Eurovision Song Contest 1967

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 8 April 1967 at the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} in Vienna, Austria, and presented by Erica Vaal. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (ORF), who staged the event after winning the Template:Escyr for Template:Esccnty with the song "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" by Udo Jürgens. It was the first contest held in the month of April.

Broadcasters from 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.<ref name=ESC1967 />

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.<ref name=ESC1967>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

Location

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{{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (ORF) staged the 1967 contest in Vienna, after winning the Template:Escyr for Template:Esccnty with the song "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" by Udo Jürgens. The venue selected was the Festival Hall of the Hofburg Palace.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With its Template:Convert of floor space, the Festival Hall is the largest room in the entire palace complex and was originally built as a throne room, but was never used as such. The Hofburg Palace was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire,<ref name=HofburgAE>Aeiou-Hofburg-English Template:Webarchive, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.</ref> and it currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

Participants

Template:Further Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 1967 participants Broadcasters from seventeen countries participated in the 1967 contest. Of the eighteen countries that participated in 1966 only Template:Esccnty was absent. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (DR) 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 of the television entertainment department thought that the money could be spent in a better way.<ref name=ESC1967 />

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, "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}", 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.<ref name=ESC1967 /> After winning the Sanremo Music Festival 1967, Italian participant Claudio Villa was due to perform the song "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}", but the song was disqualified due to being commercially released too early, and was replaced with "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
Template:Esc ORF Peter Horton lang}}" German Template:Hlist Johannes Fehring
Template:Esc BRT Louis Neefs lang}}" Dutch Template:Hlist Francis Bay
Template:Esc YLE Fredi lang}}" Finnish Template:Hlist Ossi Runne
Template:Esc ORTF Noëlle Cordier lang}}" 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 lang}}" Italian Template:Hlist Giancarlo Chiaramello
Template:Esc CLT Vicky lang}}" 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 lang}}" Norwegian Template:Hlist Øivind Bergh
Template:Esc RTP Eduardo Nascimento lang}}" Portuguese Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc TVE Raphael lang}}" Spanish Manuel Alejandro Manuel Alejandro
Template:Esc SR Östen Warnerbring lang}}" Swedish Template:Hlist Mats Olsson
Template:Esc SRG SSR Géraldine lang}}" French Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc BBC Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" English Template:Hlist Kenny Woodman
Template:Esc JRT Template:Ill lang}}" 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name=ESC1967 />

Contest overview

The contest took place on 8 April 1967, beginning at 22:00 CET.<ref name="BurgenländischeF" />

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1 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Ringe-dinge" 2 14
2 Template:Esc Vicky lang}}" 17 4
3 Template:Esc Peter Horton lang}}" 2 14
4 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 20 3
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 3 12
6 Template:Esc Géraldine lang}}" 0 17
7 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 7 8
8 Template:Esc Fredi lang}}" 3 12
9 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Anouschka" 7 8
10 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 8 7
11 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Puppet on a String" 47 1
12 Template:Esc Raphael lang}}" 9 6
13 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 2 14
14 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Boum-Badaboum" 10 5
15 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 7 8
16 Template:Esc Template:Sortname lang}}" 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.

Detailed voting results

The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history; the students from the University of Vienna 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 last jury to vote, the Irish jury.

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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

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reports estimated the global viewership to be 150 to 350 million viewers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="Roxburgh" />

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu ORF FS1 Emil Kollpacher <ref name="BurgenländischeF">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
Template:Flagu BRT BRT Template:Ill <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
RTB RTB Paule Herreman <ref name="Le Soir">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Luxemburger" />
RTB 3 Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Template:Flagu ORTF lang}}, France Inter Pierre Tchernia <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Radio" />
Template:Flagu ARD lang}} Template:Ill <ref name="Luxemburger" />
Template:Flagu RTÉ RTÉ Brendan O'Reilly <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
RTÉ Radio Kevin Roche <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu RAI lang}} Template:Ill <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu CLT lang}} Template:N/A <ref name="Luxemburger">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu NTS lang}} Template:Ill <ref name="Trouw">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
NRU lang}}Template:Efn Template:N/A <ref name="Trouw" />
Template:Flagu NRK lang}}, NRK Erik Diesen <ref name="Moss">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu RTP RTP Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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RNE RNE Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Ill Template:N/A <ref name="Barcelona">Template:Cite news</ref>
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Template:Flagu SR lang}}, SR P3 Template:Ill <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu SRG SSR TV DRS Template:N/A <ref name="Schweiz">Template:Cite news</ref>
TSR, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Robert Burnier <ref name="Je vois tout">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Radio">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
TSI Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Radio BernTemplate:Efn Template:N/A <ref name="Radio2">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu BBC BBC1 Rolf Harris <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
BFBS BFBS Radio Thurston Holland <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Flagu JRT lang}} Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu ČST Template:IllTemplate:Efn Template:Ill <ref name="Czechoslovakia">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu MTV MTV Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu TP lang}} Template:N/A <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu TVR TVRTemplate:Efn Template:N/A <ref name="Romania">Template:Cite news</ref>

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References

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