Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973

Spain in the
Eurovision Song Contest 1973
Eurovision Song Contest 1973
Participating broadcasterTelevisión Española (TVE)
Country Spain
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement dateArtist: 12 December 1972
Song: 5 March 1973
Competing entry
Song"Eres tú"
ArtistMocedades
SongwriterJuan Carlos Calderón
Placement
Final result2nd, 125 points
Participation chronology
◄1972 • 1973 • 1974►

Spain was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song "Eres tú", written by Juan Carlos Calderón, and performed by the vocal group Mocedades. The Spanish participating broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), internally selected its entry for the contest.

Before Eurovision

Televisión Española (TVE) internally selected "Eres tú" performed by the vocal group Mocedades as its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1973. The song was written by Juan Carlos Calderón. Mocedades were announced as the performers on 12 December 1972, and a song was chosen for them later.[1] The members of the group were Amaya Uranga, Izaskun Uranga, Roberto Uranga, Javier Garay, José Ipiña, and Carlos Zubiaga. The title of the song and the songwriter were announced on 2 February 1973. The song was released on 5 March.[2]

On 8 March 1973, Mocedades participated in the Sanremo Music Festival 1973 with the song "Addio amor" singing in Italian.[3] On 12 March, TVE broadcast on TVE 1 a special program dedicated to the group, directed by Miguel Lluch, filmed on location in Bilbao and in villages in Santander and Asturias, and in which they performed nine songs.[4]

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was held on 7 April 1973 at the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg. Mocedades performed "Eres tú" seventh in the running order, following Monaco and preceding Switzerland. Juan Carlos Calderón conducted the performance of the Spanish entry. At the close of voting the song had received 125 points, placing second in a field of seventeen.[5]

TVE broadcast the contest in Spain on TVE 1 with commentary by Miguel de los Santos.[6]

Voting

Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one below the age of 25 and the other above, with at least 10 years between their ages, who voted by giving between one and five votes to each song, except that representing their own country. All jury members were located in a television studio at Villa Louvigny and showed their votes on screen during the voting sequence.[7] The Spanish jury members were Teresa González and José Luis Balbín, who was TVE's delegate in Paris at that time.[8]

Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest

Main article: Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest

In 2005, "Eres tú" was one of fourteen songs chosen by Eurovision fans and a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reference group to participate in the Congratulations anniversary competition. It was the only Spanish entry featured, as well as one of three entries featured that did not actually win the contest the year it competed (the others being "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" by Domenico Modugno and "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard). The special was broadcast live on La Primera of Televisión Española, with commentary by Beatriz Pécker and José María Íñigo.

"Eres tú" appeared fourth in the running order, following "Diva" by Dana International and preceding "Ein bißchen Frieden" by Nicole. Like the majority of entries that night, the performance was mostly by a group of dancers alongside footage of Mocedades' Eurovision performance, with the group themselves appearing toward the end of the performance (notably, appearing very moved at the warm reception they received from the audience in Copenhagen). At the end of the first round, "Eres tú" was not one of the five entries announced as proceeding to the second round. It was later revealed that the song finished eleventh with 90 points.[10] In spite of this, it was also the only entry in the first round to receive multiple sets of twelve points without making it to the next round: one from the Netherlands (where the song had charted at #3 in 1973) and one from Spain themselves, who had the opportunity to vote for their own entry. In the second round, without their own entry to vote for, Spain's twelve points were awarded to ABBA's "Waterloo," which ultimately won.[11]

Voting

Points awarded to "Eres tú" (Round 1)[10]
Score Country
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points  Portugal
5 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina
4 points  Germany
3 points
2 points
1 point

References

  1. ^ "Todo sobre Mocedades - Eurovisión 73". Mundo Joven (in Spanish). 23 December 1972.
  2. ^ "La canción española para el Festival de Eurovisión". Pueblo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. 3 February 1973. p. 22 – via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
  3. ^ "Mocedades también a Sanremo" (in Spanish). 1 March 1973.
  4. ^ "Mocedades". Tele Pueblo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. 10 March 1973. p. 10 – via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
  5. ^ "Final of Luxembourg 1973". Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  6. ^ "TVE Programas" [TVE Programmes]. Los Sitios (in Spanish). Girona, Spain. 7 April 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 23 August 2024 – via Gerona City Hall.
  7. ^ Roxburgh, Gordon (2014). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume Two: The 1970s. Prestatyn, United Kingdom: Telos Publishing. pp. 60, 124. ISBN 978-1-84583-093-9.
  8. ^ Gallardo, Francisco Andrés (8 April 2023). "Cuando el destino de Eurovisión hace 50 años estuvo en manos de José Luis Balbín, el de 'La Clave'". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish).
  9. ^ a b "Results of the Final of Luxembourg 1973". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Congratulations: Results from the voting (Round 1)" (PDF). Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Congratulations: Results from the voting (Round 2)" (PDF). Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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