Eurovision Song Contest 1979

International song competition

Eurovision Song Contest 1979

Date and venue
Final|

* 31 March 1979

Venue| International Convention Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Organisation
Organiser| European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
EBU scrutineer| Frank Naef
Production
Host broadcaster| Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA)
Director| Yossi Zemach
Executive producer| Alex Gilady
Musical director| Izhak Graziani
Presenters|

* Daniel Pe'er
* Yardena Arazi

Participants
Number of entries| 19
Non-returning countries|  Turkey

Participation map

*      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1979

Vote
Voting system| Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song|  Israel
"Hallelujah"
1978 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1980

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Event page at eurovision.tv

The Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 31 March 1979 at the Menachem Ussishkin auditorium of the International Convention Centre in Jerusalem, Israel, and presented by Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the contest was held in Israel following its victory at the 1978 contest with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta. This was the first time that the Eurovision Song Contest was held outside Europe.

Nineteen countries participated in the contest, with Turkey deciding not to participate after Arab countries had pressured it into not participating in a contest held in Israel.[1] Yugoslavia, which had missed the 1977 and 1978 contests, also did not take part in or broadcast the contest this year for political reasons,[2] despite an earlier public poll in which almost 100,000 people supported a Yugoslav return to the contest.[3]

For the second year in a row, Israel won with the song "Hallelujah", performed by the Israeli group Milk and Honey featuring Gali Atari.

## Location

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International Convention Center, Jerusalem – host venue of the 1979 contest.

The 1979 contest took place in Jerusalem, Israel, following the win of Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) at the 1978 edition with the song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" performed by Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta. IBA staged the contest at the Menachem Ussishkin auditorium of the International Convention Centre, also called Binyenei HaUma. The venue, inside the largest convention center in the Middle East, seats an audience of 3,104 and traditionally hosts other musical events.[4][5]

## Participants

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Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

This section contains numerous links to pages on foreign language Wikipedias. They are shown as red links with the language codes in [small blue letters] in brackets. Click on the language code to see the page in that language.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1979 – Participation summaries by country

* Austria
* Belgium
* Denmark
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Monaco
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Portugal
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
*  ~~Turkey~~
* United Kingdom

Initially, Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT) intended to participate in the contest. Turkey would have appeared 11th on stage (between Israel and France), represented by the song "Seviyorum" performed by Maria Rita Epik and 21\. Peron. However TRT later ended up withdrawing from the contest following pressure from Arab states, who objected to a predominantly Muslim country taking part in a contest held in Israel.[6][7]

Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists representing the same country in past editions: Peter, Sue and Marc had represented Switzerland in 1971 and in 1976; Xandra had represented the Netherlands in 1972 along with Andres Holten and in 1976 as Sandra Reemer; and Anita Skorgan had represented Norway in 1977. In addition, Anne-Marie David representing France, had won the contest for Luxembourg in 1973.

Eurovision Song Contest 1979 participants[8][9] Country  | Broadcaster  | Artist  | Song  | Language  | Songwriter(s)  | Conductor

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Austria | ORF | Christina Simon | "Heute in Jerusalem"  | German  |

* André Heller
* Peter Wolf

| Richard Oesterreicher
Belgium | BRT | Micha Marah | "Hey Nana"  | Dutch  |

* Guy Beyers
* Charles Dumolin

| Francis Bay
Denmark | DR | Tommy Seebach | "Disco Tango"  | Danish  |

* Keld Heick
* Tommy Seebach

| Allan Botschinsky
Finland | YLE | Katri Helena | "Katson sineen taivaan"  | Finnish  |

* Vexi Salmi
* Matti Siitonen

| Ossi Runne
France | TF1 | Anne-Marie David | "Je suis l'enfant soleil"  | French  |

* Hubert Giraud
* Eddy Marnay

| Guy Mattéoni
Germany | BR[a] | Dschinghis Khan | "Dschinghis Khan"  | German  |

* Bernd Meinunger
* Ralph Siegel

| Norbert Daum
Greece | ERT | Elpida | "Socrates" (Σωκράτη) | Greek  |

* Doros Georgiades [el]
* Sotia Tsotou

| Lefteris Halkiadakis
Ireland | RTÉ | Cathal Dunne | "Happy Man"  | English  | Cathal Dunne | Proinnsías Ó Duinn
Israel | IBA | Milk and Honey | "Hallelujah" (הללויה) | Hebrew  |

