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VENUE
Rai Congrescentrum, Amsterdam |
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ENTRIES 12 |
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HOST Willy
Dobbe
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DEBUTS None |
After the 1969 four way tie,
the Netherlands were selected to host the 1970 contest, presumably as
they been the least recent hosts of the four winners in Madrid. This was the year of the boycott:
Norway, Sweden, Finland and Portugal all protested at the previous years
voting
fiasco and this made it the briefest contest since 1959. It was all done and
dusted in just seventy-five minutes, which included brief preview films
of each performer smirking/gurning to the camera in their homeland just
before they took to the stage. This video introduction to the
artists (which replaced the compere soberly announcing them onstage) was
to become a regular and popular device that was used for most of the
next thirty years, although in the new millennium it seems to be too
much like hard work for the host broadcaster.
Julio Iglesias
appeared in a
powder-blue suit and fluffed his lines. He seems to have forgotten this nowadays
so it's a good job he
didn't win. Luxembourg scored an atypical nul points before winning
two of the next three contests. Mary Hopkin sang the only
Eurovision song ever released on the Beatles' Apple label.
Belgium awarded
nine out of its
ten votes to Ireland. Although 'All Kinds of Everything' was a worthy
winner, the voting system meant that one jury could have a
disproportionate impact on the result if it 'block' voted like this. This
voting system was replaced the following year, and only used one
more time ever (in 1974).
| Netherlands |
Waterman |
The Hearts Of Soul |
7 |
| Switzerland |
Retour |
Henri Dès |
4 |
| Italy |
Occhi Di Ragazza |
Gianni Morandi |
8 |
| Yugoslavia |
Pridi Dala Ti Bom Cvet |
Eva Srsen |
11 |
| Belgium |
Viens L'Oublier |
Jean Vallée |
8 |
| France |
Marie Blanche |
Guy Bonnet |
4 |
| United Kingdom |
Knock Knock Who's There? |
Mary Hopkin |
2 |
| Luxembourg |
Je Suis Tombé Du Ciel |
David Alexander Winter |
12 |
| Spain |
Gwendolyne |
Julio Iglesias |
4 |
| Monaco |
Marlène |
Dominique Dussault |
8 |
| Germany |
Wunder Gibt Es Immer Wieder |
Katja Ebstein |
3 |
| Ireland |
All Kinds Of Everything |
Dana |
1 |
| WINNER:
Ireland |
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ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING by
Dana |
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