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The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the 9th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the country's victory at the 1963 contest with the song "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR), the contest was held at Tivolis Koncertsal on 21 March 1964, and was hosted by Danish TV presenter Lotte Wæver.

Eurovision Song Contest 1964
Dates
Final	21 March 1964
Host
Venue	Tivolis Koncertsal Copenhagen, Denmark
Presenter(s)	Lotte Wæver
Musical director	Kai Mortensen
Directed by	Poul Leth Sørensen
Executive supervisor	Miroslav Vilček
Host broadcaster	Danmarks Radio (DR)
Opening act	Tivoli Youth Guard
Interval act	Ballet-Harlequinade
Website	eurovision.tv/event/copenhagen-1964
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	Portugal
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	Sweden
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1964
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries awarded points (5, 3 and 1) to their three favourite songs.
Nul points in final	Germany  Portugal   Switzerland  Yugoslavia
Winning song	Italy "Non ho l'età"
1963 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1965

Sixteen countries participated in the contest. Portugal made its debut this year, while Sweden decided not to enter.

The winner of the contest was Italy with the song "Non ho l'età", performed by Gigliola Cinquetti, written by Nicola Salerno and composed by Mario Panzeri. At the age of 16 years and 92 days, Gigliola Cinquetti became the youngest winner of the contest yet; a record she held until 1986.[1] The entry had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition. It garnered almost three times as many points as the second-placed song.

Location

The host venue for the contest was Tivolis Koncertsal (Tivoli Concert Hall) in Denmark's capital city Copenhagen, which lies within Denmark's famous amusement park and pleasure garden Tivoli Gardens. The park, alluding by its name to the Jardin de Tivoli that existed in Paris, was opened on 15 August 1843, and is the second oldest amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg.[2]

Format

Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totaled 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.[3]

The contest this year was highly politicised with demands that right-wing dictatorships in Spain and Portugal should be excluded from the contest. This controversy became apparent during the contest as just before the Belgian entry, a man entered the stage holding a banner saying "Boycott Franco and Salazar". He was quickly removed from the stage. This alarmed the audience, to where the camera footage cut to the scoreboard, however, photographs were taken and released after the event. This would be the very first stage invasion in the contest's history.

The immediate response of the Koncertsal audience to the Italian entry was markedly enthusiastic and prolonged and, most unusually for a contest performance, after leaving the stage Gigliola Cinquetti was allowed to return to take a second bow. Her performance was given an unscheduled repeat on British television the following afternoon. In the event, she won the most crushing victory in the history of the contest, with a score almost three times that of her nearest rival, a feat extremely unlikely ever to be beaten under the post-1974 scoring system.

Lost recordings

As with the 1956 contest, no complete video recording of the actual contest is known to have survived; however, unlike the 1956 contest (where the interval act is mostly missing), a complete audio recording does exist in the form of the DR radio broadcast. Some clips of the contest have survived, including part of the opening ceremonies, including some of presenter Lotte Wæver's welcoming remarks, as well as the majority of the repeat performance of "Non ho l'età" from the end of the broadcast. For some time, there was a rumour that a copy of the entire contest existed in the French television archives.[4] In 2021, INA confirmed to Wiwibloggs that the French television archives do not possess a copy of the contest.[5]

A persistent myth, even repeated on the official Eurovision site, is that the tape was destroyed in a fire in the 1970s. More recent interviews with DR, however, state that the broadcast was never recorded in the first place, allegedly due to no tape machines being available at the studio at the time.[6] The audio of the entire show, however, is still available online, and some short video clips and photos remain available.[7]

Participating countries

Sweden did not participate this year because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it. Portugal competed in the contest for the first time, however they became the first country to score nul points on their début entry. Germany, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia also scored nul points for the first time. The Netherlands became the first country to send a singer of non-European ancestry, Anneke Grönloh who was of Indonesian descent.[3] Spain decided to send the Spanish group Los TNT who were the first group of three or more participants in the history of the contest.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Anita Traversi	Switzerland	1956 (backing vocals), 1960

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.[8][9]

