Eurovision Song Contest 1966

Eurovision Song Contest 1966
Dates
Final 5 March 1966
Host
Venue Villa Louvigny
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Presenter(s) Josiane Chen
Conductor Jean Roderès
Executive supervisor Clifford Brown
Host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT)
Interval act Les Haricots Rouges
Participants
Number of entries 18
Debuting countries None
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries None
Participation map
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Vote
Voting system Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totalled and the first, second, and third placed songs were awarded 5, 3, and 1 votes in order. If only one song got every point within the jury it would get all 9 points. If only two songs were chosen, the songs would get 6 and 3 points in order.
Nul points
  •  Italy
  •  Monaco
Winning song  Austria
"Merci, Chérie"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄1965 • 1966 • 1967►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the 11th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on 5 March 1966 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, following the country's win at the previous 1965 edition. The host venue was Grand Auditorium de RTL in Villa Louvigny. The presenter was Josiane Chen.

The winner was Austria with the song "Merci, Chérie" performed and composed by Udo Jürgens, and written by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger.[1] This would remain Austria's only win in the contest until their second win in 2014. The rule stating that a country could only sing in any of its national languages was originally created in this year, possibly due to the 1965 edition's Swedish entry which was sung in English.[2]

Location

For more details on the host city, see Luxembourg (city).
Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg - host venue of the 1966 contest.

The 1966 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in Luxembourg City. The venue chosen to host the 1966 contest was the Villa Louvigny, which has also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1962. The building served as the headquarters of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion, the forerunner of RTL Group. It is located in Municipal Park, in the Ville Haute quarter of the centre of the city.

Format

During the voting process, the presenter (Josiane Chen) accidentally greeted United Kingdom by saying "Good night, London.", then, she realized the mistake and said "Good evening, London.", after Michael Aspel, who was the spokesperson for the United Kingdom, at that time, responded by saying "Good morning, Luxembourg".

1966 marked the year the first ever black singer graced the Eurovision stage, Milly Scott representing the Netherlands. She was also the first singer to use a portable microphone. This was also the last contest that Denmark participated in until 1978, more than a decade later.[2]

It was also one of the first contest that an entry was not accompanied by an orchestra. The Italian entry "Dio, come ti amo" performed by Domenico Modugno had been rearranged since its performance at the Sanremo Music Festival and officially broke the EBU rule that stated the arrangement should be finalised well in advance. During the Saturday afternoon rehearsal Modugno performed the new arrangement with three of his own musicians as opposed to the orchestra, which exceed over the three minute time limit. Following his rehearsal Modungo was confronted by the shows producers about exceeding the time limit and was asked to use the original arrangement with the orchestra, Modungo was so dissatisfied with the orchestra that he threatened to withdraw from the Contest. Both the producers and EBU scrutineer Clifford Brown felt it was to much short notice to fly Gigliola Cinquetti to Luxembourg to represent Italy, so the EBU gave in and allowed Modungo to use his own ensemble instead of the orchestra. Despite websites and the official programme listing Angelo Giacomazzi as the conductor, Giacomazzi actually played the piano for the entry.[3][4]

Participating countries

Udo Jürgens with last year's winner France Gall

All countries which participated in the 1965 contest returned for a second consecutive year. There were no new nations, nor any returning, nor withdrawals.[2]

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who maestro the orchestra.[5]

Returning artists

Two artists returned for a third time in this year's contest. Udo Jürgens from Austria whose previous participations were in 1964 and 1965; and Domenico Modugno from Italy, who last participated in 1958 and 1959.

Results

Draw Country Artist Song Language[6] Place Points
01  Germany Margot Eskens "Die Zeiger der Uhr" German 10 7
02  Denmark Ulla Pia "Stop - mens legen er go'" Danish 14 4
03  Belgium Tonia "Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel" French 4 14
04  Luxembourg Michèle Torr "Ce soir je t'attendais" French 10 7
05  Yugoslavia Berta Ambrož "Brez besed" Slovene 7 9
06  Norway Åse Kleveland "Intet er nytt under solen" Norwegian 3 15
07  Finland Ann Christine "Playboy" Finnish 10 7
08  Portugal Madalena Iglésias "Ele e ela" Portuguese 13 6
09  Austria Udo Jürgens "Merci, Chérie" German1 1 31
10  Sweden Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson "Nygammal vals" Swedish 2 16
11  Spain Raphael "Yo soy aquél" Spanish 7 9
12   Switzerland Madeleine Pascal "Ne vois-tu pas?" French 6 12
13  Monaco Téréza "Bien plus fort" French 17 0
14  Italy Domenico Modugno "Dio, come ti amo" Italian 17 0
15  France Dominique Walter "Chez nous" French 16 1
16  Netherlands Milly Scott "Fernando en Filippo" Dutch 15 2
17  Ireland Dickie Rock "Come Back to Stay" English 4 14
18  United Kingdom Kenneth McKellar "A Man Without Love" English 9 8
1.^ The song also contains phrases in French.

