeks off from posting now, mainly to focus on the new voting system - and to have a break! I’m hoping to be back early December, I enjoyed the chance to edit a smaller contest again, although I hit some problems with merging the lovely HD upscaled from @SvenskTV and the RTÉ commentary…is it because of the differing frame rates that the RTÉ commentary track got progressively out of time with the HD 50fps? I am guessing it is, but I’m unsure…anyway, the voting audio needed a lot of splicing. I ran out of space in the main description but here’s @mrjdsworld’s blog: euroscoreboards.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/amsterdam-1970/
- I think the first point I want to make is about the closeness (and speed) of the voting! I’m aware I haven’t mentioned explicitly that this is Ireland’s first win of course, and at a much more efficient rate of 5 contests rather than how long the UK took to win. Ireland get some big scores in this sequence…the 9 being the biggest awarded since Denmark gave ‘Dors, Mon Amour’ the same in 1958. Twice the UK and Ireland drew level of course, although that was early in the sequence. Strangely, the 1 jury member 1 vote system meant that this wasn’t done and dusted until Ireland themselves voted…which is not exactly how this year is commonly perceived (ie, a run away winner as Ireland possess the top stop all the way through). Obviously, it looks one sided, and a 6-point gap is massive compared to a 1-point one, or a 4-way tie! In the end, the UK required 10 from Ireland to win, unlikely, yes…as a 9 from Ireland would have caused the UK to lose on the countback (and created a sing-off in the real world!).
- Interestingly, the 9 from Belgium would be the highest score awarded to a song until (I think) Spain gave Monaco ‘10’ the next year. The next following high score was the first ‘12’ awarded in 1975 (Netherlands to Luxembourg). That stays the highest until 2016 of course, when either Azerbaijan or Russia awarded 24 points to Russia and Armenia respectively, during the first semi-final.
- At the bottom of the board, just a note to say that this is Luxembourg’s only 0 pointer in their run between 1956 and 1993. It’s strange as I don’t think it was a bad song, and sung by an experienced singer.
- Talking of experience, it’s amazing to see Julio Iglesias on stage giving quite an inexperienced performance, evidently giving us a false ending, thus prompting the audience to applaud early…I’ve kept in where he nearly falls over retreating from the stage. To be honest, I don’t think he’ll mind: Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful continental European singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide in 14 languages (a record in 1983).
- I think the headline facts about Mary Hopkin was her finding her fame on ‘Opportunity Knocks’, a talent show that started off as a BBC format and went through its most successful stage on ITV between 1956-1978. It returned to the BBC in 1987 (to 1990) with telephone voting, rather than postcards that should be ‘in your own handwriting’. She was spotted by also quite famous model, Twiggy, who suggested her to Paul McCartney. The common currency between the BBC and it’s Eurovision artists was television shows, and Hopkin got one in 1970, although much shorter than Shaw’s, Cilla Black’s and Cliff Richard’s (which had the Song for Europe competition in it this year). Hopkin’s first hit, ‘Those Were the Days’, produced by McCartney, had direct competition from Sandie Shaw of all people, who covered the same song and released it at a similar time. Most thought Shaw had been a bit dastardly about it. Hopkin is yet another artist who hated their Eurovision song, being embarrassed about it, despite it becoming a hit. Whenever I read about her, it never sounds like she enjoyed the music industry at all, and in 1971 she withdrew from the pop music scene to focus on having a family - a similar route to Sandie Shaw of course.
- Dana is one of Eurovision’s most well-known winners. Born in London to parents who were looking for work opportunities in war torn London, they moved back to Derry in the 1950s. She once worked in a chewing gum factory in Essex, meaning that Essex factory girls have won 2 Eurovisions! All Kinds of Everything shifted 2 million copies, but there was a danger Dana was a one-hit wonder, with her second single failing to chart. She did recover though, having a few hits here and there. In 1979, with the Pope visiting Ireland, she scored an Irish number 1 with ‘Totus Tuus’. In the 1990s she pivoted to politics of all things, she became the first-ever Irish presidential candidate to secure a nomination solely from County and City Councils, rather than from members of the Oireachtas. She became an MEP in 1999 until 2004, and ran again in the 2011 Presidential election…she didn’t become President of Ireland, I should note.
