Eurovision Song Contest 1967

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following the country's victory at the Template:Escyr with the song "" by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (ORF), the contest was held at the on 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 Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr editions. Template:Esccnty decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not returning until Template:Escyr.

The Template:Esccnty 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 votes 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.

This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the Template:Escyr edition onwards.

Location

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, 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 Festival Hall of the Hofburg Palace, which was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

Participants

Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1967 participants 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.

The contest featured three representatives who had previously performed as lead artists for the same country. Claudio Villa had represented Template:Esccnty, Kirsti Sparboe had represented Template:Esccnty, and Raphael had represented Template:Esccnty.

The entry from Luxembourg, "", sung by Vicky Leandros, came in fourth; nonetheless, it went on to become one of the biggest hits 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". Portugal was represented by Eduardo Nascimento, who was the first black male singer in the history of the contest; rumours claimed that Portuguese prime minister Salazar had chosen this particular singer to show the rest of Europe that he was not racist. After winning the Festival di Sanremo 1967, Italian participant Claudio Villa was due to perform the song "", but the song was disqualified due to being commercially released too early, and was replaced with "".

Eurovision Song Contest 1967 participants

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	Peter Horton	""	German	Template:Hlist	Johannes Fehring
Template:Esc	BRT	Louis Neefs	""	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Francis Bay
Template:Esc	YLE	Fredi	""	Finnish	Template:Hlist	Ossi Runne
Template:Esc	ORTF	Noëlle Cordier	""	French	Template:Hlist	Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc	HRTemplate:Efn	Inge Brück	"Anouschka"	German	Hans Blum	Hans Blum
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Sean Dunphy	"If I Could Choose"	English	Template:Hlist	Noel Kelehan
Template:Esc	RAI	Claudio Villa	""	Italian	Template:Hlist	Giancarlo Chiaramello
Template:Esc	CLT	Vicky	""	French	Template:Hlist	Claude Denjean
Template:Esc	TMC	Minouche Barelli	"Boum-Badaboum"	French	Template:Hlist	Aimé Barelli
Template:Esc	NTS	Thérèse Steinmetz	"Ringe-dinge"	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Dolf van der Linden
Template:Esc	NRK	Kirsti Sparboe	""	Norwegian	Template:Hlist	Øivind Bergh
Template:Esc	RTP	Eduardo Nascimento	""	Portuguese	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	TVE	Raphael	""	Spanish	Manuel Alejandro	Manuel Alejandro
Template:Esc	SR	Östen Warnerbring	""	Swedish	Template:Hlist	Mats Olsson
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Géraldine	""	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	BBC	Sandie Shaw	"Puppet on a String"	English	Template:Hlist	Kenny Woodman
Template:Esc	JRT	Template:Ill	""	Slovene	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill

Format

Following the confirmation of the seventeen competing countries, the draw to determine the running order of the contest was held on 21 March 1967.

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, Template:Esccnty, had announced its votes. She also ended the programme by congratulating the winning song and country, and saying "goodbye" in several different languages.

Contest overview

The contest took place on 8 April 1967, beginning at 22:00 CET.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1967

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Ringe-dinge"	2	14
2	Template:Esc	Vicky	""	17	4
3	Template:Esc	Peter Horton	""	2	14
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	20	3
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	3	12
6	Template:Esc	Géraldine	""	0	17
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	7	8
8	Template:Esc	Fredi	""	3	12
9	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Anouschka"	7	8
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	8	7
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Puppet on a String"	47	1
12	Template:Esc	Raphael	""	9	6
13	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	2	14
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Boum-Badaboum"	10	5
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	7	8
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	""	4	11
17	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"If I Could Choose"	22	2

Spokespersons

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1967 contest are listed below.

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• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndGay Byrne
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• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMichael Aspel

Detailed voting results

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.

Detailed voting results

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rowspan="17" Template:Vert header	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

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Reports estimated the global viewership to be 150 to 350 million viewers.

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union via Intervision.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS1	Emil Kollpacher
Template:Flagu	BRT	BRT	Template:N/A
	RTB	RTB	Paule Herreman
		RTB 3	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	YLE	,	Template:Ill
			Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	ORTF	, France Inter	Pierre Tchernia
Template:Flagu	ARD		Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ	Brendan O'Reilly
		RTÉ Radio	Kevin Roche
Template:Flagu	RAI		Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	CLT		Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NTS		Template:Ill
	NRU	Template:Efn	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NRK	, NRK	Erik Diesen
Template:Flagu	RTP	RTP	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TVE	TVE 1, TVE CanariasTemplate:Efn	Template:Ill
	RNE	RNE	Template:N/A
		Template:Ill	Template:N/A
	Template:Ill		Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	SR	, SR P3	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS	Template:N/A
		TSR,	Robert Burnier
		TSI	Template:N/A
		Radio BernTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC1	Rolf Harris
	BFBS	BFBS Radio	Thurston Holland
Template:Flagu	JRT		Template:N/A
			Template:N/A
			Template:N/A

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ČST	ČSTTemplate:Efn	Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	MTV	MTV	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TP		Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TVR	TVRTemplate:Efn	Template:N/A

External links

• Template:Official website