Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973

The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was held on 7 April 1973 at the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg. Mocedades performed "Eres tú" seventh in the running order, following Monaco and preceding Switzerland. Juan Carlos Calderón conducted the performance of the Spanish entry. At the close of voting the song had received 125 points, placing second in a field of seventeen.^[5]

TVE broadcast the contest in Spain on TVE 1 with commentary by Miguel de los Santos [es].^[6]

Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one below the age of 25 and the other above, with at least 10 years between their ages, who voted by giving between one and five votes to each song, except that representing their own country. All jury members were located in a television studio at Villa Louvigny and showed their votes on screen during the voting sequence.^[7] The Spanish jury members were Teresa González and José Luis Balbín [es], who was TVE's delegate in Paris at that time.^[8]

Points awarded to Spain[9] Score Country 10 points  Ireland  Italy  Netherlands 9 points  France  Germany  Monaco  Portugal  Yugoslavia 8 points  Belgium  Israel  Luxembourg   Switzerland 7 points  Sweden 6 points 5 points 4 points  Norway  United Kingdom 3 points  Finland 2 points

Points awarded by Spain[9] Score Country 10 points 9 points  Germany 8 points  Portugal  Yugoslavia 7 points  Ireland  Sweden   Switzerland 6 points  Belgium  Finland  Luxembourg  Monaco  Norway 5 points  France  Italy  Netherlands 4 points  Israel  United Kingdom 3 points 2 points

In 2005, "Eres tú" was one of fourteen songs chosen by Eurovision fans and a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reference group to participate in the Congratulations anniversary competition. It was the only Spanish entry featured, as well as one of three entries featured that did not actually win the contest the year it competed (the others being "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" by Domenico Modugno and "Congratulations" by Cliff Richard). The special was broadcast live on La Primera of Televisión Española, with commentary by Beatriz Pécker and José María Íñigo.

"Eres tú" appeared fourth in the running order, following "Diva" by Dana International and preceding "Ein bißchen Frieden" by Nicole. Like the majority of entries that night, the performance was mostly by a group of dancers alongside footage of Mocedades' Eurovision performance, with the group themselves appearing toward the end of the performance (notably, appearing very moved at the warm reception they received from the audience in Copenhagen). At the end of the first round, "Eres tú" was not one of the five entries announced as proceeding to the second round. It was later revealed that the song finished eleventh with 90 points.^[10] In spite of this, it was also the only entry in the first round to receive multiple sets of twelve points without making it to the next round: one from the Netherlands (where the song had charted at #3 in 1973) and one from Spain themselves, who had the opportunity to vote for their own entry. In the second round, without their own entry to vote for, Spain's twelve points were awarded to ABBA's "Waterloo," which ultimately won.^[11]

Points awarded to "Eres tú" (Round 1)^[10]

Score	Country
12 points	Netherlands  Spain
10 points	Andorra  Belgium  Finland  Israel
8 points
7 points
6 points	Portugal
5 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
4 points	Germany
3 points	Denmark  Slovenia  Ukraine
2 points
1 point	Macedonia  Turkey