Eurovision Song Contest 1959
| 4th Eurovision Song Contest | |
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| date | March 11, 1959 |
| Host country |  France
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| venue |  Palais des Festivals et des Congrès , Cannes |
| Broadcasting television station | 
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| Moderation | Jacqueline Joubert |
| participating countries | 11 |
| winner |  Netherlands
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| First time participation |  Monaco
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| Returning participants |  United Kingdom
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| Withdrawn participants |  Luxembourg
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| Voting rule | Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title. |
| ◄ ESC 1958 • ESC 1960 ►
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The 4th Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne (the official title at the time) took place on March 11, 1959 in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. The moderator was Jacqueline Joubert .
Attendees
Luxembourg did not take part, but there was still a new attendance record, as the United Kingdom returned after a year break alongside the “newcomer” Monaco .
Voting procedure
Again there were 10 jury members in each country, each of whom was allowed to give one vote to a song. The results were communicated to Cannes by telephone and publicly.
Placements
| space | Start number | country | Interpreter | Song Music (M) and Text (T) |
language | Translation (unofficial) |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 5 |
Netherlands
|
Teddy Scholten |
'n beetje M: Dick Schallies; T: Willy van Hemert |
Dutch | A little bit | 21st |
| 2. | 10 |
United Kingdom
|
Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson |
Sing, Little Birdie M: Stan Butcher ; T: Syd Cordell |
English | Sing, little bird | 16 |
| 3. | 1 |
France
|
Jean Philippe |
Oui, oui, oui, oui M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Cour |
French | Yes, yes, yes, yes | 15th |
| 4th | 8th |
 Switzerland
|
Christa Williams |
Somewhere M / T: Lothar Löffler |
German | - | 14th |
| 5. | 2 |
 Denmark
|
Birthe Wilke |
Uh, jeg ville ønske jeg var dig M: Otto Lington ; T: Carl Andersen |
Danish | Uh I wish I was you | 12 |
| 6th | 3 |
 Italy
|
Domenico Modugno |
Piove M: Domenico Modugno ; T: Dino Verde |
Italian | It's raining | 9 |
| 6th | 11 |
 Belgium
|
Bob Benny |
Hou toch van my M: Hans Flower; T: Ke Riema |
Dutch | So love me | 9 |
| 8th. | 6th |
 BR Germany
|
Kessler twins |
Tonight we want to go dancing M: Helmut Zander; T: Astrid Voltmann |
German | - | 5 |
| 9. | 7th |
 Sweden
|
Brita Borg |
Augustin M: Harry Sandin; T: Åke Gerhard |
Swedish | - | 4th |
| 9. | 9 |
 Austria
|
Ferry Graf |
The k. and k. Kalypso from Vienna M: Norbert Pawlicki ; T: Günther Leopold |
German | - | 4th |
| 11. | 4th |
Monaco
|
Jacques Pills |
Mon ami Pierrot M: Florence Veran; T: Raymond Bravard |
French | My friend Pierrot | 1 |
Scoring
| country | Points |
BE |
UK |
AT |
CH |
SE |
DE |
NL |
MC |
IT |
DK |
FR |
Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
France |
15th | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4th | - | 2 | 1 | 4th | 7th | |
|
Denmark |
12 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4th | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 7th | |
|
Italy |
9 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 5 | |
|
Monaco |
1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
|
Netherlands |
21st | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 7th | - | 4th | 7th | ||
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BR Germany |
5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4th | |
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Sweden |
4th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | |
|
Switzerland |
14th | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 7th | |
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Austria |
4th | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | |
|
United Kingdom |
16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 7th | |
|
Belgium |
9 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 5 |
* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.
Others
- With 11 participants, the record was broken for most participants.