Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976
| Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1976 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Televisión Española (TVE) | |||
| Country | .svg.png){kind=small} Spain | |||
| Selection process | Voces a 45... Hacia el Eurofestival 76 | |||
| Announcement date | 28 February 1976 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Sobran las palabras" | |||
| Artist | Braulio | |||
| Songwriter | Braulio García Bautista | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 16th, 11 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Spain was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with the song "Sobran las palabras", written and performed by Braulio. The Spanish participating broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), selected its entry through a national final. It was its first national final since 1971 and the last one until 2000.
Before Eurovision
National selection
Televisión Española (TVE) held the national selection of its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 at its studios in Prado del Rey, hosted by Pilar Cañada and Jana Escribano, and aired on TVE 1. It consisted of three special shows of its regular musical program Voces a 45, specifically staged and titled for the occasion Hacia el Eurofestival 76. All the twenty-eight songs in competition were presented on 8 February 1976, were performed again on 15 February, and the final results were revealed on 28 February. Radio Nacional de España (RNE) also aired all the songs on Radio Nacional: on 9–13 February it aired six songs each day on its regular program Estudio 15-18, and on 14 February it aired all the songs in a special broadcast. Fourteen performers participated, each one with two songs, accompanied by the RTVE Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Agustín Serrano. The winner was chosen by postal vote with a voucher printed in several weekly magazines.[a] Only the top four songs with the most votes were revealed.[1]
| R/O | Artist | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miguel Ángel | "Cuando todos cantemos juntos" |
| 2 | "Adiós María" | |
| 3 | Juan Erasmo Mochi | "Ángel mío" |
| 4 | "Vive conmigo" | |
| 5 | Mike Kennedy & Los Bravos | "Dios bendiga la música" |
| 6 | "Nunca nunca nunca" | |
| 7 | Don Francisco & José Luis | "Entre los pliegues de una manta" |
| 8 | "Canta y ya seremos dos" | |
| 9 | Tony Landa | "Para tí" |
| 10 | "Adiós" | |
| 11 | Óscar Janot | "Óyeme" |
| 12 | "Ven conmigo" | |
| 13 | Morena & Clara | "Tu mal comportamiento" |
| 14 | "El chico que yo más quiero" | |
| 15 | Braulio | "A tí que hoy despiertas a la vida" |
| 16 | "Sobran las palabras" | |
| 17 | Myriam de Ryu | "El músico y la rosa" |
| 18 | "Pequeño ruiseñor" | |
| 19 | Nubes Grises | "Recuerdos" |
| 20 | "Nace el sentimiento" | |
| 21 | Lorenzo Santamaría | "Piensa en mí" |
| 22 | "Si tu fueras mi mujer" | |
| 23 | Daniel Velázquez | "Perdóname, perdóname" |
| 24 | "Palabras, sólo palabras" | |
| 25 | María José Prendes | "Yo soy mujer sin tí" |
| 26 | "Adiós amor" | |
| 27 | Eddie Santiago | "Una vez más" |
| 28 | "Dime" |
| Artist | Song | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Braulio | "Sobran las palabras" | 1 |
| Lorenzo Santamaría | "Si tu fueras mi mujer" | 2 |
| Eddie Santiago | "Una vez más" | 3 |
| Daniel Velázquez | "Perdóname, perdóname" | 4 |
Controversy over voting vouchers
Nearly 85,000 votes were received. Controversy arose when it was discovered that some participating artists' teams had abused the voting system by collecting votes for their candidate.[2][3]
Promotion
On 1 April 1976, TVE aired on TVE 1 a special program dedicated to Braulio titled Impresiones canarias, directed by Miguel Lluch, and filmed on location in the Canary Islands.[4]
At Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 was held on 3 April 1976 at the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague, the Netherlands. Braulio performed "Sobran las palabras" twelfth in the running order, following Finland and preceding Italy. Joan Barcons conducted the event's orchestra performance of the Spanish entry. The song received 11 points, coming sixteenth in a field of eighteen.[5]
TVE broadcast the contest in Spain on TVE 1 with commentary by José Luis Uribarri. Before the event, TVE aired a talk show hosted by José María Íñigo introducing the Spanish jury, which continued after the contest commenting on the results.[6]
Voting
TVE assembled a jury panel with eleven members. The following members comprised the Spanish jury:
- Alfonso Lapeña – chairperson and Head of Broadcasting at TVE
- Francisco Otero Besteiro – sculptor
- Ángel Nieto – motorcycle racer
- Javier Escrivá – actor
- Mercedes Alonso – actress
- Pilar Trenas – journalist
- Pedro Gutiérrez "El Niño de la Capea" – bullfighter
- Florentino Casanova – student
- Rita Aragón – actress
- Ana Alonso – student
- Cristina Galbó – actress
The jury awarded its maximum of 12 points to the United Kingdom.
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Notes
- ^ Each viewer could only send one vote. They had to attach a photocopy of their National Identity Card (or that of the head of the household for those under 16) to the completed voucher for the vote to be considered valid. The voucher appeared in the following weekly magazines: Diez Minutos, Garbo, ¡Hola!, La Actualidad Española, Lecturas, Personas, Pronto, Semana, Teleprograma, Teleradio, and Telva. The deadline was 22 February. Three trips for two people each to attend the Eurovision Song Contest were raffled off among the voters of the winning song.
References
- ^ "Voces a 45... Hacia el Eurofestival 76 - 1". Voces a 45 (in Spanish). 8 February 1976. Televisión Española.
- ^ Escartín, Javier (10 May 2017). "Eurodrama a la española: los escándalos en la elección de nuestros representantes en Eurovisión". ABC (in Spanish).
- ^ "De la fotocopiadora de Braulio al 'manelazo': escándalos 'Made in Spain' en las preselecciones de Eurovisión". Cadena COPE (in Spanish). 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Especial Braulio Eurofestival 76". Tele Pueblo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. 27 March 1976. p. 16 – via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
- ^ "Final of The Hague 1976". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ^ "1er programa – Sábado" [First programme – Saturday]. Tele Pueblo (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. 3 April 1976. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 27 June 2024 – via Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica.
- ^ a b "Results of the Final of The Hague 1976". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.