| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| Year: | 1965 |
| Final: | 20 March 1965 |
| Presenters: | Renata Mauro |
| Musdirector: | Gianni Ferrio |
| Director: | Romolo Siena |
| Exsupervisor: | Miroslav Vilček |
| Winner: | "French: [[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]|i=unset" |
| Vote: | Ten-member juries awarded points (5, 3 and 1, or combinations thereof) to their three favourite songs. |
| Host: | Italian: [[RAI|Radiotelevisione italiana]]|i=unset (RAI) |
| Venue: | Italian: [[Sala di Concerto della RAI]]|i=unset Naples, Italy |
| Entries: | 18 |
| Nonreturn: | None |
| Bluenosemis: | Y |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the tenth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Naples, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Italian: [[RAI|Radiotelevisione italiana]]|i=unset (RAI), the contest was held at Italian: [[Sala di Concerto della RAI]]|i=unset on 20 March 1965, and was hosted by Italian singer Renata Mauro.
Eighteen countries participated in the contest - setting a new record for the highest number of entrants in the competition until that point. returned after being absent from the previous edition, while made its debut.
Luxembourg won for the second time with the highly controversial "French: [[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]|i=unset" sung by the French singer France Gall, and written by Serge Gainsbourg, which later went on to be a massive hit in almost all European countries. It was the first winning song since the ' "Dutch; Flemish: [['n Beetje|Een beetje]]|i=unset" in to not be a ballad, being the first pop song to ever win the competition. For the fourth consecutive year, four countries all scored nul points;,,, and - all of which finished with no points for the second time in the contest's history.[1]
The contest took place in Naples, the capital of region Campania in southern Italy and the third-largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. This was Italy's first hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest. The host venue was the then new Italian: [[Sala di Concerto della RAI]]|i=unset (RAI Concert Hall) belonging to the RAI Production Centre of Naples, founded few years prior to the contest. It is located in Viale Marconi in the district of Fuorigrotta. The structure has three TV studios for a total of 1227 m2 and capacity of 370 persons, used for the filming of programs and fiction and an auditorium. The Neapolitan song archives are also housed in it.[2]
18 countries took part, with the Eurovision Song Contest reaching its highest number until then. Sweden returned after a one-year absence, and Ireland entered for the first time. Ireland and Sweden would later become the most successful countries in the competition, scoring seven wins each.
| + Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1965[3] [4] [5] | |||||||
| Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | Songwriter(s) | Conductor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORF | Udo Jürgens | "German: Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen|i=unset" | German | Gianni Ferrio | |||
| BRT | Lize Marke | "Dutch; Flemish: Als het weer lente is|i=unset" | Dutch | Gaston Nuyts | |||
| DR | Birgit Brüel | "Danish: For din skyld|i=unset" | Danish | Arne Lamberth | |||
| YLE | Viktor Klimenko | "Finnish: Aurinko laskee länteen|i=unset" | Finnish | George de Godzinsky | |||
| ORTF | Guy Mardel | "French: N'avoue jamais|i=unset" | French | Franck Pourcel | |||
| NDR | Ulla Wiesner | "German: Paradies, wo bist du?|i=unset" | German | Alfred Hause | |||
| RÉ | Butch Moore | "I'm Walking the Streets in the Rain" | English | Gianni Ferrio | |||
| RAI | Bobby Solo | "Italian: [[Se piangi, se ridi]]|i=unset" | Italian | Gianni Ferrio | |||
| CLT | France Gall | "French: [[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]|i=unset" | French | Serge Gainsbourg | Alain Goraguer | ||
| TMC | Marjorie Noël | "French: Va dire à l'amour|i=unset" | French | Raymond Bernard | |||
| NTS | Conny Vandenbos | "Dutch; Flemish: Het is genoeg|i=unset" | Dutch | Dolf van der Linden | |||
| NRK | Kirsti Sparboe | "Norwegian: Karusell|i=unset" | Norwegian | Jolly Kramer-Johansen | Øivind Bergh | ||
| RTP | Simone de Oliveira | "Portuguese: Sol de inverno|i=unset" | Portuguese | Fernando de Carvalho | |||
| TVE | Conchita Bautista | "Spanish; Castilian: Qué bueno, qué bueno|i=unset" | Spanish | Antonio Figueroa Egea | Adolfo Ventas Rodríguez | ||
| SR | Ingvar Wixell | "Absent Friend" | English | William Lind | |||
| SRG SSR | Yovanna | "French: Non, à jamais sans toi|i=unset" | French | Mario Robbiani | |||
| BBC | Kathy Kirby | "I Belong" | English | Eric Robinson | |||
| JRT | Vice Vukov | "Čežnja|i=unset" (Чежња) | Serbo-Croatian | Radivoje Spasić |
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conchita Bautista | |||
| Vice Vukov | |||
| Udo Jürgens |
Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totalled 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.
