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