- There’s so much to comment about this year, some not worthy of lengthy points, so here’s a summary: I very much enjoyed the logo and the slightly spooky opening to the show. The postcards do fill time I guess, but not that much? I haven’t done any analysis, but I think they are only gaining a few seconds between each song? I wondered if they were more for hiding the stage changes (colour and arcs)? The UK reach four years in the top 3 this year, equalling France in the early days of the Contest…in fact, had Kenneth McKellar not happened, it’d be in a run of 7! Keep an eye out for Germany’s progression through the voting - as you can tell from the comment below from the German delegation, it was a small saving grace for Katja Ebstein. It’s great to see the ‘green room’ shots come back in a limited way. There’s an interesting rule accommodation with the Dutch entry, renaming themselves to fit the rule that there can’t be groups bigger than 3 in the contest. I felt, once again, Italy was dealt a harsh result, although going by delegation comments, perhaps it just was too mushy! I think the lyrics of the Yugoslav song expose the messaging of that song rather plainly…she’ll need to get her tassels closed in the snow seen in the postcard!
1975 was the first '12' system year, not 1976. And speaking of 2016, while the first semi-final naturally came first, semi-finals do not have a traditional voting sequence like the finals.
The BBC Opportunity Knocks from the late 1980s had a few ESC connections. Stewart Morris was the producer, John Coleman was the conductor and the acts were introduced with ESC style postcards. I'm glad Stewart finally got some postcards be could broadcast! And the rollers worked too!
@@MiroHeinonen Yes indeed, typo. Will modify. Yes, I'm aware of the semi-finals issue, but that seems to be the first record of a 24 in the voting.
Here’s all the relevant bits from andtheconductoris.eu :
GER: Given that the West German delegation had high hopes of doing very well in the contest with this modern song, it came as a disappointment that ‘Wunder gibt es immer wieder’ was ignored by the first national juries. Bruhn: “Nervously, I walked up and down the corridors of the festival hall, watching the television screens as the votes came in. Fortunately, in the end, thanks to the votes from Spain and some other friendly countries, we finished third. While I felt relief, Katja was less impressed. According to her, we would have won if Germany had not been so unpopular in the rest of Europe due to its guilt in the Second World War. What counted, though, was that we had a huge hit in Germany, overshadowing the success of the two songs which had finished in front of us (‘All kinds of everything’ by Dana for Ireland and ‘Knock knock who’s there?’ by Mary Hopkin for the UK,
Dolf van Der Linden (NED, IRE, who’d directed the 1958 show of course): [A] newspaper followed Van der Linden’s preparations during the rehearsals: “He and his orchestra have been preparing for some weeks ‘to give all songs their ground-colour’, to use Van der Linden’s own words. On the Monday ahead of the Saturday broadcast, work in the RAI Hall in Amsterdam started. On Wednesday, the guest conductors arrived. In between, Van der Linden just managed to see his favourite football team Feyenoord take on Vorwärts Steyr”. Asked by a journalist of Het Parool, whether he liked working on this festival, he answered: “Well, as a conductor you will never find one-hundred percent artistic satisfaction working on music like this, but it is very pleasant nevertheless. Moreover, there is a chance to meet up with people from abroad in whose countries I have worked before.”
In Het Rotterdams Nieuwsblad, Van der Linden commented on the quality of Eurovision entries in general: “The best entries are from the francophone countries. To my ears, France, Monaco, and Luxembourg usually submit subtle, refined entries. For me, England can be identified by show music with a lively beat. The Germans keep coming up with material that is hardly palatable, while Italy is still synonym with sentimentality up to the point of becoming ridiculous.” Let’s hope Italian contestant Gianni Morandi never read these comments. On the 21st of March, Van der Linden conducted two entries: of course, the Dutch song ‘Waterman’ (which came seventh), but also ‘All kinds of everything’, performed by Dana who represented Ireland. The Irish had not sent along their conductor Noel Kelehan, because there had been a disagreement between him and the Irish broadcaster over the payment of his services. ‘All kinds of everything’ blew the other competing entries away and for the first time in history, Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest. After ‘Net als toen’ and ‘Een beetje’, this was the third time Dolf van der Linden conducted a winning entry.
