• Dates – Grand Final: Sunday, 03 March 1957 – 20:00 CET
• Host – Venue & Location: Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks (hr-Sendesaal, Large broadcasting hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk), Frankfurt am Main, 🇩🇪 Germany
• Presenter (s): Anaïd Iplicjian
• Musical director: Willy Berking
• Director: Michael Kehlmann
• Executive Producer: —
• Executive Supervisor: —
• Multicamera Director: —
• Host broadcaster: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rundfunkanstalten Deutschland (ARD) (ARD^[a], Hessischer Rundfunk (HR))
• Interval Act: —
• Participants – Number of entries: 10 [🇧🇪 Belgium (2ª), 🇫🇷 France (2ª), 🇩🇪 Germany (2ª), 🇮🇹 Italy (2ª), 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (2ª), 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (2ª), 🇨🇭 Switzerland (2ª), 🇦🇹 Austria (1ª), 🇩🇰 Denmark (1ª), 🇬🇧 United Kindom (1ª)] 
• Debuting countries: 🇦🇹 Austria (1ª), 🇩🇰 Denmark (1ª), 🇬🇧 United Kindom (1ª)
• Return: —
• Non-returning countries: —
• Vote – Voting system: Ten-member juries in each country; each member gave one vote to their favourite song. Each participating country had 10 jury members, and each jury member could award one point to one song. A total of 100 points. 
• Nil Points: —
• Winning song: 🏆 “Net als toen” – Corry Brokken – 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (1ª)

About – Overview. Broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk on behalf of Deutsches Fernsehen ARD, the second Eurovision Song Contest welcomed Austria, Denmark and the United Kingdom as new participants.

For the first time, duos were allowed to compete, paving the way for Denmark’s Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler, who made headlines with their passionate on-screen kiss – clocking in at 11 seconds!

Germany’s Margot Hielscher also turned heads with her performance, featuring a telephone prop on stage – widel egarded as the Contest’s first-ever ‘gimmick’.

A few quirks made this edition particularly memorable. Song lengths varied wildly, from the United Kingdom’s brisk 1 minute and 52 seconds to Italy’s lengthy 5 minutes and 9 seconds, well over the recommended limit set in 1956. Despite protests, the Italian entry was not disqualified, but the incident led to the now-familiar three-minute rule – a decision that became one of Contest’s most enduring traditions.

Another rule introduced this year ensured fairness: for the first time, national juries were not allowed to vote for their own country.

The night belonged to Corry Brokken from the Netherlands, who took home their first victory with Net Als Toen (‘Just Like Then’). As well as winning this edition, Corry also participated in the first Contest and again in 1958, as well as presenting the show when it travelled to The Hague in 1976.

⭐The Eurovision Song Contest 1957, originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1957 (English: Eurovision Grand Prize of European Song 1957), was the second edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on Sunday 3 March 1957 at the Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks in Frankfurt, West Germany, and presented by Anaid Iplicjian. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) on behalf of ARD.^[a]

Broadcasters from ten countries participated in the contest, with Austria, Denmark, and the United Kingdom competing for the first time and joining the original seven participating countries from the first contest in 1956.

The winner of the contest was the Netherlands, with the song “Net als toen” performed by Corry Brokken. This was Brokken’s second appearance as a participant, after previously representing the Netherlands in 1956; her victory marked the first of five Dutch wins in the contest as of 2026. France, Denmark, Luxembourg and Germany rounded out the top five.

A number of changes to the rules from the previous year’s event were enacted; each country were now represented by only one song, while the voting system received an overhaul, with the results of the voting now conducted on a scoreboard in view of the public to allow the process to be followed by viewers and listeners at home. Jurors were also no longer allowed to vote for the song from their own country.

Participation map

Blue – Participating countries  

ESC 1957 Scoreboard Ι Detailed voting results:

1.Location. The 1957  contest took place in Frankfurt, West Germany. The selected venue was the Großer Sendesaal des hessischen Rundfunks, a music hall and former broadcasting studio located in the Dornbusch district, and part of the wider Broadcasting House Dornbusch which serves as the headquarters and main broadcasting facility of the German public broadcaster for the state of Hesse, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). The contest was held in front of an audience of around 400 people.

