Eurovision Song Contest 1965

The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the 10th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Naples, Italy, following Gigliola Cinquetti's win at the 1964 contest in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Non ho l'età". It was the first time the contest took place in Italy, also marking the first time the Italian Peninsula and Southern European country hosted the event. The contest was held at Sala di Concerto della RAI on Saturday 20 March 1965, and was hosted by Renata Mauro.

Eurovision Song Contest 1965
Dates
Final	20 March 1965
Host
Venue	Sala di Concerto della RAI Naples, Italy
Presenter(s)	Renata Mauro
Conductor	Gianni Ferrio
Directed by	Romolo Siena
Executive supervisor	Miroslav Vilček
Host broadcaster	Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)
Interval act	Mario Del Monaco
Website	eurovision.tv/event/naples-1965
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	Ireland
Returning countries	Sweden
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1965
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries awarded points (5, 3 and 1, or combinations thereof) to their three favourite songs.
Nul points	Belgium  Finland  Germany  Spain
Winning song	Luxembourg "Poupée de cire, poupée de son"

Eighteen countries participated in the contest - setting a new record for the highest number of entrants. Sweden returned after their absence from the previous edition, while Ireland made their debut.

The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", performed by France Gall, and written/composed by Serge Gainsbourg. This was Luxembourg's second victory in the contest, following their win in 1961. It was also the first winning song since the Netherlands' "Een beetje" in 1959 to not be a ballad.

For the fourth consecutive year, four countries all scored nul points; Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Spain - all of which finished with no points for the second time in the contest's history.[1]

Location

Sala di Concerto della RAI, Naples – host venue of the 1965 contest.

The contest took place in Naples, the capital of region Campania in southern Italy and the third-largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. This is Italy's first hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest. The host venue was the then new Sala di Concerto della RAI (RAI Production Centre of Naples), founded few years prior to the contest, in the late fifties and early sixties. It is located in Viale Marconi in the district of Fuorigrotta. The structure has three TV studios for a total of 1227 m² and capacity of 370 persons, used for the filming of programs and fiction and an auditorium. The Neapolitan song archives are also housed in it.[1][2]

Format

Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totalled and the first, second, and third placed songs were awarded 5, 3, and 1 votes in order. If only one song got every point within the jury it would get all 9 points. If only two songs were chosen, the songs would get 6 and 3 points in order.

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

18 countries took part, with the Eurovision Song Contest reaching its highest ever number. Sweden returned after a one-year absence, and Ireland debuted in the competition. Luxembourg won for the second time with the highly controversial Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son sung by teenager France Gall which later went on to be a massive hit in almost all European countries.[1] Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Spain all scored null points for the second time. The competition was also broadcast via the Intervision network, to the Eastern European nations for the very first time.[1]

Ingvar Wixell, the Swedish participant performed his song in English instead of the original Swedish title "Annorstädes vals". The native languages were used for all of the other participants. This led to a rule being introduced for the next 1966 edition, that meant all participants had to perform their songs using one of their national languages.[1]

Returning artists

Three artists returned for a second time in this year's contest: Udo Jürgens from Austria, whose previous participation was in 1964; Conchita Bautista from Spain, whose previous participation was in 1961; and Vice Vukov from Yugoslavia, who last participated in 1963.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who led the orchestra.[3][4]

•  Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
•  United Kingdom – Eric Robinson
•  Spain – Adolfo Ventas Rodríguez
•  Ireland – Gianni Ferrio
•  Germany – Alfred Hause
•  Austria – Gianni Ferrio
•  Norway – Øivind Bergh
•  Belgium – Gaston Nuyts
•  Monaco – Raymond Bernard
•  Sweden – William Lind
•  France – Franck Pourcel
•  Portugal – Fernando de Carvalho
•  Italy – Gianni Ferrio
•  Denmark – Arne Lamberth
•  Luxembourg – Alain Goraguer
•  Finland – George de Godzinsky
•  Yugoslavia – Radivoje Spasić
•   Switzerland – Mario Robbiani

Results

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language[5]	Place	Points
01	Netherlands	Conny Vandenbos	"'t Is genoeg"	Dutch	11	5
02	United Kingdom	Kathy Kirby	"I Belong"	English	2	26
03	Spain	Conchita Bautista	"¡Qué bueno, qué bueno!"	Spanish	15	0
04	Ireland	Butch Moore	"Walking the Streets in the Rain"	English	6	11
05	Germany	Ulla Wiesner	"Paradies, wo bist du?"	German	15	0
06	Austria	Udo Jürgens	"Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen"	German	4	16
07	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Karusell"	Norwegian	13	1
08	Belgium	Lize Marke	"Als het weer lente is"	Dutch	15	0
09	Monaco	Marjorie Noël	"Va dire à l'amour"	French	9	7
10	Sweden	Ingvar Wixell	"Absent Friend"	English	10	6
11	France	Guy Mardel	"N'avoue jamais"	French	3	22
12	Portugal	Simone de Oliveira	"Sol de inverno"	Portuguese	13	1
13	Italy	Bobby Solo	"Se piangi, se ridi"	Italian	5	15
14	Denmark	Birgit Brüel	"For din skyld"	Danish	7	10
15	Luxembourg	France Gall	"Poupée de cire, poupée de son"	French	1	32
16	Finland	Viktor Klimenko	"Aurinko laskee länteen"	Finnish	15	0
17	Yugoslavia	Vice Vukov	"Čežnja"	Croatian	12	2
18	Switzerland	Yovanna	"Non, à jamais sans toi"	French	8	8

Scoreboard

Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totalled and the first, second, and third placed songs were awarded 5, 3, and 1 votes in order. If only one song got every point within the jury it would get all 9 points. If only two songs were chosen, the songs would get 6 and 3 points in order.

