• Dates – Grand Final: Saturday, 08 April 1967 – 20:00 CET
• Host – Venue & Location: Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg, Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria
• Presenter (s): Erika Vaal
• Musical Director: Johannes Fehring
• Director: Herbert Fuchs
• Executive Producer: Clifford Brown
• Executive Supervisor: Karl Lackner
• Multicamera Director: Herbert Fuchs
• Host broadcaster: Österreichischer Rundfunk (ÖRF)
• Interval Act: “The Blue Danube” performed by Vienna Boys’ Choir 
• Participants – Number of entries: 17 [🇧🇪 Belgium (12ª), 🇫🇷 France (12ª), 🇩🇪 Germany (12ª), 🇮🇹 Italy (12ª), 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (12ª), 🇨🇭 Switzerland (12ª), 🇦🇹 Austria (11ª), 🇬🇧 United Kindom (10ª), 🇲🇨Monaco (9ª), 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (11ª), 🇳🇴 Norway (8ª), 🇫🇮 Finland (7ª), 🇪🇸 Spain (7ª),  Yugoslavia (7ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (4ª), 🇮🇪 Ireland (3ª), 🇸🇪 Sweden (9ª)]
• Debuting countries: —
• Return: —
• Non-returning countries: 🇩🇰 Denmark (10ª)
• Vote – Voting system: Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs. Each participating country had 10 jury members, and each jury member could award one point to one song.
• Nil Points: 🇨🇭 Switzerland (2ª)
• Winning song: “Puppet on a string” – Sandie Shaw – 🇬🇧 United Kindom (1°)

About. After Udo Jürgens’ victory in 1966, Vienna, Austria’s capital, was chosen to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967.

Mirrors. The 1967 Eurovision Song Contest took place at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg in Vienna. The number of participants went down from 18 to 17 because Denmark chose to withdraw from the contest and would not come back to the contest until 1978. The contest had a very glamorous setting: the stage included three revolving mirrors and a staircase entrance in the middle. The juries had undergone a change as well, as half of the jurors in every national jury had to be less than 30 years old. During the voting the presenter of the show, Erika Vaal, declare the United Kingdom winner of the song contest before the last jury’s votes were cast. However, the confusion about the voting would not make any difference: the United Kingdom clearly won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time, nine years after participating for the first time. The winning entrant Sandy Shaw performed her song, Puppet on a String, barefoot.

About the winner. The winning song “Puppet On A String” won with the largest margin ever witnessed in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest at that time. The song gathered more than twice as many votes as the runner-up, Ireland. But not only the juries were charmed by Sandie Shaw’s song, it became a huge success all over Europe and is nowadays remembered as a Eurovision Song Contest classic.

o/r	country	participant (s)	song – translate – language	Points	rank
01	🇳🇱 The Netherlands NTS	Thérèse Steinmetz	Ring-dinge-ding (Ringe-dinge, Ring-ding-a-ding) Dutch	002	14
02	🇱🇺 Luxembourg CLT	Vicky (Vicky Leandros)	L’amour est bleu (Love is blue) French	017	04
03	🇦🇹 Austria ÖRF	Peter Horten	Warum es 100.000 sterne gibt (Warum es hunderttausend sterne gibt, Why are there a hundred thousand stars) German	002	14
04	🇫🇷 France ORTF	Noëlle Cordier	Il doit faire beau là-bas (The weather must be good there) French	020	03
05	🇵🇹 Portugal RTP	Eduardo Nascimento	O vento mudou (The wind changed) Portuguese	003	12
06	🇨🇭 Switzerland SSR SRG	Géraldine	Quel cœur vas-tu briser? (Which heart are you going to break?) French	000	17
07	🇸🇪 Sweden SR	Östen Warnerbring	Som en dröm (Like a dream) Swedish	007	08
08	🇫🇮 Finland YLE	Fredi	Varjoon-suojaan (To the shadow – to safety) Finnish	003	12
09	🇩🇪 Germany ARD	Inge Brück	Anouschka German	007	08
10	🇧🇪 Belgium BRT	Louis Neefs	Ik heb zorgen (I have worries) Dutch	008	07
11	🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC	Sandie Shaw	Puppet on a string English	047	01
12	🇪🇸 Spain TVE	Raphael	Hablemos del amor (Let’s talk about love) Spanish	009	06
13	🇳🇴 Norway NRK	Kirsti Sparboe	Dukkemann (Puppet man) Norwegian	002	14
14	🇲🇨 Monaco TMC	Minouche Barelli	Boum-badaboum French	010	05
15	Yugoslavia JRT	Lado Leskovar (Ладо Лесковар)	Vse rože sveta (All the flowers of this world) Slovene	007	08
16	🇮🇹 Italy RAI	Claudio Villa	Non andare più lontano (Don’t go far away anymore) Italian	004	11
17	🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ	Sean Dunphy	If i could choose English	022	02

Missed participation:

• 🇮🇹 Italy: “Non Pensare A Me” (Italian) – Claudio Villa. Italy was represented by Claudio Villa, with the song ‘”Non andare più lontano”, at the1967 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 8 April in Luxembourg City. As always until this date, broadcaster RAI chose one of the winning performers from the year’s Sanremo Music Festival as their singer, but for the first time they opted not to send the winning Sanremo song “Non pensare a me” as their entry. This was Villa’s second Eurovision appearance, having previously participated in the 1962 contest.

