Rudi Carrell and Annie Palmen won the national final with Wat een geluk in 1960 before Carrell was selected for the night but the song finished 12th or second last . Greetje Kauffeld failed to win three selections before internally selected in 1961 with Wat een dag finished tied tenth . YouTube still have a video from a classic Nationaal Songfestival 1962 . Gert Timmerman and Conny Vandenbos headlined the show . De Spelbrekers won with a cute song " Katinka " . This song is in the distinguished list for finishing last with 0 points but still being the more-remembered entries from the dark age . In 1963 , The members of the orchestra declared strike action to cancel the televised selection . Palmen performed three songs for juries before " Geen ander " or " Een speeldoos " were selected . Veteran conductor Dolf van der Linden missed the contest also before finishing tied last with zero points again . Dutch-Indonesian Anneke Grönloh with " Jij bent mijn leven " finished tied tenth in 1964 . 1965 Nationaal Songfestival brought five semi-finals to select the song for each entrant hosted by Teddy Scholten . Vandenbos won with " ' t Is genoeg " to go to 1965 . Norway gave top marks to save the song from 0 points , finishing 11th . Milly Scott was the first black performer to participate in 1966 , last two voting coutries Ireland and United Kingdom saved " Fernando en Filippo " from 0 points to finish 15th . A so little town of Harmelen hosted the 1967 selection before Thérèse Steinmetz finished 14th with " Ring-dinge-ding " A year later , the Netherlands finished last again with " Morgen " from Ronnie Tober
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Eurovision Song Contest 1960
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest