Wednesday, 26 February 1975

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)

Saturday, 15 February 1975

1975 SWEDEN EUROVISION SELECTION

Date - February 15, 1975
Official name - Melodifestivalen 1975
Organising broadcaster - SR
Venue - TV-huset Studio 1, Gothenburg
Host - Karin Falck
Producer - Bo Hermansson
Musical director - Sven-Olof Walldoff
Orchestra - freelance orchestra
Backing vocalists - Dolls (Kerstin Bagge / Kerstin Dahl / Annica Risberg)
Number of entries - 10
Winning entry - 'Jennie, Jennie' Lars Berghagen
Winning songwriter - Lars Berghagen
Winning orchestrator & conductor - Lars Samuelson

Lars Berghagen celebrating his victory in Gothenburg with host Karin Falck

PARTICIPATING ENTRIES

Song 1
Title – "Den gamla jukeboxen"
Rendition – Landslaget
Lyrics – Lasse Lindbom
Composition – Lasse Lindbom
Studio arrangement – Bengt Palmers / Landslaget
Live orchestration – Bengt Palmers
Conductor – Bengt Palmers
Score – 7th place (ex aequo, 47 votes)

Song 2
Title – "Oh, juicy"
Rendition – Runeson
Lyrics – Nils-Åke Runeson
Composition – Nils-Åke Runeson
Studio arrangement – Claes af Geijerstam
Live orchestration – unknown (probably Lars Samuelson)
Conductor – Lars Samuelson
Score – 10th place (25 votes)

Song 3
Title – "Ska vi plocka körsbär i min trädgård?"
Rendition – Annn-Christine Bärnsten
Lyrics – Karl-Gerhard Lundkvist / Börje Carlsson
Composition – Karl-Gerhard Lundkvist / Börje Carlsson
Studio arrangement – Alain Leroux
Live orchestration – Alain Leroux
Conductor – Alain Leroux
Score – 9th place (30 votes)

Song 4
Title – "Lady Antoinette"
Rendition – Hadar feat. Glenmarks
Lyrics – Hadar Kronberg
Composition – Hadar Kronberg
Studio arrangement – Bruno Glenmark
(studio orchestra conducted by Bruno Glenmark)
Live orchestration – Bruno Glenmark
Conductor – Bruno Glenmark
Score – 6th place (48 votes)

Song 5
Title – "Jennie, Jennie"
Rendition – Lars Berghagen
Lyrics – Lars Berghagen
Composition – Lars Berghagen
Studio arrangement – Lars Samuelson
Live orchestration – Lars Samuelson
Conductor – Lars Samuelson
Score – 1st place (117 votes)

Song 6
Title – "Rockin 'n' reelin'"
Rendition – Ted Gärdestad
Lyrics – Kenneth Gärdestad
Composition – Ted Gärdestad
Studio arrangement – Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus
Live orchestration – unknown (probably Sven-Olof Walldoff)
Conductor – Sven-Olof Walldoff
Score – 7th place (47 votes)

Song 7
Title – "Bang, en boomerang"
Rendition – Svenne & Lotta
Lyrics – Stig Andersson
Composition – Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus
Studio arrangement – Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus
Live orchestration – unknown (probably Sven-Olof Walldoff)
Conductor – Sven-Olof Walldoff
Score – 3rd place (84 votes)

Song 8
Title – "Michelangelo"
Rendition – Björn Skifs
Lyrics – Bengt Palmers / Björn Skifs
Composition – Bengt Palmers / Björn Skifs
Studio arrangement – Bengt Palmers
Live orchestration – Bengt Palmers
Conductor – Bengt Palmers
Score – 5th place (55 votes)

Song 9
Title – "Som min vän"
Rendition – Göran Fristorp
Lyrics – Göran Fristorp
Composition – Göran Fristorp
Studio arrangement – Göran Fristorp / Leif Strand
Live orchestration – Leif Strand
Conductor – Leif Strand
Score – 4th place (59 votes)

Song 10
Title – "Sången lär ha vingar"
Rendition – Gimmicks
Lyrics – Bo Carlgren
Composition – Bo Sylvén
Studio arrangement – Leif Carlqvist / Alain Leroux / Valdemar Hajer
Live orchestration – unknown (probably Lars Samuelson)
Conductor – Lars Samuelson
Score – 8th place (15 votes)