Sunday, 23 March 1980

1980 FRANCE EUROVISION SELECTION

Date - March 23, 1980
Official name - Grand Concours de la Chanson Française 1980
Organising broadcasters - TF1
Venue - Studios des Buttes Chaumont, Paris
Hosts - Évelyne Dheliat
Director - Bernard Lion
Stage designer - Bernard Thomassin
Producer - Emmanuel Robert
Musical director - François Rauber
Orchestra - freelance orchestra
Opening sequence - instrumental arrangement (arr. François Rauber)
Interval act - none
Number of entries - 6 in final (14 songs in total)
Winning entry - 'Hé, hé, m'sieurs, dames' Profil
Winning songwriters - Sylvano Santorio / Richard Joffo / Richard de Bordeaux
Winning orchestrator - Sylvano Santorio

Note 1 - Semi-finals broadcast on March 9 and March 16, 1980, with seven songs competing in each for three places in the final.

Note 2 - Whereas the winning 'Hé, hé, m'sieurs, dames' was conducted in the French pre-selection by the show's MD, François Rauber, but by its composer and arranger, Sylvano Santorio

Profil, the winning act in the 1980 edition of the Grand Concours de la Chanson Française

PARTICIPATING ENTRIES

Song 1
Title – "Une chanson rose"
Rendition – Bee Michelin
Lyrics – Guy Bontempelli
Composition – Jack Arel
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – François Rauber
Score semi-final 1 – 2nd place (5091 votes)
Score final – 6th place (4071 votes) 

Song 2
Title – "Un jour, un matin"
Rendition – Chantal Billon
Lyrics – Joe Gracy
Composition – Jean-Paul Cara
Studio arrangement – Benoît Kaufman
Live orchestration – Benoît Kaufman
Conductor – Benoît Kaufman
Score semi-final 2 – 1st place (6107 votes)
Score final – 2nd place (8263 votes)

Song 3
Title – "Poète ou musicien"
Rendition – Anne Delorme
Lyrics – Didier Barbelivien / Pierre-André Dousset
Composition – Gérard Bourgeois / André Popp
Studio arrangement – Hervé Roy
Live orchestration – Hervé Roy
Conductor – Hervé Roy
Score semi-final 2 – 3rd place (5803 votes)
Score final – 3rd place (7324 votes)
Song 4
Title – "Hé, hé, m'sieurs, dames"
Rendition – Profil
Lyrics – Richard de Bordeaux / Richard Joffo
Composition – Sylvano Santorio
Studio arrangement – Sylvano Santorio
Live orchestration – Sylvano Santorio
Conductor – François Rauber
Score semi-final 2 – 2nd place (6049 votes)
Score final – 1st place (10,628 votes)

Song 5
Title – "Camarade vigneron"
Rendition – Marcel Amont
Lyrics – Marcel Amont
Composition – Claude Mainguy
Studio arrangement – Claude Mainguy
Live orchestration – Claude Mainguy
Conductor – François Rauber
Score semi-final 1 – 1st place (5902 votes)
Score final – 4th place (7182 votes)

Song 6
Title – "Un enfant de France"
Rendition – Frida Boccara
Lyrics – Jacques Demarny
Composition – Jean Claudric
Studio arrangement – Jean Claudric
Live orchestration – Jean Claudric
Conductor – Jean Claudric
Score semi-final 1 – 3rd place (4722 votes)
Score final – 5th place (7144 votes)

ELIMINATED ENTRIES (SEMI-FINAL 1)

Eliminated song 1
Title – "Si tous les je t'aime"
Rendition – Jocelyne Jocya
Lyrics – Pierre-André Dousset
Composition – Patrick Lemaître
Studio arrangement – unknown
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 1 – 6th place (1143 votes)

Eliminated song 2
Title – "Le jeu de la liberté"
Rendition – Serge Fouchet
Lyrics – unknown
Composition – unknown
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 1 – 7th place (597 votes)

Eliminated song 3
Title – "On a coupé un arbre"
Rendition – Michel Démétriadès
Lyrics – Michel Démétriadès
Composition – Michel Démétriadès
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 1 – 4th place (2056 votes)

Eliminated song 4
Title – "Ils ont planté un olivier"
Rendition – Nadine Douteau
Lyrics – Michel Jourdan
Composition – Michel Jourdan
Studio arrangement – unknown
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 1 – 5th place (1441 votes)     

ELIMINATED ENTRIES (SEMI-FINAL 2)

Eliminated song 5
Title – "Viens dans ma farandole"
Rendition – Minouche Barelli
Lyrics – Michel Jourdan
Composition – Michel Jourdan
Studio arrangement – François Rauber
Live orchestration – François Rauber
Conductor – François Rauber
Score semi-final 2 – 6th place (1705 votes)

Eliminated song 6
Title – "Ni bleu, ni gris"
Rendition – Parasol
Lyrics – Gilbert Sinoué
Composition – Tony Rallo
Studio arrangement – Tony Rallo
Live orchestration – Tony Rallo
Conductor – Tony Rallo
Score semi-final 2 – 5th place (4579 votes)

Eliminated song 7
Title – "Dans le regard d'un enfant"
Rendition – Simone Langlois
Lyrics – unknown
Composition – unknown
Studio arrangement – none
Live orchestration – unknown
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 2 – 4th place (3094 votes)

Eliminated song 8
Title – "J'suis heureux"
Rendition – Bernard Sauvat
Lyrics – Bernard Sauvat
Composition – Bertrand Lamoureux
Studio arrangement – Claude Vallois
Live orchestration – Claude Vallois
Conductor – unknown
Score semi-final 2 – 7th place (1493 votes)  

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