Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966

Eurovision Song Contest 1966
Eurovision Song Contest 1966
Participating broadcaster	Sveriges Radio (SR)
Country	Sweden
National selection
Selection process	National final
Selection date(s)	29 January 1966
Selected artist(s)	Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson
Selected song	"Nygammal vals"
Selected songwriter(s)	Bengt-Arne Wallin; Björn Lindroth;
Finals performance
Final result	2nd, 16 points
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 with the song "Nygammal vals", composed by Bengt-Arne Wallin, with lyrics by Björn Lindroth, and performed by Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson. The Swedish participating broadcaster, Sveriges Radio (SR), selected its entry through a national final titled Svensk sångfinal.

Sweden scored 16 points and finished in 2nd place at the contest in Luxembourg, its highest ever placement at the time.

Before Eurovision

Svensk sångfinal

Svensk sångfinal (retroactively often referred to as Melodifestivalen 1966) was the selection for the eighth song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Cirkus in Stockholm on 29 January 1966. It was the seventh time that Sveriges Radio (SR) used this system of picking a song. 898 songs were submitted to SR for the competition. Regional juries selected the winning song. The final was held in the Cirkus in Stockholm on 29 January 1966, hosted by Sven Lindahl and was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV but was not broadcast on radio.

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Place	Points
1	Svante Thuresson	"Hej systrar, hej bröder"	Åke Gerhard	7th	6
2	Monica Nielsen	"En röd vals"	Jan Johansson, Kerstin Bergström	8th	5
3	Carli Tornehave	"Monte Carlo"	Bengt-Arne Wallin, Carl Gyllenberg	2nd	19
4	Gunilla af Malmborg	"Var finns du?"	Ulf Björlin, Lars Forssell	5th	8
5	Gunnar Wiklund	"Vinterrosor"	Britt Lindeborg	3rd	14
6	Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson	"Nygammal vals"	Bengt-Arne Wallin, Björn Lindroth	1st	26
7	Ann-Louise Hanson	"En ballad om för längesen"	Robert Meyer, Gösta Rybrant	4th	9
8	Carli Tornehave	"Härliga Söndag"	Bo-Göran Edling, Peter Himmelstrand	5th	8
9	Gunwer Bergqvist	"Vårens vindar"	Torbjörn Lundqvist, Maud Lundqvist	9th	4
10	Gunnar Wiklund	"Vad har jag kvar"	Berndt Öst, Peter Himmelstrand	10th	0