AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1979

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1979
Dates
Final	16th of May 1979
Host
Venue	Zafizamarrah Metrotheatre, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Muharimmi Yazlan
Musical director	Adi Hawrazamuddin
Directed by	Ishanaruddin Faturrahman
Executive supervisor	Izlan Darasvin
Executive producer	Yahmaddan Arfaza
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and two public votes where each votes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 for the best 5 songs

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1979 is the twenty-second edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition is held by the authorities in Radio Zafizamarrah. This is the ninth time that Pyalivostok hosted the event, after doing so in 1958, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973 and 1975, after Harun Samaruddin and the Creams won it for the region last year.

The competition was won by Hariya Al-Husma and Tea and Sugar with the song " الحمد لله " representing Zafizamarrah. This is the ninth time that Zafizamarrah won the competition after doing so in 1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1974, and 1978. This is also the third time that Zafizamarrah has won twice in a row. Song-wise, this is the first Islamic-religious song to win the Festival.

The Metropolitan City of Zafizamarrah is the biggest urban area in the Zafizamarrah region and in North Alezia as a whole even to this day. In 1979, the population of the city reached 1,888,939 people. The city acted as the center of trade and economy between the regions of North Alezia, and also acts as the capital of Alezian modern culture and media, including acting as the place of the headquarters of the National Office of AleziRadio.

The Zafizamarrah Metrotheatre was selected as the venue for this year's festival. The main room can contain 3,700 people at the same time, which puts the theatre as one of the biggest theatres in North Alezia at that time. During ARFOS however, the installment of cameras, additional tables for officials reduced the capacity to 3,200 people. For the first time, the orchestra pit was put directly on stage and also used for decorative measures.

Also, the competition year introduced the usage of steadicam to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs where one steadicam was installed to record contestants freely. The steadicam used was the only steadicam in the entire inventory of AleziRadio at the time. This is a massive feat considering that AleziRadio at that time received many budget cuts due to an economic crisis that North Alezia faced at the time.

Previously, AleziRadio planned to change Post Offices that would receive AleziRadio Festival of Songs Postal Votes every year. However, they concluded that this would be impractical, and thus the list of postal offices that would receive votes from 1978 returned onwards, thus giving the 18 postal offices a title of "The ARFOS Vote Offices".

For the first time as well, regional broadcasting system upgrades that was completed in 1976 was tested where it allows for regional commentators on both radio and television channels to comment on the event using their own languages for the competition. However, English and Arabic Commentary is prepared by AleziRadio themselves and is broadcasted nationwide (except for the Bristolian Broadcast for English and Zafizamarranian Broadcast for Arabic)

Previous frequency problems that were shown in the previous competition was also fixed for the live television broadcast. This means that the competition would progress without any interruptions.

Around this time, the voting system was also updated where now, each region still gives 5 songs points, however giving higher amounts of it, allowing each region to vote 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 points for 5 best songs.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Zafizamarrah	Muhammad Alif-Alamein
Pantabang Islands	Maja Ra'uda Salem
Tel Hadiv	Shiru Aklan
Bristol	William Barriere
Pyalivostok	Glenn Hashenkov
Basna	Putrawan Setyo
Mosin-Nagan	Beni Kalvayan
Daya Island	Auri Nokainen
Aramna	Riverzerie Maavelais

Commentators

The list of commentators can be seen below.

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	AleziRadio	English: Husnain Arfiz (AR-P1) Arabic : Mukhlis Hasdar (AR-P2)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Sa'id Dafnari (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Muhammad Yuzhari (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Ya'en Rama'i Dadon (RZ/P A) Dutch : Aalsterijk Sa'i'ue'i Salem (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sha'eshma Ra'el (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Carl Harry (RRB) French : Mauverin Dauberstone (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Hasan Stalenovich (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Titik Permata (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Berlyan Madanoshvili (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Anon Yaaveelman (RP / DS)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Selvada Rabatorraise (ARR)

