Eurovision Song Contest 1957

Eurovision Song Contest 1957;
Dates
Final date	3 March 1957
Host
Venue	Großer Sendesaal des hessischen Rundfunks; Frankfurt, West Germany
Presenter(s)	Anaïd Iplicjian
Conductor	Willy Berking
Host broadcaster	HR/ARD
Interval act	None
Participants
Number of entries	10
Debuting countries	Austria; Denmark; United Kingdom
Returning countries	None
Withdrawing countries	None
	Participation map Participating countries;
Vote
Voting system	Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favourite song
Nul points	None
Winning song	Netherlands; "Net als toen"
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the 2nd Eurovision Song Contest. Like the first contest, this one was still mainly a radio programme, but there was a noticeable increase in the number of people with televisions.

For some time, a rumour has existed that the German entry "Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück" by Walter Andreas Schwarz came second at the 1956 contest and that is why Germany hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1957. In fact, the rule stating that the winning nation hosted the next year's Eurovision had not yet been conceived, and it was planned at the time that each participating country would take it in turns to host the event. However, as more countries wished to participate, this became impractical.

In this year's contest the Italian entry lasted for 5:09 minutes, whilst the UK's entry lasted for only 1:52 minutes. It was because of songs like the former that a rule was eventually introduced restricting each song to a maximum of 3 minutes; this rule still applies today.

Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler at the end of their song exchanged the longest kiss that has ever occurred in the contest — although, of course, only people with televisions could actually see it. This was due to a member of the production staff forgetting to give a pre-arranged sign that the kiss should end.

This was the first year where the juries were contacted by telephone. It was the first time the Netherlands won the contest.

[edit] Individual Entries

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Belgium	Dutch	Bobbejaan Schoepen	"Straatdeuntje"	Street tune	8	5
02	Luxembourg	French	Danièle Dupré	"Amours mortes (tant de peine)"	Dead love (so much sorrow)	4	8
03	United Kingdom	English	Patricia Bredin	"All"	-	7	6
04	Italy	Italian	Nunzio Gallo	"Corde della mia chitarra"	Strings of my guitar	6	7
05	Austria	German	Bob Martin	"Wohin, kleines Pony?"	Where to, little pony?	10	3
06	Netherlands	Dutch	Corry Brokken	"Net als toen"	Just like then	1	31
07	Germany	German	Margot Hielscher	"Telefon, Telefon"	Telephone, telephone	4	8
08	France	French	Paule Desjardins	"La belle amour"	Beautiful love	2	17
09	Denmark	Danish	Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler	"Skibet skal sejle i nat"	The ship will sail tonight	3	10
10	Switzerland	French	Lys Assia	"L'enfant que j'étais"	The child I was	8	5

[edit] Score sheet


	Results
Belgium	5							2		2	1
Luxembourg	8			1	4	3
United Kingdom	6	1	1			1	1				2
Italy	7	1	1	2			2			1
Austria	3			2			1
Netherlands	31	5	3	1	1	6		1	4	3	7
Germany	8	1			1				6
France	17	2	4	2			1	6		2
Denmark	10			2	3		5
Switzerland	5		1		1			1		2