Eurovision Song Contest 1966
The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the eleventh Eurovision and was held on 5 March 1966 in Luxembourg. With Josiane Shen as the presenter, the contest was won by Udo Jürgens who represented Austria, with his song "Merci Cherie".
The rule stating that a country could only sing in any of its national languages was originally created in this year. This was possibly created due to the 1965 Swedish entry, "Absent Friend" which was sung in English.
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Interval Act
The interval act was music by Les Haricots.
Results
| Country (Language) |
Artist(s) | Song (Translation) |
Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (German) |
Udo Jürgens | Merci, Chérie | 1 | 31 |
| Belgium (French) |
Tonia | Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel | 4 | 14 |
| Denmark (Danish) |
Ulla Pia | Stop, ja stop - ja stop, mens legen er go | 14 | 4 |
| Finland (Finnish) |
Ann Christine Nyström | Playboy | 10 | 7 |
| France (French) |
Dominique Walter | Chez nous | 16 | 1 |
| Germany (German) |
Margot Eskens | Die Zeiger der Uhr | 10 | 7 |
| Ireland (English) |
Dickie Rock | Come Back to Stay | 4 | 14 |
| Italy (Italian) |
Domenico Modugno | Dio, come ti amo | 17 | 0 |
| Luxembourg (French) |
Michele Torr | Ce soir je t'attendais | 10 | 7 |
| Monaco (French) |
Tereza | Bien plus fort | 17 | 0 |
| Netherlands (Dutch) |
Milly Scott | Fernando en Philippo | 15 | 2 |
| Norway (Norwegian) |
Åse Kleveland | Intet er nytt under solen | 3 | 15 |
| Portugal (Portuguese) |
Madalena Iglesias | Ele e Ela | 13 | 6 |
| Spain (Spanish) |
Raphael | Yo soy aquél | 7 | 9 |
| Sweden (Swedish) |
Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson | Nygammal vals (eller hip man svinaherde) | 2 | 16 |
| Switzerland (French) |
Madeleine Pascal | Ne vois-tu pas | 6 | 12 |
| United Kingdom (English) |
Kenneth McKellar | A Man Without Love | 9 | 8 |
| Yugoslavia (Slovene) |
Berta Ambro? | Brez besed | 7 | 9 |
| Venue: Grand Auditorium de RTL - Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg | ||||
| The table is ordered alphabetically by country names. | ||||
Voting Structure
Each country had 10 jury members and each jury had 9 points to award. The song that got the most votes within the jury got 5 points, the song with the second most votes got 3 points and the song with the third most votes got 1 point. If only one song got every vote within the jury it would get 9 points and if only two songs were chosen, the song most voted for would get 6 points and the other song would get 3 points.
Score Sheet
| Juries | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Missing image ESCbb1J.png Germany Missing image ESCGermanyJ.png Germany |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Denmark Missing image ESCDenmarkJ.png Denmark |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Belgium Missing image ESCBelgiumJ.png Belgium |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Luxembourg Missing image ESCLuxembourgJ.png Luxembourg |
Missing image ESCYugoslaviaJ.png Yugoslavia |
Missing image ESCNorwayJ.png Norway |
Missing image ESCFinlandJ.png Finland |
Missing image ESCPortugalJ.png Portugal |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Austria Missing image ESCAustriaJ.png Ausria |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Sweden Missing image ESCSwedenJ.png Sweden |
Missing image ESCSpainJ.png Spain |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Switzerland Missing image ESCSwitzerlandJ.png Switzerland |
Missing image ESCMonacoJ.png Monaco |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Italy Missing image ESCItalyJ.png Italy |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png France Missing image ESCFranceJ.png France |
Missing image ESCbb1J.png Netherlands Missing image ESCNetherlandsJ.png Netherlands |
Missing image ESCIrelandJ.png Ireland |
Missing image ESCUnitedKingdomJ.png United Kingdom |
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Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Belgium | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Finland | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sweden | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Monaco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | ||
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| The table is ordered by appearance. | |||||||||||||||||||
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