BEL: Jean Vallée gave an impeccable performance of his chanson and came 8th. Jack Say’s most vivid memories are about what happened after the show: “It is a mere anecdote… After the broadcast, the Belgian delegation wanted to have a drink at the bar of the hotel where we were all staying. Much to our chagrin, however, the bar was closed… and I was the only one with a mini bar in my room. There we were, the entire troupe - consisting of six or seven people -, packed together in this tiny room, toasting to friendship with our beverages in plastic mugs. Our TV commentator was there as well, seated on one of the beds. Just for a laugh, without her noticing, I switched on the vibrating system of the bed. The fact was that she was quite a heavy woman, to say the least, and I had of course selected the most powerful option available in the system. The effect was obviously comical and we were all sent into a paroxysm of laughter. The worst thing was, however, that she was unable to get up… and I did not succeed in switching the system off! All of this happened far after midnight… In the end, a hotel servant came in to complain about the unacceptable level of noise in our room; it was him who liberated the poor soul from her awkward position.”
I love this reorderboard! It maybe because of the font, but you work the stage from 1970 fantastically on this scoreboard. I like how the balls align to how many points are being delivered to each country. Pretty impressive!
As for 1970, if it were any worse, we'd be talking about Eurovision in the past tense. There's a solid song set (though going over the recap, maybe it was a bit weaker than it remembered). Amsterdam did a good job at hosting, and the first postcards were actually quite nice. Plus the interval act was quite memorable--the earliest version of an exercise video!
My top five:
5. GBR
4. ESP
3. GER -- I like the relaxed yet optimistic vibe of this one, probably the most modern track of this contest. I also think it's the best of Katja's three entries, as it's upbeat and cool, with a bit of flair. That said, I do forget it's on when it actually plays, which is a bit of a disadvantage here.
2. FRA -- While chanson was on its way out in 1970, Marie-Blanche is still especially beautiful. The combination of piano-playing and pretty lyrics creates a tender scene which you could step into at any moment. It holds its own ambience, and I love it for that!
1. IRE -- All Kinds of Everything shares Marie-Blanche's sweetness, but I also get a sense of innocence too. With Dana listing how many little things remind her of her love, it just warms me up so much and makes me smile. A deserved winner, and just a little song which would expand across the continent (and be followed by six more wins for Ireland, haha!) Also, the only one without any involvement from Noel Kelehan, Johnny Logan, or Brandon Graham)
P.S. Italy's my sixth place, so this could be the best year for the Big 5 in terms of my top.
Thanks for making these! Lovely to see our first win with your impressive scoreboards :)
I've never really paid attention to the Italian song until now. A great song with beautiful lyrics, and Gianni Morandi sings it so well. Italy never fails to impress me when it comes to Eurovision, definitely my favourite country!
I love your graphics throughout this!
Ah! Another great board - thank you as always. I love the flying spheres and the way the numbers change!!
And I can imagine what a 1970 version of your board would look like. It wouldn’t have had reordering or flying points, of course, but it would have been possible to key a high contrast mechanical scoreboard over a locked-off shot of the stage (much like the way the song captions were actually done). They didn’t think of it then, but you’ve done it now!
Thank you!
Thanks amazing
This is *AWESOME*
Omg, the design looks so great and amazing, fits the 1970 aesthetic
So we arrived in 1970 and once again Brazil (and Chile!) is there - now on the opening credits 😂
Marvelous job, my lad!
With the 70's arriving it's time for outstanding (arguable, perhaps?) costumes and LOTS of colour.
BTW, I'm already waiting for wonderful moments in 71, like Malta's debut and of course Pomme, Pomme, Pomme.
I love how this reorderboard edition isn't much shorter than the edition itself :D
Yea! I will be shortening my song edits now the competitor list is going back up to around the 20 mark! More like 30-45 second clips rather than the 1:30 length ones I've been doing!!
This is one of the best boards you ever made. I loved everything, from the floating balls to the different sizes of them depending on the points. Such a great celebration for one of the contests I love the most - the postcards, the excellent overture, lovely songs.
Just a couple of notes from may side: Gianni Morandi is still very popular nowadays and Occhi di Ragazzi is definitely one of his most popular songs; Don Lurio worked a lot for the Italian television, became very popolar here and he was the one bringing the Kessler sisters (DE, 1959) to endure a great success in Italy during the 60's.
