Eurovision Song Contest 1960

Eurovision Song Contest 1960
Dates
Final 29 March 1960
Host
Venue Royal Festival Hall
London, United Kingdom
Presenter(s) Katie Boyle
Conductor Eric Robinson
Directed by Innes Lloyd
Host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Interval act Eric Robinson's Orchestra[1]
Participants
Number of entries 13
Debuting countries
Returning countries
Withdrawing countries None
Participation map
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Vote
Voting system Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favourite song
Nul points None
Winning song  France
"Tom Pillibi"

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was held on Tuesday 29 March 1960 in London. Although the Netherlands had won the contest in 1959, the Netherlands Television Foundation declined to host another contest so soon after staging the event in 1958. The honour of hosting the contest therefore passed to the United Kingdom, which had come second in 1959. Therefore, the BBC chose Catherine Boyle (as she was then known) to be the mistress of ceremonies at the contest for the first time. France's win this year was their second in the contest.[1] The contest was won by France with the song "Tom Pillibi", performed by Jacqueline Boyer.

Location

Royal Festival Hall, London - host venue of the 1960 contest.

The 1960 Eurovision Song Contest was hosted in London. The Royal Festival Hall, the venue for the 1960 contest, is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge.[2]

The result was a win for France, however Germany, Monaco and the UK led in the early stages of voting. The UK came second with 25 points, four more points than the winning song in 1959, and Monaco came third on 15 points making up for their disappointing début result the year before.[1]

Participating countries

Interest in the contest started to grow across Europe, with the number of participating nations increasing to 13 this year. Norway made its debut with one of their leading jazz singers. Luxembourg returned to the contest after a one-year break with a song in native Luxembourgish language.[1] The Netherlands were mistakenly announced as Holland (which is only the western part of the country of The Netherlands).


Conductors

The conductors of the orchestra for each country's performance were:[3]

Returning artists

The contest saw the return of one artist who had participated in its previous editions, with Belgium's representative Fud Leclerc, who previously represented the country in 1956 and 1958.[1]

Results

Draw Country Artist Song Language[4] Place Points
01  United Kingdom Bryan Johnson "Looking High, High, High" English 2 25
02  Sweden Siw Malmkvist "Alla andra får varann" Swedish 10 4
03  Luxembourg Camillo Felgen "So laang we's du do bast" Luxembourgish 13 1
04  Denmark Katy Bødtger "Det var en yndig tid" Danish 10 4
05  Belgium Fud Leclerc "Mon amour pour toi" French 6 9
06  Norway Nora Brockstedt "Voi Voi"1 Norwegian 4 11
07  Austria Harry Winter "Du hast mich so fasziniert" German 7 6
08  Monaco François Deguelt "Ce soir-là" French 3 15
09   Switzerland Anita Traversi "Cielo e terra" Italian 8 5
10  Netherlands Rudi Carrell "Wat een geluk" Dutch 12 2
11  Germany Wyn Hoop "Bonne nuit ma chérie" German, French 4 11
12  Italy Renato Rascel "Romantica" Italian 8 5
13  France Jacqueline Boyer "Tom Pillibi" French 1 32

Scoreboard

Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favourite song.

Voting results
United Kingdom 25 1 5 1 2 3 1 4 5 1 2
Sweden 4 1 1 2
Luxembourg 1 1
Denmark 4 1 1 2
Belgium 9 4 1 1 3
Norway 11 1 2 1 1 4 1 1
Austria 6 2 2 1 1
Monaco 15 1 1 2 1 7 3
Switzerland 5 1 1 2 1
Netherlands 2 1 1
Germany 11 1 2 2 2 4
Italy 5 1 1 2 1
France 32 5 4 1 4 3 5 1 5 1 2 1
The table is ordered by appearance

International broadcasts and voting

The table above shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1960 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.[5]

Voting and spokespersons

  1.  France - TBC
  2.  Italy - Enzo Tortora
  3.  Germany - TBC
  4.  Netherlands - Siebe van der Zee[6]
  5.   Switzerland - Boris Acquadro
  6.  Monaco - TBC
  7.  Austria - TBC
  8.  Norway - Kari Borg Mannsåker
  9.  Belgium - Arlette Vincent
  10.  Denmark - Svend Pedersen
  11.  Luxembourg - TBC
  12.  Sweden - Tage Danielsson
  13.  United Kingdom - Nick Burrell-Davis[7]

Commentators

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Although the song was performed in Norwegian, the title and sentence in the lyrics "Voi Voi" is in Northern Sami.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eurovision History - London 1960". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "About the Southbank Centre". RFH.co.uk. Southbank Centre. Archived from the original on 10 December 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.andtheconductoris.eu
  4. ↑ "Eurovision Song Contest 1960". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Eurovision 1960 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Toch geen geluk voor Rudi", Nieuwe Leidsche Courant, 30 March 1960
  7. 1 2 Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs For Europe The United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. UK: Telos. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
  8. 1 2 3 "Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960". Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960s (in German).
  9. ↑ "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
  10. ↑ Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 26. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2

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