Eurovision Song Contest 1970
| Eurovision Song Contest 1970 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 21 March 1970 |
| Host | |
| Venue |
RAI Congrescentrum Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Presenter(s) | Willy Dobbe |
| Conductor | Dolf van der Linden |
| Director | Theo Ordeman |
| Executive supervisor | Clifford Brown |
| Host broadcaster | Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) |
| Interval act | The Don Lurio Dancers |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 12 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries | |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country had 10 jury members who each cast one vote for their favourite song. |
| Nul points |
 Luxembourg
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| Winning song |
 Ireland"All Kinds of Everything" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the 15th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 21 March 1970 at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Amsterdam contest is regarded as one of the most significant in Eurovision history for a number of reasons. Ireland won with seventeen-year-old Dana and a song called "All Kinds of Everything".
Ireland's win was their first. The UK came second for the seventh time, six votes behind Ireland. Luxembourg received zero votes for the only time.
Due to there being four winners in the previous contest, a question was raised as to which nation would host the 1970 Eurovision. With the UK having hosted the 1968 Contest and Spain the 1969 Contest, only France and Netherlands were in consideration. A toss of a coin resulted in the host country being decided as the Netherlands.
The Congrescentrum, venue of the 1970 contest, is a semi-permanent exhibit at the Ferdinand Bolstraat to Amsterdam, and was opened on 31 October 1922. This building was replaced in 1961 by the current RAI building on Europe's Square. The current congress and event center on Europe Square, was designed by Alexander Bodon and opened on 2 February 1961.
The Dutch producers were forced to pad out the show as only 12 nations decided to make the trip to Amsterdam. The result was a format which has endured almost to the present day. An extended opening sequence (filmed in Amsterdam) set the scene, while every entry was introduced by a short video 'postcard' featuring each of the participating artists, ostensibly in their own nation. However, the 'postcards' for Switzerland, Luxembourg and Monaco were all filmed on location in Paris (as was the French postcard). Interestingly, the long introduction film (over four minutes long) was followed by what probably is one of the shortest ever introductions by any presenter. Willy Dobbe only welcomed the viewers in English, French and Dutch, finishing her introduction after only 24 seconds. On screen captions introduced each entry, with the song titles listed all in lower case and the names of the artist and composers/authors all in capitals.
The set design was devised by Roland de Groot; a simple design was composed of a number of curved horizontal bars and silver baubles which could be moved in a variety of different ways.
To avoid an incident like in 1969, a tie rule was created. It stated that, if two or more songs gained the same number of votes and were tied for first place, each song would have to be performed again. After which each national jury (other than the juries of the countries concerned) would have a show of hands of which they thought was the best. If the countries tied again, then they would share first place.
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