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it - the studio design, and the typography were right up my street!
The design of the scoreboard is very nifty! Very curious how you will approach the 71-73 Voting System
Me too!! I've got some ideas though!
@@thereorderboard the 1974 voting system is also this.
@@thereorderboard Hey friend, very nice and this job of you, very interesting! But, when the next year's, 1971, scoreboard gonna be ready? I see that passed 1 month. Please inform us. We're waiting for it so much.
@@user-rp8rb6pu3w Hi - yes I have taken a break, and I've had to rewrite code for the 1971-73 system. Hopefully the next video will be out on Tuesday. Thanks for waiting!
Very nice bro! Hey where are you from and how old are you?
Fantastic job as usual. Kudos! Anxiously waiting for the rest of 70s, especially the awful voting system from 71 to 73
- Here’s a quick rundown of 1970 in history then: The year starts will a milestone in computing, as 00:00, 1 Jan 1970 if the Unix time epoch…very broadly, computers use that as second ‘0’ and calculate time from then! January ends with the Jackson 5 getting their first Billboard No 1 single. In March in the UK, 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds can vote for the first time, it happens to be in a by-election. Later on, East and West Germany meet at summit for the first time since their division into separate republics. On April 10th, Paul McCartney announces that he’s left The Beatles. There’s a few disasters in France during 1970, in February an avalanche in Val-d’Isère kills 41 tourists, in March 47 French submariners were killed in Mediterranean Sea and in April a further 74 people die in another avalanche, most of the victims being young boys at a tuberculosis sanatorium. April 11th, Apollo 13 is launched. Anti-war protests explode as the US invades Cambodia in a further widening of the Vietnam War, they withdraw from Cambodia in June. In May, Let it Be, by The Beatles is released. In June, Norway announces it’s found a load of oil off its coastline. On June 18th, there’s an upset in the UK General Election, with Ted Heath’s Conservatives unexpectedly taking power…it’ll set off a decade or more of political turmoil in the UK, which really didn’t end until the re-election of Thatcher in 1983. On the August bank holiday in the UK, the Isle of Wight festival opens, the third and last of the consecutive festivals held on the island which are famous for being the largest musical event of it’s time, possibly ever, with a larger audience than Woodstock…it’s estimated that 600,000 people attended. Imagine the queue for the porta-loos! Eurovision didn’t attempt that, but it feels like Copenhagen 2001 was close ! Tragically, one performer, Jimi Hendrix, would die aged 27 in London a few weeks later. In September, three flights are hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to a desert airstrip in Jordan - in the end 1 hijacker died, and you might have seen video of the planes being blown up in front of press cameras. Later in September, keeping with festivals, Glastonbury starts. In November, the Miss World 1970 pageant is disrupted by women’s liberation movement…it’s taking place in 1968 venue, the Royal Albert Hall. In December, German Chancellor Willy Brand kneels in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto - Brandt of course, had resisted the Nazi regime. A few days later Poland erupts in protests at a rise in food prices (it’s quite common, even the UK, for government to set food prices at this time) - eventually martial law is declared until December 22nd, then government then freezes food prices for two years. The following day, the World Trade Centre is topped out in New York City, making it, for a time, the tallest building in the world. The year ends with 15,000 going on strike in the Basque country over the death sentences handed down in the Burgos trial. Franco commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison, which also reveals how political weak the regime had become.
In 1963 they said Monaco 🇲🇨 gave one vote two much, now they gave one less point as they said
I love that "Pridi dala to bom cvet" has such a sweet gentle melody and the lyric is 👏UT👏TER👏 FILTH👏.
It was so wrong that one country effectively decided the outcome
I just realized that you write the scoreboard in the language of the host country. How clever!
Those noises in the audience at Spain's 1 point to Monaco- almost as if they knew they had just been knocked out of the running to win!
I Love Dana 1970 💖 from Spain.
In the film of Dana arriving back in Ireland you can see a lot of her tutor/chaperone, one of the Sisters of Mercy from Thornhill Convent where Dana was doing her A-Levels. I like to think it's Dana's nun who does RTE's commentary - especially that very subtle bit of shade after the UK "doesn't she have an angelic face... while she sings on television". One of my favourite bits of non-Wogan commentary!
