Eurovision Song Contest 1960

5th Eurovision Song Contest
date	March 29, 1960
Host country	United Kingdom
venue	Royal Festival Hall , London
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Katie Boyle
participating countries	13
winner	France
First time participation	Norway
Returning participants	Luxembourg
Voting rule	Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title.
◄ ESC 1959 • ESC 1961 ►

The 5th Eurovision Song Contest took place on March 29, 1960 in the Royal Festival Hall in London, as the Netherlands , which won last year, did not want to host the competition again. The moderator was Katie Boyle, who presented the competition four times until 1974.

Attendees

participating countries

In the fifth Eurovision Song Contest, there was a new record of participants with thirteen countries. After Denmark and Sweden, Norway was the third Scandinavian country to take part for the first time. Luxembourg returned after a one-year break.

Voting procedure

The voting procedure remained unchanged. 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 by telephone and publicly.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	13	France	Jacqueline Boyer	Tom Pillibi M: André Popp; T: Pierre Cour	French	-	32
02.	01	United Kingdom	Bryan Johnson	Looking High, High, High M / T: John Watson	English	Look up, look up, look up	25th
03.	08th	Monaco	François Deguelt	Ce soir-là M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Dorsey	French	That evening	15th
04th	06th	Norway	Nora Brockstedt	Voi voi M / T: Georg Elgaaen	Norwegian	-	11
04th	11	BR Germany	Wyn Hoop	Bonne nuit, ma chérie M: Franz Josef Breuer ; T: Kurt Schwabach	German a.	Good night my darling	11
06th	05	Belgium	Fud Leclerc	Mon amour pour toi M: Jack Say; T: Robert Montal	French	My love for you	09
07th	07th	Austria	Harry Winter	You fascinated me so much M: Robert Stolz ; T: Robert Gilbert	German	-	06th
08th.	09	Switzerland	Anita Traversi	Cielo e terra M / T: Mario Robbiani	Italian	Heaven and Earth	05
08th.	12	Italy	Renato Rascel	Romantica M: Dino Verde ; T: Renato Rascel	Italian	Romantic	05
10.	02	Sweden	Siw Malmkvist	Alla andra får varann M: Bobbie Ericsson; T: Bo Eneby	Swedish	Everyone else gets each other	04th
10.	04th	Denmark	Katy Bødtger	Det var en yndig tid M: Vilfred Kjær; T: Sven Buemann	Danish	It was a delightful time	04th
12.	10	Netherlands	Rudi Carrell	Wat een geluk M: Dick Schallies; T: Willy van Hemert	Dutch	What luck	02
13.	03	Luxembourg	Camillo rims	As long as you do M: Henri Moots, Jean Roderes; T: Henri Moots	Luxembourgish	As long as you are there	01

^a. with French title

Scoring

country	Points	FR	IT	DE	NL	CH	MC	AT	NO	BE	DK	LU	SE	UK	Voting
United Kingdom	25th	-	2	1	5	4th	1	3	2	1	-	5	1		10
Sweden	04th	2	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	03
Luxembourg	01	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	01
Denmark	04th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-		1	-	1	03
Belgium	09	-	3	1	-	-	-	1	-		-	-	4th	-	04th
Norway	11	1	-	-	1	4th	-	1		1	2	-	-	1	07th
Austria	06th	-	1	-	-	-	-		-	1	2	-	-	2	04th
Monaco	15th	3	-	7th	-	1		-	-	-	2	1	-	1	06th
Switzerland	05	-	1	-	-		-	2	1	-	-	1	-	-	04th
Netherlands	02	-	1	-		-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	02
BR Germany	11	4th	-		-	-	2	2	-	2	-	-	1	-	05
Italy	05	-		-	1	-	2	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	04th
France	32		-	1	2	1	5	1	5	3	4th	1	4th	5	11

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.

Others

• For the first time, juries could hear the songs before the competition.
•  France : Jacqueline Boyer won the competition with a song about Tom Pillibi who claims to own castles in Scotland and Montenegro .

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net
• Christoph Oliver Mayer: Tom Pillibi . In: Song Lexicon . Retrieved November 3, 2014.

Individual evidence