Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on Tuesday 29 March 1960 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, United Kingdom, and hosted by British television presenter and actress Catherine Boyle. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which was offered the rights to stage the contest after the Template:Esccnty' {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (NTS), which had won the Template:Escyr, declined the opportunity after having organised the event in Template:Escyr.

Template:Esccnty returned to the competition after an absence of one year, and Template:Esccnty made its first contest appearance, bringing the total number of participating countries to thirteen.

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "Tom Pillibi", performed by Jacqueline Boyer, composed by André Popp and written by Pierre Cour. This marked France's second contest victory, having also won in 1958. The Template:Esccnty placed second for the second consecutive year and Template:Esccnty earned their first top three finish by placing third.

Location

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Royal Festival Hall, London – host venue of the 1960 contest

The contest took place in London, United Kingdom. Although the Template:Esccnty had won the Template:Escyr, the Dutch broadcaster {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (NTS) declined to stage the event for a second time in three years, after hosting the Template:Escyr in Hilversum. The rights to stage the contest subsequently passed to the United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), following their second place finish in the previous year's event, a decision which was announced in October 1959.<ref name="ESC1960" />Template:Sfn

The Royal Festival Hall was chosen to stage the 1960 contest. Situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, the venue was first opened in 1951 and was originally conceived for use during that year's Festival of Britain; it is now part of the Southbank Centre, a complex of several artistic venues.Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Participants

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Fud Leclerc made his third appearance at the contest, having represented Template:Esccnty with "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" (one of the two Belgian entries in that year's contest) and Template:Esccnty with "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The song from Luxembourg was the first entry performed in Luxembourgish at the contest, and one of only three entries performed in the language (alongside the country's entries Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty).Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Eurovision Song Contest 1960 participantsTemplate:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Template:Esc	ORF	Harry Winter	lang}}"	German	Template:Hlist	Robert Stolz
Template:Esc	Template:Ill	Fud Leclerc	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	DR	Katy Bødtger	lang}}"	Danish	Template:Hlist	Kai Mortensen
Template:Esc	RTF	Jacqueline Boyer	"Tom Pillibi"	French	Template:Hlist	Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc	HRTemplate:Efn	Wyn Hoop	lang}}"	German	Template:Hlist	Franz Josef Breuer
Template:Esc	RAI	Renato Rascel	lang}}"	Italian	Template:Hlist	Cinico Angelini
Template:Esc	CLT	Camillo Felgen	lang}}"	Luxembourgish	Template:Hlist	Eric Robinson
Template:Esc	TMC	François Deguelt	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist	Raymond Lefèvre
Template:Esc	NTS	Rudi Carrell	lang}}"	Dutch	Template:Hlist	Dolf van der Linden
Template:Esc	NRK	Nora Brockstedt	lang}}"	Norwegian	Template:Ill	Øivind Bergh
Template:Esc	SR	Siw Malmkvist	lang}}"	Swedish	Template:Hlist	Thore Ehrling
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Anita Traversi	lang}}"	Italian	Mario Robbiani	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	BBC	Bryan Johnson	"Looking High, High, High"	English	John Watson	Eric Robinson

Format

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The Royal Festival Hall auditorium (pictured in 2017)

The contest was organised and broadcast by the BBC, with Harry Carlisle serving as producer, Innes Lloyd as director, Richard Levin as designer, and Eric Robinson as musical director, leading the orchestra during the event.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Each country was allowed to nominate their own musical director to lead the orchestra during the performance of their country's entry, with the host musical director, Eric Robinson, also conducting for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.Template:Sfn

As had been the case since the 1957 contest, each country, participating through a single EBU member broadcaster, was represented by one song performed by up to two people on stage. The results of the event were determined through jury voting, with each country's jury containing ten individuals who each gave one vote to their favourite song, with no abstentions allowed and with jurors unable to vote for their own country.<ref name="ESC1960">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Sfn A new innovation for this year's event was to allow the national juries to listen to the final rehearsal of each country, which was also recorded to allow jury members to listen to the entries ahead of the live contest.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The draw to determine the order in which each country would perform was conducted on 28 March in the presence of the performers. Performance and technical rehearsals involving the artists and orchestra were held on 28 and 29 March ahead of the live transmission.Template:Sfn

Contest overview

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Jacqueline Boyer, the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The contest was held on 29 March 1960 at 21:00 (GMT) and lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes.Template:Sfn<ref name="Radio Times" /> The contest was presented by British television presenter and actress Catherine Boyle, the first of four contests in which she participated as host.Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Boyle presided over the opening of the contest and the voting process, while the various national broadcasters that carried the show provided commentary between each act, with the United Kingdom's commentator David Jacobs also being heard by the assembled audience of over 2,500 people in the hall.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The winner was Template:Esccnty represented by the song "Tom Pillibi", composed by André Popp, written by Pierre Cour and performed by Jacqueline Boyer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Boyer is the daughter of Jacques Pills, who had represented Monaco in the Template:Escyr and placed last with "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}".Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn France's victory was their second in the contest, following their win in 1958, and brought them level on number of victories with the Netherlands.<ref name="ESC1960" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The UK gained their second consecutive second place finish, while Monaco considerably improved upon their debut performance the previous year with a third place finish.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It was originally planned for the top three songs to be performed again following the voting, as had occurred in the 1959 contest, however this was ultimately scrapped and only the winning song received its traditional reprise performance.Template:Sfn The winning artist was presented with a silver gilt vase, which was awarded by Teddy Scholten; this marked the first time that the previous year's winning artist awarded the prize to the next contest winner, which has since become Eurovision tradition.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Looking High, High, High"	25	2
2	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	4	10
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	1	13
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	4	10
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	9	6
6	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	11	4
7	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	6	7
8	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	15	3
9	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	5	8
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	2	12
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	11	4
12	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	5	8
13	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Tom Pillibi"	32	1

Spokespersons

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Known spokespersons at the 1960 contest are listed below.

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• Template:FlaguTemplate:SndNick Burrell-DavisTemplate:Sfn

Detailed voting results

The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in reverse order to the order in which each country performed.Template:Sfn

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rowspan="13" Template:Vert header	United Kingdom	25		2	1	5	4	1	3	2	1		5	1
Sweden	4	2	1		1
Luxembourg	1		1
Denmark	4								2			1		1
Belgium	9		3	1				1					4
Norway	11	1			1	4		1		1	2			1
Austria	6		1							1	2			2
Monaco	15	3		7		1					2	1		1
Switzerland	5		1					2	1			1
Netherlands	2		1							1
Germany	11	4					2	2		2			1
Italy	5				1		2			1		1
France	32			1	2	1	5	1	5	3	4	1	4	5

Broadcasts

Broadcasters competing in the event were required to relay the contest via its networks; non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest. Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> An estimated audience of 30 million would see the contest.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Refh
Template:Flagu	ORF	ORF	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	Template:Ill	INR	Template:Ill	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		NIR	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Template:Flagu	RTF	RTF	Pierre Tchernia	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Wolf Mittler	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Radiogids" />
Template:Flagu	RAI	lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Giorgio Porro	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Flagu	CLT	lang}}	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NTS	NTS	Piet te Nuyl Jr.	<ref name="Radiogids">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Binnenhof">Template:Cite news</ref>
	NRU	Hilversum 2		<ref name="Binnenhof" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NRK	lang}}, NRK	Erik Diesen	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SR	lang}}, SR P2	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRS, Radio Beromünster	Template:Ill	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TSR, Radio Sottens	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		TSI, Radio Monte Ceneri	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC Television Service	David Jacobs	<ref name="Radio Times">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Refh
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Notes and references

Bibliography

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External links

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