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The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following the country's victory at the 1966 contest with the song "Merci, Chérie" by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the contest was held at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg on 8 April 1967, becoming the first contest held in the month of April, and was hosted by Austrian actress Erica Vaal.

Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Dates
Final	8 April 1967
Host
Venue	Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)	Erica Vaal
Musical director	Johannes Fehring
Directed by	Herbert Fuchs
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Executive producer	Karl Lackner
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 in final	Switzerland
Winning song	United Kingdom "Puppet on a String"
1966 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1968

Seventeen countries participated in the contest, one fewer than the record eighteen that had competed in the 1965 and 1966 editions. Denmark decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not to return until 1978.[1]

The United Kingdom 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 points 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.[1]

This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the 1968 edition onwards.

Location

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 of 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 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, Ireland, had announced its votes. She also ended the programme by congratulating the winning song and country, and saying "goodbye" in several different languages.[1]

Participating countries

Denmark 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 for the TV entertainment department at DR thought that the money could be spent in a better way.[1]

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". 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 the 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 was not 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.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Claudio Villa	Italy	1962
Kirsti Sparboe	Norway	1965
Raphael	Spain	1966

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[5][6]	Points	Place[7]
1	Netherlands	Thérèse Steinmetz	"Ring-dinge-ding"	Dutch	2	14
2	Luxembourg	Vicky	"L'amour est bleu"	French	17	4
3	Austria	Peter Horten	"Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt"	German	2	14
4	France	Noëlle Cordier	"Il doit faire beau là-bas"	French	20	3
5	Portugal	Eduardo Nascimento	"O vento mudou"	Portuguese	3	12
6	Switzerland	Géraldine	"Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?"	French	0	17
7	Sweden	Östen Warnerbring	"Som en dröm"	Swedish	7	8
8	Finland	Fredi	"Varjoon – suojaan"	Finnish	3	12
9	Germany	Inge Brück	"Anouschka"	German	7	8
10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	"Ik heb zorgen"	Dutch	8	7
11	United Kingdom	Sandie Shaw	"Puppet on a String"	English	47	1
12	Spain	Raphael	"Hablemos del amor"	Spanish	9	6
13	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	"Dukkemann"	Norwegian	2	14
14	Monaco	Minouche Barelli	"Boum-Badaboum"	French	10	5
15	Yugoslavia	Lado Leskovar	"Vse rože sveta"	Slovene	7	8
16	Italy	Claudio Villa	"Non andare più lontano"	Italian	4	11
17	Ireland	Sean Dunphy	"If I Could Choose"	English	22	2

Detailed voting results

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

Detailed voting results[8][9]

		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

Spokespersons

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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.

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 Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union via Intervision.[4]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS1	Emil Kollpacher
Belgium	RTB	French: Paule Herreman
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst [nl]
Finland	TV-ohjelma 1 and Yleisohjelma	Aarno Walli [fi]
France	Première Chaîne ORTF	Pierre Tchernia	[10]
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach [de]	[11]
Ireland	RTÉ	Brendan O'Reilly
	RTÉ Radio	Kevin Roche
Italy	Secondo Programma	Renato Tagliani [it]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Pierre Tchernia
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Leo Nelissen [nl]	[12]
Norway	NRK and NRK P1	Erik Diesen
Portugal	RTP	Henrique Mendes
Spain	Primera Cadena	Federico Gallo [es]
Sweden	Sveriges TV and SR P3	Christina Hansegård [sv]	[13]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]
	TSR	French: Robert Burnier	[10]
	TSI	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
United Kingdom	BBC1	Rolf Harris	[4]
	BBC Light Programme	Richard Baker
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Miloje Orlović [sr]
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Delić
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček [sl]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1967

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[ru] Евровидение-1967

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1967 — 12-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 8 апреля 1967 года в городе Вена (Австрия), в бальном зале дворца Хофбург. Победу впервые одержала песня, представляющая Великобританию — «Puppet on a String» («Марионетка») в исполнении Сэнди Шоу.

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