1975 NETHERLANDS EUROVISION SELECTION

Date - February 26, 1975

Official name - Nationaal Songfestival 1975

Organising broadcaster - AVRO

Venue - Jaarbeurs Congrescentrum, Utrecht

Host - Willem Duys

Director - Theo Ordeman

Stage designer - Cor Hermeler

Producer - Fred Oster

Musical director - Harry van Hoof

Orchestra - Songfestivalorkest (freelance orchestra)
International jury - Dick van Bommel (chairman) with Wally Bishop / Bert Paige / Will Tura / Syd Lawrence / George Lemel

Number of entries - 3

Participating acts - Teach-In / Debbie / Albert West

Winning entry - 'Dinge-dong' Teach-In

Winning songwriters - Will Luikinga / Eddy Ouwens / Dick Bakker

Winning orchestrator - Dick Bakker

Note 1 - For this national final, each participating act first performed the song of their choice, upon which an international expert jury chose the winning song. Following this, all three acts performed their arrangement of the winning entry, 'Dinge-dong'; with the audience in the hall chosing their preferred arrangement (1st place for Teach-In, 56 votes / 2nd place for Albert West, 33 votes / 3rd place for Debbie, 11 votes). As a result, the arrangements written for Teach-In's and Albert West's versions of 'Circus' as well as Teach-In's and Debbie's versions of 'Ik heb geen geld voor de trein' were rehearsed by the festival orchestra, but never performed on television

Note 2 - For their reprise of 'Dinge-dong', Teach-In chose to perform the song in English - as was the case on the international Eurovision stage. The lyricists of the Dutch as well as the English versions of the song officially are Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens, but both gentlemen have confirmed that the name of Ouwens, who was the group's producer, was only added for copyright reasons

Note 3 - Albert West as well as Teach-In only released studio recordings in English of 'Ik heb geen geld voor de trein' under the title 'You And Me' (English lyrics by Jacques Zwart)

One of the three candidates in the 1975 national selection, Debbie (pseudonym of Ria Schildmeyer), rehearsing with Harry van Hoof's Songfestivalorkest

PARTICIPATING ENTRIES

Song 1

Title – "Ik heb geen geld voor de trein"

Original rendition – Albert West

Lyrics – Gerrit den Braber

Composition – Jacques Zwart / Job Maarse

Studio arrangements – Job Maarse (for Albert West) / Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / not recorded by Debbie

Live orchestration – Job Maarse (for Albert West) / Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / Gerard Stellaard (for Debbie)

Score (song choice) – 2nd place (1 vote)

Song 2

Title – "Dinge-dong (Ding-Dinge-Dong)"

Original rendition – Teach-In

Lyrics – Will Luikinga

Composition – Dick Bakker

Studio arrangements – Job Maarse (for Albert West) / Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / Gerard Stellaard (for Debbie)

Live orchestration – Job Maarse (for Albert West) / Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / Gerard Stellaard (for Debbie)

Score (song choice) – 1st place (4 votes)

Song 3

Title – "Circus"

Original rendition – Debbie

Lyrics – Toon Gispen / Marshal Manengkei

Composition – Dries Holten / Eddy Ouwens / Hans van Hemert

Studio arrangements – Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / Gerard Stellaard (for Debbie) / not recorded by Albert West

Live orchestration – Job Maarse (for Albert West) / Dick Bakker (for Teach-In) / Gerard Stellaard (for Debbie)

Score (song choice) – 3rd place (0 votes)