Ha ha, yea I loved that!
Man your stuff is getting better and better
The interval act was the most 1970s thing I've ever seen.
A lovely effort, as always, thank you. 🙂 A worthy winner in the form of Dana. Heartwarming to see the camaraderie between her and Mary Hopkin in the “green room” shots. Honourable mention must go to the host’s hair, a “do” to be proud of and lacquered to within an inch of its life: no wonder there was a depleted ozone layer years later… I found the physical scoring board quite hard to read for this year, so seeing the ReorderBoard version is always a pleasure. Many thanks and looking forward to the next one, whenever it may be! (Any chance you can fix 1971 so that “Pomme, pomme, pomme” wins it, please? I can’t stand “Un banc, un arbre, une rue”!!! 😉). 👍
Isn't Willy Dobbe's hair a work of art? And probably structural engineering too! She's also ahead of her time (pun not intended). It would be a few years before Katie Boyle, Betty Ford and Margaret Thatcher made that meringue style famous.
Ha ha! Thanks for the comment @Jez T, unfortunately changing the result is the sort of thing that gets me in trouble with other Eurovision fans lol!
Netherlands voting (Flip van der Schalie, NOS): 30:28~31:22
United Kingdom voting (Colin Ward-Lewis, BBC): 35:49~36:43
Luxembourg voting (???): 36:43~37:43
Ireland voting (John Skehan, RTÉ): 40:47~42:09
Fun fact: Belgium did not send a Flemish entry to a Dutch-hosted contest until this year (2021). Every edition we hosted has been an odd-number contest, which means it was always Wallonia’s turn. This is until Belgium had multiple non-participations in the relegation period, which has fixed Wallonia in even-numbered contests and Flanders in odd-numbered contests.
Awesome show - so many of these songs could have won!
Uitstekend!
Dank u!
Thank You so much for this. I am so looking forward to the next. When will it be released?
Thanks for that! I'm having a little break/code rewrite, so I'm hoping to get 1971 out in early December.
@@thereorderboard Thank You, i have shared theis with the fan base in Norway, we are waiting for 1973 🙂
@@thereorderboard it is a hidden video in this list, when will you make it visible?
The postcards are some of my favourite moments in Eurovision, awkward/beautiful/tourist propaganda! I´ve been twice to Portugal since it hosted last time, those postcards really sold me on the country! The board is beautiful and I love the floating balls! Just like a lot of Eurovision fans I do love balls! ;)
I'm glad you got your balls fix right here on this channel! :-)
@@thereorderboard found them in the most unusual places! 🥰
Thank you so much for this lovely production. You are putting the balls to great use! A gasp escapted my lips when I saw them float up for the voting!
I only noticed this evening that Willy Dobbe's dress is similar to the stage.
Songwise, this was a very weak year. Probably not helped by the fact that so many countries did a "boycott". So I am only going to give my top 2:
1. Germany (who I think probably should have won - its a great song!)
2. Netherlands
Random note on the Irish preview video - the dry fountain that Dana dances around at 24:48 is a very ugly piece of architecture and is often targeted by a drunkar's washing up liquid. Just saying.
As an Irish person, I have to say Dana has become an interesting character. She is more known here for her political activism than her singing although I think in recent years she has moved away from politics. I know many conservatives dislike her because in 2002, she told people to vote no on a referendum that would have strenghtened the abortion ban (she said it didnt go far enough) and the referendum was narrowly defeated.
I don't think she ever took a significant stance on gay rights or in the marriage referendum in 2015. I assume she would be on the conservative side of things but also that she is concious that she is a bit of a gay icon too.
RTE did a documentary with her a couple of years ago which included a trip to the RAI Theatre in Amsterdam. What was very apparent in that and in most of her appearances is that she is a friendly and pleasant person.
Thank you for the lovely comment, Brendan!
The day the Irish ESC domination began 😜🍀🇮🇪
Like 2 years before this they forgot to call the Irish jury and Gay Byrne couldn't resist poking back at them about it haha. I think from that moment RTÉ were on a mission ahaha.
34:31 The last ever 9 points.
