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The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the 11th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the 1965 contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" by France Gall. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), the contest was held at the Villa Louvigny on 5 March 1966 and was hosted by Luxembourgish television presenter Josiane Chen.

Eurovision Song Contest 1966
Dates
Final	5 March 1966
Host
Venue	Villa Louvigny Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s)	Josiane Shen
Musical director	Jean Roderès
Directed by	Jos Pauly René Steichen
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster	Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/luxembourg-1966
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries awarded points (5, 3 and 1) to their three favourite songs.
Nul points in final	Italy  Monaco
Winning song	Austria "Merci, Chérie"
1965 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1967

Eighteen countries participated in the contest, the same that had competed the year before.

The winner was Austria with the song "Merci, Chérie", performed and composed by Udo Jürgens, and written by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger.[1] This was Udo Jürgens third consecutive entry in the contest, finally managing to score a victory for his native country Austria. Austria would not go on to win again until the 2014 edition. This was also the first winning song to be performed in German. The contest is also noted for its historic results for several countries. Austria who came first, Sweden who came second, Norway who came third and Belgium who came fourth all achieved their best results up until then, some of which would stand for several decades. In contrast traditional Eurovision heavyweights up to that point such as France, United Kingdom and Italy all achieved their worst result by far up till that point, with the general public in the aforementioned countries meeting these results with a degree of consternation.

The rule stating that a country could only sing in any of its national languages was originally created this year, possibly due to the 1965 edition's Swedish entry which was sung in English.[2]

Location

The 1966 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in Luxembourg City. The venue chosen to host the 1966 contest was the Villa Louvigny, which was also the venue for the 1962 edition. The building served as the headquarters of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, the forerunner of RTL Group. It is located in Municipal Park, in the Ville Haute quarter of the centre of the city.

Format

A new change in rules was introduced this year, allowing music experts to be present in the juries again. 1966 also marked the year the first ever black singer graced the Eurovision stage, Milly Scott representing the Netherlands. She was also the first singer to use a portable microphone.

This year's voting was also characterised with numerous cases of "neighbourly" or "bloc" voting - a problem that would plague the contest in many future decades. Sweden for example received all its 16 points, bar one, from its Nordic neighbours - as did Finland. Denmark likewise received all its points from Nordic nations. The voting of the Nordic countries was met with booing from the Luxembourg audience. Portugal and its sole neighbour Spain exchanged maximum five points, with Switzerland and Austria - also two countries neighbouring each other - doing likewise. France was spared the indignity of no points from its micro-state neighbour Monaco. Ireland awarded maximum points to its culturally closest neighbour the United Kingdom with Netherlands doing the same for Belgium.

During the voting process, the presenter (Josiane Chen) accidentally greeted United Kingdom by saying "Good night London". She then realized her mistake and said "Good evening, London". Afterwards Michael Aspel, who was the spokesperson for the United Kingdom at the time, responded by saying "Good morning, Luxembourg" prompting laughter from Josiane and the audience.

Participating countries

All countries who had participated in the 1965 contest returned for a second consecutive year.[2]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who was maestro of the orchestra.[3][4]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Domenico Modugno	Italy	1958, 1959
Udo Jürgens	Austria	1964, 1965

