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| Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1974 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) | |||
| Country |  Portugal | |||
| Selection process | Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1974 | |||
| Selection date | 7 March 1974 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "E depois do adeus" | |||
| Artist | Paulo de Carvalho | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 14th, 3 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Portugal was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song "E depois do adeus", composed byJosé Calvário, with lyrics by José Niza, and performed byPaulo de Carvalho. The Portuguese participating broadcaster,Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP), selected its entry at theGrande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1974.
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Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) held theGrande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1974 at theTeatro Maria Matos inLisbon on 7 March 1974, hosted by Glória de Matos andArtur Agostinho. Ten songs took part in the final. The results were determined by adistrital jury, that had 20 votes each, and a selection jury, composed of nine elements, to vote, each one with 10 votes to distribute among the songs in the contest. For the first time,Funchal was called to vote.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Conductor | Jury | Votes | Place | |
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| Distrital | Selection | ||||||
| 1 | Green Windows | "Imagens" | Jorge Machado | 39 | 1 | 40 | 3 |
| 2 | Duo Ouro Negro | "Bailia dos trovadores" | 28 | 0 | 28 | 4 | |
| 3 | Verónica | "Canção por todos vós" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| 4 | José Cid | "A rosa que te dei" | 10 | 0 | 10 | 5 | |
| 5 | Paulo de Carvalho | "E depois do adeus" | José Calvário | 159 | 86 | 245 | 1 |
| 6 | Artur Garcia | "Dona e senhora da boina" | Rafael Ibarbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 | Green Windows | "No dia em que o rei fez anos" | Jorge Machado | 141 | 3 | 144 | 2 |
| 8 | Fernanda Farri | "Cantiga ao vento" | Joaquim Luís Gomes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 | Helena Isabel | "Canção solidão" | Thilo Krassmann | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Xico Jorge | "Temos de cantar" | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Draw | Song | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Imagens" | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 39 | |||||||||
| 2 | "Bailia dos trovadores" | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 28 | ||||||||||
| 3 | "Canção por todos vós" | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | "A rosa que te dei" | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | "E depois do adeus" | 8 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 159 | |
| 6 | "Dona e senhora da boina" | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | "No dia em que o rei fez anos" | 6 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 141 | ||
| 8 | "Cantiga ao vento" | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "Canção solidão" | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | "Temos de cantar" | 1 |
| Draw | Song | Total | |||||||||
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| 1 | "Imagens" | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | "Bailia dos trovadores" | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 | "Canção por todos vós" | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | "A rosa que te dei" | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | "E depois do adeus" | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 86 |
| 6 | "Dona e senhora da boina" | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | "No dia em que o rei fez anos" | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 8 | "Cantiga ao vento" | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | "Canção solidão" | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 | "Temos de cantar" | 0 |
On the night of the final Carvalho performed 16th in the running order, followingSwitzerland and precedingItaly. The voting system tried between 1971 and 1973 was abandoned, and for 1974 returned to the previous system of ten jury members in each country awarding one vote each.
At the close of the voting the song had received 3 points, placing joint last (along withGermany,Norway, and Switzerland).[1] The orchestra during the Portuguese entry was conducted byJosé Calvário.[2]
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Despite the modest showing inBrighton at the Contest itself, the song achieved considerable fame as one of the two signals to launch theCarnation Revolution in Portugal against theEstado Novo regime ofMarcelo Caetano - the other being the folk song "Grândola Vila Morena" byZeca Afonso, which was the signal for the coup leaders to announce that they had taken control of strategic parts of the country. It was broadcast at 22.55 on 24 April 1974 by 'Emissores Associados de Lisboa'.[4][5]
Histories of the Contest tend to take a facetious view of this fact. In his Official History of The Eurovision Song Contest authorJohn Kennedy O'Connor, for example, describes it as "the only Eurovision entry to have actually started a revolution", whileDes Mangan suggests that other Portuguese entries (he mentions1998's "Se eu te pudesse abraçar") would not be likely to inspire coups.[6]