I think the only ever with 9 points
@@columbannon9134 France received 9 points from Denmark in 1958.
My kind of opening from the presenter….punchy, to the point and not shouting at the audience as if we all have a single digit IQ
The use of those bubbles reminds me of an old shampoo I used to use... It's a good thing though
Gianni cosa facevi nel 1970 in .Olanda??? Thks nos forma good programma!😊😊😊😊😊
Really excellent work. The actual 1970 board is so hideous it’s great to see a version of it that actually looks great.
I’ve never figured out how the numbers worked on on the actual board. Not the split-flap and very noisy!
No I know what you mean...annoyingly I've had to change the code to get them to reflect the actual boards every production so far. I wondered if the BBC shipped over the number split flaps to Madrid...they'd had an upgrade as they could change two columns at once...so I coded that (as in 1968, the tens flipped first, then the single digits). I notice they retain that functionality for 1972. This Dutch board does the opposite though! Individual digits first, followed by the tens.
NTS/NOS really used their presenters sparingly back then. We get an introduction this time around, unlike 1958, but otherwise the presenter is barely used at all, apart from the voting.
Really strange, indeed.
Erin go bragh!
I agree with the juries this year - it's a two horse race between the UK and Ireland. I probably prefer Knock Knock Who's There as a song, but Dana is the better TV performer. However, it should be said that I grew up not too far from Derry so I may be biased(!) Yugoslavia and Germany get an honourable mention from me too.
Julio Iglesias who is now 78 years old has a half brother who is 17 years old. :)
Funfact: the postcards for Monaco, Luxembourg and Switzerland were all shot in France.
Thanks for thé info
Really good board...again...Well done ✔
Germany should have won this contest....🇩🇪 Katja Ebstein beaten twice by Ireland..1970 and 1980!
Amazing design! Netherlands competed with a beautiful, timeless song of the 70s IMO. Who agrees?
it is a hidden video in this list, when will you make it visible?
i have a question what year are you doing next
Hi - I'm working on the boards in order of broadcast, so the next board will be 1971, next month.
I love the balls!
I grew up in Ireland (not until the 1980s though) and I have no idea who Valerie McGovern is! I’m guessing her broadcasting career had wound down by the late 1980s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_McGovern
She got quite a big gig! I assume she never returned to the Eurovision commentary box.
Who is the Irish commentator?
The Belgium jury is Crazy 9 points for Ireland😂😂😄😀
1970 was a big transition year for the contest. Basically All Kinds Of Everything saved the contest as an annual event. The EBU realised withdrawing countries weren't really needed to make it a success as long as the winning song was. The countries realised the same and all returned the following year, although Austria just made it through the gate before it closed.
Some Euro Geek Stuff
There was a coin toss between France and Netherlands to see who would host. All four countries did indeed say they would host [this is in minutes of meetings] but the EBU rejected Spain and the UK immediately as they had been the recent hosts.
It is often mistakenly said that Portugal chose an entry and then withdrew. This is incorrect. RTP withdrew before they had even decided to hold their National Song Contest, and the 1970 Festival da Cançāo wasn't held until after the Eurovision Contest was over. All the singers in the 1970 Festival, including the winner Sergio Borges - Onde vais rio que eu canto, therefore knew they weren't going to go to Amsterdam.
It is commonly believed, even in parts of the EBU, that when the new tie break rule was introduced it said that each tied song would be sung again and the juries of the non tied countries would vote again. However there is actually nothing in the rules for 1970, or any of the other years up till 1988 when the rule continues until, that says the songs would be sung again. The rules only say that the non tied countries would give one more vote each decided by a majority of their jury. Clifford Brown though did say in an interview after the 1970 contest about the new rule that the 'tied songs being sung again.... would hopefully encourage withdrawing countries back'. So it is unclear what would actually have happened on the night should there have been a tie.
The postcards were the idea of the NOS designers in an attempt to pad out the show to make it worthwhile people watching. Many people noticed that the Swiss, Monaco and Luxembourg contestants were filmed in Paris and this caused some disquiet. The scenic opening shots, snippets of which would be reused in later contests, were also part of the padding and became another Eurovision tradition.
Willy Dobbe gave the shortest opening speech ever recorded at just 24 seconds.
