Eurovision Song Contest 1967

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following Udo Jürgens' win at the 1966 contest in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg with the song "Merci, Chérie". It was the first time the event took place in Austria. The contest was held at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg on Saturday 8 April 1967, and was hosted by Erica Vaal.

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" performed by Vienna Boys' Choir
Website	eurovision.tv/event/vienna-1967
Participants
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning 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"

Seventeen countries participated in the contest. This was one fewer than the record eighteen that competed in the 1965 and 1966 editions. Denmark did not enter after its 1966 participation, and left the contest at this point, not set to return until 1978.[1]

The winner was the United Kingdom with the song "Puppet on a String", performed by Sandie Shaw, and written/composed by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. This was the United Kingdom's first victory in the contest and also the first winning song to be performed in English. 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. (Only Italy, in the 1964 contest, beats this record with a margin of 49 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 unusual this year. There were two revolving mirrored walls on both ends of the stage and they started revolving at the start of each song and stopped revolving at the end of each song. The hostess, Erica 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

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

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 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

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[5]	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

The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history, with students from Vienna University operating the scoreboard making 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.

		Results
		Total score	Netherlands	Luxembourg	Austria	France	Portugal	Switzerland	Sweden	Finland	Germany	Belgium	United Kingdom	Spain	Norway	Monaco	Yugoslavia	Italy	Ireland
Contestants	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

Broadcasters, commentators and spokespersons

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.[6]

1.  Netherlands – Corry Brokken (Dutch representative in 1956 and 1958; winner of the 1957 contest; host of the 1976 contest)
2.  Luxembourg – TBC
3.  Austria – Walter Richard Langer
4.  France – André Claveau (Winner of the 1958 contest)
5.  Portugal – Maria Manuela Furtado
6.   Switzerland – Alexandre Burger
7.  Sweden – Edvard Matz
8.  Finland – Poppe Berg
9.  Germany – Anaid Iplicjian (Host of the 1957 contest)
10.  Belgium – Eugène Senelle
11.  United Kingdom – Michael Aspel[4]
12.  Spain – Margarita Nicola
13.  Norway – Sverre Christophersen
14.  Monaco – TBC
15.  Yugoslavia – TBC
16.  Italy – Mike Bongiorno
17.  Ireland – Gay Byrne

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	FS1	Emil Kollpacher
Belgium	RTB	French: Paule Herreman
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst	[6]
Finland	TV-ohjelma 1 and Yleisohjelma	Aarno Walli	[6]
France	Première Chaîne ORTF	Pierre Tchernia	[6][7]
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach	[6][8]
Ireland	RTÉ	Brendan O'Reilly	[6]
	RTÉ Radio	Kevin Roche
Italy	Secondo Programma	Renato Tagliani
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Pierre Tchernia
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Leo Nelissen	[6][9]
Norway	NRK and NRK P1	Erik Diesen	[6]
Portugal	RTP	Henrique Mendes	[6]
Spain	Primera Cadena	Federico Gallo	[6]
Sweden	Sveriges TV and SR P3	Christina Hansegård	[6][10]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller	[6]
	TSR	French: Robert Burnier	[7]
	TSI	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
United Kingdom	BBC1	Rolf Harris	[6][4]
	BBC Light Programme	Richard Baker
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]
Poland	TVP	Unknown	[4]
Soviet Union	CT USSR	Unknown	[4]

References

1. "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". EBU. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
2. Aeiou-Hofburg-English, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.
3. "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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. 433–443. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
5. "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
6. "Eurovision 1967 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
7. "Programme TV du 8 au 14 avril". Radio TV - Je vois tout. Lausanne, Switzerland: Le Radio SA. 6 April 1967.
8. "Tag – TV-Programme". www.tvprogramme.net.
9. "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
10. Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 66. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.

External links

• Official website