| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Size: | 200px |
| Final: | 8 April 1967 |
| Presenters: | Erica Vaal |
| Musdirector: | Johannes Fehring |
| Director: | Herbert Fuchs |
| Exsupervisor: | Clifford Brown |
| Exproducer: | Karl Lackner |
| Winner: | "Puppet on a String" |
| Vote: | Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs. |
| Host: | German: [[ORF (broadcaster)|Österreichischer Rundfunk]]|i=unset (ORF) |
| Venue: | German: [[Hofburg#Festival Hall Wing|Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg]]|i=unset Vienna, Austria |
| Entries: | 17 |
| Debut: | None |
| Map Nosemis: | Y |
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 with the song "French: [[Merci, Chérie]]|i=unset" by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster German: [[ORF (broadcaster)|Österreichischer Rundfunk]]|i=unset (ORF), the contest was held at the German: [[Hofburg#Festival Hall Wing|Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg]]|i=unset 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 and editions. decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not returning until .
The 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.[1]
This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the edition onwards.
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,[2] which was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire.[3] It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.
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, "French: [[L'amour est bleu]]|i=unset", 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[4] [5] [6] | |||||||
| Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | Songwriter(s) | Conductor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORF | Peter Horton | "German: Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt|i=unset" | German | Johannes Fehring | |||
| BRT | Louis Neefs | "Dutch; Flemish: Ik heb zorgen|i=unset" | Dutch | Francis Bay | |||
| YLE | Fredi | "Finnish: Varjoon – suojaan|i=unset" | Finnish | Ossi Runne | |||
| ORTF | Noëlle Cordier | "French: Il doit faire beau là-bas|i=unset" | French | Franck Pourcel | |||
| HR | Inge Brück | "Anouschka" | German | Hans Blum | Hans Blum | ||
| RTÉ | Sean Dunphy | "If I Could Choose" | English | Noel Kelehan | |||
| RAI | Claudio Villa | "Italian: Non andare più lontano|i=unset" | Italian | Giancarlo Chiaramello | |||
| CLT | Vicky | "French: [[L'amour est bleu]]|i=unset" | French | Claude Denjean | |||
| TMC | Minouche Barelli | "Boum-Badaboum" | French | Aimé Barelli | |||
| NTS | Thérèse Steinmetz | "Ringe-dinge" | Dutch | Dolf van der Linden | |||
| NRK | Kirsti Sparboe | "Norwegian: Dukkemann|i=unset" | Norwegian | Øivind Bergh | |||
| RTP | Eduardo Nascimento | "Portuguese: O vento mudou|i=unset" | Portuguese | Tavares Belo | |||
| TVE | Raphael | "Spanish; Castilian: Hablemos del amor|i=unset" | Spanish | Manuel Alejandro | Manuel Alejandro | ||
| SR | Östen Warnerbring | "Swedish: Som en dröm|i=unset" | Swedish | Mats Olsson | |||
| SRG SSR | Géraldine | "French: Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?|i=unset" | French | Hans Moeckel | |||
| BBC | Sandie Shaw | "Puppet on a String" | English | Kenny Woodman | |||
| JRT | Lado Leskovar | "Slovenian: Vse rože sveta|i=unset" | Slovene | Mario Rijavec |
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claudio Villa | |||
| Kirsti Sparboe | |||
| Raphael |
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,, had announced its votes. She also ended the programme by congratulating the winning song and country, and saying "goodbye" in several different languages.
| + Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1967[8] | ||||||
| Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Ringe-dinge" | 2 | 14 | |||
| 2 | Vicky | "French: [[L'amour est bleu]]|i=unset" | 17 | 4 | ||
| 3 | Peter Horton | "German: Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt|i=unset" | 2 | 14 | ||
| 4 | "French: Il doit faire beau là-bas|i=unset" | 20 | 3 | |||
| 5 | "Portuguese: O vento mudou|i=unset" | 3 | 12 | |||
| 6 | Géraldine | "French: Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?|i=unset" | 0 | 17 | ||
| 7 | "Swedish: Som en dröm|i=unset" | 7 | 8 | |||
| 8 | Fredi | "Finnish: Varjoon – suojaan|i=unset" | 3 | 12 | ||
| 9 | "Anouschka" | 7 | 8 | |||
| 10 | "Dutch; Flemish: Ik heb zorgen|i=unset" | 8 | 7 | |||
| 11 | "Puppet on a String" | 47 | 1 | |||
| 12 | Raphael | "Spanish; Castilian: Hablemos del amor|i=unset" | 9 | 6 | ||
| 13 | "Norwegian: Dukkemann|i=unset" | 2 | 14 | |||
| 14 | "Boum-Badaboum" | 10 | 5 | |||
| 15 | "Slovenian: Vse rože sveta|i=unset" | 7 | 8 | |||
| 16 | "Italian: Non andare più lontano|i=unset" | 4 | 11 | |||
| 17 | "If I Could Choose" | 22 | 2 |
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[13] [14] | |||||||||||||||||||
| scope="col" | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||
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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORF | FS1 | Emil Kollpacher | [17] [18] | |
| BRT | BRT | [19] | ||
| RTB | RTB | Paule Herreman | ||
| YLE | Finnish: [[Yle TV1|TV-ohjelma 1]]|i=unset, Finnish: {{ill|Yleisohjelma|fi|Yleisohjelma (Suomen Yleisradio) | [20] [21] | ||
| Finnish: Ruotsinkielinen ulaohjelma|i=unset | ||||
| ORTF | French: [[TF1|Première Chaîne]]|i=unset, France Inter | Pierre Tchernia | ||
| ARD | German: [[Das Erste|Deutsches Fernsehen]]|i=unset | |||
| RTÉ | RTÉ | Brendan O'Reilly | [22] | |
| RTÉ Radio | Kevin Roche | [23] | ||
| RAI | Italian: [[Rai 2|Secondo Programma]]|i=unset | [24] | ||
| CLT | French: [[RTL9|Télé-Luxembourg]]|i=unset | [25] | ||
| NTS | Dutch; Flemish: [[NPO 1|Nederland 1]]|i=unset | [26] [27] | ||
| NRU | Dutch; Flemish: [[NPO Radio 2|Hilversum 1]]|i=unset | |||
| NRK | Norwegian: [[NRK1|NRK Fjernsynet]]|i=unset, NRK | Erik Diesen | [28] | |
| RTP | RTP | [29] | ||
| TVE | TVE 1, TVE Canarias | [30] [31] [32] | ||
| RNE | RNE | |||
| SR | Swedish: [[SVT1|Sveriges TV]]|i=unset, SR P3 | |||
| SRG SSR | TV DRS | [33] | ||
| TSR, French: [[Espace 2|RSR 2]]|i=unset | Robert Burnier | [34] [35] | ||
| TSI | [36] | |||
| DRS 2 | [37] | |||
| BBC | BBC1 | Rolf Harris | [38] | |
| JRT | [[RTS1 (Serbian TV channel)|Televizija Beograd]]|i=unset | [39] | ||
| Slovenian: [[Radiotelevizija Slovenija|Televizija Ljubljana]]|i=unset | [40] | |||
| [[HRT 1|Televizija Zagreb]]|i=unset | [41] |
| + Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries | |||||
| Country | Broadcaster | Channel(s) | Commentator(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ČST | ČST | [42] | |||
| MTV | MTV | [43] | |||
| TP | Polish: [[TVP1|TV Polska]]|i=unset | [44] | |||
| TVR | TVR | [45] |