A new plan for staging the event was invoked ahead of the 1957 contest, with a different broadcaster organising the contest each year, after Switzerland’s SRG SSR, which had both hosted the contest and provided the winning entry in 1956, declined to stage it for a second time.

Germany was subsequently selected to host the second edition, after Hans-Otto Grünefeldt, TV program director at HR, offered to organise it on behalf of ARD.^[a] Frankfurt was selected as host city as early as June 1956 during an EBU meeting in Italy.

2.Participants – articipating countries. Ten countries participated in the 1957 contest, with the seven countries which took part in the first contest being joined by Austria, Denmark and the United Kingdom in their first appearances. Austria and Denmark had originally planned to compete in 1956, but missed the cut-off date for entry. Initially, Monaco also figured on the list of participants for 1957, but disappeared from the list by 21 February 1957.

Two of the participating artists, Switzerland’s Lys Assia and the Netherlands’ Corry Brokken, had previously competed at the 1956 contest. Brokken was one of the two Dutch participants in that year’s contest, competing with the song “Voorgoed voorbij“, while Assia had performed both of Switzerland’s entries, “Das alte Karussell” and “Refrain“, the latter of which had won the contest.

Eurovision Song Contest 1957 participants

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Bob Martin	“Wohin, kleines Pony?“	German	Kurt Svab, Hans Werner	Carl de Groof
Belgium	NIR	Bobbejaan Schoepen	“Straatdeuntje“	Dutch	Eric Franssen, Harry Frékin	Willy Berking
Denmark	Statsradiofonien	Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler	“Skibet skal sejle i nat“	Danish	Erik Fiehn, Poul Sørensen	Kai Mortensen
France	RTF	Paule Desjardins	“La Belle Amour“	French	Francis Carco, Guy Lafarge	Paul Durand
Germany	HR[b]	Margot Hielscher	“Telefon, Telefon“	German	Friedrich Meyer, Ralph Maria Siegel	Willy Berking
Italy	RAI	Nunzio Gallo	“Corde della mia chitarra“	Italian	Giuseppe Fiorelli, Mario Ruccione	Armando Trovajoli
Luxembourg	CLT	Danièle Dupré	“Tant de peine“	French	Jean-Pierre Kemmer, Jacques Taber	Willy Berking
Netherlands	NTS	Corry Brokken	“Net als toen“	Dutch	Willy van Hemert, Guus Jansen	Dolf van der Linden
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Lys Assia	“L’Enfant que j’étais“	French	Émile Gardaz, Géo Voumard	Willy Berking
United Kingdom	BBC	Patricia Bredin	“All”	English	Alan Stranks, Reynell Wreford	Eric Robinson

2.1.Conductors. 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, Willy Berking, also conducting for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor. The conductors listed below led the orchestra during the performance for the indicated countries.

2.2.Returning artists. 

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Lys Assia	🇨🇭 Switzerland	1956
Corry Brokken	🇳🇱 The Netherlands	1956

2.3.All the national selections for Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (Eurovision Song Contest 1957 – Participation summaries by country): 

• National Selections in 1957:

• Internal Selections in 1957: 

4.Format. The contest was organised and broadcast by HR on behalf of ARD, with Michael Kehlmann serving as director and Willy Berking serving as musical director, leading the Tanz- und Unterhaltungsorchester des Hessischen Rundfunks during the event. Its costs for broadcaster HR ranged between 40,000 and 50,000 DM. HR took charge of all financial costs, except costs regarding the individual participants (such as travel and accommodation) and costs regarding the international transmission via the Eurovision network. 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 also conducting for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.

The stage built in the Großer Sendesaal featured a wooden staircase for the artists and conductors to make their entrance, and a lyre-shaped background for the singers, which should symbolize the history of popular songs since the Middle Ages. The centre of the background contained a removable background, allowing for a different graphic to be used for each nation’s performance. The background of the orchestra featured photographs from different European landmarks, such as the Brandenburg Gate, the Colosseum and the Arc de Triomphe. Curtains were used extensively as backgrounds and decorative elements. The entire contest, including the performances and voting, lasted around one hour in total. Held just over nine months after the inaugural contest, the contest date of 3 March remains the earliest date in the calendar year in which the contest has been held.

