Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Eurovision Song Contest 1967 | ||||
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Dates | ||||
Final date | 8 April 1967 | |||
Host | ||||
Venue | Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg Vienna, Austria | |||
Presenter(s) | Erica Vaal | |||
Conductor | Johannes Fehring | |||
Director | Herbert Fuchs | |||
Executive supervisor | Clifford Brown | |||
Host broadcaster | Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) | |||
Interval act | Wiener Sängerknaben | |||
Participants | ||||
Number of entries | 17 | |||
Debuting countries | None | |||
Returning countries | None | |||
Withdrawing countries | Denmark | |||
Participation map
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Vote | ||||
Voting system | Each country had 10 jury members who each cast one vote for their favourite song. | |||
Nul points | ||||
Winning song | United Kingdom "Puppet on a String" | |||
Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of Eurovision Song Contest. It took place on 8 April 1967 in Vienna, Austria following Udo Jürgens win at the 1966 contest. The presenter was Erica Vaal.
The winning entry "Puppet on a String", sung by Sandie Shaw 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. (Only Italy, in the 1964 contest, beats this record with a margin of 47 to 17, almost three times as many points). The presenter 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. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song somewhat mellowed in later years, even releasing a new version in 2007.[1]
The contest long remained the only time Austria had hosted the event, until 2014 when the victory of Conchita Wurst secured Austria's hosting of the contest in 2015.
Location
Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. The city lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2] It is regarded as the City of Music[3] because of its musical legacy, Vienna is also said to be "The City of Dreams" because it was home to the world's first psycho-analyst Sigmund Freud,[4] The City's roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, as well as the late-19th-century Ringstrasse lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks.[5]
The venue for the 1967 contest was the Hofburg Palace, which was the principal winter residence the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire.[6] It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.
Format
The stage setup was a little bit unusual this year. There were two revolving mirrored walls on both ends of the stage and started revolving at the start of each song and stopped revolving at the end of each song. The hostess, Erika Vaal ended the program by congratulating the winning song, country and saying good bye in several different languages.[1]
Participating countries
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". Denmark chose not to participate and left the contest at this point, to return in 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 United Kingdom's win was their first. 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 Eurovision Song 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 wasn't racist.[1]
Conductors
Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.[7]
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Returning artists
Three artists returned in this year's contest. Claudio Villa from Italy whose previous participations were in 1962; and Kirsti Sparboe from Norway, who last participated in 1965; and Raphael for Spain who last represented the Iberian nation in 1966.[1]
Results
Draw | Country | Language[8] | Artist | Song | English translation | Place | Votes |
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01 | Netherlands | Dutch | Thérèse Steinmetz | "Ring-dinge-ding" | Ring-ding-a-ding | 14 | 2 |
02 | Luxembourg | French | Vicky Leandros | "L'amour est bleu" | Love is blue | 4 | 17 |
03 | Austria | German | Peter Horton | "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" | Why are there a hundred thousand stars | 14 | 2 |
04 | France | French | Noëlle Cordier | "Il doit faire beau là-bas" | The weather must be good there | 3 | 20 |
05 | Portugal | Portuguese | Eduardo Nascimento | "O vento mudou" | The wind changed | 12 | 3 |
06 | Switzerland | French | Géraldine | "Quel cœur vas-tu briser?" | Which heart are you going to break? | 17 | 0 |
07 | Sweden | Swedish | Östen Warnerbring | "Som en dröm" | Like a dream | 8 | 7 |
08 | Finland | Finnish | Fredi | "Varjoon - suojaan" | To the shadow – to safety | 12 | 3 |
09 | Germany | German | Inge Brück | "Anouschka" | – | 8 | 7 |
10 | Belgium | Dutch | Louis Neefs | "Ik heb zorgen" | I have worries | 7 | 8 |
11 | United Kingdom | English | Sandie Shaw | "Puppet on a String" | – | 1 | 47 |
12 | Spain | Spanish | Raphael | "Hablemos del amor" | Let's talk about love | 6 | 9 |
13 | Norway | Norwegian | Kirsti Sparboe | "Dukkemann" | Puppet man | 14 | 2 |
14 | Monaco | French | Minouche Barelli | "Boum-Badaboum" | – | 5 | 10 |
15 | Yugoslavia | Slovene | Lado Leskovar | "Vse rože sveta" | All the flowers of this world | 8 | 7 |
16 | Italy | Italian | Claudio Villa | "Non andare più lontano" | Don't go far away anymore | 11 | 4 |
17 | Ireland | English | Sean Dunphy | "If I Could Choose" | – | 2 | 22 |
Scoreboard
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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 |
International broadcasts and voting
The table below shows 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. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.[1]
Voting order | Country | Spokespersons | Commentator | Broadcaster |
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01 | Netherlands | Ellen Blazer | Leo Nelissen | Nederland 1[9] |
02 | Luxembourg | TBC | Jacques Navadic | Télé-Luxembourg |
03 | Austria | Ernst Grissemann | Emil Kollpacher | ORF |
04 | France | TBC | Pierre Tchernia | Première Chaîne ORTF[10] |
05 | Portugal | Maria Manuela Furtado | Henrique Mendes | RTP |
06 | Switzerland | Alexandre Burger | Theodor Haller | TV DRS |
Georges Hardy | TSR | |||
Giovanni Bertini | TSI | |||
07 | Sweden | Edvard Matz[11] | Christina Hansegård | Sveriges Radio-TV and SR P3[12] |
08 | Finland | Poppe Berg[13] | Aarno Walli | TV-ohjelma 1[14] |
09 | Germany | Lia Wöhr | Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach | ARD Deutsches Fernsehen[15] |
10 | Belgium | Jan Theys | Herman Verelst | BRT |
Janine Lambotte | RTB | |||
11 | United Kingdom | Michael Aspel | Rolf Harris | BBC 1 |
Richard Baker | BBC Light Programme | |||
12 | Spain | Margarita Nicola[16] | Federico Gallo | TVE1[17] |
13 | Norway | Sverre Christophersen[18] | Erik Diesen | NRK and NRK P1 |
14 | Monaco | TBC | Pierre Tchernia | Télé Monte Carlo |
15 | Yugoslavia | TBC | Miloje Orlović | Televizija Beograd |
Mladen Delić | Televizija Zagreb | |||
Tomaž Terček | Televizija Ljubljana | |||
16 | Italy | Mike Bongiorno | Renato Tagliani | Secondo Programma |
17 | Ireland | Gay Byrne | Brendan O'Reilly | RTÉ Television |
Kevin Roche | Radio Éireann |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". EBU. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ "Historic Centre of Vienna". UNESCO.
- ↑ "Vienna - the City of Music - VIENNA – NOW OR NEVER". Wien.info. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
- ↑ BBC Documentary - Vienna - The City of Dreams
- ↑ "Historic Centre of Vienna". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
- ↑ Aeiou-Hofburg-English, "Hofburg, Wien" (history), Encyclopedia of Austria, Aeiou Project, 2006.
- ↑ "Conductors 1967". 4Lyrics.com. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1967". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
- ↑ Christian Masson. "1967 - Vienne". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 66. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
- ↑ "Selostajat ja taustalaulajat läpi vuosien? • Viisukuppila". Viisukuppila.fi. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313354/fullcredits#cast
- ↑ http://www.tvprogramme.net/view_tag.php?tag=1967-04-08
- ↑ Línea, 2 April 1967
- ↑ "FORO FESTIVAL DE EUROVISIÓN • Ver Tema - Uribarri comentarista Eurovision 2010". Eurosongcontest.phpbb3.es. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ↑ Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
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