Ingvar Wixell, the Swedish participant performed his song in English instead of the original Swedish title "Annorstädes vals". The native languages were used for all of the other participants. This led to a rule being introduced for the next 1966 edition, that meant all participants had to perform their songs using one of their national languages.
| + Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1965[7] | ||||||
| Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dutch; Flemish: Het is genoeg|i=unset" | 5 | 11 | |||
| 2 | "I Belong" | 26 | 2 | |||
| 3 | "Spanish; Castilian: Qué bueno, qué bueno|i=unset" | 0 | 15 | |||
| 4 | "I'm Walking the Streets in the Rain" | 11 | 6 | |||
| 5 | "German: Paradies, wo bist du?|i=unset" | 0 | 15 | |||
| 6 | "German: Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen|i=unset" | 16 | 4 | |||
| 7 | "Norwegian: Karusell|i=unset" | 1 | 13 | |||
| 8 | "Dutch; Flemish: Als het weer lente is|i=unset" | 0 | 15 | |||
| 9 | "French: Va dire à l'amour|i=unset" | 7 | 9 | |||
| 10 | "Absent Friend" | 6 | 10 | |||
| 11 | "French: N'avoue jamais|i=unset" | 22 | 3 | |||
| 12 | "Portuguese: Sol de inverno|i=unset" | 1 | 13 | |||
| 13 | "Italian: [[Se piangi, se ridi]]|i=unset" | 15 | 5 | |||
| 14 | "Danish: For din skyld|i=unset" | 10 | 7 | |||
| 15 | "French: [[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]|i=unset" | 32 | 1 | |||
| 16 | "Finnish: Aurinko laskee länteen|i=unset" | 0 | 15 | |||
| 17 | "Čežnja|i=unset" | 2 | 12 | |||
| 18 | Yovanna | "French: Non, à jamais sans toi|i=unset" | 8 | 8 |
Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1965 contest are listed below.
| + Detailed voting results[10] [11] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| scope="col" | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 26 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Spain | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 16 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Norway | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| France | 22 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Portugal | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Denmark | 10 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 32 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||
| Finland | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 8 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:
| N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 5 points |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | ,,, | |
| ,,, | ||
| 2 | , | |
| , | ||
| , | ||
| 1 | ||
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, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union via Intervision.
| + Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries | ||||
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORF | ORF | [13] | ||
| BRT | BRT | [14] | ||
| RTB | RTB | |||
| French: [[La Première (Belgium)|Radio Une]]|i=unset | ||||
| DR | DR TV | [15] | ||
| YLE | Finnish: [[Yle TV1|TV-ohjelma 1]]|i=unset | [16] [17] | ||
| Finnish: {{ill|Yleisohjelma|fi|Yleisohjelma (Suomen Yleisradio) | ||||
| Finnish: Ruotsinkielinen ula-ohjelma|i=unset | Jerker Sundholm | |||
| ORTF | French: [[TF1|Première Chaîne]]|i=unset, France Inter | Pierre Tchernia | ||
| ARD | German: [[Das Erste|Deutsches Fernsehen]]|i=unset | [18] | ||
| RÉ | Irish: [[RTÉ One|Telefís Éireann]]|i=unset | Bunny Carr | [19] [20] | |
| Irish: [[RTÉ Radio 1|Radió Éireann]]|i=unset | ||||
| RAI | Italian: [[Rai 1|Programma Nazionale]]|i=unset, Italian: [[Rai Radio 2|Secondo Programma]]|i=unset | [21] [22] | ||
| CLT | French: [[RTL9|Télé-Luxembourg]]|i=unset | [23] | ||
| NTS | Dutch; Flemish: [[NPO 1|Nederland 1]]|i=unset | Teddy Scholten | [24] [25] | |
| NRU | Dutch; Flemish: [[NPO Radio 1|Hilversum 2]]|i=unset | |||
| NRK | Norwegian: [[NRK1|NRK Fjernsynet]]|i=unset, NRK | Erik Diesen | [26] | |
| RTP | RTP | [27] | ||
| TVE | TVE, TVE Canarias | [28] [29] [30] | ||
| RNE | RNE | |||
| SR | Swedish: [[SVT1|Sveriges TV]]|i=unset, SR P1 | |||
| SRG SSR | TV DRS | [31] | ||
| TSR | [32] | |||
| TSI | [33] [34] | |||
| RSR 1 | ||||
| RSI 1 | ||||
| BBC | BBC1 | David Jacobs | [35] [36] | |
| JRT | [[RTS1 (Serbian TV channel)|Televizija Beograd]]|i=unset | [37] | ||
| Slovenian: [[Radiotelevizija Slovenija|Televizija Ljubljana]]|i=unset | [38] | |||
| [[HRT 1|Televizija Zagreb]]|i=unset | [39] |
| + Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries | |||||
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ČST | ČST | [40] | |||
| MTV | MTV | [41] | |||
| MBA | MTV | Victor Aquilina | [42] | ||
| TP | Polish: [[TVP1|TV Polska]]|i=unset | [43] |