Eurovision Song Contest 1958

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1958**

Date	12 March 1958
Presenter(s)	Hannie Lips
Host conductor	Dolf van der Linden
Host Broadcaster	NOS
Venue	AVRO Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands
Winning Song	Dors, mon amour (France)
Voting system	Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favorite song.
Number of Songs	10
Countries Making Debut	Sweden
Nul points	None
Interval Act	None

The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the third Eurovision Song Contest. The convention that the winning country from a year hosted the following year's contest was introduced in this year. France's win was their first. It was the last time to date that the United Kingdom did not enter (apart from the 2006 Junior Eurovision Song Contest).

The Italian entry was not picked up properly in some of the other countries, which meant that after all the other songs had been presented, Domenico Modugno had to sing it again partly because the juries were not in the studio like in the previous years. This year they stayed in their own countries, listening to the event. Once the songs had all been sung, juries sent their results via telephone.

The Italian entry became very successful in the United States, where it has become commonly known as Volare, and got two Grammy Awards.

1 Interval act
2 Results
3 Voting structure
4 Score sheet
5 Map

[edit] Interval act

The interval act was music by the Metropole Orkest, under the lead of conductor Dolf van der Linden. This year, there were two interval acts; one in the middle, one after all the songs were played.

[edit] Results

Country (Language)	Artist	Song (Translation)	Place	Points
Austria (German)	Liane Augustin	Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe (The Whole World Needs Love)	5	8
Belgium (French)	Fud Leclerc	Ma Petite Chatte (My Little Sweetie)	5	8
Denmark (Danish)	Raquel Rastenni	Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog (I Tore a Page out of my Diary)	8	3
France (French)	André Claveau	Dors, Mon Amour (Sleep my Love)	1	27
Germany (German)	Margot Hielscher	Für zwei Groschen Musik (Music for Two Pennies)	7	5
Italy (Italian)	Domenico Modugno	Nel blu Dipinto di blu* (Blue Painted in the Blue)	3	13
Luxembourg (French)	Solange Berry	Un Grand Amour (A Great Love)	9	1
Netherlands (Dutch)	Corry Brokken	Heel de Wereld (The Whole World)	9	1
Sweden (Swedish)	Alice Babs	Lilla stjärna (Little Star)	4	10
Switzerland (German/Italian)	Lys Assia	Giorgio (George)**	2	24
Venue: AVRO studios - Hilversum, Netherlands
The table is ordered by the countries' names.
After the contest, the song became well known as "Volare" (Flying*).
**George is the English equivalent, not a translation.

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had 10 jury members who each decided the best song and each awarded 1 point.

[edit] Score sheet

		Juries

	Italy		1	1	0	1	0	4	4	1	1
	Netherlands	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	France	6	0		1	1	9	1	1	7	1
	Luxembourg	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	2	0	3		0	1	0	1	3
	Denmark	0	1	1	0	1		0	0	0	1
	Belgium	0	0	0	0	1	1		5	0	1
	Germany	0	0	2	0	1	0	1		1	0
	Austria	0	0	3	1	1	0	1	0		2
	Switzerland	4	6	3	5	4	0	2	0	0
The table is ordered by appearance.