		Voting results
		Total score	Netherlands	United Kingdom	Spain	Ireland	Germany	Austria	Norway	Belgium	Monaco	Sweden	France	Portugal	Italy	Denmark	Luxembourg	Finland	Yugoslavia	Switzerland
Contestants	Netherlands	5							5
	United Kingdom	26			5				1	6		3			1	5				5
	Spain	0
	Ireland	11												3	5				3
	Germany	0
	Austria	16		3		5								5	3
	Norway	1						1
	Belgium	0
	Monaco	7		5															1	1
	Sweden	6														3		3
	France	22	1		3	1	3				5						3	1	5
	Portugal	1									1
	Italy	15	3	1			1			3	3		3				1
	Denmark	10										5					5
	Luxembourg	32	5		1	3	5	5	3			1				1		5		3
	Finland	0
	Yugoslavia	2											1	1
Switzerland	8						3					5

5 points

Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Voting nation
4	Luxembourg	Austria, Finland, Germany, Netherlands
	United Kingdom	Belgium^1, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland
2	Austria	Ireland, Portugal
	France	Monaco, Yugoslavia
	Denmark	Luxembourg, Sweden
1	Ireland	Italy
	Monaco	United Kingdom
	Netherlands	Norway
	Switzerland	France

1.^ Belgium gave the United Kingdom 6 points.

Broadcasters, commentators and spokespersons

Spokespersons

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1964 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.[6]

1.  Netherlands – Dick van Bommel[7]
2.  United Kingdom – Alastair Burnet
3.  Spain – Pepe Palau
4.  Ireland – Frank Hall
5.  Germany – Lia Wöhr
6.  Austria – Walter Richard Langer
7.  Norway – Sverre Christophersen
8.  Belgium – Ward Bogaert
9.  Monaco – TBC
10.  Sweden – Edvard Matz[8]
11.  France – Jean-Claude Massoulier[9]
12.  Portugal – Maria Manuela Furtado
13.  Italy – Enzo Tortora
14.  Denmark – Claus Toksvig
15.  Luxembourg – TBC
16.  Finland – Poppe Berg
17.  Yugoslavia – Oliver Mlakar (Co-host of the 1990 contest)
18.   Switzerland – Alexandre Burger

Broadcasters and commentators

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)
Participating countries
Austria	ORF	Willy Kralik
Belgium	RTB	French: Paule Herreman	[6]
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst	[6]
Denmark	DR TV	Eric Danielsen	[6]
Finland	Suomen Televisio	Aarno Walli	[6]
	Yleisohjelma	Erkki Melakoski	[10]
France	Première Chaîne ORTF	Pierre Tchernia	[11][12]
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hermann Rockmann	[6][13]
Ireland	Telefís Éireann	Bunny Carr	[6]
	Radió Éireann	Kevin Roche
Italy	Programma Nazionale	Piero Angela	[6]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Pierre Tchernia	[12]
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Teddy Scholten	[6][14]
Norway	NRK and NRK P1	Erik Diesen	[6]
Portugal	RTP	Henrique Mendes	[6]
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo	[6]
Sweden	Sveriges TV and SR P1	Berndt Friberg	[6][15]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller
	TSR	French: Jean Charles	[11]
	TSI	Italian: Carlo Bonomi	[6]
United Kingdom	BBC1	David Jacobs	[6][4]
	BBC Light Programme	David Gell
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Miloje Orlović
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Delić
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček
Non-participating countries
Czechoslovakia	ČST	Unknown	[4]
East Germany	Deutscher Fernsehfunk	Unknown	[4]
Hungary	RTV	Unknown	[4]
Poland	TVP	Unknown	[4]
Romania	TVR	Unknown	[4]
Soviet Union	CT USSR	Unknown	[4]

References

1. "Eurovision Song Contest 1965". EBU. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
2. "Sala di Concerto della RAI". Radio.Rai. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
3. "andtheconductoris.eu". andtheconductoris.eu. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
4. Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 369–381. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
5. "Eurovision Song Contest 1965". The Diggiloo Thursh. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
6. "Eurovision 1965 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
7. "18 landen azen op het Eurovisie-goud", Limburgsch Dagblad, 20 March 1965
8. "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
9. Tchernia, Pierre et al. (20 March 1965). 14ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1965 [10th Eurovision Song Contest 1965] (Television production). Italy: RAI, ORTF (commentary).
10. "18 iskelmää osallistuu tänään Eurovisiokilpailuun Napolissa", Helsingin Sanomat, 20 March 1965
11. "Programme TV du 19 au 20 mars". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 11 March 1965.
12. Christian Masson. "1965 – Naples". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
13. "Tag – TV-Programme". www.tvprogramme.net. Archived from the original on 22 November 2005.
14. "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
15. Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 54. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.

External links

• Official website