Eurovision Song Contest 1964

Eurovision Song Contest 1964
Host Information
Theme	N/A
Semi Final	N/A
Semi Final 1	N/A
Semi Final 2	N/A
Final	21 March 1964
Venue	Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Presenter(s)	Lotte Wæver
Conductor	Kai Mortensen
Director	N/A
Executive Supervisor	Miroslav Vilček
Host Broadcaster	DR
Acts
Opening Act	N/A
Interval Act	Ballet-harlequinade
Participating Countries
Delegations	16
Debuting	Portugal
Returning	N/A
Withdrawing	Sweden
Voting
Voting System	5, 3, and 1 points - ten jury members per country could give points to their three favourite songs.
Nul Points	Germany Portugal Switzerland Yugoslavia
Winner	Italy Gigliola Cinquetti - Non ho l'età
Eurovision Song Contest
Previous	1963
Next	1965

The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the 9th in the series, and was held in Tivolis Koncertsal in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was the first contest to be held in a Scandinavian country.

Like 1956, there is no video recording of this contest, despite many people owning a television, but only stills, a short clip of the winner's reprise, and audio recordings of the contest remain. Rumour has it that the BBC once held visual recordings of the contest, but an empty tape canister marked 'Eurovision 1964' was found during a storage cleanup, presumably wiped for future programs (obviously). No other broadcaster recorded the contest in its entirety other than the winner's reprise. Segments of the contest exist in NDR's archives. DR, the host broadcaster, had a studio fire in the 1970s in which the tape was allegedly lost.

A few new surprises were introduced in this contest, that will follow on in the future; Portugal was the first country to score nul points on a debut, Anneke Grönloh (The Netherlands) was not of Dutch descent, but of Indonesian descent, and Los TNT was the first group with 3 or more members. Germany, Yugoslavia and Switzerland all scored nul points for the first time, and Italy scored their first win of three so far.

Gigliola Cinquetti receiving the Grand Prix award.

Rare image of the cameras used

The Interval act

Participants

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language	Translation	Place	Points
01	Luxembourg	Hugues Aufray	Dès que le printemps revient	French	Once spring returns	4	14
02	The Netherlands	Anneke Grönloh	Jij bent mijn leven	Dutch	You're my life	10	2
03	Norway	Arne Bendiksen	Spiral	Norwegian	--	8	6
04	Denmark	Bjørn Tidmand	Sangen om dig	Danish	The song about you	9	4
05	Finland	Lasse Mårtenson	Laiskotellen	Finnish	Idling	7	9
06	Austria	Udo Jürgens	Warum nur warum?	German	Only why, why?	6	11
07	France	Rachel	Le chant de Mallory	French	Mallory's song	4	14
08	United Kingdom	Matt Monro	I Love the Little Things	English	--	2	17
09	Germany	Nora Nova	Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne	German	How quickly we get used to nice things	13	0
10	Monaco	Romuald Figuier	Où sont-elles passées	French	Where have they gone?	3	15
11	Portugal	António Calvário	Oração	Portuguese	Prayer	13	0
12	Italy	Gigliola Cinquetti	Non ho l'età	Italian	I'm not old enough	1	49
13	Yugoslavia	Sabahudin Kurt	Život je sklopio krug	Bosnian	Life has come full circle	13	0
14	Switzerland	Anita Traversi	I miei pensieri	Italian	My thoughts	13	0
15	Belgium	Robert Cogoi	Près de ma rivière	French	Near by my river	10	2
16	Spain	Los TNT	Caracola	Spanish	Conch	12	1

Trivia

• This is the last contest to have Kai Mortensen as a conductor.