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[5][6]	Points	Place[7]
1	Germany	Margot Eskens	"Die Zeiger der Uhr"	German	7	10
2	Denmark	Ulla Pia	"Stop – mens legen er go'"	Danish	4	14
3	Belgium	Tonia	"Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel"	French	14	4
4	Luxembourg	Michèle Torr	"Ce soir je t'attendais"	French	7	10
5	Yugoslavia	Berta Ambrož	"Brez besed"	Slovene	9	7
6	Norway	Åse Kleveland	"Intet er nytt under solen"	Norwegian	15	3
7	Finland	Ann-Christine Nyström	"Playboy"	Finnish	7	10
8	Portugal	Madalena Iglésias	"Ele e ela"	Portuguese	6	13
9	Austria	Udo Jürgens	"Merci, Chérie"	German[lower-alpha 1]	31	1
10	Sweden	Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson	"Nygammal vals"	Swedish	16	2
11	Spain	Raphael	"Yo soy aquél"	Spanish	9	7
12	Switzerland	Madeleine Pascal	"Ne vois-tu pas ?"	French	12	6
13	Monaco	Téréza	"Bien plus fort"	French	0	17
14	Italy	Domenico Modugno	"Dio, come ti amo"	Italian	0	17
15	France	Dominique Walter	"Chez nous"	French	1	16
16	Netherlands	Milly Scott	"Fernando en Filippo"	Dutch	2	15
17	Ireland	Dickie Rock	"Come Back to Stay"	English	14	4
18	United Kingdom	Kenneth McKellar	"A Man Without Love"	English	8	9

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results[8][9]

		Total score	Germany	Denmark	Belgium	Luxembourg	Yugoslavia	Norway	Finland	Portugal	Austria	Sweden	Spain	Switzerland	Monaco	Italy	France	Netherlands	Ireland	United Kingdom
Contestants	Germany	7			1									5		1
	Denmark	4						1	3
	Belgium	14	5							3		1						5
	Luxembourg	7									1	5					1
	Yugoslavia	9	3						1											5
	Norway	15	1								3	3	3			5
	Finland	7		3				3										1
	Portugal	6		1									5
	Austria	31			5	5	5			1			1	3	5	3	3
	Sweden	16		5				5	5					1
	Spain	9					1			5										3
	Switzerland	12				1					5				3				3
	Monaco	0
	Italy	0
	France	1													1
	Netherlands	2																	1	1
	Ireland	14			3		3										5	3
	United Kingdom	8				3													5

5 points

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

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

Spokespersons

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Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1966 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. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Morocco, and in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union via Intervision.[3]

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	Skat Nørrevig
Finland	TV-ohjelma 1, Yleisradio	Aarno Walli [fi]	[10][12]
France	Première Chaîne ORTF	François Deguelt
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach [de]
Ireland	Telefís Éireann	Brendan O'Reilly
	Radió Éireann	Kevin Roche
Italy	Secondo Programma	Piero Angela
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	François Deguelt
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Teddy Scholten	[11][13]
Norway	NRK, NRK P1	Sverre Christophersen [no]
Portugal	RTP	Henrique Mendes
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]
Sweden	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Sven Lindahl	[12][14]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]
	TSR	French: Georges Hardy [fr]
	TSI	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
United Kingdom	BBC1	David Jacobs	[3]
	BBC Light Programme	John Dunn
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Miloje Orlović [sr]
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Delić
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

Incidents

Italian song arrangement

This was one of the first contests in which an entry was not accompanied by an orchestra. The Italian entry "Dio, come ti amo" performed by Domenico Modugno had been rearranged since its performance at the Sanremo Music Festival and officially broke the EBU rule that stated the arrangement should be finalised well in advance. During the Saturday afternoon rehearsal Modugno performed the new arrangement with three of his own musicians as opposed to the orchestra, which went over the three-minute time limit. Following his rehearsal Modugno was confronted by the show's producers about exceeding the time limit and was asked to use the original arrangement with the orchestra. Modugno was so dissatisfied with the orchestra that he threatened to withdraw from the contest. Both the producers and EBU scrutineer Clifford Brown felt it was too short notice to fly Gigliola Cinquetti to Luxembourg to represent Italy, so the EBU gave in and allowed Modugno to use his own ensemble instead of the orchestra. Despite websites and the official programme listing Angelo Giacomazzi as the conductor, Giacomazzi actually played the piano for the entry.[3][15]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1966

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[ru] Евровидение-1966

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1966 — 11-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 5 марта 1966 года в городе Люксембург (Люксембург), в Вилле Лувиньи, как и конкурс 1962 года. Начиная с этого конкурса и до 1973 года, участникам было разрешено петь только на государственном языке представляемой им страны.

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