Year: | 1967 |
Country: | Portugal |
Broadcaster: | Portuguese: [[Radiotelevisão Portuguesa]]|i=no (RTP) |
Preselection: | Portuguese: [[Festival da Canção|Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa]]|i=no 1967 |
Preselection Date: | Semi-finals 11 February 1981 18 February 1981 Final 25 February 1967 |
Song: | O vento mudou |
Final Result: | 12th, 3 points |
Portugal was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 with the song "Portuguese: O vento mudou|i=no", composed by Nuno Nazareth Fernandes, with lyrics by João Magalhães Pereira, and performed by Eduardo Nascimento. The Portuguese participating broadcaster, Portuguese: [[Radiotelevisão Portuguesa]]|i=no (RTP), selected its entry at the Portuguese: Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa|i=no 1967. Nascimento was the first black male singer in the history of Eurovision.[1]
Portuguese: [[Radiotelevisão Portuguesa]]|i=no (RTP) held the Portuguese: Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa|i=no 1967 at Tóbis studios in Lisbon, hosted by Isabel Wolmar and Henrique Mendes. For the first time, semi-finals where held, the first on 11 February at 22:25 UTC and the second on 18 February at 22:25 UTC. Each semi-final featured six competing entries from which three advanced to the final from each show. A total of twelve songs took part in the final. Armando Tavares Belo conducted all the songs.[2] The results were determined by a distrital jury, composed by three members, each had 5 votes to be distributed among the songs it intended to award, making a total of 15 votes per district.[3]
Draw | Artist | Song | Votes | Place | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rui Malhoa | "Balada da traição ao mar" | 43 | 4 | |
2 | Marco Paulo | "Sou tão feliz" | 54 | 2 | |
3 | Valério Silva | "Amor tens de voltar" | 41 | 5 | |
4 | Maria de Lurdes Resende | "Não quero o mundo" | 53 | 3 | |
5 | Duo Ouro Negro | "Quando amanhecer" | 72 | 1 | |
6 | Maria de Lurdes Resende | "Assim será o nosso amor" | 7 | 6 |
Draw | Artist | Song | Votes | Place | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Duo Ouro Negro | "Livro sem fim" | 76 | 2 | |
2 | Eduardo Nascimento | "O vento mudou" | 78 | 1 | |
3 | Artur Garcia | "Porta secreta" | 55 | 3 | |
4 | António Calvário | "Deixa-me só" | 44 | 4 | |
5 | Eduardo Nascimento | "Um homem só" | 9 | 5 | |
6 | António Calvário | "Vencerás" | 8 | 6 |
Draw | Artist | Song | Votes | Place | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Duo Ouro Negro | "Quando amanhecer" | 28 | 4 | |
2 | Eduardo Nascimento | "O vento mudou" | 120 | 1 | |
3 | Marco Paulo | "Sou tão feliz" | 5 | 6 | |
4 | Duo Ouro Negro | "Livro sem fim" | 78 | 2 | |
5 | Maria de Lurdes Resende | "Não quero o mundo" | 30 | 3 | |
6 | Artur Garcia | "Porta secreta" | 9 | 5 |
+ Detailed Distrital Jury Votes | |||||||||||||||||||||
Draw | Song | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Quando amanhecer" | 1 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 28 | ||||||||||||
2 | "O vento mudou" | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 120 | ||
3 | "Sou tão feliz" | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
4 | "Livro sem fim" | 11 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 78 | ||||
5 | "Não quero o mundo" | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 30 | |||||||||||
6 | "Porta secreta" | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
On the night of the final Nascimento performed 5th in the running order, following France and preceding Switzerland. At the close of the voting the song had received 3 points, coming 12th in the field of 17 competing countries.[4] The orchestra during the Portuguese entry was conducted by Armando Tavares Belo.[5]