Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
The Belgian participating broadcaster, Walloon Radio-Télévision Belge (RTB), internally selected its entry for the contest.A jury consisting of Robert Cogoi, people from his record company, and representatives of RTB selected the Eurovision entry from the three submissions."Près de ma rivière" was selected as the Belgian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.Only an audio recording of Cogoi's performance and a couple seconds of rehearsal footage survives, as it is believed that the video master of the 1964 contest was destroyed in a fire at the Danish TV archive in the 1970s and no other broadcaster had recorded the show or requested a copy.Voting was by each national jury awarding 5, 3, and 1 points to their top three songs, and at the close of voting "Près de ma rivière" had received 2 points (1 each from Monaco and Portugal), placing Belgium joint 10th (with the Netherlands) of the 16 entries.