United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1964 | ||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Artist: Internal selection Song: A Song for Europe 1964 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 7 February 1964 | |||
| Selected entrant | Matt Monro | |||
| Selected song | "I Love the Little Things" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | Tony Hatch | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 2nd, 17 points | |||
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The United Kingdom held a national selection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1964. It was held on 7 February 1964 and presented by David Jacobs.
Matt Monro was chosen to sing the entry and juries made up of members of the public in sixteen UK cities selected I Love the Little Things for him to sing at the Eurovision final, where it placed 2nd in the contest. Monro released all six songs from the UK final on an Extended Play maxi single A Song for Europe, which reached number 16 in the EP top 20 chart. He subsequently released the winning song on single, with the runner up on the B-Side, but this single failed to reach the official UK Singles Chart.
Before Eurovision
A Song for Europe 1964
| Draw | Song | Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Choose" | 4 | 16 |
| 2 | "It's Funny How You Know" | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | "I Love the Little Things" | 1 | 87 |
| 4 | "I've Got the Moon on My Side" | 2 | 43 |
| 5 | "Ten Out of Ten" | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | "Beautiful, Beautiful" | 3 | 20 |
At Eurovision
"I Love the Little Things" won the national and went on to come 2nd in the contest.
At the Eurovision the
The Austrian entry in the 1964 contest "Warum nur, warum?", performed by songwriter Udo Jürgens, caught Monro's ear, despite its sixth-place finish, and he recorded an English version titled "Walk Away" (lyric by Monro's manager Don Black), earning him another hit single late in 1964.
Voting
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References
- ^ a b "Results of the Final of Copenhagen 1964". Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original on 6 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.