* Shimrit Orr [he]
* Kobi Oshrat

| Kobi Oshrat
Italy | RAI | Matia Bazar | "Raggio di luna"  | Italian  |

* Piero Cassano
* Giancarlo Golzi
* Carlo Marrale
* Antonella Ruggiero
* Aldo Stellita

| No conductor
Luxembourg | CLT | Jeane Manson | "J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux"  | French  | Jean Renard [fr] | Hervé Roy
Monaco | TMC | Laurent Vaguener | "Notre vie c'est la musique"  | French  |

* Jean Albertini [fr]
* Didier Barbelivien
* Jean Baudlot
* Paul de Senneville

| Gérard Salesses [fr]
Netherlands | NOS | Xandra | "Colorado"  | Dutch  |

* Rob Bolland
* Ferdi Bolland
* Gerard Cox

| Harry van Hoof
Norway | NRK | Anita Skorgan | "Oliver"  | Norwegian  |

* Philip Kruse
* Anita Skorgan

| Sigurd Jansen
Portugal | RTP | Manuela Bravo | "Sobe, sobe, balão sobe"  | Portuguese  | Carlos Nóbrega e Sousa [pt] | Thilo Krasmann [pt]
Spain | TVE | Betty Missiego | "Su canción"  | Spanish  | Fernando Moreno  | José Luis Navarro
Sweden | SR | Ted Gärdestad | "Satellit"  | Swedish  |

* Kenneth Gärdestad
* Ted Gärdestad

| Lars Samuelson
Switzerland | SRG SSR | Peter, Sue and Marc, Pfuri, Gorps and Kniri | "Trödler und Co."  | German  | Peter Reber [de] | Rolf Zuckowski
United Kingdom | BBC | Black Lace | "Mary Ann"  | English  | Peter Morris  | Ken Jones

## Production

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The contest was organised and broadcast by the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The event was produced by Alex Gilady, directed by Yossi Zemach, musically directed by Izhak Graziani who conducted the IBA Symphony Orchestra, and overseen by the EBU with scrutineer Frank Naef.[5] Since Israeli Television had yet to broadcast in colour at that point (except for a few special occasions), the production had to borrow cameras from the BBC – the same had happened when RTÉ had hosted the 1971 contest in Dublin. The 24th contest's logo featured a combination of a G-clef, the IBA logo, and the names of all participating countries in order of appearance. The IBA Symphony Orchestra played the music of each song, except for the Italian entry, which did not use the orchestra. This was the only contest where the orchestra was composed of 39 musicians.

The stage concept was designed by Dov Ben David. On stage there was a moving symbol which was based on the IBA logo (which was built like a lamp with 3 concentric rings) using a small projected model.[11] The event showcased stage decorations of several types of flora which represent the Land of Israel, and a film of Jerusalem's varied ancient, modern and religious scenery. The left side of the stage where the presentation was held, was decorated with prickly pear cactus, date, pomegranate, and orange plants. The film which opened the programme and repeated over its closing credits, screened Jerusalem's biblical and medieval monuments sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with residents and visitors who frequent them while its opening and concluding images showcased the city's cultural and governmental institutions along with different types of people outside the ancient walls.[5][12]

This year, the postcards between each song featured mime artists rather than the participating singers. The mime artists featured were the Yoram Boker Mime Group, and included some of Israel's leading mime artists, among them Ezra Dagan and Hanoch Rozen. The group performed on a background of illustrations created by Dudu Geva and Yochanan Lakitzevitz, that featured landmarks and typical landscapes of the respective countries.

## Contest overview

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The following tables reflect the confirmed, verified scores, which were adjusted after the live broadcast. During the voting announcement, mistakes kept appearing as some spokespersons gave multiple votes of the same amount to two countries. Importantantly, due to a misunderstanding by the presenter Yardena Arazi, Spain appeared to award 10 points to both Portugal and Israel and these scores were added to the scoreboard. After the programme, verification confirmed that Portugal should only have received six points, leaving the total Portuguese score reduced by four points to 64.

