EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 1957

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.
For some time, a rumour has existed that the German entry "Das Lied vom Großen Glück" by Walter Andreas Schwarz came second at the 1956 contest and that is why Germany hosted ESC 1957. In fact, the rule stating that the winning nation hosted the next year's Eurovision had not yet been conceived, and it was planned at the time that each participating country would take it in turns to host the event. However, as more countries wished to participate, this became impractical.
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.
This was the first year where the juries were contacted by telephone. It was the first time the Netherlands won the contest.

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Results

Score sheet

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Results

Country	Language	Artist	Song	English Translation	Place	Points
	German	Bob Martin	Wohin, Kleines Pony? ★	Where, Little Pony?	10	3
	Dutch	Bobbejaan Schoepen	Straatdeuntje ★	Street Tune	8	5
	Danish	Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler	Skibet skal sejle i nat ★	The Ship is Leaving Tonight	3	10
	French	Paule Desjardins	La Belle Amour ★	Beautiful Love	2	17
	German	Margot Hielscher	Telefon, Telefon ★	Telephone, Telephone	4	8
	Italian	Nunzio Gallo	Corde della mia chitarra ★	Strings of my Guitar	6	7
	French	Danièle Dupré	Amours Mortes ★	Faded Love	4	8
	Dutch	Corry Brokken	Net Als Toen ★	Just Like Then	1	31
	French	Lys Assia	L'enfant que j'étais ★	The Child I was	8	5
	English	Patricia Bredin	All ★	-	7	6

Score sheet

		Juries
		ESCTotaltscoreJ.svg	ESCBelgiumJ.svg	ESCLuxembourgJ.svg	ESCUnitedKingdomJ.svg	ESCItalyJ.svg	ESCAustriaJ.svg	ESCNetherlandsJ.svg	ESCGermanyJ.svg	ESCFranceJ.svg	ESCDenmarkJ.svg	ESCSwitzerlandJ.svg
ESCConJ.svg	Belgium	5		0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	1
	Luxembourg	8	0		1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	6	1	1		0	1	1	0	0	0	2
	Italy	7	1	1	2		0	2	0	0	1	0
	Austria	3	0	0	2	0		1	0	0	0	0
	'Netherlands'	'31'	5	3	1	1	6		1	4	3	7
	Germany	8	1	0	0	1	0	0		6	0	0
	France	17	2	4	2	0	0	1	6		2	0
	Denmark	10	0	0	2	3	0	5	0	0		0
	Switzerland	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE

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★ Green = Participating countries