A number of changes from the rules of the previous year’s contest were enacted in 1957. Each country was now permitted to send only one song to compete, as opposed to the maximum of two in 1956. Up to two people were now allowed on stage during the performance, however no other vocal backing was allowed.

A new voting system was introduced, with ten individuals in each country giving one vote to their favourite song. In an additional change to the 1956 rules, jurors were not allowed to vote for the song from their own country. A scoreboard was introduced for the first time, and the voting process was now included as part of the broadcast, rather than conducted in secret as in 1956. The inclusion of a voting sequence allowed for more transparency and helped to create dramatic tension. This new aspect of the contest was inspired by the United Kingdom’s Festival of British Popular Songs, which included voting by regional juries and the running total being shown on a scoreboard, a telerecording of which was viewed by EBU organisers. Each jury assembled in their own country to follow the contest on television and were then contacted by telephone by the contest’s presenter in order to announce their votes, in a change from 1956 when the jurors were co-located to the contest venue. The participating broadcasters had to make sure that the television sets of the national juries were switched off during the voting to prevent jury members being influenced by other countries’ results.

Entries were required to not have been commercially released before 10 February 1957. Each song, as in 1956, was strongly recommended to last no longer than three to three minutes and 30 seconds, however several of the competing entries went beyond this limit. Italy’s song, which lasted for five minutes and nine seconds, remains the longest song in the contest’s history and, despite heavy protest, was not disqualified. Conversely, the United Kingdom’s first entry lasted for one minute and 53 seconds in total, and remained the shortest song to compete in the contest until 2015. Subsequently the restriction on song length was more strictly monitored from 1958 onwards.

Broadcasters were required to submit the lyrics, scores, and an audio recording of their entries by 17 February 1957. Copies of the lyrics as well as their translation into English or French were forwarded to the national juries and the commentators. The draw that determined the running order was held on 2 March 1957.

4.1.Connections:

