Eurovision Song Contest 1966

11th Eurovision Song Contest
date	March 5, 1966
Host country	Luxembourg
venue	Villa Louvigny , Luxembourg
Broadcasting television station	CLT
Moderation	Josiane Shen
Pause filler	Les Haricots Rouges
participating countries	18th
winner	Austria
Voting rule	In each country, a jury awarded 1, 3 and 5 points to the three best titles. If only one song was nominated, all 9 points would be awarded. If there are two titles, the first title would receive 6 and the second title 3 points.
◄ ESC 1965 • ESC 1967 ►

The 11th Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne , the official title this year, took place in Luxembourg on March 5, 1966 , as last year's winner France Gall had competed for this country.

particularities

Winner Udo Jürgens with France Gall

Although the rule had been introduced a year earlier that a song did not have to be in the national language, the old rule was reintroduced in 1966 that each country was only allowed to perform texts in its own language. This was decided because of the Swedish contribution last year when the interpreter sang exclusively in English .

The winner was Udo Jürgens with the song Merci, Chérie . After 1964 and 1965 he competed again for his home country Austria and made it onto the podium in this third attempt. With 31 points, he received almost twice as many as the second-placed Swedes.

The British representative Kenneth McKellar is so far the only interpreter who has appeared in the song competition in a kilt . Milly Scott , the representative of the Netherlands , was the first black singer in the competition.

The second-placed Sweden received a total of 16 points, 15 of them from the Scandinavian neighbors Norway and Denmark and Finland . The audience in the hall was not happy about it. Also Portugal received 5 out of 6 from neighboring Spain .

This time it was Italy and Monaco that did not receive any points.

After the poor German results in the two previous years (last two places with zero points), Hessischer Rundfunk internally selected Margot Eskens to represent Germany. A jury of 9 members selected the title for Luxembourg from the 85 submitted titles.

Attendees

participating countries

As in the previous year, eighteen countries took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1966.

Voting procedure

The voting procedure introduced in 1964 applied. Each country was able to award a total of nine points, of which the first place within the jury received five points, the second three points and the third one point. If only one song was nominated, all nine points would be awarded. If there were two, the first would get six points and the second three points.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	09	Austria	Udo Juergens	Merci, Chérie M: Udo Jürgens ; T: Udo Jürgens , Thomas Hörbiger	German a.	Thank you sweetheart	31
02.	10	Sweden	Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson	Nygammal vals eller hip man svinaherde M: Bengt Arne Wallin; T: Björn Lindroth	Swedish	New-old waltz or a hip swineherd	16
03.	06th	Norway	Åse Kleveland	Does he never go under solen M / T: Arne Bendiksen	Norwegian	Nothing new under the sun	15th
04th	03	Belgium	Tonia	Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel M: Paul Quintens; T: Phil van Cauwenbergh	French	Some pepper, some salt	14th
	17th	Ireland	Dickie skirt	Come Back to Stay M / T: Rowland Soper	English	Come back to stay	14th
06th	12	Switzerland	Madeleine Pascal	Ne vois-tu pas? M: Pierre Brenner; T: Roland Schweizer	French	Do not you see?	12
07th	05	Yugoslavia	Berta Ambrož	Brez besed M: Mojmir Sepe; T: Elza Budav	Slovenian	Without words	09
	11	Spain	Raphael	Yo soy aquél M / T: Manuel Alejandro	Spanish	I am the one	09
09.	18th	United Kingdom	Kenneth McKellar	A Man Without Love M: Cyril Ornadel; T: Peter Callander	English	A man without love	08th
10.	01	BR Germany	Margot Eskens	The hands of the clock M: Walter Dobschinski ; T: Hans Bradtke	German	-	07th
	04th	Luxembourg	Michèle Torr	Ce soir je t'attendais M: Bernard Kesslair; T: Jacques Chaumelle	French	That evening I was waiting for you	07th
	07th	Finland	Ann Christine	Playboy M / T: Ossi Runne	Finnish	-	07th
13.	08th	Portugal	Madalena Iglésias	Ele e ela M / T: Carlos Canelhas	Portuguese	He and she	06th
14th	02	Denmark	Ulla Pia	Stop - mens he god M / T: Erik Kåre	Danish	Stop - while the game is going well	04th
15th	16	Netherlands	Milly Scott	Fernando en Philippo M: Kees de Bruyn; T: Gerrit the Braber	Dutch	Fernando and Philippo	02
16.	15th	France	Dominique Walter	Chez nous M: Claude Carrère; T: Jacques Plante	French	With us	01
17th	13	Monaco	Téréza	Bien plus fort M: Gérard Bourgeois; T: Jean-Max Rivière	French	Much stronger	00
	14th	Italy	Domenico Modugno	Dio, come ti amo M / T: Domenico Modugno	Italian	My god how much i love you	00

^a. with French title

Scoreboard

country	Points	DE	DK	BE	LU	YU	NO	FI	PT	AT	SE	IT	CH	MC	IT	FR	NL	IR	UK	Voting
BR Germany	07th		-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	1	-	-	-	-	3
Denmark	04th	-		-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Belgium	14th	5	-		-	-	-	-	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	4th
Luxembourg	07th	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	1	5	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	3
Yugoslavia	09	3	-	-	-		-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	3
Norway	15th	1	-	-	-	-		-	-	3	3	3	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	5
Finland	07th	-	3	-	-	-	3		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	3
Portugal	06th	-	1	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Austria	31	-	-	5	5	5	-	-	1		-	1	3	5	3	3	-	-	-	9
Sweden	16	-	5	-	-	-	5	5	-	-		-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th
Spain	09	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	5	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3
Switzerland	12	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	5	-	-		3	-	-	-	3	-	4th
Monaco	00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	0
Italy	00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	0
France	01	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-		-	-	-	1
Netherlands	02	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1	1	2
Ireland	14th	-	-	3	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	3		-	4th
United Kingdom	08th	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5		2

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net