The intermission between the songs and the voting was presented by a performance of the Shalom '79 Dancing Ensemble, who performed a variety of Israeli folk dances. The performance was directed by the ensemble's manager and choreographer Gavri Levy.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979[13] R/O | Country  | Artist  | Song  | Points  | Place

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1  |  Portugal | Manuela Bravo | "Sobe, sobe, balão sobe"  | 64  | 9
2  |  Italy | Matia Bazar | "Raggio di luna"  | 27  | 15
3  |  Denmark | Tommy Seebach | "Disco Tango"  | 76  | 6
4  |  Ireland | Cathal Dunne | "Happy Man"  | 80  | 5
5  |  Finland | Katri Helena | "Katson sineen taivaan"  | 38  | 14
6  |  Monaco | Laurent Vaguener | "Notre vie c'est la musique"  | 12  | 16
7  |  Greece | Elpida | "Socrates"  | 69  | 8
8  |   Switzerland | Peter, Sue and Marc, Pfuri, Gorps and Kniri | "Trödler und Co."  | 60  | 10
9  |  Germany | Dschinghis Khan | "Dschinghis Khan"  | 86  | 4
10  |  Israel | Milk and Honey | "Hallelujah"  | 125  | 1
11  |  France | Anne-Marie David | "Je suis l'enfant soleil"  | 106  | 3
12  |  Belgium | Micha Marah | "Hey Nana"  | 5  | 18
13  |  Luxembourg | Jeane Manson | "J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux"  | 44  | 13
14  |  Netherlands | Xandra | "Colorado"  | 51  | 12
15  |  Sweden | Ted Gärdestad | "Satellit"  | 8  | 17
16  |  Norway | Anita Skorgan | "Oliver"  | 57  | 11
17  |  United Kingdom | Black Lace | "Mary Ann"  | 73  | 7
18  |  Austria | Christina Simon | "Heute in Jerusalem"  | 5  | 18
19  |  Spain | Betty Missiego | "Su canción"  | 116  | 2

### Spokespersons

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Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1979 contest are listed below.

*  Finland – Kaarina Pönniö[14]
*  Italy – Paola Perissi [it][15]
*  Netherlands – Ivo Niehe[16]
*  Sweden – Sven Lindahl[17]
*  United Kingdom – Colin Berry[9]

## Detailed voting results

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Each participating broadcaster assembled a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. This was the last year in which the points were announced via order of appearance, as opposed to order of preference. From the next year's contest onwards, the points were announced in ascending order instead. This has remained in place ever since.

The voting was extremely close. Israel gained a good lead in the early stages of the voting, but Spain eventually caught up and took a good lead themselves. At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, Israel were one point behind Spain, and only the Spanish jury had yet to give their votes. Spain ended up giving Israel 10 points, causing the crowd to erupt into enormous cheers.

Detailed voting results[18][19] |

Total score

Portugal

Italy

Denmark

Ireland

Finland

Monaco

Greece

Switzerland

Germany

Israel

France

Belgium

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Sweden

Norway

United Kingdom

Austria

Spain

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Contestants

| Portugal  | 64 |  | 6 |  |  | 2 | 5 |  | 4 | 4 |  | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |  | 7 | 6
Italy  | 27 | 8 |  |  |  | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  | 8
Denmark  | 76 |  |  |  | 2 |  | 3 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 1 |  | 3 | 3 | 4
Ireland  | 80 | 5 | 5 | 5 |  | 6 |  | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 |  | 10 | 7 |  | 8 | 5 | 4 |  |
Finland  | 38 |  | 7 |  |  |  |  | 7 | 8 | 5 |  | 5 |  | 6 |  |  |  |  |  |
Monaco  | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2
Greece  | 69 | 10 |  | 1 | 4 |  | 7 |  | 7 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 |  |  | 2 | 7
Switzerland  | 60 |  |  | 7 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 2 |  | 7 | 4 | 7 |  |  |  |  | 8 |  | 12 |
Germany  | 86 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 12 |  |  |  | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 |  | 8 |  | 12
Israel  | 125 | 12 |  | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 5 |  |  | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10
France  | 106 | 6 | 10 |  |  | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 |  | 5 |  | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3
Belgium  | 5 |  |  | 2 |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |
Luxembourg  | 44 | 7 |  |  | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 4 |  | 2 | 10 |  |
Netherlands  | 51 |  |  | 8 | 10 | 5 |  | 3 |  | 3 | 7 |  | 3 |  |  | 4 | 4 |  | 4 |
Sweden  | 8 |  |  |  | 6 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Norway  | 57 | 3 | 3 |  | 8 |  | 6 |  |  |  | 2 |  | 8 | 2 | 6 | 10 |  | 7 | 1 | 1
United Kingdom  | 73 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 |  | 2 | 8 |  |  |  |  | 5 |  | 10 |  | 6 | 5
Austria  | 5 |  | 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |
Spain  | 116 |  | 12 | 3 |  |  |  | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 10 |