It is interesting that Ireland weren't bet on heavily at all or amongst the pre contest favourites. UK was favourite with Spain and Germany coming next.
This was a rare year when Noel Kelehan didn't conduct for Ireland. He'd conducted every entry since 1966 and would return to conduct for many a year becoming Eurovision's most prolific conductor. He would also be Musical Director for 5 of the times Ireland hosted Eurovision. He refused to go to Amsterdam as basically RTE wouldn't pay him the going rate for the job. He said he would actually be losing money that week from his usual salary which would take him away from his usual work at home and he had a family to feed. He would go on to conduct 5 of Ireland's next 6 winners and only not conduct 1994 due to it having no orchestral input beyond playback.
Hearts Of Souls weren't the first group to have to change their name to compete within the rules. The 4 M's became Ivan and the 3 M's for Yugoslavia in 1969, and way back in 1964 Los TNT became Nellie, Tim and Tony for Spain.
David Gell again did the BBC commentary with Tony Brandon doing radio.
Italy's entry, one of my favourite Eurovision songs, I even wrote a novel using the English translation of some of the lyrics as the title, was questioned when it was pointed out that the melody of Occhi Di Ragazza bore great similarity to Everybody's Talkin made famous by Harry Nilsson. That had become a big hit after appearing in the movie Midnight Cowboy. This similarity is generally accepted these days and there are videos of Gianni Morandi and Luca Barbarossa singing mash ups of the songs.
Eva Sršen was nearly replaced during rehearsals by the composer and conductor, Mojmir Sepe's wife as the Yugoslav delegation had great concerns about Eva's singing abilities. Mojmir, who had also written and conducted Brez Besed in 1966, would return to Eurovision in 1997/98 to conduct for Slovenia.
The UK delegation were convinced they were going to win and booked the Ballroom of their hotel for a massive after show party celebration with lots of food and alcohol. This had to be cancelled and the BBC were forced to pay a cancellation charge.
The Irish delegation didn't have anything booked to celebrate and had no money, so had their after show party in the hotel bedroom with people ordering drinks from room service. Four drunk Irish road labourers turned up demanding to see and congratulate Dana and when they were refused entry they burst in and an all out fight ensued. Guests hid in the wardrobes.
Dana sang the song on the steps of the aircraft that brought her back to Dublin airport. She also famously forgot the words when she appeared on Irish TV after winning.
The box Dana is sitting on was totally smooth with no feet rests and she said she spent most of the time trying to grip it with her buttocks to stop from sliding off.
The three backing singers for Spain are the same trio who sang La La La with Massiel.
One of Mary Hopkin's backing singers, Brian Bennet, would return to represent the UK as a member of The Shadows in 1975. The other guy was called John Evans.
Dominique Dussault representing Monaco was only 16.
From 1970 we have sadly lost Patricia Messen - Netherlands, who died of a stroke aged just 44, and Jean Vallee - Belgium. We've also lost most, if not all, of the conductors.
So not only did 1980 heavily re-use footage from the 1976 intro but 1976 also borrowed from 1970... interesting
The openingfilm 1970 was shot in Amsterdam and the 1976 one in The Hague. So no re-use.
Some parts of the 1970 openingfilm were used by RTE in 1971 as postcard for The Netherlands.
Lots of interesting stuff here, once again! I'm finding the lack of knowledge about the rules of contest, and when they changed fascinating! Thanks for posting!
18:12 i ❤ Spain / I ❤ Julio Iglesias
Empezaba el gran Julio Iglesias y que ha vendiodo 350 millones de discos.-
"Despite the disquiet, apparently all four winning nations entered the ballot to host in 1970." No, there was only NOS (Netherlands) and ORTF (France), since BBC and TVE didn't want to host the contest so soon again after -68 and -69.
Source? Others say that all four entered the ballot, but the BBC and TVE were discounted because they had hosted recently.
There is footage of this ballot in the Dutch archives Beeld en Geluid. It were only NL and FR.
@@thereorderboard There is also BBC paperwork that confirms that it was a toss up between France and the Netherlands as to who would host, and as they (the BBC) put it, the Dutch lost :-)
The draw was done by Marcel Bezençon on April 18th. 1969 at an EBU meeting in Amsterdam. He had to take one of two little sheets out of a box and congratulated NTS president Rengelink afterwards. In May 1969 the name of NTS changed to NOS.
