1964 |

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In 1964, the BBC changed the format of A Song for Europe with, for the first time, all songs being performed by the same artist.

Transmission Date:	Friday 7th February 1964
Channel:	BBC Television
Time:	21.25-22.00

Presenter:	David Jacobs
Performer:	Matt Monro
Musical Director:	Harry Rabinowitz
Orchestra Leader:	Alex Firmin

Backing Vocals:	The Mike Sammes Singers
Producers:	Yvonne Littlewood Harry Carlisle


Designer:	Ridley Scott

Voting:	Sixteen regional juries: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff, London North, London South, Plymouth, Southampton and Bristol.
Winning Song:	I Love The Little Things Matt Monro

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SONGS

	SONG	Composer(s)	Arranger	Points	Position
1	Choose	Lionel Bart	Johnny Pearson	16	4
2	It's Funny How You Know	Norman Newell & Philip Green	Geoff Love	11	6
3	I Love The Little Things	Tony Hatch	Johnny Scott	87	1
4	I've Got The Moon On My Side	Mitch Murray	Les Reed	43	2
5	Ten Out Of Ten	Leslie Bricusse	Johnny Scott	15	5
6	Beautiful, Beautiful	Hal Shaper	Les Reed	20	3

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SCOREBOARD

1st. I Love The Little Things
2nd. I've Got The Moon On My Side
3rd. Beautiful, Beautiful
4th. Choose
5th. Ten Out Of Ten
6th. It's Funny How You Know

A more detailed scoreboard for this event may be viewed on desktop, laptop and tablet devices

	SONG	Aberdeen	Edinburgh	Glasgow	Belfast	Newcastle	Leeds	Manchester	Nottingham	Norwich	Birmingham	Cardiff	London North	London South	Plymouth	Southampton	Bristol	TOTAL	Position
1	Choose	1	1	2	1	4			1	1	1	2	1		1			16	4
2	It's Funny How You Know			2				3	2		1	1	1		1			11	6
3	I Love The Little Things	7	3	3	6	3	8	4	5	8	7	6	5	8	6	4	4	87	1
4	I've Got The Moon On My Side	2	8	3	2	3	1			2	3	3	2	3	4	4	3	43	2
5	Ten Out Of Ten	1		1	1			2	1	1			1	1		2	4	15	5
6	Beautiful, Beautiful	1		1	2	2	3	3	3				2			2	1	20	3

Voting information taken with permission from Songs For Europe Volume One - The1950s and 1960s by Gordon Roxburgh

All the songs were issued on an EP, which reached No. 16 in the UK EP charts.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Matt Monro at The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 (audio recording)

No video recording of the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 is known to exist. It is generally accepted that this is due to a fire at the headquarters of Danish broadcaster DR in the 1970s having destroyed the master tape and no other broadcaster having retained a recording of the show. A film of the reprise of the winning song survives as does an audio recording of the entire event.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

AT THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 1964

At the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark on Saturday 21s4 March 1963, I Love The Little Things finished in 2nd place with 17 points. The song was conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

David Jacobs provided the commentary for BBC Television.