Eurovision Song Contest 1967 | |
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Dates | |
Final | 8 April 1967 |
Host | |
Venue | Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg Vienna, Austria |
Presenter(s) | Erica Vaal |
Musical director | Johannes Fehring |
Directed by | Herbert Fuchs |
Executive supervisor | Clifford Brown |
Executive producer | Karl Lackner |
Host broadcaster | Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) |
Interval act | "The Blue Danube" performed by Vienna Boys' Choir |
Website | eurovision |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 17 |
Debuting countries | None |
Returning countries | None |
Non-returning countries | ![]() |
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Vote | |
Voting system | Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs. |
Nul points in final | ![]() |
Winning song | ![]() "Puppet on a String" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following the country's victory at the 1966 contest with the song "Merci, Chérie" by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the contest was held at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg on Saturday 8 April 1967, becoming the first contest held in the month of April, and was hosted by Austrian actress Erica Vaal.
Seventeen countries participated in the contest, one fewer than the record eighteen that had competed in the 1965 and 1966 editions. Denmark decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not to return until 1978.[1]
The United Kingdom won the contest for the first time with the song "Puppet on a String", written and composed by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, and performed by Sandie Shaw. The entry 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. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song somewhat mellowed in later years, even releasing a new version in 2007.[1]
This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the 1968 edition onwards.
Location
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 of 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 unusual this year. There was a staircase in the middle of the stage as well as two revolving mirrored walls on both ends of the stage; they began revolving at the start of each song, and stopped at its end. A change in rule also required half of every nation's jury to be less than 30 years old.
The presenter Erica Vaal 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. She also ended the programme by congratulating the winning song and country, and saying "goodbye" in several different languages.[1]
Participating countries
Denmark chose not to participate this year and left the contest at this point, not to be returning again until 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 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". 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 the 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 was not racist.[1]
Conductors
Each performance had a conductor who was maestro of the orchestra.[3][4] This was the first contest to have a unique conductor for every entry, as prior contests usually had the host conductor conduct multiple entries in addition to their own country’s entry.
Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
Luxembourg – Claude Denjean
Austria – Johannes Fehring
France – Franck Pourcel
Portugal – Armando Tavares Belo
Switzerland – Hans Moeckel
Sweden – Mats Olsson
Finland – Ossi Runne
Germany – Hans Blum
Belgium – Francis Bay
United Kingdom – Kenny Woodman
Spain – Manuel Alejandro
Norway – Øivind Bergh
Monaco – Aimé Barelli
Yugoslavia – Mario Rijavec
Italy – Giancarlo Chiaramello
Ireland – Noel Kelehan
Returning artists
Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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Claudio Villa | ![]() |
1962 |
Kirsti Sparboe | ![]() |
1965 |
Raphael | ![]() |
1966 |
Participants and results
Order | Country | Artist | Song | Language[5][6] | Place[7] | Points |
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01 | ![]() |
Thérèse Steinmetz | "Ring-dinge-ding" | Dutch | 14 | 2 |
02 | ![]() |
Vicky | "L'amour est bleu" | French | 4 | 17 |
03 | ![]() |
Peter Horton | "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" | German | 14 | 2 |
04 | ![]() |
Noëlle Cordier | "Il doit faire beau là-bas" | French | 3 | 20 |
05 | ![]() |
Eduardo Nascimento | "O vento mudou" | Portuguese | 12 | 3 |
06 | ![]() |
Géraldine | "Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?" | French | 17 | 0 |
07 | ![]() |
Östen Warnerbring | "Som en dröm" | Swedish | 8 | 7 |
08 | ![]() |
Fredi | "Varjoon – suojaan" | Finnish | 12 | 3 |
09 | ![]() |
Inge Brück | "Anouschka" | German | 8 | 7 |
10 | ![]() |
Louis Neefs | "Ik heb zorgen" | Dutch | 7 | 8 |
11 | ![]() |
Sandie Shaw | "Puppet on a String" | English | 1 | 47 |
12 | ![]() |
Raphael | "Hablemos del amor" | Spanish | 6 | 9 |
13 | ![]() |
Kirsti Sparboe | "Dukkemann" | Norwegian | 14 | 2 |
14 | ![]() |
Minouche Barelli | "Boum-Badaboum" | French | 5 | 10 |
15 | ![]() |
Lado Leskovar | "Vse rože sveta" | Slovene | 8 | 7 |
16 | ![]() |
Claudio Villa | "Non andare più lontano" | Italian | 11 | 4 |
17 | ![]() |
Sean Dunphy | "If I Could Choose" | English | 2 | 22 |
Voting
The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history; the students from Vienna University who were operating the scoreboard made several errors during the telecast, which were corrected by the scrutineer. Hostess Erica Vaal also began to announce the winner before realising she had excluded the Irish jury.
Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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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 |
Spokespersons
Listed below is 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.
Netherlands – Corry Brokken (Dutch representative in 1956 and 1958; winner of the 1957 contest; host of the 1976 contest)
Luxembourg – TBC
Austria – Walter Richard Langer
France – André Claveau (Winner of the 1958 contest)
Portugal – Maria Manuela Furtado
Switzerland – Alexandre Burger
Sweden – Edvard Matz
Finland – Poppe Berg
Germany – Anaid Iplicjian (Host of the 1957 contest)
Belgium – Eugène Senelle
United Kingdom – Michael Aspel[4]
Spain – Margarita Nicola
Norway – Sverre Christophersen
Monaco – TBC
Yugoslavia – Saša Novak
Italy – Mike Bongiorno
Ireland – Gay Byrne
Broadcasts
Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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ČST | Unknown | [4] |
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Deutscher Fernsehfunk | Unknown | [4] |
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TVP | Unknown | [4] |
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CT USSR | Igor Kirillov | [4] |
References
- ^ a b c d e "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ Aeiou-Hofburg-English, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.
- ^ "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 433–443. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". 4Lyrics.eu. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Final of Vienna 1967". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Results of the Final of Vienna 1967". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 1967 – Scoreboard". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Programme TV du 8 au 14 avril". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 6 April 1967.
- ^ "Tag – TV-Programme". tvprogramme.net.
- ^ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
- ^ Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna [Melodifestivalen through time]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 66. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.
External links
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