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Eurovision Song Contest 1964

Eurovision Song Contest 1964

Dates

Final date 21 March 1964

Host

Venue Tivolis KoncertsalCopenhagen, Denmark

Presenter(s) Lotte Wæver

Conductor Kai Mortensen

Executive supervisor Miroslav Vilček

Host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR)

Interval act Ballet-harlequinade

Participants

Number of entries 16

Debuting countries  Portugal

Returning countries None

Withdrawing countries  Sweden

Vote

Voting system 5, 3, and 1 points for 3 favourite songs from each country.

Nul points •  Germany•  Portugal•   Switzerland•  Yugoslavia

Winning song  Italy"Non ho l'età"

Eurovision Song Contest

◄1963 1965►

The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Copenhagen, the capitalof Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year. Italy won the contest for their first time scoring 49 pointswith the song "Non ho l'età", performed by Gigliola Cinquetti.

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LocationFor more details on the host city, see Copenhagen.

"Tivolis Koncertsal"-Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen - Host venueof the contest.

The host venue for the contest was Tivoli ConcertHall-Tivolis Koncertsal in Denmark's capital cityCopenhagen, which lies within Denmark's famousamusement park and pleasure garden Tivoli Gardens.The park, alluding by its name to the Jardin de Tivolithat existed in Paris, was opened on August 15, 1843,and is the second oldest amusement park in the world,after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg.[1]

Copenhagen has a strategic location and excellentinfrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre,making it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

FormatEach country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. Thepoints were totaled and the first, second, and third placed songs were awarded 5, 3, and 1 votes in order. If only onesong got every point within the jury it would get all 9 points. If only two songs were chosen, the songs would get 6and 3 points in order.A political protest occurred after the Swiss entry: a man trespassed onto the stage holding a banner that read"Boycott Franco & Salazar". Whilst this was going on, television viewers were shown a shot of the scoreboard; oncethe man was removed the contest went on.The immediate response of the Koncertsal audience to the Italian entry was markedly enthusiastic and prolongedand, most unusually for a contest performance, after leaving the stage Gigliola Cinquetti was allowed to return totake a second bow. Her performance was given an unscheduled repeat on British television the following afternoon.In the event, she won the most crushing victory in the history of the contest, with a score almost three times that ofher nearest rival, a feat extremely unlikely ever to be beaten under the post-1974 scoring system.As with the 1956 contest, no video recording of the actual contest performance is known to survive (although onedoes of the shorter winning reprise); however like the 1956 contest an audio recording does exist. (Videos ofCinquetti's Sanremo performance and her Eurovision winning reprise have both appeared on YouTube.) Reports saythat this is because there was a fire at the studios of DR, the Danish broadcaster, in the 1970s. No other broadcasterrecorded the entire show (although segments of the contest do exist in the archives of NDR Germany) other than forthe Winners' reprise. It has been speculated that the BBC once held a copy of the show, as an empty tape canistermarked "Eurovision 1964" was found during a storage cleanup, but the tape was missing, presumably wiped.[2]

Participating countriesFurther information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song ContestSweden did not participate because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it. Portugal made its débutin the contest, however they became the first country to score nul points on their début. Germany, Switzerland, andYugoslavia also scored nul points for the first time. The Netherlands became the first country to send a singer ofnon-European ancestry, Anneke Grönloh was of Indonesian descent. The Spanish group Los TNT was the first groupof three or more participants of the history of the ESC.

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Returning artistsOne artist returned to the contest this year, Switzerland's Anita Traversi that represented the country in 1960.

