Eurovision Song Contest 1964 1 Eurovision Song Contest 1964 Eurovision Song Contest 1964 Dates Final date 21 March 1964 Host Venue Tivolis Koncertsal Copenhagen, 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 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.
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Eurovision Song Contest 1964 1
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.
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.
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.
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
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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