Eurovision Song Contest 1958

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1958**
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Date:	March 12, 1958
Presenter:	Hannie Lips
Host Broadcaster:	NOS
Venue:	AVRO Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands
Winning Song:	"Dors, mon amour" by André Claveau (music by Pierre Delanoë, text by Hubert Giraud) for France
Voting system:	Each country had 10 jury members who each awarded 1 point to their favorite song.
Number of Songs:	10
Countries Making Debut	Sweden
Nul points:	None
Interval Act:	None
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the third Eurovision Song Contest. This was the first time in Eurovision history that the winning country from a year hosted the following year's contest. France's win was their first. It was the only time since 1957 when the UK did not enter.

The Italian entry was not picked up properly in some of the other countries, which meant that after all the other songs had been presented, Domenico Modugno had to sing it again partly because the juries were not in the studio like in the previous years. This year they stayed in their own countries, listening to the event. Once the songs had all been sung, juries sent their results via telephone.

The Italian entry became very successful in the United States and got two Grammy Awards.

1 Interval act
2 Results
3 First appearances
4 Voting structure
5 Score sheet

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Interval act

The interval act was music by the Metropole Orkest, under the lead of conductor Dolf van der Linden. This year, there were two interval acts; one in the middle, one after all the songs were played.

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Results

Country (Language)	Artist	Song (Translation)	Place	Points
Austria (German)	Liane Augustin	Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe (The Whole World Needs Love)	5	8
Belgium (French)	Fud Leclerc	Ma Petite Chatte (My Little Sweetie)	5	8
Denmark (Danish)	Raquel Rastenni	Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog (I Tore a Page out of my Diary)	8	3
France (French)	André Claveau	Dors, Mon Amour (Sleep my Love)	1	27
Germany (German)	Margot Hielscher	Für zwei Groschen Musik (Music for Two Pennies)	7	5
Italy (Italian)	Domenico Modugno	Nel blu Dipinto di blu* (Blue Painted in the Blue)	3	13
Luxembourg (French)	Solange Berry	Un Grand Amour (A Great Love)	9	1
Netherlands (Dutch)	Corry Brokken	Heel de Wereld (The Whole World)	9	1
Sweden (Swedish)	Alice Babs	Lilla stjärna (Little Star)	4	10
Switzerland (German/Italian)	Lys Assia	Giorgio (George)**	2	24
Venue: AVRO studios - Hilversum, Netherlands
The table is ordered by the countries names.
After the contest, the song became well known as "Volare" (Flying*).
**George is the English equivalent, not a translation.

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First appearances

Sweden

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Voting structure

Each country had 10 jury members who each decided the best song and each awarded 1 point.

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Score sheet

		Juries
		Image:ESCItalyJ.png	Image:ESCNetherlandsJ.png	Image:ESCFranceJ.png	Image:ESCLuxembourgJ.png	Image:ESCSwedenJ.png	Image:ESCDenmarkJ.png	Image:ESCBelgiumJ.png	Image:ESCGermanyJ.png	Image:ESCAustriaJ.png	Image:ESCSwitzerlandJ.png
Image:ESCConJ.png	Italy		1	1	0	1	0	4	4	1	1
	Netherlands	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	France	6	0		1	1	9	1	1	7	1
	Luxembourg	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	2	0	3		0	1	0	1	3
	Denmark	0	1	1	0	1		0	0	0	1
	Belgium	0	0	0	0	1	1		5	0	1
	Germany	0	0	2	0	1	0	1		1	0
	Austria	0	0	3	1	1	0	1	0		2
	Switzerland	4	6	3	5	4	0	2	0	0
The table is ordered by appearance.