Participation map

Participating countries   Countries that participated in the past but not in 1967  

ESC 1967 Scoreboard Ι Detailed voting results: 

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following the country’s victory at the 1966 contest with the song “Merci, Chérie” by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the contest was held at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg on Saturday 8 April 1967, becoming the first contest held in the month of April, and was hosted by Austrian actress Erica Vaal.

Seventeen countries participated in the contest, one fewer than the record eighteen that had competed in the 1965 and 1966 editions. Denmark decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not to return until 1978.

The United Kingdom won the contest for the first time with the song “Puppet on a String”, written and composed by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, and performed by Sandie Shaw. The entry had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition; it garnered more than twice as many points as the second-placed song. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song somewhat mellowed in later years, even releasing a new version in 2007.

This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the 1968 edition onwards.

1.Location. The 1967 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The venue for the contest was the Hofburg Palace, which was the principal winter residence of the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

2.Format. 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, Ireland, had announced its votes. She also ended the programme by congratulating the winning song and country, and saying “goodbye” in several different languages.

3.Participating countries. Denmark 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 for the TV entertainment department at DR thought that the money could be spent in a better way. The entry from Luxembourg, “L’amour est bleu”, sung by Vicky Leandros, came in fourth; nonetheless, it went on to become the biggest international hit 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”. Television presenter, artist and musician Rolf Harris provided the commentary for BBC Television viewers. Switzerland received zero votes for the second time. Portugal was represented by Eduardo Nascimento, who was the first black male singer in the history of the contest, performing “O vento mudou” (“The wind changed”). Rumours claimed that Portuguese prime minister Salazar had chosen this particular singer to show the rest of Europe that he was not racist.

3.1.Conductors. Each performance had a conductor who was maestro of the orchestra. This was the first contest to have a unique conductor for every entry, as prior contests usually had the host conductor conduct multiple entries in addition to their own country’s entry.

3.2.Returning artists.

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Claudio Villa	🇮🇹 Italy	1962
Kirsti Sparboe	🇳🇴 Norway	1965
Raphael	🇪🇸 Spain	1966

3.3.Participants and results.

3.4.All the national selections for Eurovision Song Contest 1967:

• National Selections in 1967:

COUNTRY	EVENT	WINNER
🇧🇪 Belgium	Eurosong 1967	Louis Neefs – “Ik heb zorgen“
🇫🇮 Finland	(Finnish Selection 1967)	Fredi – “Varjoon – suojaan“
🇮🇪 Ireland	(Irish Selection 1967)	Sean Dunphy – “If I Could Choose”
🇳🇱 The Netherlands	Nationaal Songfestival 1967 (song selection) [a]	Thérèse Steinmetz – “Ring-dinge-ding“
🇳🇴 Norway	Melodi Grand Prix 1967	Kirsti Sparboe – “Dukkemann“
🇵🇹 Portugal	Grande Prémio TV da Canção 1967	Eduardo Nascimento – “O vento mudou“
🇸🇪 Sweden	Melodifestival 1967	Östen Warnerbring – “Som en dröm“
🇨🇭 Switzerland	Concours Eurovision 1967	Géraldine – “Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?“
🇬🇧 United Kindom	A Song for Europe 1967 (song selection) [b]	Sandie Shaw – “Puppet on a String”
Yugoslavia	Jugovizija 1967	Lado Leskovar – “Vse rože sveta“

• Internal Selections in 1967: 

3.5.Connections:

4.Voting. The voting sequence was one of the more chaotic in Eurovision history; the students from Vienna University 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 Irish jury.

Voting results

		Total score
C o n t e s t a n t s	🇳🇱 The Netherlands	2											1						1
	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	17	4							2		1	2	1		1	1	3	2
	🇦🇹 Austria	2					1										1
	🇫🇷 France	20	1	2	1			1	4		2		2			2	4		1
	🇵🇹 Portugal	3				1		1						1
	🇨🇭 Switzerland	0
	🇸🇪 Sweden	7					1			1					2		1		2
	🇫🇮	3	1				1											1
	🇩🇪 Germany	7					1		1			1	1		1			1	1
	🇧🇪 Belgium	8					1			3	1		1				1		1
	🇬🇧 United Kindom	47	2	5	3	7	1	7	1	2	3	3			7	3		2	1
	🇪🇸 Spain	9	1	1	1		2					1				2	1
	🇳🇴 Norway	2	1						1
	🇲🇨 Monaco	10			2	1			1					5				1
	Yugoslavia	7		1		1	1					1		2				1
	🇮🇹 Italy	4						1					1	1					1
	🇮🇪 Ireland	22		1	3		1		2	2	4	3	2			2	1	1

