Eurovision Song Contest 1967

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Eurovision Song Contest 1967
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Dates
Final date 8 April 1967 (1967-04-08)
Host
Venue Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg
Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s) Erika Vaal
Conductor Johannes Fehring
Host broadcaster Austria ORF
Interval act Wiener Sängerknaben
Participants
Number of entries 17
Debuting countries None
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries  Denmark
Participation map
  • ESC 1967-68 Map.svg      Participating participants     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
Vote
Voting system Each country had 10 jury members who each cast one vote for their favourite song.
Nul points  Switzerland
Winning song  United Kingdom
"Puppet on a String"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest. The presenter became confused whilst the voting was taking place, and declared the United Kingdom's entry to be the winner before the last country, Ireland, had announced its votes. The winning entry "Puppet on a String", sung by Sandie Shaw had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition; it garnered more than twice as many votes as the second place song. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song has somewhat mellowed in recent years, even releasing a new version in 2007.

The entry from Luxembourg, "L'amour est bleu", sung by Vicky Leandros, came in fourth; nonetheless, it went on to become the biggest international hit of the 1967 contest, and a year later would be a big instrumental hit for French musician, Paul Mauriat, under the English version, "Love is Blue".

Denmark chose not to participate and left the contest at this point, to return in 1978. The reason was that the new director for the TV entertainment department at DR thought that the money could be spent in a better way[1].

The United Kingdom's win was their first. Television presenter, artist and musician, Rolf Harris provided the commentary for BBC Television viewers. Switzerland received zero votes for the second time.

Portugal was represented by Eduardo Nascimento who was the first black male singer in the history of Eurovision Song Contest, performing "O vento mudou" ("The wind changed"). Rumors claimed that Portuguese prime minister Salazar had chosen this particular singer to show the rest of Europe that he wasn't racist.

The stage setup was a little bit unusual this year. There were two revolving mirrored walls on both ends of the stage and started revolving at the start of each song and stopped revolving at the end of each song. The hostess, Erika Vaal ended the program by congratulating the winning song, country and saying good bye in several different languages.

Contents

[edit] Individual Entries

Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967

[edit] Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Votes
01  Netherlands Dutch Thérèse Steinmetz "Ring-dinge-ding" Ring-ding-a-ding 14 2
02  Luxembourg French Vicky Leandros "L'amour est bleu" Love is blue 4 17
03  Austria German Peter Horton "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" Why are there a hundred thousand stars 14 2
04  France French Noëlle Cordier "Il doit faire beau là-bas" The weather must be good there 3 20
05  Portugal Portuguese Eduardo Nascimento "O vento mudou" The wind changed 12 3
06  Switzerland French Géraldine "Quel cœur vas-tu briser?" Which heart are you going to break? 17 0
07  Sweden Swedish Östen Warnerbring "Som en dröm" Like a dream 8 7
08  Finland Finnish Fredi "Varjoon - suojaan" To the shadow – to safety 12 3
09  Germany German Inge Brück "Anouschka" – 8 7
10  Belgium Dutch Louis Neefs "Ik heb zorgen" I have worries 7 8
11  United Kingdom English Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" – 1 47
12  Spain Spanish Raphael "Hablemos del amor" Let's talk about love 6 9
13  Norway Norwegian Kirsti Sparboe "Dukkemann" Puppet man 14 2
14  Monaco French Minouche Barelli "Boum-Badaboum" – 5 10
15  Yugoslavia Slovene Lado Leskovar "Vse rože sveta" All the flowers of this world 8 7
16  Italy Italian Claudio Villa "Non andare più lontano" Don't go far away anymore 11 4
17  Ireland English Sean Dunphy "If I Could Choose" – 2 22

[edit] Score sheet

Results
Total Score Netherlands Luxembourg Austria France Portugal Switzerland Sweden Finland Germany Belgium United Kingdom Spain Norway Monaco Yugoslavia Italy Ireland
Contestants Netherlands 2 - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - 1
Luxembourg 17 4 - - - - - 2 - 1 2 1 - 1 1 3 2
Austria 2 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - 1 - -
France 20 1 2 1 - 1 4 - 2 - 2 - - 2 4 - 1
Portugal 3 - - - 1 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - -
Switzerland - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sweden 7 - - - - 1 - 1 - - - - 2 - 1 - 2
Finland 3 1 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - 1 -
Germany 7 - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 1 - 1 - - 1 1
Belgium 8 - - - - 1 - - 3 1 1 - - - 1 - 1
United Kingdom 47 2 5 3 7 1 7 1 2 3 3 - 7 3 - 2 1
Spain 9 1 1 1 - 2 - - - - 1 - - 2 1 - -
Norway 2 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - -
Monaco 10 - - 2 1 - - 1 - - - - 5 - - 1 -
Yugoslavia 7 - 1 - 1 1 - - - - 1 - 2 - - 1 -
Italy 4 - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 1 - - - 1
Ireland 22 - 1 3 - 1 - 2 2 4 3 2 - - 2 1 1

[edit] Returning artists

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Claudio Villa  Italy 1962
Kirsti Sparboe  Norway 1965
Raphael  Spain 1966

[edit] Commentators

[edit] Spokespersons

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 66. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
  2. ^ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival" (in Dutch). Eurovision Artists. http://www.eurovisionartists.nl/index.htm?content/esf480.asp. 
  3. ^ http://songcontest.free.fr/bdd/cec1967.htm
  4. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313354/fullcredits#cast
  5. ^ http://www.tvprogramme.net/view_tag.php?tag=1967-04-08
  6. ^ http://eurosongcontest.phpbb3.es/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=20310&start=45
  7. ^ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
  8. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313354/fullcredits#cast
  9. ^ http://www.infosajten.com/esc/esc/swedishspokesmen.html
  10. ^ http://www.viisukuppila.fi/phpBB3/yleista/topic1578.html?sid=4004772ec986da0c3795a6f5dd54f0d4
  11. ^ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
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