| Eurovision Song Contest 1964 |
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| Dates | |
| Final date | 21 March 1964 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Tivolis Koncertsal Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Presenter(s) | Lotte Wæver |
| Conductor | Kai Mortensen |
| Host broadcaster | DR |
| Interval act | Ballet-harlequinade |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
| Debuting countries | Portugal |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries | Sweden |
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| Voting system | 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. |
| Nul points | Germany Portugal Switzerland Yugoslavia |
| Winning song | Italy "Non ho l'età" |
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| ◄1963 1965► | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year. Sweden did not participate because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it. 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.
Italy's win was their first. Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia each scored nul points for the first time. Portugal was the first country to score no points on their debut. The Netherlands became the first country to send a singer of non-European ancestry, Anneke Grönloh was of Indonesian descent.
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 bested under the post-1974 scoring system.
As with the 1956 contest, no video recording of the actual contest performance is known to survive (although one does of the shorter winning reprise); however like the 1956 contest an audio recording does exist. (Videos of Cinquetti's Sanremo performance and her Eurovision winning reprise have both appeared on YouTube.) Reports say that this is because there was a fire at the studios of DR, the Danish broadcaster, in the 1970s. No other broadcaster recorded the entire show (although segments of the contest do exist in the archives of NDR Germany) other than for the Winners' reprise.
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| Luxembourg | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finland | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 5 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Monaco | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:
| N. | Recipient nation | Voting nation |
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| 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 |
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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| Anita Traversi | Switzerland | 1960 |
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