Eurovision Song Contest 1973 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

In 1973 17 participants took part. Malta decided to withdraw after two last places and Austria also didn't participate. The first non-European country, Israel, made it's debut. As member of the EBU th.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 1973: 7 April 1973
Location: Nouveau Théâtre Municipal, Luxembourg-ville, Luxembourg
Broadcaster: RTL
Host(s): Helga Guitton
Participating countries: 17
Voting: Each country had 2 jurors present in the hall. Each juror awarded all songs with a score between 1 and 5, so each country gave all other countries a score between 2 and 10 points.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1973

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	11	Luxembourg	Anne-Marie David	Tu te reconnaîtras	129	1
	7	Spain	Mocedades	Eres tú	125	2
	15	United Kingdom	Cliff Richard	Power to all our friends	123	3
	17	Israel	Ilanit	Ey-sham	97	4
	12	Sweden	The Nova and The Dolls	You're summer	94	5
	1	Finland	Marion Rung	Tom tom tom	93	6
	5	Norway	Bendik Singers	It's just a game	89	7
	6	Monaco	Marie	Un train qui part	85	8
	4	Germany	Gitte	Junger Tag	85	8
	3	Portugal	Fernando Tordo	Tourada	80	10
	14	Ireland	Maxi	Do I dream?	80	10
	8	Switzerland	Patrick Juvet	Je me vais marier, Marie	79	12
	10	Italy	Massimo Ranieri	Chi sarà con te	74	13
	13	The Netherlands	Ben Cramer	De oude muzikant	69	14
	16	France	Martine Clémenceau	Sans toi	65	15
	9	Yugoslavia	Zdravko Colic	Gori vatra	65	15
	2	Belgium	Nicole and Hugo	Baby, baby	58	17

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In 1973 17 participants took part. Malta decided to withdraw after two last places and Austria also didn't participate. The first non-European country, Israel, made it's debut. As member of the EBU they were allowed to do so. The achieved the 4th place in their first contest. The Swedish group "Malta" changed their name because it could be confused with the Island Malta, although Malta didn`t participate. For the third time in a row a French-languaged song won. Luxembourg won for the second time in a row. The voting system with the two jurors was used for the third and last time, partly because a juror from Switzerland was trying to steal the show. The first female conductor stepped on the Eurovisionstage for Sweden. The usage of the native language was not obligated anymore.