Eurovision Song Contest 1964

The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the 9th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the country's victory at the 1963 contest with the song "Dansevise" by Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR), the contest was held at Tivolis Koncertsal on 21 March 1964, and was hosted by Danish TV presenter Lotte Wæver.

Eurovision Song Contest 1964
Dates
Final21 March 1964
Host
VenueTivolis Koncertsal
Copenhagen, Denmark
Presenter(s)Lotte Wæver
Musical directorKai Mortensen
Directed byPoul Leth Sørensen
Executive supervisorMiroslav Vilček
Host broadcasterDanmarks Radio (DR)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/copenhagen-1964
Participants
Number of entries16
Debuting countries Portugal
Returning countriesNone
Non-returning countries Sweden
Participation map
  • A coloured map of the countries of Europe
         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1964
Vote
Voting systemTen-member juries awarded points (5, 3 and 1) to their three favourite songs.
Nul points
Winning song Italy
"Non ho l'età"

Sixteen countries participated in the contest. Portugal made its debut this year, while Sweden decided not to enter.

The winner of the contest was Italy with the song "Non ho l'età", performed by Gigliola Cinquetti, written by Nicola Salerno and composed by Mario Panzeri. At the age of 16 years and 92 days, Gigliola Cinquetti became the youngest winner of the contest yet; a record she held until 1986.[1] The entry had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition. It garnered almost three times as many points as the second-placed song.

Location
Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen - host venue of the 1964 contest.

The host venue for the contest was Tivolis Koncertsal (Tivoli Concert Hall) in Denmark's capital city Copenhagen, which lies within Denmark's famous amusement park and pleasure garden Tivoli Gardens. The park, alluding by its name to the Jardin de Tivoli that existed in Paris, was opened on 15 August 1843, and is the second oldest amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg.[2]

Format

Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favourite songs. The points were totaled 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.[3]

The contest this year was highly politicised with demands that right-wing dictatorships in Spain and Portugal should be excluded from the contest. This controversy became apparent during the contest as just before the Belgian entry, a man entered the stage holding a banner saying "Boycott Franco and Salazar". He was quickly removed from the stage. This alarmed the audience, to where the camera footage cut to the scoreboard, however, photographs were taken and released after the event. This would be the very first stage invasion in the contest's history.

The immediate response of the Koncertsal audience to the Italian entry was markedly enthusiastic and prolonged and, most unusually for a contest performance, after leaving the stage Gigliola Cinquetti was allowed to return to take 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 of her nearest rival, a feat extremely unlikely ever to be beaten under the post-1974 scoring system.

Lost recordings

As with the 1956 contest, no complete video recording of the actual contest is known to have survived; however, unlike the 1956 contest (where the interval act is mostly missing), a complete audio recording does exist in the form of the DR radio broadcast. Some clips of the contest have survived, including part of the opening ceremonies, including some of presenter Lotte Wæver's welcoming remarks, as well as the majority of the repeat performance of "Non ho l'età" from the end of the broadcast. For some time, there was a rumour that a copy of the entire contest existed in the French television archives.[4] In 2021, INA confirmed to Wiwibloggs that the French television archives do not possess a copy of the contest.[5]

A persistent myth, even repeated on the official Eurovision site, is that the tape was destroyed in a fire in the 1970s. In more recent interviews, DR claimed that the broadcast was never recorded in the first place, allegedly due to no tape machines being available at the studio at the time.[6] The audio of the entire show, however, is still available online, and some short video clips and photos remain available.[7]

Participating countries
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden did not participate this year due to a strike among members of the Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film (Swedish: Teaterförbundet). Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio however did ultimately broadcast the event.[8] Portugal competed in the contest for the first time, however they became the first country to score nul points on their début entry. Germany, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia also scored nul points for the first time. The Netherlands became the first country to send a singer of non-European ancestry, Anneke Grönloh who was of Indonesian descent.[3] Spain decided to send the Italian-Uruguayan group Los TNT who were the first group of three or more participants in the history of the contest.