Participating Entries and Results

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Sulaiman Rahmanurrahim	بطاقات بريدية	Postcards	Arabic	6	73
02	Pantabang Islands	Bella Ya'we Salem	Ma ha'ope O Ka'u La	Day After Day	Alezian	16	0
03	Zafizamarrah	Hariya Al-Husma and Tea and Sugar	الحمد لله	Thank God	Arabic	1	151
04	Tel Hadiv	Eshma Roshel	ורדים	Roses	Hebrew	17	0
05	Bristol	Samuel Jamaises	Preuve que je t'aime	Proof I Love You	French	13	13
06	Pyalivostok	Elena Saleynova	Кричи на меня	Shout At Me	Russian	7	64
07	Pantabang Islands	Dorothy Sa'el Dadon	Tweede kans	Second Chance	Dutch	9	49
08	Basna	Hatta Radjiman	Semua	All	Indonesian	14	6
09	Mosin-Nagan	Nava Yagashnan	ოცნებობს	Dreaming	Georgian	11	42
10	Daya Island	Baari Yaavolmann	Loputon	Never Ending	Finnish	18	0
11	Aramna	Beltou Raslavanais	Caldeous	Warm	Aramnan	3	100
12	Mosin-Nagan	Breni Yagashnan	ცხოვრობს	Live On	Georgian	15	5
13	Basna	Raman Yuni	Namanya	His Name	Indonesian	12	14
14	Pyalivostok	Andzeli Dzorovankov	Дорогой ангел	Dear Angel	Russian	5	80
15	Bristol	Alvin Robbs	Don't You Dare	-none-	English	2	146
16	Aramna	SANTAIS LIVELAIS TEAM	Dear Emilio	-none-	Aramnan	8	56
17	Tel Hadiv	Makosh and Yashesh Ameshmaim	תפילות	Prayers	Hebrew	10	48
18	Daya Island	Yaako Raadinen	Aikani	My Time	Finnish	4	87

Voting by Region

	ZF-1	ZF-2	PI-1	PI-2	TH-1	TH-2	BR-1	BR-2	PY-1	PY-2	BN-1	BN-2	MN-1	MN-2	DI-1	DI-2	AR-1	AR-2		ZF-P1	ZF-P2	PI-P1	PI-P2	TH-P1	TH-P2	BR-P1	BR-P2	PY-P1	PY-P2	BN-P1	BN-P2	MN-P1	MN-P2	DI-P1	DI-P2	AR-P1	AR-P2		TOTAL
بطاقات بريدية	XX	XX						5	3			5	10		1			10		XX	XX									7		10		5	10		7		73
Ma ha'ope O Ka'u La			XX	XX																		XX	XX																0
الحمد لله	XX	XX	10		7		3	10	7	5	3	7	7	5	10	5	7	5		XX	XX	10			5	3	7		10		5	1	5	10	1	3			151
ורדים					XX	XX																		XX	XX														0
Preuve que je t'aime		3					XX	XX		1				1			1						1			XX	XX	1									5		13
Кричи на меня	3	1		10		3			XX	XX	10							3							7		10	XX	XX	1			10	1		5			64
Tweede kans			XX	XX		1	1				5			3	3	7		1				XX	XX	10		5					3	3		7					49
Semua				1				1	1		XX	XX													3					XX	XX								6
ოცნებობს	7						10			3			XX	XX			10			3			3			1	1		1			XX	XX		3				42
Loputon															XX	XX																		XX	XX				0
Caldeous			7	7	5	10	7				7		3				XX	XX		10	10	1		7		7	5	7	7							XX	XX		100
ცხოვრობს			3		1						1		XX	XX																		XX	XX						5
Namanya											XX	XX																		XX	XX		1	3		10			14
Дорогой ангел	5	5	1		3			3	XX	XX			1	7		3				5	5			1	10	10	3	XX	XX	3					5		10		80
Don't You Dare	10	10			10		XX	XX				10		10	7	10	5	6		1	7	5	10	3		XX	XX	5	5		7	5	3		7	7	3		146
Dear Emilio	1			5		5			5	7		3				1	XX	XX			3	3	5	5					3		10					XX	XX		56
תפילות		7			XX	XX		7		10					5		3				1		7	XX	XX			3		5									48
Aikani			5	3		6	5		10			1	5		XX	XX				7		7			1			10		10	1	7	7	XX	XX	1	1		87