Eurovision Song Contest 1959
International broadcasts and voting
Table:
Voting order

Country

Spokespersons

Commentator(s)

Broadcaster(s)

01

Belgium

Bert Leysen

Nic Bal
Paule Herreman

NIR, INR

02

United Kingdom

Pete Murray

Tom Sloan
Pete Murray

BBC Television Service
BBC Light Programme

03

Austria

Karl Bruck

Elena Gerhard

ORF

04

Switzerland

Boris Acquadro

Theodor Haller

TV DRS, TSR

05

Sweden

Roland Eiworth

Jan Gabrielsson

Sveriges Radio-TV, SR P1

06

Germany

Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach

Elena Gerhard

Deutsches Fernsehen

07

Netherlands

Siebe van der Zee

Piet te Nuyl

NTS

08

Monaco

TBC

Claude Darget

Télé Monte Carlo

09

Italy

Enzo Tortora

Renato Tagliani

Programma Nazionale

10

Denmark

Svend Pedersen

Sejr Volmer-Sørensen

DR TV

11

France

Marianne Lecène

Claude Darget

RTF

-

Luxembourg (non-participating country)

-

Claude Darget

Télé-Luxembourg

Consulting the following table together with the passages below.

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Belgium was represented by Bob Benny , with the song 'Hou toch van mij , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes , France . The song was chosen at the Belgian national final on 15 February . Benny would represent Belgium again in the 1961 contest .
Paule Herreman ( 1919-1991 ) was a Belgian Actress and television presenter for RTBF . Herreman started her television as chief television announcer . In 1954 she joined INR to work with Eurovision . Herreman would continue to maintain her connections to Eurovision , providing the French language commentary for RTBF viewers on 10 occasions for the Eurovision Song Contest between the years of 1959 and 1979 . She also commentated for RTBF viewers at the Jeux Sans Frontières between 1967 and 1982 . As an actress Herreman played very small roles in films such as L'Œuvre au noir and Blueberry Hill ; she also appeared in the music video to Break It Up featuring American athlete Carl Lewis .
Eén ( English : one , stylized as één ) is a public Dutch-language TV station in Belgium , owned by the VRT , which also owns Ketnet , Canvas and several radio stations . Although the channel is commercial-free , short sponsorship messages are broadcast in between some programmes . Eén focuses on drama , entertainment , news and current affairs in a similar vein to BBC One in the United Kingdom . The station was formerly known as VRT TV1 until the current Eén branding was launched as part of a major station revamp on 21 January 2005 , with a look created by BBC Broadcast . Eén is considered to be the equivalent of its Walloon counterpart , La Une , the first channel of the Belgian Francophone ( French-speaking ) broadcaster , RTBF .
La Une French pronunciation : [ la yn ] is a Belgian national television channel , owned and operated by the French-language public-service broadcasting organization RTBF . La Une is considered the equivalent of Flemish station Eén , the first channel of the Flemish broadcaster , VRT .
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 . The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) organised a national final to select the United Kingdom 's entry for the contest . The song selected was Sing , Little Birdie , performed by Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson . The song placed second in the contest , at the time the United Kingdom 's best result in the competition , and remained so until their first victory in 1967 .
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Thomas James Harman Sloan OBE { ( 14 October 1919 - 13 May 1970 ) was a British broadcaster and journalist and BBC Head of Light Entertainment in the 1960s .
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Austria has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 52 times since its debut in 1957 . The country has won twice , in 1966 and 2014 , and currently holds the record for the longest gap between wins , with 48 years between victories . The contest is broadcast in Austria by ORF . Vienna was the host city on both of the occasions that the contest was held in Austria , in 1967 and 2015 . Having finished sixth at the 1964 contest and fourth in 1965 , Udo Jurgens won at his third attempt in 1966 with the song Merci Chérie . This was Austria 's only top three result of the 20th century . Austria won again in 2014 , with Conchita Wurst and Rise Like a Phoenix . Austria has finished last in the contest final seven times ( 1957 , 1961 , 1962 , 1979 , 1984 , 1988 and 1991 ) and finished last in the semifinal in 2012 . Cesár Sampson achieved Austria 's eighth top five result and second-best result of the 21st century at the 2018 contest , finishing third with the song Nobody But You .
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Switzerland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 60 times since making its debut at the first contest in 1956 , missing only four contests , in 1995 , 1999 , 2001 and 2003 . Switzerland hosted the first contest in 1956 in Lugano , and won it . Switzerland won the contest again in 1988 , with the 1989 contest being held in Lausanne . Lys Assia won the first contest in 1956 with the song Refrain . She returned to place second in 1958 . Switzerland would go on to finish second with Esther Ofarim ( 1963 ) and Daniela Simmons ( 1986 ) and third with Franca Di Rienzo ( 1961 ) and Arlette Zola ( 1982 ) , before winning the contest for the second time in 1988 with Celine Dion and the song Ne partez pas sans moi . Annie Cotton gave the country its 15th top five result in 1993 , when she placed third . Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004 , Switzerland have failed to reach the final in 11 of 16 contests . Switzerland returned to the top five for the first time in 26 years when Luca Hänni gave the country its 16th top five result by finishing fourth in 2019 . The country 's only other top 10 result of the 21st century is girl group Vanilla Ninja 's eighth-place in 2005 .