So the text should have read 'Despite the disquiet, apparently all four winning nations expressed an interest in hosting in 1970, but only two (NOS and ORTF) went into the ballot'. I hope that makes everyone happier.
The year of women’s names.
Kinda feel bad for the Netherlands pushed out of the top 5 at the end and Luxembourg didn't deserve 0 points. No song this year did.
I think Switzerland should have got null points that was awful!
@@TheNathanj2009 really? I loved that song! My least favorite song was France for sure..
@@nadirhajjour France was boring but the Swiss entry sounded like it was written by a toddler
@@TheNathanj2009 haha well many Eurovision winners did so eventually ..
It's not the same without Terry Wogan!
ok what about 1971-1979. why are they not included? :(
Hi. I'm working on 1971 currently, they'll be out soon enough...early December!
@@thereorderboard hi thank you. ok i'll wait for the others. :)
Ranking the entires from Amsterdam:
1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2. 🇩🇪 Germany
3. 🇫🇷 France
4. 🇮🇪 Ireland
5. 🇧🇪 Belgium
6. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
7. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
8. 🇸🇮 Yugoslavia
9. 🇲🇨 Monaco
10. 🇪🇸 Spain
11. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
12. 🇮🇹 Italy
And finally a contest with Julio Iglesias representing Spain, and still not a single comment about that 😂😂😂 (didn’t you tell me he was more widely know than Raphael? C’mon!!)
Well it's true to say Iglesias is more well known than Raphael...and I did comment on him, but not in the main description as I only have 5000 characters and unfortunately Iglesias didn't warrant more attention than say...loads of countries boycotting! There's some pinned comments where I mention his performance. I would say that if you're watching this channel solely for my commentary on the Spanish artists...you might be disappointed!
@@thereorderboard I was just joking ;) I'm a big fan of your channel and work and have watched ALL your videos so thank you very much for taking your time in answering all the comments from your viewers :)
Creo que no existe otra copia, d3 este festival y es muy curioso que siendo del año 70, tenga peor calidad de imagen que el del año 68 y 69
31:56 Ireland sies voté
Esc 1970
34:31 Ireland nuf vote
This year isn't my favorite year. Most of the songs are rather dull. Especially Spain and Monaco. Julio is a great singer but the song was rather boring. Monaco had a very odd combination of a song. Germany, UK, and Ireland are my favorite songs of the year. The rest are just okay. But great work on the board. I look forward to the next few years!
I'm not sure about the Dutch production. The stage and lighting is good and the postcards are an inspired idea. The general style is very space age compared to the grand theatre shows of 67-69 which is a nice change. But... the opening is sinister, the presentation is perfunctory and the camera work is really poor at times. I'm sure Luxembourg's very undeserved nul points is down to the awful repeated zoom shots. The interval act is beyond words (well apart from the word 'mixer'!) and while I know very little about dancing apart from what I've picked up from watching Strictly, even I can see that the dancers aren't that professional.
And was Willy Dobbe on a work-to-rule?! She's clearly refusing to say anything that she isn't contractually obliged to say!! (Actually it's a real shame we don't see more of her - I think she comes across very well and she looks stunning!).
Maybe as a Dutch person it makes a little more sense, at least when it comes to the interval act 😂 this act to me fulfils my every fantasy of hippie society 1969 in Amsterdam never pretending to reach any professionalism but basking in the glory of ‘being in the moment’. It clearly identifies itself as being with the times, being modern, showing a modern Dutch identity.
The official story about the minimal hosting is that the broadcaster wanted to showcase songs, not show. Either way, I’m glad we eventually went away from this idea and moved towards a more unified idea with each contest.
@@gjrrr2968 Yes, it feels like there are lots of new ideas in 1970 but they don't all work this time. I think the next Dutch production in 1976 takes the same elements but does them all better.
Yes I agree there are some holes in the production - I didn't have room to mention the sinister opening...it reminds me of the 'Protect and survive' films made to tell UK citizens how to prepare for nuclear war! Also, there's some dodgy camera cuts and shots of black in some of the songs, not as slick as 1969 or 68!