1967

VENUE Grosser Festsaal, Vienna		ENTRIES 17
HOST Erica Vaal		DEBUTS None

This was the last contest to be only filmed in black and white and the staging was rather peculiar. A revolving door with mirrors spun round behind the performers, which was a little too distracting at times. Each song was prefaced with a caption of the song title in French, English and German.

There were many problems with the scoring. The (obviously manually operated) scoreboard continually malfunctioned, although thankfully scrutineer Clifford Brown was vigilant enough to correct things when necessary. Presenter Erica Wahl added to the chaos when announcing the winner before the Irish jury had delivered it's votes!.

At long last the United Kingdom had a winner. In the preceding 11 years of Eurovision, the UK had competed nine times (all bar 1956 and 1958) and had finished second in 1959,1960,1961,1964 and 1965 ! Sandie Shaw's victory this time however was a runaway one and never in doubt. It was not the international hit to emerge from the show though, that was the fourth placed "L'Amour Est Bleu" by Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg, which in multiple cover versions went on to become a massive international hit as "Love Is Blue", including an American #1 for Paul Mauriat almost a year after the Vienna contest.

Netherlands	Ringe-Dinge	Thérèse Steinmetz	14
Luxembourg	L'Amour Est Bleu	Vicky	4
Austria	Warum Es Hundert Tausend Sterne Gibt	Peter Horten	14
France	Il Doit Faire Beau Là-Bas	Noëlle Cordier	3
Portugal	O Vento Mudou	Eduardo Nascimento	12
Switzerland	Quel Coeur Vas Tu Briser?	Géraldine	17
Sweden	Som En Dröm	Östen Warnerbring	8
Finland	Varjoon-Suojaan	Fredi	12
Germany	Anouschka	Inge Brück	8
Belgium	Ik Heb Zorgen	Louis Neefs	7
United Kingdom	Puppet On A String	Sandie Shaw	1
Spain	Hablemos Del Amour	Raphael	6
Norway	Dukkemann	Kirsti Sparboe	14
Monaco	Boum-Badaboum	Minouche Barelli	5
Yugoslavia	Vse Rose Sveta	Lado Leskovar	8
Italy	Non Andare Piu Lontanto	Claudio Villa	11
Ireland	If I Could Choose	Sean Dunphy	2

WINNER:

United Kingdom

PUPPET ON A STRING

Sandie Shaw

Voting

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