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VENUE
Palais des Festivals, Cannes |
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ENTRIES 11 |
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HOST
Jacqueline Joubert |
DEBUTS Monaco |
The UK's second appearance brought it's first second place, a
recurring feature of Britain's Eurovision history. Also, "Sing Little
Birdie" captured the public's imagination in a way that Patricia Bredin's
contribution had failed to a couple of years earlier. For the first of
many times the UK were just pipped as the Dutch came up with
something equally chipper. "Een Beetje" thus goes down as the
contests first "perky" winner (so you know who to blame for the
next forty years).
It was also a very even contest where the voting system had an
arguably undue effect on the result. Each one of the first five songs received
votes from seven of the other ten countries. The Netherlands hefty seven from
the Italians effectively swung the result their way, although in fairness they
were the outright favourite song of four of the ten other juries.
The Dutch became the first country to win the contest twice.
Unfortunately this was to be a high watermark. Their record in the 1960s
(despite the shared win in 1969) was the worst of any country and a win in 1975
with the English-sung "Dinge-Dong" was the only other time they've
tasted victory).
| France |
Oui Oui Oui Oui |
Jacques Phillipe |
3 |
| Denmark |
Uh Jeg Ville Ønske Jeg Var Dig |
Birthe Wilke |
5 |
| Italy |
Piove |
Domenico Modugno |
6 |
| Monaco |
Mon Ami Pierrot |
Jacques Pills |
11 |
| Netherlands |
Een Beetje |
Teddy Scholten |
1 |
| Germany |
Heute Abend Wollen Wir Tanzen Gehen |
Alice & Ellen Kessler |
8 |
| Sweden |
Augustin |
Brita Borg |
9 |
| Switzerland |
Irgendwoher |
Christa Williams |
4 |
| Austria |
Der K Und K Kalypso Aus Wien |
Ferry Graf |
9 |
| United Kingdom |
Sing Little Birdie |
Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson |
2 |
| Belgium |
Hou Toch Van Me |
Bob Benny |
6 |
Voting
 
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