2 months ago

Date: 19 April 1980 - Host Venue: Nederlands Congresgebouw, The Hague, Netherlands
Presenters: Marlous Fluitsma and Hans van Willigenburg (green room)
Musical director Rogier van Otterloo - Directed by Theo Ordeman
Executive supervisor Frank Naef - Executive producer Fred Oster
Host broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS)
Interval act The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band with The Lee Jackson Dancers
Number of entries 19
Debuting countries: Morocco
Returning countries: Turkey
Non-returning countries: Israel, Monaco

This show is fully subtitled. It's never been easier to understand all
the lyrics of the songs. If you spot any errors in the subtitles please
let us know in the comments or via mail: escstuff@mail.com

The version of the 1980 ESC with German commentary by Ado Schlier is
here:

https://youtu.be/52NXNExASpg

The English version with Terry Wogan's comments is here:

https://youtu.be/lLtdvaa2QJg

If you prefer to watch the 1980 ESC with Dutch comments by Pim Jacobs click here:

https://youtu.be/f-yoerkNtpQ

If you would like to watch the event without foreign language commentary, this is where you should go:

https://youtu.be/pQF-EzfF_x4

The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th Eurovision Song Contest
and was held on 19 April 1980 in The Hague. The presenter was Marlous
Fluitsma, although each song was introduced by a presenter from the
participating nation. In some cases, this was the same person providing
the commentary. The contest was won by Johnny Logan, representing
Ireland with a song called "What's Another Year"The venue that had
hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, Congresgebouw, was chosen.
Various parts of the opening sequence and stage of the 1976 festival
were reused. Again, Roland de Groot took charge of the design. As with
the 1977 and 1978 contests, there were no pre-filmed postcards between
the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the
entries. Apart from this, the presenter, Marlous Fluitsma, except for
the voting, did not make the presentation in English or French, which
means that the presentation was made almost entirely in Dutch. NOS spent
just US$ 725,000 on the project.

After Israel announced its non-participation, Morocco entered into the
contest instead. Monaco also did not participate after it did so in
1979.

Australian-born Johnny Logan representing Ireland was the winner of this
Eurovision with the song "What's Another Year". This was Ireland's
second time winning the competition, having won in 1970 with "All Kinds
of Everything", which was also held on Dutch soil.

Germany were runners-up this year. They would finish in second place
again the following year, finally winning in 1982. Germany would go on
to finish second again in 1985 and 1987, making the 1980s their most
successful Eurovision Song Contest decade. After two relatively poor
placings, United Kingdom returned to form by coming third.

Each song was introduced by a presenter from the national country. A few
countries used their commentators as presenters (Turkey's radio
commentator and the TV commentators of Denmark, Sweden and Finland). The
Danish, Norwegian, German, Portuguese and French presenters hosted
their countries' respective national finals. Fluitsma wore a different
dress when introducing the Dutch entry, rather than having another
person introduce that entry.

Results
Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points
01 Austria Blue Danube "Du bist Musik" German 8 64
02 Turkey Ajda Pekkan "Pet'r Oil" Turkish 15 23
03 Greece Anna Vissi and the Epikouri "Autostop" (Ωτοστόπ) Greek
13 30
04 Luxembourg Sophie & Magaly "Papa pingouin" French 9 56
05 Morocco Samira Bensaïd "Bitaqat Hub" (بطاقة حب) Arabic 18 7
06 Italy Alan Sorrenti "Non so che darei" Italian 6 87
07 Denmark Bamses Venner "Tænker altid på dig" Danish 14 25
08 Sweden Tomas Ledin "Just nu!" Swedish 10 47
09 Switzerland Paola "Cinéma" French 4 104
10 Finland Vesa-Matti Loiri "Huilumies" Finnish 19 6
11 Norway Sverre Kjelsberg & Mattis Hætta "Sámiid ædnan"
Norwegiana 16 15
12 Germany Katja Ebstein "Theater" German 2 128
13 United Kingdom Prima Donna "Love Enough for Two" English 3 106
14 Portugal José Cid "Um grande, grande amor" Portugueseb 7 71
15 Netherlands Maggie MacNeal "Amsterdam" Dutch 5 93
16 France Profil "Hé, hé, m'sieurs dames" French 11 45
17 Ireland Johnny Logan "What's Another Year" English 1 143
18 Spain Trigo Limpio "Quédate esta noche" Spanish 12 38
19 Belgium Telex "Euro-Vision" French 17 14