Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Dates
Final8 April 1967
Host
VenueGroßer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg
Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)Erica Vaal
Musical directorJohannes Fehring
Directed byHerbert Fuchs
Executive supervisorClifford Brown
Executive producerKarl Lackner
Host broadcasterÖsterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/vienna-1967 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries17
Debuting countriesNone
Non-returning countries Denmark
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of EuropeBelgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1967
Vote
Voting systemTen-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
Winning song United Kingdom
"Puppet on a String"
1966 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1968

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.

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 returning until 1978.

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.

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

Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg, Vienna – host venue of the 1967 contest

The 1967 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The venue for the contest was the Festival Hall of the Hofburg Palace, which was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

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.

The entry from Luxembourg, "L'amour est bleu", sung by Vicky Leandros, came in fourth; nonetheless, it went on to become one of the biggest hits 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". Portugal was represented by Eduardo Nascimento, who was the first black male singer in the history of the contest; rumours claimed that Portuguese prime minister Salazar had chosen this particular singer to show the rest of Europe that he was not racist.

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
 Austria ORF Peter Horton "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" German
  • Karin Bognar
  • Kurt Peche
Johannes Fehring
 Belgium BRT Louis Neefs "Ik heb zorgen" Dutch
  • Paul Quintens
  • Phil Van Cauwenbergh
Francis Bay
 Finland YLE Fredi "Varjoon – suojaan" Finnish
Ossi Runne
 France ORTF Noëlle Cordier "Il doit faire beau là-bas" French Franck Pourcel
 Germany HR Inge Brück "Anouschka" German Hans Blum Hans Blum
 Ireland RTÉ Sean Dunphy "If I Could Choose" English
Noel Kelehan
 Italy RAI Claudio Villa "Non andare più lontano" Italian
Giancarlo Chiaramello
 Luxembourg CLT Vicky "L'Amour est bleu" French Claude Denjean
 Monaco TMC Minouche Barelli "Boum-Badaboum" French Aimé Barelli
 Netherlands NTS Thérèse Steinmetz "Ringe-dinge" Dutch
Dolf van der Linden
 Norway NRK Kirsti Sparboe "Dukkemann" Norwegian Øivind Bergh
 Portugal RTP Eduardo Nascimento "O vento mudou" Portuguese
  • Nuno Nazareth Fernandes
  • João Magalhães Pereira
Tavares Belo
 Spain TVE Raphael "Hablemos del amor" Spanish Manuel Alejandro Manuel Alejandro
 Sweden SR Östen Warnerbring "Som en dröm" Swedish
Mats Olsson
  Switzerland SRG SSR Géraldine "Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?" French
  • Daniël Faure
  • Gérard Gray
Hans Moeckel
 United Kingdom BBC Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" English Kenny Woodman
 Yugoslavia JRT Lado Leskovar "Vse rože sveta" Slovene
  • Urban Koder
  • Milan Lindič
Mario Rijavec

Returning artists

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

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.

Contest overview

The contest took place on 8 April 1967, beginning at 22:00 CET (21:00 UTC).

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1967
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1  Netherlands Thérèse Steinmetz "Ringe-dinge" 2 14
2  Luxembourg Vicky "L'Amour est bleu" 17 4
3  Austria Peter Horton "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" 2 14
4  France Noëlle Cordier "Il doit faire beau là-bas" 20 3
5  Portugal Eduardo Nascimento "O vento mudou" 3 12
6   Switzerland Géraldine "Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?" 0 17
7  Sweden Östen Warnerbring "Som en dröm" 7 8
8  Finland Fredi "Varjoon – suojaan" 3 12
9  Germany Inge Brück "Anouschka" 7 8
10  Belgium Louis Neefs "Ik heb zorgen" 8 7
11  United Kingdom Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" 47 1
12  Spain Raphael "Hablemos del amor" 9 6
13  Norway Kirsti Sparboe "Dukkemann" 2 14
14  Monaco Minouche Barelli "Boum-Badaboum" 10 5
15  Yugoslavia Lado Leskovar "Vse rože sveta" 7 8
16  Italy Claudio Villa "Non andare più lontano" 4 11
17  Ireland Sean Dunphy "If I Could Choose" 22 2

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1967 contest are listed below.

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
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

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. A press report estimated the global viewership to be 150 million viewers.

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below. In addition to the participating countries, the contest was also reportedly broadcast in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union via Intervision.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS1 Emil Kollpacher
 Belgium BRT BRT Unknown
RTB RTB Paule Herreman
 Finland YLE TV-ohjelma 1, Yleisohjelma [fi] Aarno Walli [fi]
Ruotsinkielinen ulaohjelma Unknown
 France ORTF Première Chaîne, France Inter Pierre Tchernia
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach [de]
 Ireland RTÉ RTÉ Unknown
RTÉ Radio Unknown
 Italy RAI Secondo Programma Renato Tagliani [it]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg Unknown
 Monaco Télé Monte-Carlo Unknown
 Netherlands NTS Nederland 1 Leo Nelissen [nl]
NRU Hilversum 1 Unknown
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet, NRK Erik Diesen
 Portugal RTP RTP Unknown
 Spain TVE TVE 1 Federico Gallo [es]
RNE RNE Unknown
 Sweden SR Sveriges TV, SR P3 Christina Hansegård [sv]
  Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Unknown
TSR, RSR 2 Robert Burnier
TSI Unknown
DRS 2 Unknown
 United Kingdom BBC BBC1 Rolf Harris
 Yugoslavia JRT Televizija Ljubljana Unknown
Televizija Zagreb Unknown
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Hungary MTV MTV Unknown
 Romania TVR TVR Unknown

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