Returning artists
Artist Country Previous year(s)
Anita Traversi  Switzerland 1956 (Backing Singer), 1960

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who conducted the orchestra.[9][10]

Participants and results
R/O Country Artist Song Language[11][12] Points Place[13]
1  Luxembourg Hugues Aufray "Dès que le printemps revient" French 14 4
2  Netherlands Anneke Grönloh "Jij bent mijn leven" Dutch 2 10
3  Norway Arne Bendiksen "Spiral" Norwegian 6 8
4  Denmark Bjørn Tidmand "Sangen om dig" Danish 4 9
5  Finland Lasse Mårtenson "Laiskotellen" Finnish[lower-alpha 1] 9 7
6  Austria Udo Jürgens "Warum nur, warum?" German 11 6
7  France Rachel "Le Chant de Mallory" French 14 4
8  United Kingdom Matt Monro "I Love the Little Things" English 17 2
9  Germany Nora Nova "Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne" German 0 13
10  Monaco Romuald "Où sont-elles passées" French 15 3
11  Portugal António Calvário "Oração" Portuguese 0 13
12  Italy Gigliola Cinquetti "Non ho l'età" Italian 49 1
13  Yugoslavia Sabahudin Kurt "Život je sklopio krug" (Живот је склопио круг) Serbo-Croatian 0 13
14  Switzerland Anita Traversi "I miei pensieri" Italian 0 13
15  Belgium Robert Cogoi "Près de ma rivière" French 2 10
16  Spain Tim, Nelly and Tony "Caracola" Spanish 1 12

Detailed voting results
Dutch contestant Anneke Grönloh's dress
Detailed voting results[14][15]
Total score
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Austria
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Monaco
Portugal
Italy
Yugoslavia
Switzerland
Belgium
Spain
Contestants
 Luxembourg 143353
Netherlands 211
Norway 651
Denmark 413
Finland 9333
Austria 11515
France 14135311
United Kingdom 171531115
Germany 0
Monaco 1535313
Portugal 0
Italy 4955555335535
Yugoslavia 0
Switzerland 0
Belgium 211
Spain 11

5 points

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 5 points
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

Spokespersons

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1964 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

  1.  Luxembourg – TBC
  2.  Netherlands – Pim Jacobs
  3.  Norway – Sverre Christophersen
  4.  Denmark – Pedro Biker
  5.  Finland – Poppe Berg
  6.  Austria – Walter Richard Langer
  7.  France – Jean-Claude Massoulier
  8.  United Kingdom – Kenneth Kendall
  9.  Germany – Claudia Doren
  10.  Monaco – TBC
  11.  Portugal – Maria Manuela Furtado
  12.  Italy – Rosanna Vaudetti
  13.  Yugoslavia – Saša Novak
  14.  Switzerland – Alexandre Burger
  15.  Belgium – André Hagon
  16.  Spain – Eduardo Sancho

Broadcasts

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.[16]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF ORF Unknown [17]
 Belgium RTB RTB Unknown [18][19][20]
BRT BRT Unknown [19]
 Denmark DR DR TV, DR P1, DR P3 No commentary [21][22]
 Finland YLE Suomen Televisio Aarno Walli [23][24][25]
Yleisohjelma Erkki Melakoski
Ruotsinkielinen ula-ohjelma Unknown
 France RTF RTF Robert Beauvais [20][26][27]
 Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Unknown [19][28][29]
 Italy RAI Programma Nazionale Renato Tagliani [30][31][32]
 Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg Unknown [20][33]
 Monaco Télé Monte-Carlo Unknown [34]
 Netherlands NTS NTS Ageeth Scherphuis [19][35][36]
NRU Hilversum 2 Unknown [19]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet, NRK Odd Grythe [37][38][39]
 Portugal RTP RTP Unknown [40][41]
 Spain TVE TVE Federico Gallo [42][43][44]
RNE RNE[lower-alpha 2] Unknown [43]
 Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS Unknown [26][28][45][46][47]
TSR Robert Burnier
TSI Unknown
DRS 1[lower-alpha 3] Unknown
RSR 1 Unknown
RSI 1 Unknown
 United Kingdom BBC BBC TV David Jacobs [10][48][49]
 Yugoslavia JRT Televizija Ljubljana Unknown [50][51][52]
Televizija Zagreb Unknown
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Ireland RÉ Telefís Éireann Unknown [53]
 Sweden SR Sveriges TV Sven Lindahl [8]

Incidents

Stage invasion

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; once the man was removed the contest went on.[54]

Notes
  1. Contains one phrase in English
  2. Deferred broadcast at 23:00 CET (22:00 UTC)[43]
  3. Delayed broadcast on 23 March at 20:00 CET (19:00 UTC)[28]

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