| Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1973 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Televisión Española (TVE) | |||
| Country |  Spain | |||
| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
| Announcement date | Artist: 12 December 1972 Song: 5 March 1973 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Eres tú" | |||
| Artist | Mocedades | |||
| Songwriter | Juan Carlos Calderón | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 2nd, 125 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Spain was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song "Eres tú", written byJuan Carlos Calderón, and performed by the vocal groupMocedades. The Spanish participating broadcaster,Televisión Española (TVE), internally selected its entry for the contest. The song, performed in position 7, placed second out of seventeen competing entries with 125 points.
Televisión Española (TVE) internally selected "Eres tú" performed by the vocal groupMocedades asits entry for theEurovision Song Contest 1973. The song was written byJuan 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 wereAmaya 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 theSanremo Music Festival 1973 with the song "Addio amor" singing in Italian.[3] On 12 March, TVE broadcast onTVE 1 a special program dedicated to the group, directed byMiguel Lluch, filmed on location inBilbao and in villages inSantander andAsturias, and in which they performed nine songs.[4]
TheEurovision Song Contest 1973 was held on 7 April 1973 at theGrand Théâtre inLuxembourg. Mocedades performed "Eres tú" seventh in the running order, followingMonaco and precedingSwitzerland. 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 byMiguel de los Santos [es].[6]
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 atVilla Louvigny and showed their votes on screen during the voting sequence.[7] The Spanish jury members were Teresa González andJosé Luis Balbín [es], who was TVE's delegate in Paris at that time.[8]
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In 2005, "Eres tú" was one of fourteen songs chosen by Eurovision fans and aEuropean Broadcasting Union (EBU) reference group to participate in theCongratulations 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" byDomenico Modugno and "Congratulations" byCliff Richard). The special was broadcast live onLa Primera of Televisión Española, with commentary by Beatriz Pécker andJosé María Íñigo.
"Eres tú" appeared fourth in the running order, following "Diva" byDana International and preceding "Ein bißchen Frieden" byNicole. 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 inCopenhagen). 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 theNetherlands (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 toABBA's "Waterloo," which ultimately won.[11]
| Score | Country |
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| 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 |
