Eurovision Song Contest 1967

12th Eurovision Song Contest
date	April 8, 1967
Host country	Austria
venue	Great ballroom of the Hofburg , Vienna
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Erica Vaal
Pause filler	Vienna Boys' Choir
participating countries	17th
winner	United Kingdom
Withdrawn participants	Denmark
Voting rule	Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title.
◄ ESC 1966 • ESC 1968 ►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th since the existence of this music competition of the Eurovision countries . It took place on April 8, 1967 in Vienna in the Great Festival Hall of the Vienna Hofburg under the official title of the 12th Grand Prix de la Chanson , as last year's winner Udo Juergens came from Austria . Sandie Shaw , who competed for the UK , won landslide with the song Puppet on a String . Erica Vaal moderated the event.

particularities

For the first time, fewer countries took part than before, before either the number of participants increased or it stayed the same.

Erica Vaal greeted the audience in a particularly polyglot manner. She gave a ten-minute speech in several languages ​​- including English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. She apologized for not speaking any more languages.

During the voting of the individual country juries, the moderator was confused by the many individual points and declared the United Kingdom (with Northern Ireland) the winner even before the last (Irish) rating. However, this had no influence on the further placements, as the winning song was already unassailable.

This time only Switzerland did not receive any points, but it was the second time for Switzerland.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC, but not in 1967

Since Denmark did not take part in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest due to unsatisfactory results, the number of participants was reduced to 17 countries.

Voting procedure

The 1957 voting process was reverted to. In each country there were ten jury members who were each allowed to give one vote to a song. The results were communicated by telephone and publicly. One innovation was that half of the jurors were not allowed to have reached the age of 30 in order to give the competition a more modern look.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Title (M = music; T = text)	language	translation	Points
01.	11	United Kingdom	Sandie Shaw	Puppet on a String M / T: Bill Martin , Phil Coulter	English	Puppet	47
02.	17th	Ireland	Sean Dunphy	If I Could Choose M: Michael Coffey; T: Wesley Burrowes	English	If I could choose	22nd
03.	04th	France	Noëlle Cordier	Il doit faire beau là-bas M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Delanoë	French	It must be nice there	20th
04th	02	Luxembourg	Vicky Leandros	L'amour est bleu M: André Popp; T: Pierre Cour	French	Love is blue	17th
05.	14th	Monaco	Minouche Barelli	Boum Badaboum M / T: Serge Gainsbourg	French	Boom badabumm (in the sense of: I'll let it rip; with sexual undertones, as in almost all texts by Serge Gainsbourg)	10
06th	12	Spain	Raphael	Hablemos del amor M / T: Manuel Alejandro	Spanish	Let's talk about love	09
07th	10	Belgium	Louis Neefs	Ik heb zorgen M: Paul Quintens; T: Phil van Cauwenbergh	Dutch	I am worried	08th
08th.	07th	Sweden	Östen Warnerbring	Som en dröm M: Curt Petterson, Marcus Österdahl; T: Patrice Hellberg	Swedish	Like a dream	07th
08th.	09	BR Germany	Inge Brück	Anouschka M / T: Hans Blum	German	-	07th
08th.	15th	Yugoslavia	Lado Leskovar	Vse rože sveta M: Urban Koder; T: Milan Lindić	Slovenian	All the roses in the world	07th
11.	16	Italy	Claudio Villa	Non andare più lontano M: Gino Mescoli; T: Vito Pallavicini	Italian	Never go so far again	04th
12.	05	Portugal	Eduardo Nascimento	O vento mudou M: Nuño Nazareth Fernandes; T: João Magalhães Pereira	Portuguese	The wind turned	03
12.	08th	Finland	Fredi	Varjoon - suojaan M: Lasse Mårtenson; T: Alvi Vuorine	Finnish	In the shadows - in protection	03
14th	01	Netherlands	Thérèse Steinmetz	Rings-dinge-ding M: Johnny Holshuyzen; T: Gerrit the Braber	Dutch	Ringing	02
14th	03	Austria	Peter Horton	Why there are 100,000 stars M: Kurt Peche; T: Karin Bognar	German	-	02
14th	13	Norway	Kirsti Sparboe	Dukkemann M: Tor Hultin; T: Ola B. Johannessen	Norwegian	Puppeteer	02
17th	06th	Switzerland	Géraldine	Quel cœur vas-tu briser? M: Daniel Faure; T: Gérard Gray	French	Which heart will you break	00

Scoring

Sustaining land		Forgiving country
country	Total	NLD	LUX	AUT	FRA	POR	SUI	SWE	FIN	GER	BEL	GBR	ESP	NOR	MCO	YUG	ITA	IRL
Netherlands	02	-										1						1
Luxembourg	17th	4th	-						2		1	2	1		1	1	3	2
Austria	02			-		1										1
France	20th	1	2	1	-		1	4th		2		2			2	4th		1
Portugal	03				1	-	1						1
Switzerland	00						-
Sweden	07th					1		-	1					2		1		2
Finland	03	1				1			-								1
BR Germany	07th					1		1		-	1	1		1			1	1
Belgium	08th					1			3	1	-	1				1		1
United Kingdom	47	2	5	3	7th	1	7th	1	2	3	3	-		7th	3		2	1
Spain	09	1	1	1		2					1		-		2	1
Norway	02	1						1						-
Monaco	10			2	1			1					5		-		1
Yugoslavia	07th		1		1	1					1		2			-	1
Italy	04th						1					1	1				-	1
Ireland	22nd		1	3		1		2	2	4th	3	2			2	1	1	-

* 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

literature

Melanie Letschnig: Hofburg, short dresses and boys' choir. The Grand Prix de la Chanson 1967. In: Christine Ehardt, Georg Vogt, Florian Wagner (eds.): "Eurovision Song Contest - A little story between body, gender and nation." Zaglossus, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902902-32-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Feddersen: A song can be a bridge . 1st edition. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 . P. 86.