 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(April 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eurovision Song Contest 1970 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Televisión Española (TVE) | |||
| Country |  Spain | |||
| Selection process | 2º Festival de la Canción Española | |||
| Selection date | 14 February 1970 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Gwendolyne" | |||
| Artist | Julio Iglesias | |||
| Songwriter | Julio Iglesias | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 4th, 8 votes | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
| ||||
Spain was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1970 with the song "Gwendolyne", written and performed byJulio Iglesias. The Spanish participating broadcaster,Televisión Española (TVE), selected its entry through a national final. The song, performed in position 9, placed fourth –tying with the songs fromFrance andSwitzerland– out of twelve competing entries with 8 votes.
To select its entry,Televisión Española (TVE) organised together withRadio Nacional de España (RNE) the2º Festival de la Canción Española at thePalau Nacional inBarcelona on 12–14 February 1970, hosted byLaura Valenzuela andJoaquín Prat.[1] It was the second and final edition of the Festival. Twenty songs competed over three shows, with the winner song being decided upon through regional jury voting.
Twenty compositions were selected to compete in the national final by the broadcaster, with two designated acts per song. As regulations only allowed a maximum of three performers and three backing vocalists, groups were able to compete by designating one or two vocalists, with the rest of the group featuring as backing vocalists. Some performers that had been initially selected withdrew or were replaced before the live shows.[2]
| Artist 1 (Credited singer) | Artist 2 (Credited singer) | Song | Songwriter(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Valentino | Ángela Escribano | "Balada de invierno" | María José de Ceratto |
| Los Dos | Los 80 Centavos(Asunción) | "Balada del maderero" | Rafael García Loza, Julio Mengod |
| Elena | Ernesto | "Bienvenido" | Vicente Roca, Joan Solé Tutusaus |
| Karlo y las Hermanas Ros | Los Musicales(Beatriz y Ester) | "Carrusel" | Joan Serracant, Vicente Sabater |
| Jaime Morey | Maya[a] | "De pronto, tú" | Aurora Sánchez-Sousa, José Luís Pecker |
| Los Mismos(Helena) | Gaby Berger | "Don Juan" | Lucía Graves, Ramón Farrán |
| Franciska | Nino Bravo | "Esa será mi casa" | Enrique Carnicer, Carmen Fons, Álvaro Sebastián |
| Rafaleón | Los Valldemosa(Margaluz y Rafael) | "Fiesta" | Lucía Graves, Ramón Farrán |
| Julio Iglesias[b] | Rosy Armen[b][c] | "Gwendolyne" | Julio Iglesias |
| Karolyne | Albert Band(Albert) | "Hoy quiero cantar" | Joan Solé Tutusaus, Vicente Roca |
| Manolo, de Los Catiros[d] | Rosalía | "Igual que yo" | Luisa Margarita Girón |
| Basilio | Voces Amigas(Javier de Miguel) | "Jamás la olvidaré" | Pablo Herrero, Carlos Fernández-Prida |
| Los Gritos(Manolo Galván) | Cristina | "Me gusta, me gusta" | Ramón Simó, José Solá |
| Julio Ramos | Tuset 31(Jordi y José María) | "Novia para Miguel" | Juan Carlos Calderón |
| Luisita Tenor[e] | Rosa Mary y Javier | "Sí, después" | Javier Vidal |
| Donna Hightower[f] | Julián Granados | "Soy feliz" | Alfonso Sainz |
| Errol y Los Tops | Altamira 3 | "Tal vez mañana" | Carlos Bermúdez |
| Luciana Wolf | Vicente Pizarro | "Un manantial de barro" | José Ángel Cardona, Miguel Ángel Tapia |
| Voces Amigas(Tony) | Mocedades(Sergio y Estíbaliz) | "Un mundo mejor" | José Luís Armenteros, Pablo Herrero |
| Mocedades(Rafael Blanco) | Tuset 31(Javier) | "Viejo marino" | Pedro Iturralde, Alberto Bourbon |
The semi-finals took place on 12 and 13 February 1970. On both shows, ten songs were first performed by one of its assigned singers, and then again by the other singer. After the second semi-final, ten songs qualified for the final through jury voting from 15 regional RNE, TVE, and Radio Peninsular studios, each distributing five votes among their favourite songs. The number of votes received by each song was announced, but were not reflected in the official television excerpts from semi-final 2, or in contemporary reports.[3][4]
| R/O | Artist | Song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First act | Second act | |||
| 1 | Elena | Ernesto | "Bienvenido" | Eliminated |
| 2 | Karlo y las Hermanas Ros | Los Musicales | "Carrusel" | Eliminated |
| 3 | Jaime Morey | Maya | "De pronto, tú" | Qualified |
