Norway was represented at the

Eurovision Song Contest 1965 The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the 10th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 March 1965 in the in Naples, Italy and presented by Renata Mauro. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RAI), t ...

with the song "", written by

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, and performed by

Kirsti Sparboe Kirsti Sparboe (born 7 December 1946) is a Norwegian musical performer and an actress. Most of her musical career has been built on participation in the widely-popular Eurovision Song Contest in which she competed three times and scored a gran ...

. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, (NRK), organised the national final 1965 in order to select its entry for the contest. This was the first of Sparboe's three Eurovision appearances for Norway.

Before Eurovision

1965

(NRK) held the 1965 at its studios in

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, hosted by Odd Grythe. Five songs took part in the final with each song sung twice by different singers, once with a small combo and once with a full orchestra. However

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, who had been due to perform a version of "", had to withdraw at the last minute through illness so Sparboe sang both versions of the song. The winning song was chosen by postcard voting. The national final was broadcast on and

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At Eurovision

On the night of the final Sparboe performed 7th in the running order, following and preceding . Each national jury awarded 5-3-1 to their top three songs, and at the close "" had picked up only 1 point (from Austria), placing Norway joint 13th (with ) of the 18 entries. The Norwegian jury awarded its 5 points to the .

Voting

References

External links

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965

Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster submits an origina ...