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The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the 3rd annual Eurovision Song Contest, held in Hilversum on 12 March 1958. It was the first one to be held in the country that won the previous year.

Sweden made its debut while the United Kingdom withdrew. Along with the inaugural Contest, it was the only one that has not featured a single song in the English language. This year continued with the policy implemented the year before where each country was limited to one song entry. This policy has been retained to date.

The winner was France with the song "Dors, mon amour", performed by André Claveau. This was the country's first win as well as the first winning entry to be sung by a male soloist.

Location[]

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AVRO Studios, Hilversum - host venue of the 1958 contest.

Hilversum, a municipality and a town in the province of North Holland, is known as the "Media Capital" of the Netherlands. Hilversum had become the centre of broadcasting and radio in the Netherlands since the 1920s when Dutch radio company Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek settled there, and today the media sector stands as one of the top employers in the municipality of Hilversum.

In the coming decades after the 1920s settlement of the Dutch Radio Company in Hilversum, almost all other radio stations in the Netherlands followed suit, with television following in the 1950s, thus making Hilversum at the end of the 1950s ripe to provide great experience of organization skills and staff to produce and broadcast such international TV-transmitted event as the Eurovision Song Contest, while on the other hand TV was still a challenging advanced technology in general within Europe.

One such media network was the host of the event, Nederlandse Televisie Stichting. The venue of the contest was the studio of AVRO (Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep or "General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), a buildings-complex for the media's network among the medias buildings within Hilversum, and which belonged to the Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system.

Participants[]

Returning artists[]

Artist Note
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. She won the 1957 Contest with her entry "Net als toen".
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. She represented her home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 with the song "L'enfant que j'étais", finishing in joint 8th place with Belgium.
Fud Leclerc Represented Belgium at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano with the song "Messieurs les noyés de la Seine", which finished as runner-up to "Refrain" by Lys Assia of Switzerland.


Results[]

Draw Country Performer(s) Song Language Translation Place Points
01 Flag of Italy Italy Domenico Modugno "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" Italian In the blue sky 3 13
02 Flag of the Netherlands.svg The Netherlands Corry Brokken "Heel de wereld" Dutch The Whole World 9 1
03 Flag of France France André Claveau "Dors, mon amour" French Sleep, My Love 1 27
04 Flag of Luxembourg Luxembourg Solange Berry "Un grand amour" French A great love 9 1
05 Flag of Sweden Sweden Alice Babs "Lilla stjärna" Swedish Little star 4 10
06 Flag of Denmark Denmark Raquel Rastenni "Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog" Danish I tore a leaf out of my diary 8 3
07 Flag of Belgium Belgium Fud Leclerc "Ma petite chatte" French My little sweetie 5 8
08 Flag of Germany Germany Margot Hielscher "Für zwei Groschen Musik" German Twopenny music 7 5
09 Flag of Austria Austria Liane Augustin "Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe" German The whole world needs love 5 8
10 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Lys Assia "Giorgio" German, Italian - 2 24

Scoreboard[]

Eurovision Song Contest 1958 - Scoreboard

Gallery[]


External links[]

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Winners
Lys AssiaCorry BrokkenAndré ClaveauTeddy ScholtenJacqueline BoyerJean-Claude PascalIsabelle AubretGrethe & Jørgen IngmannGigliola CinquettiFrance GallUdo JürgensSandie ShawMassielSaloméLuluLenny KuhrFrida BoccaraDanaSéverineVicky LeandrosAnne-Marie DavidABBATeach-InBrotherhood of ManMarie MyriamIzhar Cohen & AlphabetaMilk & HoneyJohnny LoganBucks FizzNicoleCorinne HermèsHerreysBobbysocks!Sandra KimJohnny LoganCéline DionRivaToto CutugnoCarolaLinda MartinNiamh KavanaghPaul Harrington & Charlie McGettiganSecret GardenEimear QuinnKatrina and the WavesDana InternationalCharlotte NilssonOlsen BrothersTanel Padar & Dave Benton with 2XLMarie NSertab ErenerRuslanaHelena PaparizouLordiMarija ŠerifovićDima BilanAlexander RybakLenaEli & NikkiLoreenEmmelie de ForestConchita WurstMåns ZelmerlöwJamalaSalvador SobralNettaDuncan LaurenceMåneskinKalush OrchestraLoreen
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RefrainNet als toenDors, mon amourEen beetjeTom PillibiNous les amoureuxUn premier amourDanseviseNon ho l'etàPoupée de cire, poupée de sonMerci, chériePuppet on a StringLa, la, laVivo cantandoBoom Bang-a-BangDe troubadourUn jour, un enfantAll Kinds of EverythingUn banc, un arbre, une rueAprès toiTu te reconnaîtrasWaterlooDing-a-DongSave Your Kisses for MeL'oiseau et l'enfantA-Ba-Ni-BiHallelujahWhat's Another YearMaking Your Mind UpEin bißchen FriedenSi la vie est cadeauDiggi-Loo Diggi-LeyLa det swingeJ'aime la vieHold Me NowNe partez pas sans moiRock MeInsieme: 1992Fångad av en stormvindWhy Me?In Your EyesRock 'n' Roll KidsNocturneThe VoiceLove Shine a LightDivaTake Me to Your HeavenFly on the Wings of LoveEverybodyI WannaEvery Way That I CanWild DancesMy Number OneHard Rock HallelujahMolitvaBelieveFairytaleSatelliteRunning ScaredEuphoriaOnly TeardropsRise Like a PhoenixHeroes1944Amar pelos doisToyArcadeZitti e buoniStefaniaTattoo
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