Date - February 13, 1965
Official name - Nationaal Songfestival 1965
Organising broadcaster - NTS
Venue - Theater Concordia, Bussum
Host - Teddy Scholten
Director - Fred Benavente
Stage designer - Peter Zwart
Producer - Karel Prior
Selection committee - Karel Prior / Warry van Kampen / Jos van der Valk / Willem Duys / Dick van Bommel / Joop Simons
Musical director - Dolf van der Linden
Orchestra - Metropole Orchestra (Metropole Orkest)
Concertmaster - Guus Valten
Interval act - Metropole Orchestra playing several instrumental medleys of former Eurovision entries (arr. Bert Paige)
Number of entries - 5 in final (semi-finals with total of 15 songs)
Winning entry - 'Het is genoeg' Conny van den Bos
Winning songwriters - Karel Prior "Joke van Soest" / Johnny Holshuysen
Winning orchestrator - Bert Paige
Note 1 - Via their record companies, all five participating artists had submitted three songs, with semi-finals organised between February 8-12 to determine which song each artist would sing in the final; all those heats, held at the same venue as the final with the same host, were broadcast live on television
Note 2 - As it turned out after the final, the lyricist of Conny van den Bos' winning entry - as well as one of her semi-final entries - was not Joke van Soest, but her husband Karel Prior. When it came about that Prior, who had been in the selection committee as well as being responsible for the production of the national final, was co-author of the song, a small row ensued, but ''t Is genoeg' was not disqualified as a result
Note 3 - Strikingly, the Metropole Orchestra's musical director Dolf van der Linden, who usually refrained from getting involved in writing the orchestrations to any of the entries to avoid the suspicion of partiality, is given as the arranger of Shirley Zwerus' three entries. Sheet music of two of Zwerus' three songs can be found in the national broadcaster's library in two different versions, each stemming from 1965 - with one of the two versions being signed by Van der Linden, and the other bearing no name. Most probably, Van der Linden deemed the original versions unplayable or containing too many mistakes, upon which he rewrote them for his orchestra
Trea Dobbs performing in the 1965 pre-selection backed up by Dolf van der Linden and an extended Metropole Orchestra
PARTICIPATING ENTRIES (FINAL)
Song 1
Title – "Waar de wind de zomer vindt"
Rendition – Gert Timmerman
Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber
Composition – Joop Portengen "Hans Marsa" / Addy Kleyngeld "Gunter Kaleta"
Studio arrangement – Ferry Wienneke
(studio orchestra conducted by Ferry Wienneke)
Live orchestration – Ferry Wienneke
Score semi-final – 1st place (16 votes)
Score final – 5th place (1 vote)
Song 2
Title – "'t Is genoeg"
Rendition – Conny van den Bos
Lyrics – Karel Prior "Joke van Soest"
Composition – Johnny Holshuysen
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 1st place (13 votes)
Score final – 1st place (13 votes)
Song 3
Title – "Ploem ploem jenka"
Rendition – Trea Dobbs
Lyrics – Pieter Goemans
Composition – Pieter Goemans
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 1st place (16 votes)
Score final – 3rd place (6 votes)
Song 4
Title – "Geweldig"
Rendition – Ronnie Tober
Lyrics – Pieter Goemans
Composition – Pieter Goemans
Studio arrangement – Jack Bulterman
(studio orchestra conducted by Jack Bulterman)
Live orchestration – Jack Bulterman
Score semi-final – 1st place (16 votes)
Score final – 2nd place (8 votes)
Song 5
Title – "Blijf bij mij"
Rendition – Shirley Zwerus
Lyrics – Shirley Zwerus
Composition – Shirley Zwerus
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – Dolf van der Linden
Score semi-final – 1st place (18 votes)
Score final – 4th place (3 votes)
ELIMINATED ENTRIES (SEMI-FINAL)
Eliminated song 1
Title – "Stad"
Rendition – Trea Dobbs
Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber "Lodewijk Post"
Composition – Rudy van Houten
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 2nd place (12 votes)
Eliminated song 2
Title – "Kijk maar niet om"
Rendition – Trea Dobbs
Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber "Lodewijk Post"
Composition – Joop Portengen
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 3rd place (3 votes)
Eliminated song 3
Title – "Een lied wordt oud"
Rendition – Ronnie Tober
Lyrics – Hans Peters
Composition – Hans Peters
Studio arrangement – Jack Bulterman
(studio orchestra conducted by Jack Bulterman)
Live orchestration – Jack Bulterman
Score semi-final – 3rd place (3 votes)
Eliminated song 4
Title – "Kip in 't watersymphonie (Kip in 't water)"
Rendition – Ronnie Tober
Lyrics – Pieter Goemans
Composition – Louis Dusée / Pi Scheffer
Studio arrangement – Jack Bulterman
(studio orchestra conducted by Jack Bulterman)
Live orchestration – Jack Bulterman
Score semi-final – 2nd place (11 votes)
Eliminated song 5
Title – "Laat me alleen"
Rendition – Conny van den Bos
Lyrics – Fred Kaps / Karel Prior "Joke van Soest"
Composition – Bert Paige
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 2nd & 3rd place (ex aequo, 9 votes)
Eliminated song 6
Title – "Van de week"
Rendition – Conny van den Bos
Lyrics – Willy van Hemert
Composition – Bert Paige
Studio arrangement – Bert Paige
(studio orchestra conducted by Bert Paige)
Live orchestration – Bert Paige
Score semi-final – 2nd & 3rd place (ex aequo, 9 votes)
Eliminated song 7
Title – "Alleen"
Rendition – Gert Timmerman
Lyrics – Ger Rensen
Composition – Fred Gaasbeek / Gert Timmerman "Peter Zoll"
Studio arrangement – Ferry Wienneke
(studio orchestra conducted by Ferry Wienneke)
Live orchestration – Ferry Wienneke
Score semi-final – 3rd place (4 votes)
Eliminated song 8
Title – "Jij bent het lichtpunt in mijn leven"
Rendition – Gert Timmerman
Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber "Paul Dertien"
Composition – Addy Kleyngeld "Albert Schwarzmann" / Gert Timmerman "Peter Zoll"
Studio arrangement – Ferry Wienneke
(studio orchestra conducted by Ferry Wienneke)
Live orchestration – Ferry Wienneke
Score semi-final – 2nd place (11 votes)
Eliminated song 9
Title – "Als een vlinder"
Rendition – Shirley Zwerus
Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber
Composition – Joop Portengen
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – Dolf van der Linden
Score semi-final – 2nd place (10 votes)
Eliminated song 10
Title – "Requiem voor een clown"
Rendition – Shirley Zwerus
Lyrics – Pieter Goemans
Composition – Pieter Goemans
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – Dolf van der Linden
Score semi-final – 3rd place (3 votes)
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