Eurovision 1957

Eurovision 1957
Eurovision 1957
Dates
The final	March 3, 1957
Carrying out
Location	Großer sendesaal des hessischen rundfunks; Frankfurt , Germany
Leading	Anaid Ilikyan
Conductor	Willy Burking
Executive; supervisor	Rolf Lieberman
Main broadcaster	ARD
Interval act	not
Members
Total participants	ten
Debuting	Austria; Denmark; Great Britain;
	Map of participating countries Member countries
results
Voting system	Each country had 10 judges, each of whom could give one vote to the song he liked.
Zero points	not
Winning song	" Net als toen " ( Netherlands )
Eurovision
	← 1956 • 1957 • 1958 →

The 1957 Eurovision Song Contest became the 2nd Eurovision song contest . It was held March 3, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ( Germany ) in the studio of the ARD television company. This contest explains well why today there is a rule of song duration of three minutes. The song All , submitted by the UK , lasted only 1 min. 52 sec (one of the shortest songs in the history of the contest), and the next song, representing Italy ( Corde della mia chitarra ), lasted 5 minutes. 9 sec (the longest song in the history of the contest). Three countries participated in the competition for the first time, and the total number of participating countries reached 10. Not only soloists, but also duets got the right to participate in the competition. For the first time, the votes of the national jury were transmitted by telephone. The winner of the first competition, Swiss Liz Assia, again took part in it, but took only eighth place, and the Dutchwoman Corrie Brocken won the competition with the song “Net als toen”. ^[one]

Venue

Frankfurt am Main

The Eurovision venue in West Germany .

Frankfurt am Main ( German: Frankfurt am Main - often simply called Frankfurt , the largest city in Hesse and the fifth largest in Germany with a population of 672,000 people (as of 2009). The population with suburbs is 2,295,000 inhabitants ^[2] .

Located on the River Main , Frankfurt is the financial and transport center of Germany and the largest financial center of continental Europe. It houses the European Central Bank , the Federal Bank of Germany , the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt Trade Fair . Frankfurt Airport ( German: Flughafen Frankfurt am Main / Rhein-Main-Flughafen ) is one of the busiest international airports, and the German ( German Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof ) and the German ( German Frankfurter Kreuz ) one of the largest terminals in Europe and the busiest transport route of continental Europe. Frankfurt is the only German city included in the “twenty alpha cities of the world” ^[3] . The headquarters of the American army in Germany was located in Frankfurt, and the city itself was located in the American Occupation Zone ( German Besatzungszone ) after the end of World War II.

The venue for the second Eurovision Song Contest was the Großer Sendesaal des hessischen Rundfunks building, which was used as a music room and television studio. It is also the former headquarters of the Hessian Broadcasting radio station. Today it is used only as a music room.

Format

This year, the representative of Italy Nuncio Gallo sang a song lasting 5 minutes. 9 sec (the longest song in the history of the contest), while the representative of the UK performed her song in 1 min. 52 sec (one of the shortest songs in the history of the contest). After that, the organizers of the contest decided to set a song duration limit of 3 minutes; this rule is still valid.

Also, duets were allowed to participate in the competition. Danish representatives Birte Wilke and Gustav Winkler were the first duo in the history of the competition. At the end of their performance, the couple kissed, and this kiss went down in the history of the contest as the longest. Although only people who had televisions could see him.

This was the first time the jury had phoned. The Netherlands won the competition for the first time. Another notable change was that the jury cannot vote for their country; this rule also applies to this day.

Participating countries

Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Switzerland took their second part in the competition, after their debut in 1956. Austria , Denmark and the United Kingdom made their debut, although these countries wanted to participate back in 1956, but because the deadline for filing applications set by the European Broadcasting Union for the competition had expired, they missed it. Together with the acceding countries in 1957, their total number was equal to ten, which is three more than at the very first competition . ^[one]

Returning Artists

Switzerland : Liz Assia ( 1956 Eurovision Song Contest ) ^[1]
Netherlands : Corrie Brocken ( 1956 Eurovision ) ^[1]

Returning as Songwriters

Switzerland : Geo Womard (songwriter Switzerland 1956 ) ^[1]
Switzerland : Emil Garde (songwriter Switzerland 1956 ) ^[1]

