The Eurovision Song Contest 1968 was the 13th in the series, and it was held in the Royal Albert Hall in London, following the victory of Sandie Shaw with Puppet on a String. This was the first contest to be broadcast on colour television (in some countries, anyway), and even more television owners were tuning in to the contest as a result of that.
Eastern Europe and Tunisia also broadcast the contest for the first time.
The winner was Spain, achieving their first victory out of two, with singer Massiel. Massiel was not supposed to perform, but Joan Manuel Serrat was supposed to perform, but as he insisted on performing in Catalan, Francoist Spain decided to replace him.
Out of all delegations at the time, only Denmark was absent from the contest at the time, having withdrew a few years back.
Participants[]
Draw | Country | Artist | Song | Language | Translation | Place | Points |
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01 | ![]() |
Carlos Mendes | Verão | Portuguese | Summer | 11 | 5 |
02 | ![]() |
Ronnie Tober | Morgen | Dutch | Tomorrow | 16 | 1 |
03 | ![]() |
Claude Lombard | Quand tu reviendras | French | When you come back | 7 | 8 |
04 | ![]() |
Karel Gott | Tausend Fenster | German | A thousand windows | 13 | 2 |
05 | ![]() |
Chris & Sophie | Nous vivrons d'amour | French | We will live by love | 11 | 5 |
06 | ![]() |
Gianni Mascolo | Guardando il sole | Italian | Looking into the sun | 13 | 2 |
07 | ![]() |
Line & Willy | À chacun sa chanson | French | A song for everyone | 7 | 8 |
08 | ![]() |
Claes-Göran Hederström | Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mig | Swedish | It's beginning to look like love, damn it | 5 | 15 |
09 | ![]() |
Kristina Hautala | Kun kello käy | Finnish | When time goes by | 16 | 1 |
10 | ![]() |
Isabelle Aubret | La source | French | The light | 3 | 20 |
11 | ![]() |
Sergio Endrigo | Marianne | Italian | -- | 10 | 7 |
12 | ![]() |
Cliff Richard | Congratulations | English | 2 | 28 | |
13 | ![]() |
Odd Børre | Stress | Norwegian | 13 | 2 | |
14 | ![]() |
Pat McGuigan | Chance of a Lifetime | English | 4 | 18 | |
15 | ![]() |
Massiel | La, la, la | Spanish | 1 | 29 | |
16 | ![]() |
Wencke Myhre | Ein Hoch der Liebe | German | A toast to love | 6 | 11 |
17 | ![]() |
Dubrovački trubaduri | Jedan dan | Croatian | One day | 7 | 8 |
Trivia[]
- As of September 2021, this is the oldest known contest to be featured as part of Eurovision Again, eclipsing the 1969 contest shown a couple of months earlier.
- There were allegations that the spanish dictator, Francisco Franco bribed the juries to get Spain to win. RTVE has since disputed this.