UK - 1957-65

1957	1959	1960	1961

All - Patricia Bredin	Sing Little Birdie - Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson	Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson	Are You Sure - Allison Brothers
The first UK entrant was a star of musical theatre in the late fifties and early sixties. Her Euro song remains the shortest ever at one minute and fifty-two seconds. Pat went on to appear in a few comedy films then emigrated to Canada where she concentrated on bringing up livestock.	Pearl and Teddy had long careers both as a duo and individually in the fifties and sixties. Teddy was once a DJ on Radio Luxemburg and Pearl had a couple of chart hits with the Keynotes.They have appeared at Eurovision fan conventions quite recently!	Teddy Johnson passed the UK baton to his brother Bryan for the first contest staged in the UK. This light operatic number was his singing highpoint but he was an accomplished stage actor who often appeared in Shakespeare plays. He died in 1995.	Bob Day and John Alford found fame as the Allison brothers and beat of the likes of Craig Douglas and 1960 entrant Bryan Johnson to make the trip to Cannes for the 1961 event. They continued as a vocal duo in later decades.

1962	1963	1964	1965

Ring-A-Ding Girl - Ronnie Carroll	Say Wonderful Things - Ronnie Carroll	I Love The Little Things - Matt Munro	I Belong - Kathy Kirby
Ronnie was a serious crooner who at one time blacked-up in a "Black And White Minstrel Style". He married actress Millicent Martin and scored a series of hit singles before he won the ticket to the 1962 contest.	Mr Carroll became the only singer to represent the UK in consecutive years when he defeated (amongst others) Vince Hill and Anne Shelton in the 1963 UK final. In later years he has gone into politics and stood in UK by-elections for fringe parties as recently as 2008.	Matt's song was runner-up but remains the only UK entry not to make the UK chart and is rarely found on any Matt compilation albums. He went on to cover the Austrian entry from the same contest and had a much bigger hit with it as "Walk Away". He died in 1985.	In 1965 again the BBC decided on one artist to sing all the songs in the UK final and blonde bombshell Kathy signed up for the task. Her biggest hit was "Secret Love" in 1963, when she was named Top British Female Singer in the NME poll.