Eurovision Song Contest 1957

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1957**
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Date:	March 3, 1957
Presenter:	Anaid Iplikjan
Host Broadcaster:	HR for Deutsches Fernsehen/ARD
Venue:	Großer Sendesaal des Hessisches Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Winning Song:	"Net als toen" by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, text by Willy van Hemert) for Netherlands
Voting system:	Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 points to their favorite song.
Number of Songs:	10
Countries Making Debut	Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom
Nul points:	None
Interval Act	None
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the second Eurovision Song Contest. Like the first contest, this one was still mainly a radio program, but there was a noticeable increase in the number of people with televisions. Although Switzerland won in 1956, it was not held in Switzerland in 1957 because the rule stating that the winning nation hosted the next year's Eurovision had not yet been created. It was originally planned that each participating country would take it in turns to host the event, but as more countries wished to participate, this became impossible.

There was a rumour from the 1956 contest that the German entry, "Das Lied vom Großen Glück" by Walter Andreas Schwarz came second. According to the rumour, this is why Germany held the 1957 contest.

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.

It was the first time the Netherlands won the contest.

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Results

Country (Language)	Artist(s)	Song (Translation)	Place	Points
Austria (German)	Bob Martin	Wohin, Kleines Pony? (Where, Little Pony?)	10	3
Belgium (Dutch)	Bobbejaan Schoepen	Straatdeuntje (Street Tune)	8	5
Denmark (Danish)	Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler	Skibet skal sejle i nat (The Ship is Leaving Tonight)	3	10
France (French)	Paul Desjardins	La Belle Amour (Beautiful Love)	2	17
Germany (German)	Margot Hielscher	Telefon, Telefon (Telephone, Telephone)	4	8
Italy (Italian)	Nunzio Gallo	Corde Della Mia Chitarra (Strings of my Guitar)	6	7
Luxembourg (French)	Danièle Dupré	Amours Mortes (Faded Love)	4	8
Netherlands (Dutch)	Corry Brokken	Net Als Toen (Just Like Then)	1	31
Switzerland (French)	Lys Assia	L'enfant que j'étais (The Child I was)	8	5
United Kingdom (English)	Patricia Bredin	All	7	6
The table is ordered by the countries names.

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Score sheet

		Juries
		Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCBelgiumJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCLuxembourgJ.png	Image:ESCUnitedKingdomJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCItalyJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCAustriaJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCNetherlandsJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCGermanyJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCFranceJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCDenmarkJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCSwitzerlandJ.png
Image:ESCConJ.png	Belgium		0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	1
	Luxembourg	0		1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	1	1		0	1	1	0	0	0	2
	Italy	1	1	2		0	2	0	0	1	0
	Austria	0	0	2	0		1	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands	5	3	1	1	6		1	4	3	7
	Germany	1	0	0	1	0	0		6	0	0
	France	2	4	2	0	0	1	6		2	0
	Denmark	0	0	2	3	0	5	0	0		0
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
The table is ordered by appearance.