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Eurovision Song Contest 1960

TheEurovision Song Contest 1960was the fifth edition of the annualEurovision Song Contest,held on Tuesday 29 March 1960 at theRoyal Festival Hallin London, United Kingdom, and hosted by British television presenter and actressCatherine Boyle.Organised by theEuropean Broadcasting Union(EBU) and host broadcaster theBritish Broadcasting Corporation(BBC), the United Kingdom was offered the rights to stage the contest after theNetherlands,which had won the1959 contest,declined the opportunity after having organised the event in1958.

Eurovision Song Contest 1960
Dates
Final29 March 1960(1960-03-29)
Host
VenueRoyal Festival Hall
London, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)Catherine Boyle
Executive producerHarry Carlisle
DirectorInnes Lloyd
Musical directorEric Robinson
Host broadcasterBritish Broadcasting Corporation(BBC)
Websiteeurovision.tv/event/london-1960Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries13
Debuting countriesNorway
Returning countriesLuxembourg
Non-returning countriesNone
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    Participating countries
Vote
Voting systemTen-member juries in each country; each member gave one vote to their favourite song
Winning songFrance
"Tom Pillibi"
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Luxembourgreturned to the competition after an absence of one year, andNorwaymade its first contest appearance, bringing the total number of participating countries to thirteen.

The winner wasFrancewith the song "Tom Pillibi",performed byJacqueline Boyer,composed byAndré Poppand written by Pierre Cour. This marked France's second contest victory, having also won in 1958. TheUnited Kingdomplaced second for the second consecutive year andMonacoearned their first top three finish by placing third.

Location

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Royal Festival Hall,London – host venue of the 1960 contest

The contest took place in London, United Kingdom. Although theNetherlandshad won the1959 contestinCannes,the Dutch broadcasterNederlandse Televisie Stichting(NTS) declined to stage the event for a second time in three years, after hosting the1958 editioninHilversum.The rights to staging the contest subsequently passed to the United Kingdom'sBritish Broadcasting Corporation(BBC), following the UK's second place finish in the previous year's event, a decision which was announced in October 1959.[1][2]

TheRoyal Festival Hallwas chosen to stage the 1960 contest. Situated on theSouth Bankof theRiver Thames,the venue was first opened in 1951 and was originally conceived for use during that year'sFestival of Britain;it is now part of theSouthbank Centre,a complex of several artistic venues.[2][3][4]

Participating countries

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Further information:List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1960 – Participation summaries by country

The number of entries grew to thirteen for this edition, with the eleven competing countries from the 1959 contest being joined byLuxembourg,returning after a one year absence, andNorway,making its first appearance.[1][2][5]

Fud Leclercmade his third appearance at the contest forBelgium,having represented the country in1956with "Messieurs les noyés de la Seine"(one of the two Belgian entries in that year's contest) and in1958with "Ma petite chatte".[6]The song from Luxembourg was the first contest entry to be performed inLuxembourgish,and one of only three entries to be performed in the language (alongside the country's entries from1992and1993).[7][8]

Eurovision Song Contest 1960 participants[7][9]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
Austria ORF Harry Winter "Du hast mich so fasziniert" German
Robert Stolz
Belgium INR Fud Leclerc "Mon amour pour toi" French
  • Robert Montal
  • Jack Say
 Henri Segers
Denmark DR Katy Bødtger "Det var en yndig tid" Danish
  • Sven Buemann
  • Vilfred Kjær
 Kai Mortensen
France RTF Jacqueline Boyer "Tom Pillibi" French
Franck Pourcel
Germany HR[a] Wyn Hoop "Bonne nuit ma chérie" German
  • Franz Josef Breuer
  • Kurt Schwabach
 Franz Josef Breuer
Italy RAI Renato Rascel "Romantica" Italian
Cinico Angelini
Luxembourg CLT Camillo Felgen "So laang we's du do bast" Luxembourgish
  • Henri Moots
  • Jean Roderès
 Eric Robinson
Monaco TMC François Deguelt "Ce soir-là" French
Raymond Lefèvre
Netherlands NTS Rudi Carrell "Wat een geluk" Dutch
Dolf van der Linden
Norway NRK Nora Brockstedt "Voi-voi" Norwegian George Elgaaen Øivind Bergh
Sweden SR Siw Malmkvist "Alla andra får varann" Swedish
Thore Ehrling
Switzerland SRG SSR Anita Traversi "Cielo e terra" Italian Mario Robbiani Cédric Dumont
United Kingdom BBC Bryan Johnson "Looking High, High, High" English John Watson Eric Robinson

Format

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The Royal Festival Hall auditorium(pictured in 2017)

The contest was organised and broadcast by the BBC, with Harry Carlisle serving as producer,Innes Lloydas director,Richard Levinasdesigner,andEric Robinsonasmusical director,leading the orchestra during the event.[11][12]Each country was allowed to nominate their own musical director to lead the orchestra during the performance of their country's entry, with the host musical director,Eric Robinson,alsoconductingfor those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.[7]