4.1.Spokespersons. Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1967 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

5.Broadcasts. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇦🇹 Austria	FS1	Emil Kollpacher
🇧🇪 Belgium	RTB	French: Paule Herreman
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst
🇫🇮 Finland	TV-ohjelma 1 and Yleisohjelma	Aarno Walli
🇫🇷 France	Première Chaîne ORTF	Pierre Tchernia	–
🇩🇪 Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach	–
🇮🇪 Ireland	RTÉ	Brendan O’Reilly
	RTÉ Radio	Kevin Roche
🇮🇹 Italy	Secondo Programma	Renato Tagliani
🇱🇺 Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Jacques Navadic
🇲🇨 Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Pierre Tchernia
🇳🇱 The Netherlands	Nederland 1	Leo Nelissen	–
🇳🇴 Norway	NRK and NRK P1	Erik Diesen
🇵🇹 Portugal	RTP	Henrique Mendes
🇪🇸 Spain	Primera Cadena	Federico Gallo
🇸🇪 Sweden	Sveriges TV and SR P3	Christina Hansegård	–
🇨🇭 Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller
	TSR	French: Robert Burnier	–
	TSI	Italian: Giovanni Bertini
🇬🇧 United Kindom	BBC1	Rolf Harris	–
	BBC Light Programme	Richard Baker
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Miloje Orlović
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Delić
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Tomaž Terček

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇨🇿 CZECHOSLOVAKIA	ČST	Unknown	–
East Germany	Deutscher Fernsehfunk	Unknown	–
🇵🇱 POLAND	TVP	Unknown	–
Soviet Union	CT USSR	Igor Kirillov	–

7.Notes.

• [a] Thérèse Steinmetz was internally selected by broadcaster NOS to represent The Netherlands at Eurovision 1967. The song “Ring-dinge-ding” that Steinmetz performed at Eurovision was selected through Nationaal Songfestival 1967 with six songs. Thérèse Steinmetz won Nationaal Songfestival 1967 with the song “Ring-dinge-ding”. The song title was changed for Eurovision 1967 to “Ring-dinge”.
• [b] Sandie Shaw was internally selected to represent United Kingdom at Eurovision 1967. Shaw performed all six songs on the show A Song for Europe 1967, and the public could vote via postcards. The result was announced one week later.

8.Trivial / Fun facts.

• There have been five barefoot winners in Eurovision history: Sandie Shaw (1967), Sertab Erener (2003), Dima Bilan (2008), Loreen (2012) and Emmelie De Forest (2013); Titles of songs have included Boom Bang-a-bang (UK, 1969), A-Ba-Ni-Ba (Israel, 1978), Bana Bana (Turkey, 1989) and Bourn Badaboru (Monaco, 1967).
• The winning entrant Sandie Shaw performed barefoot on stage.
• The number of participants went down from 18 till 17 because Denmark chose to withdraw from the contest.
• The number of participants went down from 18 till 17 because Denmark chose to withdraw from the contest.

← Eurovision Song Contest 1959 • Eurovision Song Contest 1960 • Eurovision Song Contest 1961 →
Countries (in order of appearance)
Final	The Netherlands ⦁ Luxembourg ⦁ Austria ⦁ France ⦁ Portugal ⦁ Switzerland ⦁ Sweden ⦁ Finland ⦁ Germany ⦁ Belgium • United Kingdom (winner) ⦁ Spain ⦁ Norway ⦁ Monaco ⦁ Yugoslavia ⦁ Italy • Ireland
Artists (in order of appearance)
Final	Thérèse Steinmetz ⦁ Vicky ⦁ Peter Horton ⦁ Noëlle Cordier ⦁ Eduardo Nascimento ⦁ Géraldine ⦁ Östen Warnerbring ⦁ Fredi ⦁ Inge Brück ⦁ Louis Neefs • Sandie Shaw (winner) ⦁ Raphael ⦁Kirsti Sparboe ⦁ Minouche Barelli ⦁ Lado Leskovar ⦁ Claudio Villa • Sean Dunphy
Songs (in order of appearance)
Final	“Ring-dinge-ding” ⦁ “L’amour est bleu” ⦁ “Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt” ⦁ “Il doit faire beau là-bas” ⦁ “O vento mudou” ⦁ “Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?” ⦁ “Som en dröm” ⦁ “Varjoon – suojaan” ⦁ “Anouschka” ⦁ “Ik heb zorgen” • “Puppet on a String” (winner) ⦁ “Hablemos del amor” ⦁ “Dukkemann” ⦁ “Boum-Badaboum” ⦁ “Vse rože sveta” ⦁ “Non andare più lontano” • “If I Could Choose”
Non-participating entries: Italy: Claudio Villa – “Non pensare a me”