Portugal was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song "", composed by Pedro Vaz Osório, with lyrics by José Alberto Diogo, and performed by Carlos Mendes. The Portuguese participating broadcaster, (RTP), selected its entry at the 1968.
Before Eurovision
1968 (RTP) held the 1968 at its Lumiar studios in Lisbon on 4 March 1968, hosted by Maria Fernanda and Henrique Mendes. Unlike the previous year, no semi-finals where held, returning to the single-night model. Ten songs took part in the final. During the interpretation of her second theme, Simone de Oliveira felt sick and was unable to complete it, being removed from the stage to receive medical attention. Joaquim Luís Gomes conducted all the songs. The results were determined by a distrital jury, composed of three members which each had 5 votes to be distributed among the songs it intended to award, making a total of 15 votes per district.
+ - 4 March 1968 Artist Song Votes Place 1 Mirene Cardinalli "Vento não vou contigo" 11 8 2 Tonicha "Fui ter com a madrugada" 59 2 3 Nicolau Breyner "Pouco mais" 33 4 4 João Maria Tudela "Ao vento e às andorinhas" 24 5 5 Carlos Mendes "Verão" 61 1 6 José Cid "Balada para D. Inês" 43 3 7 António Calvário "O nosso mundo" 2 10 8 Tonicha "Calendário" 12 7 9Simone de Oliveira "Dentro de outro mundo" 11 8 10 "Canção ao meu piano velho" 14 6
+ Detailed Distrital Jury Votes Song scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" Total 1"Vento não vou contigo"151111111 2"Fui ter com a madrugada" 7 9 2842101313 59 3"Pouco mais" 2 5 31821253 1 33 4"Ao vento e às andorinhas" 2 1 12 22143 6 24 5"Verão" 1 4 5 42 51978341 7 61 6"Balada para D. Inês" 2 1125557510 43 7"O nosso mundo" 11 2 8"Calendário" 1 9 2 12 9"Dentro de outro mundo"33511 10"Canção ao meu piano velho"151222114
At Eurovision On the night of the final Mendes performed 1st in the running order, preceding Netherlands. At the close of the voting the song had received 5 points, coming 11th in the field of 17 competing countries.
The orchestra during the Portuguese entry was conducted by Joaqium Luis Gomes.
The national jury which awarded the points from Portugal comprised Maria Helena Oliveira Simões (housewife), Madalena Iglésias (singer), Maria João Aguiar (TV and radio presenter), Isabel Maria Spencer Vieira Martins (college student), António Reis (publishing director), José Joaquim Machado Leite (office secretary), António Moniz Pereira (member of the group Quarteto 1111), Bernardo Manuel Palma Mira Delgado (mechanical engineer), Luís Fernando Cardoso Nandim de Carvalho (university student), and Pedro Manuel Mota Vaz do Castelo (radio presenter).
Voting
+ Points awarded to Portugal Score Country 3 points 2 points
+ Points awarded by Portugal Score Country 4 points 1 point
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