As had been the case since the 1957 contest, each country, participating through a single EBU member broadcaster, was represented by one song performed by up to two people on stage. The results of the event were determined through jury voting, with each country's jury containing ten individuals who each gave one vote to their favourite song, with no abstentions allowed and with jurors unable to vote for their own country.[1][13]A new innovation for this year's event was to allow the national juries to listen to the final rehearsal of each country, which was also recorded to allow jury members to listen to the entries ahead of the live contest.[2][14]

The draw to determine the order in which each country would perform was conducted on 28 March in the presence of the performers. Performance and technical rehearsals involving the artists and orchestra were held on 28 and 29 March ahead of the live transmission.[2]

Contest overview

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Jacqueline Boyer,the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The contest was held on 29 March 1960 at 21:00 (GMT) and lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes.[7][15]The contest was presented by British television presenter and actressCatherine Boyle,the first of four contests in which she participated as host.[7][16]Boyle presided over the opening of the contest and the voting process, while the various national broadcasters that carried the show provided commentary between each act, with the United Kingdom's commentatorDavid Jacobsalso being heard by the assembled audience of over 2,500 people in the hall.[2][14]

The winner wasFrancerepresented by the song "Tom Pillibi",composed byAndré Popp,written byPierre Courand performed byJacqueline Boyer.[17]Boyer is the daughter ofJacques Pills,who had represented Monaco in theprevious year's contestand placed last with "Mon ami Pierrot".[5][7]France's victory was their second in the contest, following their win in 1958, and brought them level on number of victories with the Netherlands.[1][18]The UK gained their second consecutive second place finish, while Monaco considerably improved upon their debut performance the previous year with a third place finish.[19][20]

It was originally planned for the top three songs to be performed again following the voting, as had occurred in the 1959 contest, however this was ultimately scrapped and only the winning song received its traditionalreprise performance.[13]The winning artist was presented with a silvergiltvase, which was awarded byTeddy Scholten;this marked the first time that the previous year's winning artist awarded the prize to the next contest winner, which has since become Eurovision tradition.[5][21]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960[7][22]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 United Kingdom Bryan Johnson "Looking High, High, High" 25 2
2 Sweden Siw Malmkvist "Alla andra får varann" 4 10
3 Luxembourg Camillo Felgen "So laang we's du do bast" 1 13
4 Denmark Katy Bødtger "Det var en yndig tid" 4 10
5 Belgium Fud Leclerc "Mon amour pour toi" 9 6
6 Norway Nora Brockstedt "Voi-voi" 11 4
7 Austria Harry Winter "Du hast mich so fasziniert" 6 7
8 Monaco François Deguelt "Ce soir-là" 15 3
9 Switzerland Anita Traversi "Cielo e terra" 5 8
10 Netherlands Rudi Carrell "Wat een geluk" 2 12
11 Germany Wyn Hoop "Bonne nuit ma chérie" 11 4
12 Italy Renato Rascel "Romantica" 5 8
13 France Jacqueline Boyer "Tom Pillibi" 32 1

Spokespersons

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Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone.[23]Known spokespersons at the 1960 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results

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The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in reverse order to the order in which each country performed.[13]

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960[13][25][26]
Total score
France
Italy
Germany
Netherlands
Switzerland
Monaco
Austria
Norway
Belgium
Denmark
Luxembourg
Sweden
United Kingdom
Contestants
 United Kingdom 25 2 1 5 4 1 3 2 1 5 1
Sweden 4 2 1 1
Luxembourg 1 1
Denmark 4 2 1 1
Belgium 9 3 1 1 4
Norway 11 1 1 4 1 1 2 1
Austria 6 1 1 2 2
Monaco 15 3 7 1 2 1 1
Switzerland 5 1 2 1 1
Netherlands 2 1 1
Germany 11 4 2 2 2 1
Italy 5 1 2 1 1
France 32 1 2 1 5 1 5 3 4 1 4 5

Broadcasts

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Broadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks; non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest. Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.[27]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
Austria ORF ORF [28]
Belgium INR INR Georges Désir[fr] [7][29]
NIR NIR Nic Bal[nl] [30]
Denmark DR Danmarks Radio TV,Program 2 Sejr Volmer-Sørensen [31]
France RTF RTF Pierre Tchernia [7][32]
Germany ARD Deutsches Fernsehen Wolf Mittler [33][34]
Italy RAI RAI Televisione,Secondo Programma Giorgio Porro [35][36]
Luxembourg CLT Télé-Luxembourg [37]
Netherlands NTS NTS Piet te Nuyl Jr. [34][38]
NRU Hilversum 2 [38][39]
Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet,NRK Erik Diesen [40][41]
Sweden SR Sveriges TV,SR P2 Jan Gabrielsson[sv] [42]
Switzerland SRG SSR TV DRS,Radio Beromünster Theodor Haller[de] [7][43]
TSR,Radio Sottens [44]
TSI,Radio Monte Ceneri [45]
United Kingdom BBC BBC Television Service David Jacobs [15]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref.
Finland YLE Suomen Televisio Aarno Walli[fi] [46][47]
Netherlands Antilles RNW[b] [48]

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortiumARD[10]
  2. ^Delayed broadcast inCuraçaoin a shortened format on 2 April 1960 at 19:20 (ADT)[48]

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