The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 8 April 1967 at the in Vienna, Austria, and presented by Erica Vaal. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (ORF), who staged the event after winning the for with the song "" by Udo Jürgens. It was the first contest held in the month of April.
Broadcasters from 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 . With its of floor space, the Festival Hall is the largest room in the entire palace complex and was originally built as a throne room, but was never used as such. The Hofburg Palace was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and it currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.
Participants
Broadcasters from seventeen countries participated in the 1967 contest. Of the eighteen countries that participated in 1966 only was absent. (DR) 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 of the television entertainment department thought that the money could be spent in a better way.
The entry from Luxembourg, "", 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.
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| Inge Brück
| "Anouschka"
| German
| Hans Blum
| Hans Blum
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| RTÉ
| Sean Dunphy
| "If I Could Choose"
| English
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| Noel Kelehan
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| RAI
| Claudio Villa
| ""
| Italian
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| Giancarlo Chiaramello
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| CLT
| Vicky
| ""
| French
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| Claude Denjean
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| TMC
| Minouche Barelli
| "Boum-Badaboum"
| French
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| Aimé Barelli
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| NTS
| Thérèse Steinmetz
| "Ringe-dinge"
| Dutch
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| Dolf van der Linden
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| NRK
| Kirsti Sparboe
| ""
| Norwegian
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| Øivind Bergh
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| RTP
| Eduardo Nascimento
| ""
| Portuguese
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| TVE
| Raphael
| ""
| Spanish
| Manuel Alejandro
| Manuel Alejandro
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| SR
| Östen Warnerbring
| ""
| Swedish
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| Mats Olsson
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| SRG SSR
| Géraldine
| ""
| French
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| BBC
| Sandie Shaw
| "Puppet on a String"
| English
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| Kenny Woodman
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| JRT
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| ""
| Slovene
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Format
Following the confirmation of the seventeen competing countries, the draw to determine the running order of the contest was held on 21 March 1967.
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.
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| "Ringe-dinge"
| 2
| 14
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2
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| Vicky
| ""
| 17
| 4
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 3
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| Peter Horton
| ""
| 2
| 14
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 4
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| ""
| 20
| 3
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 5
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| ""
| 3
| 12
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 6
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| Géraldine
| ""
| 0
| 17
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 7
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| ""
| 7
| 8
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 8
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| Fredi
| ""
| 3
| 12
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 9
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| "Anouschka"
| 7
| 8
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 10
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| ""
| 8
| 7
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 11
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| "Puppet on a String"
| 47
| 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 12
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| Raphael
| ""
| 9
| 6
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 13
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| ""
| 2
| 14
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 14
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| "Boum-Badaboum"
| 10
| 5
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 15
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| ""
| 7
| 8
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 16
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| ""
| 4
| 11
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 17
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| "If I Could Choose"
| 22
| 2
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Spokespersons
Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1967 contest are listed below.
- Gay Byrne
- Michael Aspel
Detailed voting results<span class="anchor" id="Scoreboard"></span>
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Every participating broadcaster assembled a jury panel of ten people. Every jury member could give one vote to his or her favourite song, except that representing their own country. This means that any song could receive a maximum of 10 votes from a national jury, but none achieved this. The highest number of votes a song received from a jury was seven, received by the song from the United Kingdom three times (from the juries of Norway, Switzerland, and France). The Portuguese jury gave eight songs only one vote, and one song (the Spanish one) two votes.
The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history; the students from the University of Vienna who were operating the scoreboard made several errors during the telecast, which were corrected by the scrutineer. Hostess Erica Vaal also began to announce the winner before realising she had excluded the last jury to vote, the Irish jury.
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Netherlands
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 2 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || || || || || || || || || 1 || || || || || || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Luxembourg
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 17 || 4 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || || || || || 2 || || 1 || 2 || 1 || || 1 || 1 || 3 || 2
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Austria
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 2 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || 1 || || || || || || || || || || 1 || ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | France
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 20 || 1 || 2 || 1 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || 1 || 4 || || 2 || || 2 || || || 2 || 4 || || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Portugal
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 3 || || || || 1 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1 || || || || || || 1 || || || || ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Switzerland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 0 || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || || || || || || || || || ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Sweden
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 7 || || || || || 1 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1 || || || || || 2 || || 1 || || 2
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Finland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 3 || 1 || || || || 1 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || || || || || || || 1 ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Germany
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 7 || || || || || 1 || || 1 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1 || 1 || || 1 || || || 1 || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Belgium
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 8 || || || || || 1 || || || 3 || 1 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1 || || || || 1 || || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; font-weight:bold; background:gold;" | United Kingdom
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 47 || 2 || 5 || 3 || 7 || 1 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 3 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || 7 || 3 || || 2 || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Spain
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 9 || 1 || 1 || 1 || || 2 || || || || || 1 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || 2 || 1 || ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Norway
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 2 || 1 || || || || || || 1 || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || || ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Monaco
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 10 || || || 2 || 1 || || || 1 || || || || || 5 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || || 1 ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Yugoslavia
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 7 || || 1 || || 1 || 1 || || || || || 1 || || 2 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1 ||
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Italy
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 4 || || || || || || 1 || || || || || 1 || 1 || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"| || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Ireland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 22 || || 1 || 3 || || 1 || || 2 || 2 || 4 || 3 || 2 || || || 2 || 1 || 1 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;"|
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Broadcasts<span class="anchor" id="Broadcasters and commentators"></span>
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Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Reports estimated the global viewership to be 150 to 350 million viewers.
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.
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| BRT
| BRT
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| rowspan="2" | RTB
| RTB
| Paule Herreman
| style="text-align:center" |
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| rowspan="2" | YLE
| ,
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| RTÉ Radio
| Kevin Roche
| style="text-align:center" |
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| RAI
|
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| CLT
|
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| NTS
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| VARA
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