Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970
Spain was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with the song "Gwendolyne", written and performed by Julio Iglesias. The Spanish participating broadcaster, Televisión Española, selected its entry through a national final. The song, performed in position 9, placed fourth –tying with the songs from and – out of twelve competing entries with 8 votes.
Before Eurovision
To select its entry, Televisión Española organised together with Radio Nacional de España the 2º Festival de la Canción Española at the Palau Nacional in Barcelona on 12–14 February 1970, hosted by Laura Valenzuela and Joaquín Prat. It was the second and final edition of the Festival. Twenty songs competed over three shows, with the winner song being decided upon through regional jury voting.Competing entries
Twenty compositions were selected to compete in the national final by the broadcaster, with two designated acts per song. As regulations only allowed a maximum of three performers and three backing vocalists, groups were able to compete by designating one or two vocalists, with the rest of the group featuring as backing vocalists. Some performers that had been initially selected withdrew or were replaced before the live shows.| Artist 1 | Artist 2 | Song | Songwriter |
| Johnny Valentino | Ángela Escribano | "Balada de invierno" | María José de Ceratto |
| Los Dos | Los 80 Centavos ' | "Balada del maderero" | Rafael García Loza, Julio Mengod |
| Elena | Ernesto | "Bienvenido" | Vicente Roca, Joan Solé Tutusaus |
| Karlo y las Hermanas Ros | Los Musicales ' | "Carrusel" | Joan Serracant, Vicente Sabater |
| Jaime Morey | Maya | "De pronto, tú" | Aurora Sánchez-Sousa, José Luís Pecker |
| Los Mismos ' | Gaby Berger | "Don Juan" | Lucía Graves, Ramón Farrán |
| Franciska | Nino Bravo | "Esa será mi casa" | Enrique Carnicer, Carmen Fons, Álvaro Sebastián |
| Rafaleón | Los Valldemosa ' | "Fiesta" | Lucía Graves, Ramón Farrán |
| Julio Iglesias | Rosy Armen | "Gwendolyne" | Julio Iglesias |
| Karolyne | Albert Band ' | "Hoy quiero cantar" | Joan Solé Tutusaus, Vicente Roca |
| Manolo, de Los Catiros | Rosalía | "Igual que yo" | Luisa Margarita Girón |
| Basilio | Voces Amigas ' | "Jamás la olvidaré" | Pablo Herrero, Carlos Fernández-Prida |
| Los Gritos ' | Cristina | "Me gusta, me gusta" | Ramón Simó, José Solá |
| Julio Ramos | Tuset 31 ' | "Novia para Miguel" | Juan Carlos Calderón |
| Luisita Tenor | Rosa Mary y Javier | "Sí, después" | Javier Vidal |
| Donna Hightower | Julián Granados | "Soy feliz" | Alfonso Sainz |
| Errol y Los Tops | Altamira 3 | "Tal vez mañana" | Carlos Bermúdez |
| Luciana Wolf | Vicente Pizarro | "Un manantial de barro" | José Ángel Cardona, Miguel Ángel Tapia |
| Voces Amigas ' | Mocedades ' | "Un mundo mejor" | José Luís Armenteros, Pablo Herrero |
| Mocedades ' | Tuset 31 ' | "Viejo marino" | Pedro Iturralde, Alberto Bourbon |
Semi-finals
The semi-finals took place on 12 and 13 February 1970. On both shows, ten songs were first performed by one of its assigned singers, and then again by the other singer. After the second semi-final, ten songs qualified for the final through jury voting from 15 regional RNE, TVE, and Radio Peninsular studios, each distributing five votes among their favourite songs. The number of votes received by each song was announced, but were not reflected in the official television excerpts from semi-final 2, or in contemporary reports.Final
The final took place on 14 February 1970. As in the semi-finals, each song was performed twice by its different performers. In the event that the winner song had two Spanish singers, the juries would vote again to decide which artist would perform the song at the Eurovision Song Contest; if the song was shared with a foreign artist, the Spanish singer would become the Eurovision representative. 15 regional juries, each distributing five votes among their favourite songs, selected "Gwendolyne" as the winning song. As Rosy Armen was a French singer, Julio Iglesias was automatically chosen as the Spanish artist for Eurovision.| Song | Total | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | "Igual que yo" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | "Balada del maderero" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | "De pronto, tú" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4 | "Fiesta" | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | "Jamás la olvidaré" | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||
| 6 | "Un mundo mejor" | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | "Sí, después" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Gwendolyne" | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 37 | ||
| 9 | "Me gusta, me gusta" | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | "Soy feliz" | 2 | 1 | 3 |
At Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was held on 21 March 1970 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Julio Iglesias performed "Gwendolyne" ninth in the running order, following and preceding. He was accompanied on stage by as backing singers. Augusto Algueró conducted the event's orchestra performance of the Spanish entry. The song received 8 votes, tying for the fourth place with and.TVE broadcast the contest in Spain on TVE 1 with commentary by José Luis Uribarri.
Voting
TVE assembled a jury panel with ten members, with each member giving one vote to their favourite song. The following members comprised the Spanish jury:- Juan Sierra y Gil de la Cuesta – lawyer and National Delegate of Culture
- María del Puy – actress
- Carlos Guisasola Estelar – vice president of the National Radio and Television Trade Union
- Blanca Núñez – fashion designer
- Pedro Ara Aísa – president of the Provincial Radio and Television Trade Union of Zaragoza and director of Radio Juventud de Zaragoza
- Javier Mateu – bachelor of physical sciences
- María Dolores García Rivas – agricultural technical engineer
- Juan Ignacio del Álamo – journalism student
- Lucía Cobo García – medical student
- Alfredo Medina del Río – agricultural mechanization technical engineer
| Score | Country |
| 3 votes | |
| 2 votes |
| Score | Country |
| 4 votes | |
| 3 votes | |
| 2 votes | |
| 1 vote |