Conductors

•  Luxembourg - JacquesDenjean

•  Netherlands - Dolf van derLinden

•  Norway - Karsten Andersen•  Denmark - Kai Mortensen

•  Finland - George deGodzinsky

•  Austria - Johannes Fehring•  France - Franck Pourcel•  United Kingdom - Harry

Rabinowitz

•  Germany - WillyBerking

•  Monaco - MichelColombier

•  Portugal - KaiMortensen

•  Italy - GianfrancoMonaldi

•  Yugoslavia - RadivojSpasić

•   Switzerland - FernandoPaggi

•  Belgium - Henri Segers•  Spain - Rafael de Ibarbia

Serra

Results

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points

01  Luxembourg French Hugues Aufray "Dès que le printemps revient" Once spring returns 4 14

02  Netherlands Dutch Anneke Grönloh "Jij bent mijn leven" You are my life 10 2

03  Norway Norwegian Arne Bendiksen "Spiral" — 8 6

04  Denmark Danish Bjørn Tidmand "Sangen om dig" The song about you 9 4

05  Finland Finnish LasseMårtenson

"Laiskotellen" Idling 7 9

06  Austria German Udo Jürgens "Warum nur warum?" Only why, why? 6 11

07  France French Rachel "Le chant de Mallory" Mallory's song 4 14

08  UnitedKingdom

English Matt Monro "I Love the Little Things" — 2 17

09  Germany German Nora Nova "Man gewöhnt sich so schnell andas Schöne"

How quickly we get used tonice things

13 0

10  Monaco French Romuald "Où sont-elles passées" Where have they gone? 3 15

11  Portugal Portuguese AntónioCalvário

"Oração" Prayer 13 0

12  Italy Italian GigliolaCinquetti

"Non ho l'età" I'm not old enough 1 49

13  Yugoslavia Bosnian Sabahudin Kurt "Život je sklopio krug" Life has come full circle 13 0

14   Switzerland Italian Anita Traversi "I miei pensieri" My thoughts 13 0

15  Belgium French Robert Cogoi "Près de ma rivière" Nearby my river 10 2

16  Spain Spanish Tim, Nelly &Tony

"Caracola" Conch 12 1

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Scoreboard

Dutch contestant Anneke Grönloh's dress

Voting results

Luxembourg 14 3 3 5 3

Netherlands 2 1 1

Norway 6 5 1

Denmark 4 1 3

Finland 9 3 3 3

Austria 11 5 1 5

France 14 1 3 5 3 1 1

United Kingdom 17 1 5 3 1 1 1 5

Germany 0

Monaco 15 3 5 3 1 3

Portugal 0

Italy 49 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 5 5 3 5

Yugoslavia 0

Switzerland 0

Belgium 2 1 1

Spain 1 1

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The table is ordered by appearance

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

N. Contestant Voting nation

8 Italy Austria, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia

2 Austria Italy, Spain

United Kingdom Norway, Switzerland

1 France Monaco

Luxembourg Germany

Monaco France

Norway Denmark

International broadcasts and votingThe table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1964 contest along with the spokesperson whowas responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent acommentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of thecommentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.

Voting order Country Spokespersons Commentator Broadcaster

01  Luxembourg TBC Jacques Navadic Télé-Luxembourg

02  Netherlands Pim Jacobs Ageeth Scherphuis NTS

03  Norway Sverre Christophersen Odd Grythe NRK[]

04  Denmark Pedro Biker No commentator DR TV

05  Finland Poppe Berg Aarno Walli Suomen Televisio

06  Austria Ernst Grissemann Emil Kollpacher ORF

07  France Claude Darget Robert Beauvais Première Chaîne RTF

08  United Kingdom Desmond Carrington David Jacobs BBC TV

Tom Sloan BBC Light Programme

09  Germany Lia Wöhr Hermann Rockmann ARD Deutsches Fernsehen

10  Monaco TBC Robert Beauvais Télé Monte Carlo

11  Portugal Maria Manuela Furtado Gomes Ferreira[3] RTP

12  Italy Rosanna Vaudetti Renato Tagliani Programma Nazionale

13  Yugoslavia TBC Miloje Orlović Televizija Beograd

Gordana Bonetti Televizija Zagreb

Tomaž Terček Televizija Ljubljana

14   Switzerland Alexandre Burger Theodor Haller TV DRS

Georges Hardy TSR

Giovanni Bertini TSI

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15  Belgium André Hagon Paule Herreman RTB

Herman Verelst BRT

16  Spain TBC Federico Gallo TVE

-  Sweden (non participating country) Sven Lindahl Sveriges Radio-TV[4]

References[1] Tivoli – Tivoli Gardens Copenhagen – Copenhagen Portal – Tourist Guide (http:/ / www. copenhagenet. dk/ cph-map/ cph-tivoli. asp).

Copenhagenet.dk. Retrieved on 15 August 2011.[2][2] The Lost Tapes: BBC documentary about wiping during the 60s, aired on BBC Three in 2009[3][3] Diário de Lisboa, 22 March 1964[4] Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 48. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN

91-89136-29-2

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