Eurovision Song Contest 1975

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1975**

Date	22 March 1975
Presenter(s)	Karin Falck
Host Conductor	Lars Samuelson
Host Broadcaster	SVT (formerly SR)
Venue	Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm, Sweden
Winning Song	Ding-a-Dong (Netherlands)
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	19
Countries Making Debut	Turkey
Nul points	None
Interval Act	The World of John Bauer

The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the twentieth Eurovision and was held in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. The Portuguese entry "Madrugada" was an unabashed celebration of the Carnation Revolution, during which the country's 1974 Eurovision entry had played a pivotal practical role.

This year a new scoring system was implemented, one which is still used today. Each jury would now give 12 points to the best song, 10 to the second best, then 8 to the third, 7 to the fourth, 6 to the fifth and so forth until the tenth best song (in the jury's opinion) received a single point.

Greece withdrew from this contest in response to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in protest of Turkey's participation.

Netherlands' win was their fourth.

[edit] Results

Country	Artist(s)	Song	Place	Points
Belgium	Ann Christy	Gelukkig Zijn (To be happy)	15	17
Finland	Pihasoittajat	Old Man Fiddle	7	74
France	Nicole Rieu	Et Bonjour à Toi L'artiste	4	91
Germany	Joy Fleming	Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein (A song can be a bridge)	17	15
Ireland	The Swarbriggs	That's What Friends Are For [1]	9	68
Israel	Shlomo Artzi	At Ve' Ani	11	40
Italy	Wess Ghezzi e Dori Ghezzi	Era	3	115
Luxembourg	Geraldine	Toi (You)	5	84
Malta	Renato	Singing This Song	12	32
Monaco	Sophie	Une Chanson C'est Une Lettre (A song is a letter)	13	22
Netherlands	Teach-In	Ding-a-dong	1	152
Norway	Ellen Nikolaysen	Touch my life with Summer	18	11
Portugal	Duarte Mendes	Madrugada	16	16
Spain	Sergio and Estibaliz	Tu Volveras	10	53
Sweden	Lasse Berghagen	Jennie, Jennie	8	72
Switzerland	Simone Drexel	Mikado	6	77
Turkey	Semiha Yanki	Seninle Bir Dakika (One minute with you)	19	3
United Kingdom	The Shadows	Let me be the One	2	138
Yugoslavia	Pepel in kri	Dan ljubezni	13	22
The table is ordered alphabetically by the countries' names.

[edit] Score sheet

		Juries

	Netherlands		8	5	8	10	12	6	8	12	12	3	12	4	10	10	7	12	12	1
	Ireland	6		6	0	0	4	7	1	6	4	12	0	0	0	1	4	3	10	4
	France	8	12		0	0	0	3	0	8	7	2	7	1	7	0	12	8	8	8
	Germany	0	0	0		8	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
	Luxembourg	12	10	3	0		0	0	7	3	5	0	6	5	0	5	8	6	4	10
	Norway	2	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	7
	Switzerland	7	2	10	6	2	1		0	5	6	8	0	7	5	4	2	0	0	12
	Yugoslavia	3	4	0	2	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	0
	United Kingdom	4	3	12	10	12	7	8	12		8	10	10	0	12	7	5	10	5	3
	Malta	1	0	8	0	5	2	4	2	0		7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Belgium	5	0	0	7	0	0	0	3	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	Israel	10	1	1	1	1	5	2	0	1	0	1		6	0	3	0	0	6	2
	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	0	0	0	0	0
	Monaco	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	0		2	3	0	0	5
	Finland	0	5	0	12	6	10	12	5	4	0	0	8	0	8		0	1	3	0
	Portugal	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0		2	0	0
	Spain	0	7	0	5	0	3	5	4	0	0	4	4	3	4	8	0		0	6
	Sweden	0	0	7	0	7	8	1	6	7	2	0	3	8	6	6	6	5		0
	Italy	0	6	4	4	3	6	10	10	10	10	6	5	10	1	12	10	7	1
The table is ordered by appearance.