Melodifestivalen 1967
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Date: 24 February 1967
Presenter: Maud Husberg
Venue: Cirkus
CirKus
CirKus are a trip-hop band formed by Burt Ford, Karmil , Lolita Moon and Neneh Cherry.- History :DJ and producer Karmil was recruited by Burt Ford as an assistant recording engineer. They began to work on their own material at Karmil's home studio in London...

, Stockholm
Stockholm
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Voting: Regional juries
Winner: Som en dröm performed by Östen Warnebring
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...

:
Eighth 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...

 1967
was the selection for the ninth 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 eighth time that this system of picking a song had been used. Approximately 1800 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 Östen Warnebring Som en dröm
Som en dröm
"Som en dröm" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, performed in Swedish by Östen Warnerbring, the winner of Melodifestivalen 1967. The runner-up in the pre-selections was Warnerbring himself with his second entry, "En valsfan"...

Curt Peterson, Marcus Österdahl, Patrice Hellberg 24
2nd Östen Warnebring En valsfan Gunnar Svensson, Hans Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson 20
3rd Roffe Berg Ren vals Charlie Norman, Björn Lindroth 14
3rd Towa Carson
Towa Carson
Towa Carson , born on 31 March 1936 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is a Swedish schlager singer. She debuted in 1954 and had the most success in the 1950s and 1960s, when she recorded many duets with Lasse Lönndahl...

Alla har glömt Peter Himmelstrand 14
5th Towa Carson
Towa Carson
Towa Carson , born on 31 March 1936 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is a Swedish schlager singer. She debuted in 1954 and had the most success in the 1950s and 1960s, when she recorded many duets with Lasse Lönndahl...

Vem frågar vinden Inger Berggren 11
6th Sten Nilsson Svart-Olas polska Åke Hallgren 8
7th 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...

Christina dansar Åke Hallgren 4
8th Marianne Kock Men vore du endast en visa Lennart Sjöberg, Carl-Olof Bergström 3
9th 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...

Förlåt min vän Johnny Carlsson 2
10th 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...

Sjungas till sömns Mats Berthold, May-Brith Matson 0

See also

  • Eurovision Song Contest 1967
    Eurovision Song Contest 1967
    The Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was the twelfth Eurovision Song Contest. The presenter became confused whilst the voting was taking place, and declared the United Kingdom's entry to be the winner before the last country, Ireland, had announced its votes...

  • Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
    Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
    Sweden 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 1967
    Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967
    The Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 was Östen Warnerbring and the song "Som en dröm", composed by Curt Pettersson and Marcus Österdal and written by Patrice Hellberg. The national selection was for the first time called "Melodifestivalen", a name that remains to this day.The...


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