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[10][11]	Points	Place[12]
1	Luxembourg	Hugues Aufray	"Dès que le printemps revient"	French	14	4
2	Netherlands	Anneke Grönloh	"Jij bent mijn leven"	Dutch	2	10
3	Norway	Arne Bendiksen	"Spiral"	Norwegian	6	8
4	Denmark	Bjørn Tidmand	"Sangen om dig"	Danish	4	9
5	Finland	Lasse Mårtenson	"Laiskotellen"	Finnish	9	7
6	Austria	Udo Jürgens	"Warum nur, warum?"	German	11	6
7	France	Rachel	"Le Chant de Mallory"	French	14	4
8	United Kingdom	Matt Monro	"I Love the Little Things"	English	17	2
9	Germany	Nora Nova	"Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne"	German	0	13
10	Monaco	Romuald	"Où sont-elles passées"	French	15	3
11	Portugal	António Calvário	"Oração"	Portuguese	0	13
12	Italy	Gigliola Cinquetti	"Non ho l'età"	Italian	49	1
13	Yugoslavia	Sabahudin Kurt	"Život je sklopio krug" (Живот је склопио круг)	Serbo-Croatian	0	13
14	Switzerland	Anita Traversi	"I miei pensieri"	Italian	0	13
15	Belgium	Robert Cogoi	"Près de ma rivière"	French	2	10
16	Spain	Tim, Nelly and Tony	"Caracola"	Spanish	1	12

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results[13][14]

		Total score	Luxembourg	Netherlands	Norway	Denmark	Finland	Austria	France	United Kingdom	Germany	Monaco	Portugal	Italy	Yugoslavia	Switzerland	Belgium	Spain
Contestants	Luxembourg	14		3					3		5			3
	Netherlands	2				1				1
	Norway	6				5	1
	Denmark	4			1													3
	Finland	9			3	3				3
	Austria	11												5			1	5
	France	14	1					3				5	3		1			1
	United Kingdom	17		1	5		3	1	1		1					5
	Germany	0
	Monaco	15	3						5						3	1	3
	Portugal	0
	Italy	49	5	5			5	5		5	3	3	5		5	3	5
	Yugoslavia	0
	Switzerland	0
	Belgium	2										1	1
	Spain	1												1

5 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 5 points
8	Italy	Austria,  Belgium,  Finland,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  Portugal,  United Kingdom,  Yugoslavia
2	Austria	Italy,  Spain
	United Kingdom	Norway,   Switzerland
1	France	Monaco
	Luxembourg	Germany
	Monaco	France
	Norway	Denmark

Spokespersons

This section needs additional citations for verification. (June 2021)

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.

Broadcasts

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Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	Willy Kralik [de]
Belgium	RTB	French: Paule Herreman
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst [nl]
Denmark	DR TV	No commentator
Finland	Suomen Televisio	Aarno Walli [fi]
	Yleisohjelma	Erkki Melakoski [fi]
France	Première Chaîne RTF	Robert Beauvais
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hermann Rockmann [de]
Italy	Programma Nazionale	Renato Tagliani [it]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Robert Beauvais
Netherlands	NTS	Ageeth Scherphuis	[15]
Norway	NRK, NRK P1	Odd Grythe
Portugal	RTP	A. Gomes Ferreira
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]
	TSR	French: Robert Burnier	[16]
	TSI	Italian: Renato Tagliani
United Kingdom	BBC TV	David Jacobs	[9]
	BBC Light Programme	Tom Sloan
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Miloje Orlović [sr]
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Gordana Bonetti [hr]
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Sweden	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Sven Lindahl	[17]

Incidents

Stage invasion

A political protest occurred after the Swiss entry: a man trespassed onto the stage holding a banner that read "Boycott Franco & Salazar". Whilst this was going on, television viewers were shown a shot of the scoreboard; once the man was removed the contest went on.[18]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1964

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[ru] Евровидение-1964

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1964 — девятый конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 21 марта 1964 года в Копенгагене (Дания), в концертном зале парка Тиволи. Швеция не смогла принять участие в конкурсе из-за забастовки артистов, но число его участников осталось равным 16, так как к их числу присоединилась Португалия. Победителем на этот раз стала Италия с песней «Non ho l’étà» («Я слишком молода»), исполненной 16-летней Джильолой Чинкветти. Песня получила 65,3 % от возможного максимума очков (49 из 75-и), что на тот момент было рекордным относительным показателем. Видеозапись конкурса не сохранилась в связи с пожаром в датском телецентре.

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