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Sweden was in their second Eurovision Song Contest represented by Brita Borg with the song Augustin . The winning song was elected in the Swedish national final : Melodifestivalen 1959 . Eight semi-finals were held on the radio . During the semi-finals , Sveriges Radio decided that the winning song would represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 . The singer for Cannes had already been selected .
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Germany was represented by twins Alice & Ellen Kessler , with the song 'Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh ' n , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes , France . For the first time , the German entry was chosen internally rather than through a public final .
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The Netherlands was represented by Teddy Scholten , with the song 'Een beetje , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes , France . Song and singer were chosen independently of each other at the Dutch national final , held on 17 February . Scholten went on to win the 1959 contest for the Netherlands , the first time a country had scored two Eurovision victories . The 1957 contest winner Corry Brokken failed in her bid to represent the Netherlands for a fourth consecutive year , while future Dutch representative Greetje Kauffeld was also among those taking part .
NPO 1 ( formerly Nederland 1 Dutch pronunciation : [ ˌneːdərlɑnt ˈeːn ] until 2014 ) is the first national television station in the Netherlands , it launched on 2 October 1951 . It provides public broadcasting and currently exists next to sister channels NPO 2 and NPO 3 . A wide range of broadcasting organisations of the Publieke Omroep deliver programs . A wide variety of programs is broadcast on the channel , usually for larger audiences . In 2018 , it was the most viewed channel in the Netherlands , reaching a market share of 22.0% .
Monaco has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 24 times since its debut in 1959 . The country 's only win in the contest came in 1971 when Séverine performed Un banc , un arbre , une rue . In 1972 , Monaco was expected to host the contest , but declined . As of 2019 , Monaco is the only microstate which has won the contest . Monaco finished last at its first contest in 1959 before achieving three top three results in the 1960s . Two of these were achieved by François Deguelt , who finished third in 1960 and second in 1962 . Romuald also finished third in 1964 . Severine 's victory in 1971 was the first of five top four results in eight years . The others were achieved by Romauld ( who returned to place fourth in 1974 ) , Mary Christy who was third in 1976 , Michèle Torr , fourth in 1977 and Caline & Olivier Toussaint who were fourth in 1978 . After participating in 1979 , Monaco was absent from the contest for 25 years . Monaco is the only country to have internally selected all of their participants . While some countries organise televised national finals , it is believed [ by whom ? ]
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Italy was represented by Domenico Modugno , with the song 'Piove ( Ciao , ciao bambina ) , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes , France . Broadcaster RAI chose the winning song from the 1959 Sanremo Music Festival as their Eurovision entry : the song had been performed twice at Sanremo and for the second consecutive year Modugno was chosen over Johnny Dorelli as the performer . Piove ( Ciao , ciao bambina ) finished only in mid-table in the contest , but for the second year Modugno 's Italian entry proved to be commercially by far the most successful song afterwards . It could not match the phenomenal success of the previous year 's Volare , but was a hit across Europe , reached the top 30 in the United Kingdom and entered the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA .
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Denmark was represented by Birthe Wilke , with the song 'Uh , jeg ville ønske jeg var dig , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes , France . Uh , jeg ville ønske jeg var dig was chosen as the Danish entry at the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix on 12 February . Wilke had previously come third for Denmark in the 1957 contest in a duet with Gustav Winckler , who was one of her competitors in the 1959 DMGP .
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France was represented by Jean Philippe , with the song 'Oui , oui , oui , oui , at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest , which took place on 11 March in Cannes following André Claveau 's victory for France the previous year . It is known that broadcaster RTF held a national final to choose the entry , possibly in late 1958 , but no further details are currently available .
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