Scoreboard

Voting results
Germany 7 1 5 1
Denmark 4 1 3
Belgium 14 5 3 1 5
Luxembourg 7 1 5 1
Yugoslavia 9 3 1 5
Norway 15 1 3 3 3 5
Finland 7 3 3 1
Portugal 6 1 5
Austria 31 5 5 5 1 1 3 5 3 3
Sweden 16 5 5 5 1
Spain 9 1 5 3
Switzerland 12 1 5 3 3
Monaco 0
Italy 0
France 1 1
Netherlands 2 1 1
Ireland 14 3 3 5 3
United Kingdom 8 3 5

5 points

Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:

N. Contestant Voting nation
4 Austria Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Yugoslavia
3 Sweden Denmark, Finland, Norway
2 Belgium Germany, Netherlands
1 Germany Switzerland
Ireland France
Luxembourg Sweden
Norway Italy
Portugal Spain
Spain Portugal
Switzerland Austria
United Kingdom Ireland
Yugoslavia United Kingdom

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1966 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.[2]

Voting order Country Spokespersons Commentator Broadcaster
01  Germany Werner Veigel Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach ARD Deutsches Fernsehen[7]
02  Denmark Claus Toskvig Skat Nørrevig DR TV
03  Belgium André Hagon Paule Herreman RTB
Herman Verelst BRT
04  Luxembourg Camillo Felgen Jacques Navadic Télé-Luxembourg[8]
05  Yugoslavia Dragana Marković Miloje Orlović Televizija Beograd
Mladen Delić Televizija Zagreb
Tomaž Terček Televizija Ljubljana
06  Norway Erik Diesen[9] Sverre Christophersen NRK and NRK P1[9]
07  Finland Poppe Berg[10] Aarno Walli TV-ohjelma 1
08  Portugal Maria Manuela Furtado Henrique Mendes RTP
09  Austria Walter Richard Langer Willy Kralik ORF
10  Sweden Edvard Matz[11] Sven Lindahl Sveriges Radio-TV and SR P1[12]
11  Spain Margarita Nicola Federico Gallo TVE[13]
12   Switzerland Alexandre Burger Theodor Haller TV DRS
Georges Hardy TSR
Giovanni Bertini TSI
13  Monaco TBC François Deguelt Télé Monte Carlo
14  Italy Enzo Tortora Renato Tagliani Secondo Programma
15  France Jean-Claude Massoulier[14] François Deguelt Première Chaîne ORTF[8]
16  Netherlands Herman Brouwer[15] Teddy Scholten Nederland 1[16]
17  Ireland Frank Hall Brendan O'Reilly Telefís Éireann[17]
Kevin Roche Radio Éireann
18  United Kingdom Michael Aspel David Jacobs BBC1
John Dunn BBC Light Programme
-  Czechoslovakia (non-participating country) TBC ČST
-  East Germany (non-participating country) TBC Deutscher Fernsehfunk
-  Hungary (non-participating country) TBC RTV
-  Morocco (non-participating country) TBC SNRT
-  Poland (non-participating country) TBC TP
-  Romania (non-participating country) TBC TVR
-  Soviet Union (non-participating country) TBC CT USSR

References

  1. ↑ "About Udo Jürgens". EBU.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Eurovision Song Contest 1966". EBU. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  3. ↑ Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs For Europe The United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. UK: Telos. p. 410. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
  4. ↑ Angelo Giacomazzi bio at www.andtheconductoris.eu
  5. ↑ http://www.andtheconductoris.eu
  6. ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1966". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  7. ↑ Rau, Oliver (OGAE Germany)
  8. 1 2 Christian Masson. "1966 - Luxembourg". Songcontest.free.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  9. 1 2 Dyrseth, Seppo (OGAE Norway)
  10. ↑ "Selostajat ja taustalaulajat läpi vuosien? • Viisukuppila". Viisukuppila.fi. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  11. ↑ "Infosajten.com". Infosajten.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  12. ↑ Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 60. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2
  13. ↑ "FORO FESTIVAL DE EUROVISIÓN • Ver Tema - Uribarri comentarista Eurovision 2010". Eurosongcontest.phpbb3.es. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
  14. ↑ Deguelt, François et al. (March 5, 1966). 11ème Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1966 [11th Eurovision Song Contest 1966] (Television production). Luxembourg: RTL, ORTF (commentary).
  15. ↑ "Teddy Scholten geeft commentaar op het Eurovisie Songfestival", Limburgsch Dagblad, 25 February 1966
  16. ↑ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
  17. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313353/fullcredits#cast

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