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]
Website	eurovision.tv/event/london-1960
Participants
Number of entries	13
Debuting countries	Norway;
Returning countries	Luxembourg;
Non-returning countries	None
	Participation map Participating countries Countries that participated in the past but not in 1960;
Vote
Voting system	Each country had 10 jury members who each cast one vote for their favorite song.
Nul points	None
Winning song	France; "Tom Pillibi"

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in London, United Kingdom and was held at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 29 March 1960. The show was hosted by Catherine Boyle (later Katie Boyle). It was the first Eurovision Song Contest held in a capital city, as well as in the British Isles and in the English-speaking world.

Following Teddy Scholten's win for the Netherlands at the 1959 contest in Cannes, France with the song "Een beetje", 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.

Thirteen countries participated in the contest. Norway made their début, and Luxembourg returned after their absence from the previous edition.

The winner was France with the song "Tom Pillibi", performed by Jacqueline Boyer, written by Pierre Cour, and composed by André Popp. This was France's second victory in the contest, following their win in 1958, and their fourth consecutive top three placing.[1] Aged 18, Boyer became the first teenager and the youngest artist yet to win the contest.[2]

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.[3]

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 was 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:[4][5]

United Kingdom – Eric Robinson
Sweden – Thore Ehrling
Luxembourg – Eric Robinson
Denmark – Kai Mortensen
Belgium – Henri Segers
Norway – Øivind Bergh
Austria – Robert Stolz
Monaco – Raymond Lefèvre
Switzerland – Cédric Dumont
Netherlands – Dolf van der Linden
Germany – Franz Josef Breuer
Italy – Cinico Angelini
France – Franck Pourcel

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[6]	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	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 cast one vote for their favorite song.

		Voting results

Total score	France	Italy	Germany	Netherlands	Switzerland	Monaco	Austria	Norway	Belgium	Denmark	Luxembourg	Sweden	United Kingdom
Contestants	United Kingdom	25		2	1	5	4	1	3	2	1		5	1
	Sweden	4	2	1		1
	Luxembourg	1		1
	Denmark	4								2			1		1
	Belgium	9		3	1				1					4
	Norway	11	1			1	4		1		1	2			1
	Austria	6		1							1	2			2
	Monaco	15	3		7		1					2	1		1
	Switzerland	5		1					2	1			1
	Netherlands	2		1							1
	Germany	11	4					2	2		2			1
	Italy	5				1		2			1		1
	France	32			1	2	1	5	1	5	3	4	1	4	5

Broadcasters, commentators and spokespersons

Spokespersons

Listed below is 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.[7]

France – Armand Lanoux
Italy – Enzo Tortora
Germany – Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach
Netherlands – Siebe van der Zee[8]
Switzerland – Boris Acquadro
Monaco – TBC
Austria – Emil Kollpacher
Norway – Kari Borg Mannsåker
Belgium – Arlette Vincent
Denmark – Svend Pedersen
Luxembourg – TBC
Sweden – Tage Danielsson
United Kingdom – Nick Burrell-Davis[5]

Broadcasters and commentators

Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Participating countries
Austria	ORF	Wolf Mittler	[7]
Belgium	INR	French: Georges Désir	[7][5]
Belgium	NIR	Dutch: Nic Bal	[7][5]
Denmark	Danmarks Radio TV	Sejr Volmer-Sørensen	[7][5]
France	RTF	Pierre Tchernia	[7][5]
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Wolf Mittler	[7][5][9]
Italy	Programma Nazionale	Giorgio Porro	[7][5]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Pierre Tchernia	[7]
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo	Pierre Tchernia	[7]
Netherlands	NTS	Piet te Nuyl	[7][5][10]
Norway	NRK and NRK P1	Erik Diesen	[7][5]
Sweden	Sveriges TV and SR P2	Jan Gabrielsson	[7][11]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller	[7][5][9]
United Kingdom	BBC Television Service	David Jacobs	[7][5]
United Kingdom	BBC Light Programme	Pete Murray
Non-participating countries
Finland	Suomen Televisio	Aarno Walli	[7]

Notes and references

Notes

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

References

"Eurovision History - London 1960". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official Celebration. Carlton Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78097-638-9. Pages 32-33
"About the Southbank Centre". RFH.co.uk. Southbank Centre. Archived from the original on 10 December 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
"And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.
Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 214–224. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.
"Eurovision Song Contest 1960". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
"Eurovision 1960 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
"Toch geen geluk voor Rudi", Nieuwe Leidsche Courant, 30 March 1960
"Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960". Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960s (in German).
"Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).
Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 26. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.

External links

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[ESC1960-1] "Eurovision History - London 1960". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

[2] O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official Celebration. Carlton Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78097-638-9. Pages 32-33

[3] "About the Southbank Centre". RFH.co.uk. Southbank Centre. Archived from the original on 10 December 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[4] "And the conductor is..." Retrieved 10 July 2018.

[Roxburgh-5] Roxburgh, Gordon (2012). Songs for Europe: The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Volume One: The 1950s and 1960s. Prestatyn: Telos Publishing. pp. 214–224. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6.

[6] "Eurovision Song Contest 1960". The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

[spokespersons-7] "Eurovision 1960 - Cast and Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 17 July 2020.

[8] "Toch geen geluk voor Rudi", Nieuwe Leidsche Courant, 30 March 1960

[tvprogramme.net-9] "Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960". Programm vom Dienstag, den 29. März 1960s (in German).

[10] "Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival". Eurovision Artists (in Dutch).

[11] Thorsson, Leif (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"]. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. p. 26. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.

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