| Eurovision Song Contest 1967 | |
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| Date and venue | |
| Final |
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| Venue | Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg Vienna, Austria |
| Organisation | |
| Organiser | European Broadcasting Union (EBU) |
| Scrutineer | Clifford Brown |
| Production | |
| Host broadcaster | Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) |
| Director | Herbert Fuchs |
| Executive producer | Karl Lackner |
| Musical director | Johannes Fehring |
| Presenter | Erica Vaal |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 17 |
| Non-returning countries |  Denmark |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Ten-member juries in each country; each member gave one vote to their favourite song |
| Winning song |  United Kingdom"Puppet on a String" |
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TheEurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of theEurovision Song Contest, held on 8 April 1967 at theGroßer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg inVienna, Austria, and presented byErica Vaal. It was organised by theEuropean Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcasterÖsterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), who staged the event after winning the1966 contest forAustria with the song "Merci, Chérie" byUdo Jürgens. It was the first contest held in the month of April.
Broadcasters from seventeen countries participated in the contest, one fewer than the record eighteen that had competed in the1965 and1966 editions.Denmark decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not returning until1978.[1]
TheUnited Kingdom won the contest for the first time with the song "Puppet on a String", written and composed byBill Martin andPhil Coulter, and performed bySandie Shaw. The entry had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition; it garnered more than twice as many votes 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 produced in black and white as it would begin to be produced in colour from the1968 edition onwards.
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) staged the 1967 contest inVienna, after winning the1966 contest forAustria with the song "Merci, Chérie" byUdo Jürgens. The venue selected was the Festival Hall of theHofburg Palace.[2] With its 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) of floor space, the Festival Hall is the largest room in the entire palace complex and was originally built as a throne room, but was never used as such. The Hofburg Palace was the principal winter residence of theHabsburg dynasty, rulers of theAustro-Hungarian empire,[3] and it currently serves as the official residence of thePresident of Austria.
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1967 – Participation summaries by country | |
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Broadcasters from seventeen countries participated in the 1967 contest. Of the eighteen countries that participated in 1966 onlyDenmark was absent.Danmarks Radio (DR) 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 of the television entertainment department thought that the money could be spent in a better way.[1]
The contest featured three representatives who had previously performed as lead artists for the same country.Claudio Villa had representedItaly in 1962,Kirsti Sparboe had representedNorway in 1965, andRaphael had representedSpain in 1966.
The entry from Luxembourg, "L'amour est bleu", sung byVicky 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 byEduardo Nascimento, who was the first black male singer in the history of the contest.[1] After winning theSanremo Music Festival 1967, Italian participantClaudio Villa was due to perform the song "Non pensare a me", but the song was disqualified due to being commercially released too early, and was replaced with "Non andare più lontano".[4]
Following the confirmation of the seventeen competing countries, the draw to determine the running order of the contest was held on 21 March 1967.[8]
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]
The contest took place on 8 April 1967, beginning at 22:00CET.[9]
| R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Votes | Place |
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| 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 |
Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1967 contest are listed below.
Finland – Poppe Berg [fi][11][12] Ireland – Gay Byrne[13] Luxembourg – Paul Ulveling [lb][14] Norway – Sverre Christophersen [no][15] Sweden – Edvard Matz [sv][16] United Kingdom – Michael Aspel[6]The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history; the students from theUniversity of Vienna 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 last jury to vote, the Irish jury.
Total score | Netherlands | Luxembourg | Austria | France | Portugal | Switzerland | Sweden | Finland | Germany | Belgium | United Kingdom | Spain | Norway | Monaco | Yugoslavia | Italy | Ireland | ||
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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 | |||||||
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.[19] Reports estimated the global viewership to be 150 to 350 million viewers.[20][21]
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 viaIntervision.[6]
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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 Czechoslovakia | ČST | ČST [cs][e] | Vladimír Dvořák [cz] | [54] |
 Hungary | MTV | MTV | [55] | |
 Poland | TP | TV Polska | [56] | |
 Romania | TVR | TVR[f] | [57] |
Guten abend meine damen und herren ihr spricht Emil Kollpacher aus dem großen Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg.
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