Results

No.	A country	Language ^[4]	Executor	Song	Transfer	Location ^[5]	Glasses
01	Belgium	Dutch	Bobbeian Schupen	Straatdeuntje	Street music	eight	five
02	Luxembourg	French	Daniel Dupre	Amours mortes (tant de peine)	Love is dead (so much pain)	four	eight
03	Great Britain	English	Patricia Bredin	All	Everything	7	6
04	Italy	Italian	Nuncio Gallo	Corde della mia chitarra	Strings of my guitar	6	7
05	Austria	Deutsch	Bob martin	Wohin, kleines pony?	Where are you little pony?	ten	3
06	Netherlands	Dutch	Corrie Brocken	Net als toen	As before	one	31
07	Germany	Deutsch	Margot Hilscher	Telefon, Telefon	Telephone, telephone	four	eight
08	France	French	Paul Desjardins	La belle amour	Beautiful love	2	17
09	Denmark	Danish	Birte Wilke and Gustav Winkler	Skibet skal sejle i nat	The ship sets sail at night	3	ten
ten	Switzerland	French	Liz Assia	L'enfant que j'étais	Baby i was	eight	five

Voting


	results
Belgium	five		-	-	-	-	-	2	-	2	one
Luxembourg	eight	-		one	four	3	-	-	-	-	-
Great Britain	6	one	one		-	one	one	-	-	-	2
Italy	7	one	one	2		-	2	-	-	one	-
Austria	3	-	-	2	-		one	-	-	-	-
Netherlands	31	five	3	one	one	6		one	four	3	7
Germany	eight	one	-	-	one	-	-		6	-	-
France	17	2	four	2	-	-	one	6		2	-
Denmark	ten	-	-	2	3	-	five	-	-		-
Switzerland	five	-	one	-	one	-	-	one	-	2

Broadcast

The table below shows the order in which the votes were cast during the 1957 contest, together with the herald who was responsible for the announcement of the votes in the respective countries. Each national broadcaster also sent commentators to the contest, in order to ensure coverage of the contest in their native language. Detailed information on commentators and broadcasters is also presented in the table below. ^[6]

Heralds

Switzerland - Mani Weber
Denmark -?
France - Claude Darget
Germany - Joachim Fuchsberger
Netherlands - Willem Duis
Austria -?
Italy - Nuncio Filogamo
Great Britain - David Jacobs
Luxembourg -?
Belgium - Bob Van Bel

Commentators

Austria - Emil Collpacher ( ORF )
Belgium - Anton Peters ( NIR ), Jeanine Lambotte ( INR )
Denmark - Gunnar Hansen ( Statsradiofonien TV )
France - Robert Beauvais ( RTF ) ^[7]
Germany - Wolf Mittler ( Deutsches Fernsehen )
Luxembourg - Jacques Navadique ( Télé-Luxembourg )
Italy - Bianca Maria Pichchinino ( Programma Nazionale )
Netherlands - Pete te Neil ( NTS ) ^[8]
Sweden - Niels Lynnman ( Radiotjänst TV ) ^[9]
Switzerland - Georges Hardy ( TSR )
UK - Berkeley Smith ( BBC Television Service ), Tom Sloan ( BBC Light Program )

Links

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ the show Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (neopr.) . EMU . Date of treatment June 11, 2012.
↑ World Urban Areas (Neopr.) (PDF). Date of treatment September 20, 2007. Archived August 23, 2011.
↑ World Cities (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 23, 2007. Archived August 23, 2011.
↑ Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (neopr.) . The Diggiloo Thrush. Date of treatment March 4, 2012.
↑ Scoreboard results (unspecified) . Eurovision Song Contest 1957 . EMU . Date of treatment June 11, 2012.
↑ Eurovision 1957 Cast and Crew (Neopr.) . IMDb Date of treatment March 5, 2012.
↑ Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1957 (French) . Songcontest.free.fr (September 18, 2006). Date of treatment May 21, 2013. Archived May 23, 2013.
↑ Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival (nid.) . Eurovision Artists . Archived May 23, 2013.
↑ Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 10. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2

[ESC1957-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ the show Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (neopr.) . EMU . Date of treatment June 11, 2012.

[urban_area_pop-2] World Urban Areas (Neopr.) (PDF). Date of treatment September 20, 2007. Archived August 23, 2011.

[World_Cities-3] World Cities (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 23, 2007. Archived August 23, 2011.

[4] Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (neopr.) . The Diggiloo Thrush. Date of treatment March 4, 2012.

[5] Scoreboard results (unspecified) . Eurovision Song Contest 1957 . EMU . Date of treatment June 11, 2012.

[Spokespersons-6] Eurovision 1957 Cast and Crew (Neopr.) . IMDb Date of treatment March 5, 2012.

[7] Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1957 (French) . Songcontest.free.fr (September 18, 2006). Date of treatment May 21, 2013. Archived May 23, 2013.

[8] Nederlandse televisiecommentatoren bij het Eurovisie Songfestival (nid.) . Eurovision Artists . Archived May 23, 2013.

[9] Leif Thorsson. Melodifestivalen genom tiderna ["Melodifestivalen through time"] (2006), p. 10. Stockholm: Premium Publishing AB. ISBN 91-89136-29-2