Eurovision Song Contest 1959
The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the forth Eurovision and was held on March 11, 1959 in France. With Jacqueline Joubert as the presenter, the contest was won by Teddy Scholten who represented the Netherlands, with her song "Een beetje".In the press it was suggested that Italy and France gave so much points to the Netherlands as those two countries didn't want each other to win.
A new rule was created in this Eurovision. It was to ensure that no professional publishers or composers were allowed to be on the juries.
Interval Act
There was no interval act in 1959.
| Country (Language) |
Artist(s) | Song (Translation) |
Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (German) |
Ferry Graf | Der K und K Kalypso aus Wien (The K and K Calypso from Vienna) |
9 | 4 |
| Belgium (Dutch) |
Bob Benny | Hou Toch Van Mij (Please Love Me) |
6 | 9 |
| Denmark (Danish) |
Birthe Wilke | Uh-Jeg Ville Ønske Jeg Var Dig (Oh - I wish I were you) |
5 | 12 |
| France (French) |
Jacques Phiilipe | Oui, Oui, Oui, Oui (Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes) |
3 | 15 |
| Germany (German) |
Alice & Ellen Kessler | Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n (Tonight we want to go Dancing) |
8 | 5 |
| Italy (Italian) |
Domenico Modugno | Piove (It's Raining) |
6 | 9 |
| Monaco (French) |
Jacques Pills | Mon Ami Pierrot (My Friend Pierrot) |
11 | 1 |
| Netherlands (Dutch) |
Teddy Scholten | Een beetje (A Bit) |
1 | 21 |
| Sweden (Swedish) |
Brita Borg | Augustin (Augustin) |
9 | 4 |
| Switzerland (German) |
Christa Williams | Irgendwoher (From Somewhere) |
4 | 14 |
| United Kingdom (English) |
Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson | Sing Little Birdie |
2 | 16 |
| Venue: Palais Des Festivals - Cannes, France | ||||
| The table is ordered by the countries names. | ||||
First Appearances
Monaco
| Juries | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Italy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Monaco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Netherlands | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Germany | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Belgium | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| The table is ordered by appearance. | ||||||||||||
