Eurovision Song Contest 1958

3rd Eurovision Song Contest
date	March 12, 1958
Host country	Netherlands
venue	AVRO Studios Hilversum , Hilversum
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Hannie Lips
Pause filler	Metropolis Orkest
participating countries	10
winner	France
First time participation	Sweden
Withdrawn participants	United Kingdom
Voting rule	Each country provided 10 judges. Each jury member voted with one point for a single title.
◄ ESC 1957 • ESC 1959 ►

The 3rd Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne , the official title for that year, took place on March 12, 1958 in the AVRO Studios Hilversum in the Netherlands. In 1958, it became common practice that the previous year's winner country, or rather the radio station behind it, organized the competition.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC but not in 1958

Although a new country was added with Sweden , the number of participants remained the same as in the previous year, as the United Kingdom paused due to the poor result (the singer Patricia Bredin only achieved 7th place with All - fourth from last place).

Voting procedure

The voting procedure from the previous year was used again. In each country there were again 10 jury members who were each allowed to give one vote to a song. The results were transmitted to Hilversum by telephone and publicly.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points	image
1.	03	France	André Claveau	Dors, mon amour M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Delanoë	French	Sleep my darling	27
2.	10	Switzerland	Lys Assia	Giorgio M: Paul Burkhard ; T: Fridolin Tschudi	German , Italian	-	24
3.	01	Italy	Domenico Modugno	Nel blu dipinto di blu M: Domenico Modugno; T: Domenico Modugno, Franco Migliacci	Italian	In blue, painted in blue (poetic description for: In the bright blue sky)	13
4th	05	Sweden	Alice Babs	Lilla stjärna 1 M / T: Åke Gerhard	Swedish	Little Star	10
5.	07th	Belgium	Fud Leclerc	Ma petite chat M / T: André Dohet	French	My little sweetheart	08th
	09	Austria	Liane Augustin	The whole world needs love M: Günther Leopold; T: Kurt Werner	German	-	08th
7th	08th	BR Germany	Margot Hielscher	For two groschen of music M: Friedrich Meyer ; T: Fred Rauch , Walter Brandin	German	-	05
8th.	06th	Denmark	Raquel Rastenni	Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog M: Sven Ulrik; T: Harry Jensen	Danish	I tore a sheet of paper from my diary	03
9.	02	Netherlands	Corry Brokken	Heel de wereld M / T: Benny Vreden	Dutch	The whole world	01
	04th	Luxembourg	Solange Berry	Un grand amour M: Michel Eric; T: Monique Laniece, Raymond Roche	French	A great love	01

¹The original song was actually called Samma stjärnor lysa för oss två (in English : “The same stars shine for the two of us”). The post was changed at the request of Alice Babs.

Scoreboard

Scoreboard

country	Points	CH	AT	DE	BE	DK	SE	LU	FR	NL	IT	Voting
Italy	17th	1	1	4th	4th	-	1	-	1	1		7th
Netherlands	01	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	1
France	27	1	7th	1	1	9	1	1		-	6th	8th
Luxembourg	01	1	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	1
Sweden	10	3	1	-	1	-		3	-	2	-	5
Denmark	03	-	-	-	-		1	-	1	1	-	3
Belgium	08th	1	-	5		1	1	-	-	-	-	4th
BR Germany	05	-	1		1	-	1	-	2	-	-	4th
Austria	08th	2		-	1	-	1	1	3	-	-	5
Switzerland	24		-	-	2	-	4th	5	3	6th	4th	6th

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.
During the live voting, four points were accidentally awarded by Italy to Switzerland (correct) and Sweden (incorrect), this meant that Sweden had 14 points at the end of the voting. The mistake was only corrected after the show.

Conductors

The Italian conductor Alberto Semprini (left) and Domenico Modugno

• Dolf van der Linden
  •  Netherlands
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Sweden
  •  Belgium
  •  BR Germany
• Paul Burkhard
  •  Switzerland
• Alberto Semprini
  •  Italy
• Franck Pourcel
  •  France
• Kai Mortensen
  •  Denmark
• Willy Fantl
  •  Austria

Others

•  Italy : Domenico Modugno had to appear a second time due to a technical defect .
•  Netherlands : For the first time, the ESC took place in the country of the previous year's winner.

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Eurovision Song Contest 1958  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net