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
Host broadcaster IBA
Interval act Shalom '79
Participants
Number of entries 19
Debuting countries None
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries  Turkey
Participation map
  •      Participating participants     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
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 and was held on 31 March 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. The presenters were Daniel Pe'er and Yardena Arazi, and the event was staged at the International Convention Center. Representing Israel, Gali Atari and Milk and Honey were the winners of this Eurovision with the song, "Hallelujah". This was a second victory in a row for Israel, it was also their second victory in the contest.

As noted in author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor's book The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, 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'm Loving"). However Turkey was forced to retire from the contest under pressure from Arab states who objected to a predominantly Muslim country taking part in a contest held in Israel.[1]

As well as being broadcast live in the 19 competing countries the contest was broadcast in Romania, Hong Kong and Iceland.

Contents

Individual Entries

Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Scored entries signify countries which withdrew.

Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Portugal Portuguese Manuela Bravo "Sobe, sobe, balão sobe" Rise, rise, balloon, rise 9 64
02  Italy Italian Matia Bazar "Raggio di luna" Moonbeam 15 27
03  Denmark Danish Tommy Seebach "Disco Tango" — 6 76
04  Ireland English Cathal Dunne "Happy Man" — 5 80
05  Finland Finnish Katri Helena "Katson sineen taivaan" I'm looking into the blue of the sky 14 38
06  Monaco French Laurent Vaguener "Notre vie c'est la musique" Our life is music 16 12
07  Greece Greek Elpida "Sokrati" (Σωκράτη) Socrates 8 69
08  Switzerland German Peter, Sue, Marc, Pfuri, Gorps and Kniri "Trödler und Co" Second-handers and Co. 10 60
09  Germany German Dschinghis Khan "Dschinghis Khan" Genghis Khan 4 86
10  Israel Hebrew Gali Atari and Milk and Honey "Hallelujah" (הללויה) — 1 125
11  France French Anne-Marie David "Je suis l'enfant soleil" I'm the sun-child 3 106
12  Belgium Dutch Micha Marah "Hey Nana" — 18 5
13  Luxembourg French Jeane Manson "J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux" I've already seen that in your eyes 13 44
14  Netherlands Dutch Xandra "Colorado" — 12 51
15  Sweden Swedish Ted Gärdestad "Satellit" Satellite 17 8
16  Norway Norwegian Anita Skorgan "Oliver" — 11 57
17  United Kingdom English Black Lace "Mary Ann" — 7 73
18  Austria German Christina Simon "Heute in Jerusalem" Today in Jerusalem 18 5
19  Spain Spanish Betty Missiego "Su canción" Your song 2 116

Voting structure

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 the last year in which the points were announced via order of appearance, as opposed to order of preference.

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.

Score sheet

  Results
Portugal   6 2 5 4 4 10 5 3 3 3 6 7 6
Italy 8   8 3 8
Denmark   2 3 12 1 10 12 6 7 4 8 1 3 3 4
Ireland 5 5 5   6 10 6 6 3 10 7 8 5 4
Finland 7   7 8 5 5 6
Monaco 1 2 4   3 2
Greece 10 1 4 7   7 2 10 4 1 5 7 2 2 7
Switzerland 7 1 10 2 2   7 4 7 8 12
Germany 2 1 12 5 3 12   6 12 4 1 2 6 8 12
Israel 12 6 12 12 8 4 5   1 2 8 1 12 12 12 8 10
France 6 10 1 10 8 10 5   6 12 12 5 7 6 5 3
Belgium 2 1   2
Luxembourg 7 3 4 4 5 3 2   4 2 10
Netherlands 8 10 5 3 3 7 3   4 4 4
Sweden 6 1 1  
Norway 3 3 8 6 2 8 2 6 10   7 1 1
United Kingdom 4 8 10 7 7 1 2 8 5 10   6 5
Austria 4 1  
Spain 12 3 6 12 12 8 8 12 10 10 7 1 5 10  
THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE

12 points

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

N. Recipient nation Voting nation
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

Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Anne-Marie David  France 1973 (winner for Luxembourg)
Xandra  Netherlands 1972, 1976
Anita Skorgan  Norway 1977
Peter, Sue and Marc  Switzerland 1971, 1976

Commentators

Television

Radio

Spokespersons

National jury members

References

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