The winner wasFrance with the song "Tom Pillibi", performed byJacqueline Boyer, composed byAndré Popp and written by Pierre Cour. This marked France's second contest victory, having also won in 1958. TheUnited Kingdom placed second for the second consecutive year andMonaco earned its first top three finish by placing third.
The contest took place in London, United Kingdom. Although theNetherlands had won the1959 contest, the Dutch broadcasterNederlandse Televisie Stichting (NTS) declined to stage the event for a second time in three years, after hosting the1958 edition inHilversum. The rights to stage the contest subsequently passed to the United Kingdom'sBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), following its second place finish in the previous year's event, a decision which was announced in October 1959.[1][2]
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Eurovision Song Contest 1960 – Participation summaries by country
The number of entries grew to thirteen for this edition, with the eleven competing countries from the 1959 contest being joined byLuxembourg, returning after a one year absence, andNorway, making its first appearance.[1][2][5]
Fud Leclerc made his third appearance at the contest, having representedBelgium in 1956 with "Messieurs les noyés de la Seine" (one of the two Belgian entries in that year's contest) andin 1958 with "Ma petite chatte".[6] 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 entriesin 1992 and1993).[7][8]
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 asdesigner, andEric Robinson asmusical director, leading the orchestra during the event.[11][12] Each participating delegation was allowed to nominate its own musical director to lead the orchestra during the performance of its country's entry, with the host musical director,Eric Robinson, alsoconducting for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.[7]
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.[1][13] 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.[2][14]
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.[2]
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.[7][15] The contest was presented by British television presenter and actress Catherine Boyle (better known asKatie Boyle), the first of four contests in which she participated as host.[7][16] 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 commentatorDavid Jacobs also being heard by the assembled audience of over 2,500 people in the hall.[2][14]
The winner wasFrance represented by the song "Tom Pillibi", composed byAndré Popp, written byPierre Cour and performed byJacqueline Boyer.[17] Boyer is the daughter ofJacques Pills, who had represented Monaco in theprevious year's contest and placed last with "Mon ami Pierrot".[5][7] France's victory was its second in the contest, following its win in 1958, and brought them level on number of victories with the Netherlands.[1][18] The UK gained its second consecutive second place finish, while Monaco considerably improved upon its debut performance the previous year with a third place finish.[19][20]
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 traditionalreprise performance.[13] The winning artist was presented with a silvergilt vase, which was awarded byTeddy 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.[5][21]
Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1960[7][22]
Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for its respective country via telephone.[23] Known spokespersons at the 1960 contest are listed below.
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.[27] An estimated audience of 30 million would see the contest.[28]
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
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