Melodifestivalen 1966
Encyclopedia
| Date: | 29 January 1966 |
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| Presenter: | Sven Lindahl |
| Venue: | Cirkus Cirkus (Stockholm) Cirkus is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, that holds 1,650 people. It was built in 1892 and originally used as a circus , but is today mostly used for concerts and musical shows.-External links:*... , Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... |
| Voting: | Regional juries |
| Winner: | Nygammal vals performed by Lill Lindfors Lill Lindfors Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors is a Finland-Swedish/Swedish singer. Born in Helsinki, Finland she has been performing in Scandinavia with minor and major success since the 1960s. She debuted as a revue actress in Uddevalla in 1960 and the following year as a recording artist... & Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963... |
| Winner's result at Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition... : |
Second place |
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...
1966 (known as the Svensk sångfinal) was the selection for the eighth song to represent Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
at the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
. It was the seventh time that this system of picking a song had been used. 898 songs were submitted to SVT
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
for the competition. The final was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV
SVT1
SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...
but was not broadcast on radio.
Results
| Place | Artist | Song | Songwriters | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Lill Lindfors Lill Lindfors Lillemor "Lill" Lindfors is a Finland-Swedish/Swedish singer. Born in Helsinki, Finland she has been performing in Scandinavia with minor and major success since the 1960s. She debuted as a revue actress in Uddevalla in 1960 and the following year as a recording artist... & Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963... |
Nygammal vals Nygammal vals "Nygammal vals" was the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. It was sung in Swedish by Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson, composed by Bengt Arne Wallin and written by Björn Lindroth... |
Bengt-Arne Wallin, Björn Lindroth | 26 | |
| 2nd | Carli Tornehave | Monte Carlo | Bengt Arne Wallin, Carl Gyllenberg | 19 | |
| 3rd | Gunnar Wiklund | Vinterrosor | Britt Lindeborg | 14 | |
| 4th | Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson is a Swedish singer and has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years.Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and, following their marriage, Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and... |
En ballad om för längesen | Robert Meyer, Gösta Rybrant | 9 | |
| 5th | Gunilla af Malmborg | Var finns du? | Ulf Björlin, Lars Forsell | 8 | |
| 5th | Carli Tornehave | Härliga Söndag | Bo-Göran Edling, Peter Himmelstrand | 8 | |
| 7th | Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963... |
Hej systrar, hej bröder | Åke Gerhard | 6 | |
| 8th | Monica Nielsen | En röd vals | Jan Johansson, Kerstin Bergström | 5 | |
| 9th | Gunwer Bergquist | Vårens vindar | Torbjörn Lundqvist, Maud Lundqvist | 4 | |
| 10th | Gunnar Wiklund | Vad har jag kvar | Berndt Öst, Peter Himmelstrand | 0 |
See also
- Eurovision Song Contest 1966Eurovision Song Contest 1966The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the 11th edition and was held on 5 March 1966 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 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...
- Sweden in the Eurovision Song ContestSweden in the Eurovision Song ContestSweden has participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 51 times since their debut in 1958. Since 1959, the Swedish representative has been chosen through an annual televised competition, known since 1967 as Melodifestivalen. Three times – 1964, 1970, and 1976 – Sweden didn't participate...
- Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966Sweden competed in Eurovision Song Contest 1966 with the song "Nygammal vals" performed by Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson. It was written by Bengt-Arne Wallin and Björn Lindroth. Much thanks to Scandinavian neighbours, Sweden took their best placement so far in ESC this year, held in...