### 12 points

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Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.  | Contestant  | Nation(s) giving 12 points

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6  |  Israel |  Finland,  Ireland,  Norway,  Portugal,  Sweden,  United Kingdom
4  |  Germany |  Denmark,  France,  Monaco,  Spain
Spain |  Belgium,  Germany,  Italy,   Switzerland
2  |  Denmark |  Greece,  Israel
France |  Luxembourg,  Netherlands
1  |   Switzerland |  Austria

## Broadcasts

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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.[20]

In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Hong Kong, Iceland, and Romania.[9][21] The contest was not broadcast in Yugoslavia for the first time since 1960, as the nation had no diplomatic ties with Israel.[9] Estimates ranged from 200 to 500 million viewers were reported prior to the contest.[22] 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)

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Austria  | ORF | FS1 | Ernst Grissemann | [23][24]
Belgium  | BRT | TV1 |  | [25]
RTBF | RTBF1 | Paule Herreman
Denmark  | DR | DR TV | Jørgen de Mylius | [26]
Finland  | YLE | TV1, Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] | Matti Paalosmaa [fi] | [27][28]
France  | TF1 | Marc Menant | [29][30]
Germany  | ARD | Deutsches Fernsehen | Gaby Schnelle and Ado Schlier [de] | [23][31]
Greece  | ERT | ERT, A Programma |  | [32][33]
Ireland  | RTÉ | RTÉ 1 | Mike Murphy | [34][35]
RTÉ Radio |  | [36]
Israel  | IBA | Israeli Television |  | [37]
Army Radio |  | [38]
Italy  | RAI | Rete Uno[b] | Rosanna Vaudetti | [39]
Luxembourg  | CLT | RTL Télé-Luxembourg |  | [40]
RTL Radio |  | [41]
Netherlands  | NOS | Nederland 2 | Willem Duys | [42][43]
Norway  | NRK | NRK Fjernsynet | Egil Teige [no] | [44]
NRK | Erik Heyerdahl [no]
Portugal  | RTP | RTP1 | Fialho Gouveia | [45][46]
RDP | RDP Programa 1 |  | [47]
Spain  | TVE | TVE 1 | Miguel de los Santos [es] | [48]
Sweden  | SR | TV1 | Ulf Elfving | [49]
SR P3 | Kent Finell | [50]
Switzerland  | SRG SSR | TV DRS[c] | Max Rüeger [de] | [23]
TSR | Georges Hardy [fr] | [30]
TSI |  | [51]
RSI 1 |  | [52]
United Kingdom  | BBC | BBC1 | John Dunn | [53]
BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 1 VHF | Ray Moore | [9][54]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries  Country  | Broadcaster  | Channel(s)  | Commentator(s)  | Ref(s)

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Hong Kong  | TVB | TVB Jade[d] | Regina Hing Yue Tsang and Lee Chi-chung  | [55][56]
TVB Pearl[d] | George Lam
Iceland  | RÚV | Sjónvarpið[e] | Björn Baldursson  | [57]
Netherlands Antilles  | TeleAruba[f] |  | [58]
TeleCuraçao[g] |  | [59]

## See also

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* OTI Festival 1979

## Notes

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1. ^ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[10]
2. ^ Deferred broadcast at 21:50 CET (20:50 UTC)[39]
3. ^ Broadcast through a second audio programme on TSR[23]
4. ^ a b Deferred broadcast on 1 April at 10:30 (HKT)[55][56]
5. ^ Delayed broadcast on 16 April 1979 at 21:20 WET (21:20 UTC)[57]
6. ^ Delayed broadcast on 18 June 1979 at 21:00 (ADT)[58]
7. ^ Delayed broadcast on 13 April 1979 at 21:11 (ADT)[59]

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