Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Dates
Final	8 April 1967
Host
Venue	Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg; Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)	Erica Vaal
Conductor	Johannes Fehring
Directed by	Herbert Fuchs
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster	Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Interval act	The Blue Danube by Wiener Sängerknaben
Participants
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Withdrawing countries	Denmark
	Participation map Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1967;
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
Nul points	Switzerland;
Winning song	United Kingdom; "Puppet on a String"

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 8 April 1967 in Vienna, Austria following Udo Jürgens win at the 1966 contest. The presenter was Erica Vaal.

The winning entry "Puppet on a String", sung by Sandie Shaw, representing the United Kingdom, had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition; it garnered more than twice as many points as the second placed song. (Only Italy, in the 1964 contest, beats this record with a margin of 47 to 17, almost three times as many points). 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. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song somewhat mellowed in later years, even releasing a new version in 2007.^[1]

The contest long remained the only time Austria had hosted the event, until 2015.

Location

Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg, Vienna – host venue of the 1967 contest.

The 1967 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The venue for the contest was the Hofburg Palace, which was the principal winter residence the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire.^[2] It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

Format

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.^[1] This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white.

Participating countries

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 title, "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"). Rumours claimed that Portuguese prime minister Salazar had chosen this particular singer to show the rest of Europe that he wasn't racist.^[1]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.^[3]

Netherlands - Dolf van der Linden
Luxembourg - Claude Denjean
Austria - Johannes Fehring
France - Franck Pourcel
Portugal - Armando Tavares Belo
Switzerland - Hans Möckel

Norway - Øivind Bergh
Monaco - Aimé Barelli
Yugoslavia - Mario Rijavec
Italy - Giancarlo Chiaramello
Ireland - Noel Kelehan

Returning artists

Three artists returned in this year's contest. Claudio Villa from Italy whose previous participations were in 1962; and Kirsti Sparboe from Norway, who last participated in 1965; and Raphael for Spain who last represented the Iberian nation in 1966.^[1]

Results

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language^[4]	Place	Points
01	Netherlands	Thérèse Steinmetz	"Ring-dinge-ding"	Dutch	14	2
02	Luxembourg	Vicky Leandros	"L'amour est bleu"	French	4	17
03	Austria	Peter Horton	"Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt"	German	14	2
04	France	Noëlle Cordier	"Il doit faire beau là-bas"	French	3	20
05	Portugal	Eduardo Nascimento	"O vento mudou"	Portuguese	12	3
06	Switzerland	Géraldine	"Quel cœur vas-tu briser?"	French	17	0
07	Sweden	Östen Warnerbring	"Som en dröm"	Swedish	8	7
08	Finland	Fredi	"Varjoon – suojaan"	Finnish	12	3
09	Germany	Inge Brück	"Anouschka"	German	8	7
10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	"Ik heb zorgen"	Dutch	7	8
11	United Kingdom	Sandie Shaw	"Puppet on a String"	English	1	47
12	Spain	Raphael	"Hablemos del amor"	Spanish	6	9
13	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Dukkemann"	Norwegian	14	2
14	Monaco	Minouche Barelli	"Boum-Badaboum"	French	5	10
15	Yugoslavia	Lado Leskovar	"Vse rože sveta"	Slovene	8	7
16	Italy	Claudio Villa	"Non andare più lontano"	Italian	11	4
17	Ireland	Sean Dunphy	"If I Could Choose"	English	2	22

Scoreboard


	Results
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	0
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

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1967 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.^[1]

Voting order	Country	Spokespersons	Commentator	Broadcaster
01	Netherlands	Ellen Blazer	Leo Nelissen	Nederland 1^[5]
02	Luxembourg	TBC	Jacques Navadic	Télé-Luxembourg
03	Austria	Walter Richard Langer	Emil Kollpacher	ORF
04	France	Jean-Claude Massoulier^[6]	Pierre Tchernia	Première Chaîne ORTF^[7]
05	Portugal	Maria Manuela Furtado	Henrique Mendes	RTP
06	Switzerland	Alexandre Burger	Theodor Haller	TV DRS
			Georges Hardy	TSR
			Giovanni Bertini	TSI
07	Sweden	Edvard Matz^[8]	Christina Hansegård	Sveriges Radio-TV and SR P3^[9]
08	Finland	Poppe Berg	Aarno Walli	TV-ohjelma 1 and Yleisohjelma^[10]
09	Germany	Lia Wöhr	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach	ARD Deutsches Fernsehen^[11]
10	Belgium	Ward Bogaert	Herman Verelst	BRT
10	Belgium	Ward Bogaert	Janine Lambotte	RTB
11	United Kingdom	Michael Aspel	Rolf Harris	BBC 1
11	United Kingdom	Michael Aspel	Richard Baker	BBC Light Programme
12	Spain	Margarita Nicola	Federico Gallo	TVE1
13	Norway	Sverre Christophersen^[12]	Erik Diesen	NRK and NRK P1
14	Monaco	TBC	Pierre Tchernia	Télé Monte Carlo
15	Yugoslavia	TBC	Miloje Orlović	Televizija Beograd
			Mladen Delić	Televizija Zagreb
			Tomaž Terček	Televizija Ljubljana
16	Italy	Mike Bongiorno	Renato Tagliani	Secondo Programma
17	Ireland	Gay Byrne	Brendan O'Reilly	RTÉ Television
17	Ireland	Gay Byrne	Kevin Roche	Radio Éireann

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". EBU. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
↑ Aeiou-Hofburg-English, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.
↑ "Conductors 1967". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
↑ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
↑ Tchernia, Pierre et al. (April 8, 1967). 11ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1967 [11th Eurovision Song Contest 1967] (Television production). Austria: ORF, ORTF (commentary).
↑ Christian Masson. "1967 – Vienne". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
↑ "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
↑ Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 66. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
↑ "The Eurovision Song Contest". 8 April 1967 – via IMDb.
↑ "Tag – TV-Programme". www.tvprogramme.net.
↑ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)

External links

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[ESC1967-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". EBU. Retrieved 15 June 2012.

[HofburgAE-2] Aeiou-Hofburg-English, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.

[Conductors-3] "Conductors 1967". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 15 June 2012.

[4] "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[5] "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).

[6] Tchernia, Pierre et al. (April 8, 1967). 11ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1967 [11th Eurovision Song Contest 1967] (Television production). Austria: ORF, ORTF (commentary).

[7] Christian Masson. "1967 – Vienne". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-10.

[8] "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-10.

[thorsson-9] Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 66. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2

[10] "The Eurovision Song Contest". 8 April 1967 – via IMDb.

[11] "Tag – TV-Programme". www.tvprogramme.net.

[12] Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)