Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Dates
Final	8 April 1967
Host
Venue	Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)	Erica Vaal
Musical director	Johannes Fehring
Directed by	Herbert Fuchs
Executive supervisor	Clifford Brown
Executive producer	Karl Lackner
Host broadcaster	Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/vienna-1967
Participants
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	None
Non-returning countries	Denmark
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1967
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries distributed ten points among their favourite songs.
Winning song	United Kingdom "Puppet on a String"
1966 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1968

The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the 12th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following the country's victory at the 1966 contest with the song "Merci, Chérie" by Udo Jürgens. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the contest was held at the Großer Festsaal der Wiener Hofburg on 8 April 1967, becoming the first contest held in the month of April, and was hosted by Austrian actress Erica Vaal.

Seventeen countries participated in the contest, one fewer than the record eighteen that had competed in the 1965 and 1966 editions. Denmark decided not to enter and left the contest at this point, not returning until 1978.^[1]

The United Kingdom won the contest for the first time with the song "Puppet on a String", written and composed by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, and performed by Sandie Shaw. The entry had one of the widest margins of victory ever witnessed in the competition; it garnered more than twice as many points as the second-placed song. Shaw intensely disliked the composition, though her attitude towards the song somewhat mellowed in later years, even releasing a new version in 2007.^[1]

This was the last contest to be transmitted only in black and white as it would begin to be transmitted in colour from the 1968 edition onwards.