The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the second annual Eurovision Song Contest and was held on Sunday 3 March 1957 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.
Austria, Denmark and the United Kingdom all made their debut while no country returned or withdrew.
It was won by The Netherlands with "Net als toen", performed by Corry Brokken on her second appearance for her home country. Like the previous year, this one was still mainly a radio programme, but there was a noticeable increase in the number of people with televisions.
Unlike the previous year, voting results were done publicly and this system still exists today.
Location[]
The Contest took place in Frankfurt am Main (or simply Frankfurt), one of the largest cities in, at the time West Germany. The host venue was the Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, a music hall and former television studio based in Frankfurt am Main. Today it is used as a music hall.
After being devastated in the Second World War during the early 1940s, Frankfurt rebuilt itself well into the 1950s into one of Europe's most prominent financial centres. With investments coming in from both national and international financial institutions, 1957, the year of the contest, already saw the first of Frankfurt's high-rise business buildings.
Participants[]
Returning artists[]
Artist | Note |
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Corry Brokken | Represented The Netherlands at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano with the song "Voorgoed voorbij", which finished as runner-up to "Refrain" by Lys Assia of Switzerland. |
Lys Assia | Represented Switzerland at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano with the songs "Das alte Karussell" and "Refrain", the latter winning the Contest. |
Results[]
Draw | Country | Performer(s) | Song | Language | Translation | Place | Points |
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01 | Belgium | Bobbejaan Schoepen | "Straatdeuntje" | Dutch | Street Tune | 8 | 5 |
02 | Luxembourg | Danièle Dupré | "Amours mortes (tant de peine)" | French | Dead love (so much sadness) | 4 | 8 |
03 | United Kingdom | Patricia Bredin | "All" | English | - | 7 | 6 |
04 | Italy | Nunzio Gallo | "Corde della mia chitarra" | Italian | Strings of my guitar | 6 | 7 |
05 | Austria | Bob Martin | "Wohin, kleines Pony?" | German | Where to, Little Pony? | 10 | 3 |
06 | The Netherlands | Corry Brokken | "Net als toen" | Dutch | Just like then | 1 | 31 |
07 | Germany | Margot Hielscher | "Telefon, Telefon" | German | Telephone, Telephone | 4 | 8 |
08 | France | Paule Desjardins | "La belle amour" | French | The Beautiful Love | 2 | 17 |
09 | Denmark | Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler | "Skibet skal sejle i nat" | Danish | The ship is leaving tonight | 3 | 10 |
10 | Switzerland | Lys Assia | "L'enfant que j'étais" | French | The child that I was | 8 | 5 |
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