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Melodifestivalen 1966
Dates
Final29 January 1966
Host
VenueCirkus, Stockholm
Presenter(s)Sven Lindahl
Vote
Voting systemRegional juries
Winning song"Nygammal vals" by Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson
Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen 1966 (known as the Svensk sångfinal) was the selection for the eighth song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the seventh time that this system of picking a song had been used. 898 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV but was not broadcast on radio.

Results

Place Artist Song Songwriters Points
1st Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson "Nygammal vals" Bengt-Arne Wallin, Björn Lindroth 26
2nd Carli Tornehave "Monte Carlo" Bengt Arne Wallin, Carl Gyllenberg 19
3rd Gunnar Wiklund "Vinterrosor" Britt Lindeborg 14
4th Ann-Louise Hanson "En ballad om för längesen" Robert Meyer, Gösta Rybrant 9
5th Gunilla af Malmborg "Var finns du?" Ulf Björlin, Lars Forsell 8
5th Carli Tornehave "Härliga Söndag" Bo-Göran Edling, Peter Himmelstrand 8
7th Svante Thuresson "Hej systrar, hej bröder" Åke Gerhard 6
8th Monica Nielsen "En röd vals" Jan Johansson, Kerstin Bergström 5
9th Gunwer Bergquist "Vårens vindar" Torbjörn Lundqvist, Maud Lundqvist 4
10th Gunnar Wiklund "Vad har jag kvar" Berndt Öst, Peter Himmelstrand 0

See also