The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year. Italy won the contest for their first time scoring 49 points with the song "Non ho l'età", performed by Gigliola Cinquetti.[1]
Contents[]
[hide] *1 Location
- 2 Format
- 3 Participating countries
- 4 Results
- 5 Scoreboard
- 6 International broadcasts and voting
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Location[edit][]
For more details on the host city, see Copenhagen.[1][2]"Tivolis Koncertsal"-Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen - Host venue of the contest.
The host venue for the contest was Tivoli Concert Hall-Tivolis Koncertsal in Denmark's capital cityCopenhagen, 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 August 15, 1843, and is the second oldest amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg.[2]
Copenhagen has a strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia,[3] Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, making it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.[4]
Format[edit][]
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.[1]
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.
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.
As with the 1956 contest, no video recording of the actual contest performance is known to survive (although one does of the shorter winning reprise); however like the 1956 contest an audio recording does exist. (Videos of Cinquetti's Sanremo performance and her Eurovision winning reprise have both appeared on YouTube.) Reports say that this is because there was a fire at the studios of DR, the Danish broadcaster, in the 1970s. No other broadcaster recorded the entire show (although segments of the contest do exist in the archives of NDR Germany) other than for the Winners' reprise.[1] It has been speculated that the BBC once held a copy of the show, as an empty tape canister marked "Eurovision 1964" was found during a storage cleanup, but the tape was missing, presumably wiped.[5]
Participating countries[edit][]
Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Sweden did not participate because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it. Portugal made its début in the contest, however they became the first country to score nul points on their début. 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 was of Indonesian descent.[1] The Spanish group Los TNT was the first group of three or more participants of the history of the ESC.
Returning artists[edit][]
One artist returned to the contest this year, Switzerland's Anita Traversi that represented the country in 1960.[1]
Conductors[edit][]
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Results[edit][]
Scoreboard[edit][]
[3][4]Dutch contestant Anneke Grönloh's dress
Voting results | ||||||||||||||||||
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[5] | [6] | [7] | [8] | [9] | [10] | [11] | [12] | [13] | [14] | [15] | [16] | [17] | [18] | [19] | [20] | [21] | ||
[22] | 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 | ||||||||||||||||
The table is ordered by appearance |
5 points[edit][]
Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:
N. | Contestant | Voting nation |
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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 voting[edit][]
The table below shows 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. 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.[1]