| 4 | Franciska | Nino Bravo | "Esa será mi casa" | Eliminated |
| 5 | Rafaleón | Los Valldemosa | "Fiesta" | Qualified |
| 6 | Rosalía | Manolo, de Los Catiros | "Igual que yo" | Qualified |
| 7 | Luisita Tenor | Rosa Mary y Javier | "Sí, después" | Qualified |
| 8 | Los Dos | Los 80 Centavos | "Balada del maderero" | Qualified |
| 9 | Voces Amigas | Mocedades | "Un mundo mejor" | Qualified |
| 10 | Basilio | Voces Amigas | "Jamás la olvidaré" | Qualified |
| R/O | Artist | Song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First act | Second act | |||
| 1 | Julio Iglesias | Rosy Armen | "Gwendolyne" | Qualified |
| 2 | Cristina | Los Gritos | "Me gusta, me gusta" | Qualified |
| 3 | Mocedades | Tuset 31 | "Viejo marino" | Eliminated |
| 4 | Luciana Wolf | Vicente Pizarro | "Un manantial de barro" | Eliminated |
| 5 | Julio Ramos | Tuset 31 | "Novia para Miguel" | Eliminated |
| 6 | Donna Hightower | Julián Granados | "Soy feliz" | Qualified |
| 7 | Johnny Valentino | Ángela Escribano | "Balada de invierno" | Eliminated |
| 8 | Los Mismos | Gaby Berger | "Don Juan" | Eliminated |
| 9 | Karolyne | Albert Band | "Hoy quiero cantar" | Eliminated |
| 10 | Errol y Los Tops | Altamira 3 | "Tal vez mañana" | Eliminated |
The final took place on 14 February 1970. As in the semi-finals, each song was performed twice by its different performers. In the event that the winner song had two Spanish singers, the juries would vote again to decide which artist would perform the song at the Eurovision Song Contest; if the song was shared with a foreign artist, the Spanish singer would become the Eurovision representative. 15 regional juries, each distributing five votes among their favourite songs, selected "Gwendolyne" as the winning song. AsRosy Armen was a French singer,Julio Iglesias was automatically chosen as the Spanish artist for Eurovision.[5]
| R/O | Artist | Song | Points | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First act | Second act | ||||
| 1 | Manolo, de Los Catiros | Rosalía | "Igual que yo" | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Los Dos | Los 80 Centavos | "Balada del maderero" | 6 | 4 |
| 3 | Jaime Morey | Maya | "De pronto, tú" | 5 | 5 |
| 4 | Rafaleón | Los Valldemosa | "Fiesta" | 7 | 3 |
| 5 | Basilio | Voces Amigas | "Jamás la olvidaré" | 13 | 2 |
| 6 | Voces Amigas | Mocedades | "Un mundo mejor" | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Luisita Tenor | Rosa Mary y Javier | "Sí, después" | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Julio Iglesias | Rosy Armen | "Gwendolyne" | 37 | 1 |
| 9 | Los Gritos | Cristina | "Me gusta, me gusta" | 0 | 8 |
| 10 | Donna Hightower | Julián Granados | "Soy feliz" | 3 | 7 |
| R/O | Song | Las Palmas (TVE) | Cuenca (Radio Peninsular) | Tenerife (RNE) | La Coruña (RNE) | Barcelona (RNE) | Málaga (Radio Peninsular) | Oviedo (RNE) | Murcia (RNE) | Sevilla (RNE) | San Sebastián (RNE) | Zaragoza (RNE) | Barcelona (TVE) | Madrid (RNE) | Valencia (Radio Peninsular) | Madrid (TVE) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Igual que yo" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | "Balada del maderero" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | "De pronto, tú" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4 | "Fiesta" | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | "Jamás la olvidaré" | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||
| 6 | "Un mundo mejor" | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | "Sí, después" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Gwendolyne" | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 37 | ||
| 9 | "Me gusta, me gusta" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | "Soy feliz" | 2 | 1 | 3 |
%2c_Bestanddeelnr_923-3697.jpg)
TheEurovision Song Contest 1970 was held on 21 March 1970 at theRAI Congrescentrum inAmsterdam, the Netherlands. Julio Iglesias performed "Gwendolyne" ninth in the running order, followingLuxembourg and precedingMonaco. He was accompanied on stage byTrío La La La [es] as backing singers.Augusto Algueró conducted the event's orchestra performance of the Spanish entry. The song received 8 votes, tying for the fourth place withFrance andSwitzerland.
TVE broadcast the contest in Spain onTVE 1 with commentary byJosé Luis Uribarri.[7]
TVE assembled a jury panel with ten members, with each member giving one vote to their favourite song. The following members comprised the Spanish jury:[8]
The secretary was Ramón Rivera.
|
|
