Eurovision Song Contest 1979 1 Eurovision Song Contest 1979 Eurovision Song Contest 1979 Dates Final date 31 March 1979 Host Venue International Convention Center, Jerusalem, Israel Presenter(s) Daniel Pe'er Yardena Arazi Conductor Izhak Graziani Executive supervisor Frank Naef Host broadcaster Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Interval act Shalom '79 (Peace '79) Participants Number of entries 19 Debuting countries None Returning countries None Withdrawing countries Turkey Vote Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs Nul points None Winning song Israel "Hallelujah" Eurovision Song Contest ◄1978 1980► The Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 31 March 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel, following the country's win at the 1978 contest. The presenters were Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi, and the event was staged at the International Convention Center. The winner was Israel with the song "Hallelujah", performed by Gali Atari and Milk and Honey. Therefore, this was Israel's consecutive second win, and overall second win, in the contest. 19 countries participated, the 20 countries that took part at the previous 1978 Contest, except for Turkey which was also going to participate but eventually withdrew its entry for political reasons. Yugoslavia, that missed the 1978 Contest, also didn't want to take part nor transmit the 1979 show for political reasons. As well as being broadcast live
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Eurovision Song Contest 1979 1
Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Dates
Final date 31 March 1979
Host
Venue International Convention Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points None
Winning song Israel"Hallelujah"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1978 1980►
The Eurovision Song Contest 1979 was the 24th Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 31 March 1979 inJerusalem, Israel, following the country's win at the 1978 contest. The presenters were Daniel Pe'er and YardenaArazi, and the event was staged at the International Convention Center. The winner was Israel with the song"Hallelujah", performed by Gali Atari and Milk and Honey. Therefore, this was Israel's consecutive second win, andoverall second win, in the contest.19 countries participated, the 20 countries that took part at the previous 1978 Contest, except for Turkey which was also going to participate but eventually withdrew its entry for political reasons. Yugoslavia, that missed the 1978 Contest, also didn't want to take part nor transmit the 1979 show for political reasons. As well as being broadcast live
in the 19 competing countries, the contest was broadcast in Turkey, Romania, Hong Kong and Iceland.
Format
The venue of the contest, International Convention Center inJerusalem
Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5,4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs. This was thelast year in which the points were announced via orderof appearance, as opposed to order of preference.The voting was extremely close. Israel gained a goodlead in the early stages of the voting, but Spaineventually caught up and took a good lead themselves.At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, Israel wereone point behind Spain, and only the Spanish jury hadyet to give their votes. Spain ended up giving Israel 10points, causing the crowd to erupt into enormouscheers.
Participating countries
At one point before the contest Turkey was going to participate. The country would have appeared 11th on stage(between Israel and France), represented by Maria Rita Epik and 21. Peron with the song "Seviyorum" ("I'mLoving"). However Turkey was forced to retire from the contest under pressure from Arab states who objected to apredominantly Muslim country taking part in a contest held in Israel.[1]
Yugoslavia didn't take part with the contest being held in Israel and also didn't want to transmit it from Israel. Thiscontest was the first that was not broadcast in Yugoslavia since their début.
Returning artistsThe contest saw the return of four artists who had participated in previous editions of the contest: France'srepresentative Anne-Marie David was the winner for Luxembourg in 1973, Netherlands' Xandra represented thecountry in 1972 and 1976, Norway's Anita Skorgan represented the country in 1977, and Switzerland's Peter, Sueand Marc represented the country in 1971 and 1976.
ConductorsFor each nation's performance, the orchestra was conducted by the following:• Portugal - Thilo Krasmann• Italy - no national representative• Denmark - Allan Botschinsky• Ireland - Proinnsías Ó Duinn• Finland - Ossi Runne• Monaco - Gérard Salesse• Greece - Lefteris Halkiadakis• Switzerland - Rolf Zuckowski• Germany - Norbert Daum• Israel - Kobi Oshrat• France - Guy Mattéoni• Belgium - Francis Bay• Luxembourg - Hervé Roy
• Netherlands - Harry van Hoof• Sweden - Lars Samuelson• Norway - Sigurd Jansen• United Kingdom - Ken Jones• Austria - Richard Österreicher• Spain- José Luis Navarro
Results
Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
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
International broadcasts and voting
Voting and spokespersons• Portugal - João Abel da Fonseca• Italy - Paola Perissi• Denmark - Bent Henius• Ireland - David Heffernan• Finland - Kaarina Pönniö• Monaco - Carole Chabrier• Greece - TBC• Switzerland – Michel Stocker[2]
• Germany - Lotti Ohnesorge• Israel - Dan Kaner• France - Fabienne Égal• Belgium - Anne Ploegaerts• Luxembourg - Jacques Harvey• Netherlands - Ivo Niehe[3]
• Sweden - Sven Lindahl• Norway - Sverre Christophersen[4]
• United Kingdom - Colin Berry• Austria - Jenny Pippal• Spain - Manuel Almendros
Commentators• Portugal - Fialho Gouveia (RTP1)[5]
• Italy - Rosanna Vaudetti (Rete 1)• Denmark - Jørgen de Mylius (DR TV); Kjeld Koplev (DR P3)• Ireland - Mike Murphy (RTÉ1); Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ Radio 1)• Finland - Anja-Maija Leppänen (YLE TV1)• Monaco - Marc Menant (Télé Monte Carlo)• Greece - Mako Georgiadou (ERT); Greece - Dimitris Konstantaras (Proto Programma)• Switzerland - Theodor Haller (TV DRS), Georges Hardy (TSR), Giovanni Bertini (TSI)• Germany - Ado Schlier & Gabi Schnelle (ARD Deutsches Fernsehen); Wolf Mittler
(Deutschlandfunk/Bayern 2)• Israel - Yoram Arbel (Israeli Television);[6] Yitzhak Shim'oni (Reshet Gimel)• France - Marc Menant (TF1)
• Luxembourg - Jacques Navadic (RTL Télé Luxembourg); André Torrent (RTL Radio)• Netherlands - Willem Duys (Nederland 2)• Sweden - Ulf Elfving (SR TV1); Kent Finell (SR P3)• Norway - Egil Teige (NRK); Erik Heyerdahl (NRK P1)• United Kingdom - John Dunn (BBC1); [8] Ray Moore (BBC Radio 2)• Austria - Max Schautzer (FS1); Walter Richard Langer (Hitradio Ö3)• Spain - Miguel de los Santos (TVE1)• Turkey (Non participating country) - Bülend Özveren & Başak Doğru (TRT)
References[1] O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3[2][2] Baumann, Peter Ramón (OGAE Switzerland)[3][3] "Hallelujah: het goede liedje op de goede plaats op de goede tijd, Leidse Courant, 2 April 1979[4][4] Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)[5][5] "Aleluia, venceu o balão de Israel", Diário de Lisboa, 2 April 1979[6][6] From the hebrew closing credits of the original Israeli broadcast.[7] Adriaens, Manu & Loeckx-Van Cauwenberge, Joken. Blijven kiken!. Lannoo, Belgium. 2003 ISBN 90-209-5274-9[8] Eurovision Song Contest 1979 BBC Archives (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ programmes/ p007xb3n)
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