Connections Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
#	Artist	Backing	Composers	Lyricists	Conductor
01	Bobbejaan Schoepen	–	Harry Frékin	Eric Franssen	Willy Berking: Germany 1966: Die Zeiger der Uhr (conductor), Germany 1964: Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne (conductor), Germany 1963: Marcel (conductor), Belgium 1957: Straatdeuntje (conductor), Luxembourg 1957: Amours mortes (Tant de peine) (conductor), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (conductor), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (conductor)
02	Danièle Dupré	–	Jean-Pierre Kemmer	Jacques Taber	Willy Berking: Germany 1966: Die Zeiger der Uhr (conductor), Germany 1964: Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne (conductor), Germany 1963: Marcel (conductor), Belgium 1957: Straatdeuntje (conductor), Luxembourg 1957: Amours mortes (Tant de peine) (conductor), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (conductor), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (conductor)
03	Patricia Bredin	–	Reynell Wreford	Alan Stranks	Eric Robinson: United Kingdom 1965: I belong (conductor), United Kingdom 1963: Say wonderful things (conductor), The Netherlands 1963: Een speeldoos (conductor), Switzerland 1963: T’en vas pas (conductor), Luxembourg 1963: À force de prier (conductor), United Kingdom 1960: Looking high, high, high (conductor), Luxembourg 1960: So laang we’s du do bast (conductor), United Kingdom 1959: Sing little birdie (conductor), United Kingdom 1957: All (conductor)
04	Nunzio Gallo	Piero Gozio	Mario Ruccione	Giuseppe Fiorelli	Armando Trovajoli
05	Bob Martin	–	Kurt Svab	. Kurt Svab . Hans Werner	Carl de Groof
06	Corry Brokken: The Netherlands 1958: Heel de wereld (solo), The Netherlands 1957: Net als toen (solo), The Netherlands 1956: Voorgoed voorbij (solo)	Sem Nijveen	Guus Jansen	Willy van Hemert: The The Netherlands 1960: Wat een geluk (lyricist), The The Netherlands 1959: Een beetje (lyricist), The The Netherlands 1957: Net als toen (lyricist)	Dolf van der Linden: The Netherlands 1971: Tijd (conductor), The Netherlands 1970: Waterman (conductor), Ireland 1970: All kinds of everything (conductor), The Netherlands 1968: Morgen (conductor), The Netherlands 1967: Ring-dinge-ding (conductor), The Netherlands 1966: Fernando en Filippo (conductor), The Netherlands 1965: ‘t Is genoeg (conductor), The Netherlands 1964: Jij bent mijn leven (conductor), The Netherlands 1962: Katinka (conductor), The Netherlands 1961: Wat een dag (conductor), The Netherlands 1960: Wat een geluk (conductor), The Netherlands 1959: Een beetje (conductor), The Netherlands 1958: Heel de wereld (conductor), Luxembourg 1958: Un grand amour (conductor), Sweden 1958: Lilla stjärna (conductor), Belgium 1958: Ma petite chatte (conductor), Germany 1958: Für zwei Groschen Musik (conductor), The Netherlands 1957: Net als toen (conductor)
07	Margot Hielscher: Germany 1958: Für zwei Groschen Musik (solo), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (solo)	–	Friedrich Meyer: Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (composer), Germany 1958: Für zwei Groschen Musik (composer)	Ralph Maria Siegel: Denmark 1963: Der Sommer ging vorü (lyricist ber version), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (lyricist)	Willy Berking: Germany 1966: Die Zeiger der Uhr (conductor), Germany 1964: Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne (conductor), Germany 1963: Marcel (conductor), Belgium 1957: Straatdeuntje (conductor), Luxembourg 1957: Amours mortes (Tant de peine) (conductor), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (conductor), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (conductor)
08	Paule Desjardins	–	Guy Lafarge	Francis Carco	Paul Durand
09	Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler: Birthe Wilke: Denmark 1959: Uh, jeg ville ønske, jeg var dig (solo), Denmark 1957: Skibet skal sejle i nat (with Gustav Winckler)	–	Erik Fiehn	Poul Sørensen	Kai Mortensen: Denmark 1964: Sangen om dig (conductor), Portugal 1964: Oração (conductor), Denmark 1963: Dansevise (conductor), Denmark 1962: Vuggevise (conductor), Denmark 1961: Angelique (conductor), Denmark 1960: Det var en yndig tid (conductor), Denmark 1959: Uh, jeg ville ønske, jeg var dig (conductor), Denmark 1958: Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog (conductor), Denmark 1957: Skibet skal sejle i nat (conductor)
10	Lys Assia:  Switzerland 1958: Giorgio (as Lys Assia, solo), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (as Lys Assia, solo), Switzerland 1956: Das alte Karussell (as Lys Assia, solo), Switzerland 1956: Refrain (as Lys Assia, solo)	–	Géo Voumard: Switzerland 1963: T’en vas pas (composer), Switzerland 1962: Le retour (composer), Switzerland 1961: Nous aurons demain (composer), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (composer), Switzerland 1956: Refrain (composer)	Émile Gardaz: Switzerland 1963: T’en vas pas (lyricist), Switzerland 1962: Le retour (lyricist), Switzerland 1961: Nous aurons demain (lyricist), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (lyricist), Switzerland 1956: Refrain (lyricist)	Willy Berking: Germany 1966: Die Zeiger der Uhr (conductor), Germany 1964: Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne (conductor), Germany 1963: Marcel (conductor), Belgium 1957: Straatdeuntje (conductor), Luxembourg 1957: Amours mortes (Tant de peine) (conductor), Germany 1957: Telefon, Telefon (conductor), Switzerland 1957: L’enfant que j’étais (conductor)

5. Contest overview. The contest was held on 3 March 1957 at 21:00 (CET) and lasted 1 hour. The event was hosted by German actress Anaid Iplicjian.

The winner was the Netherlands represented by the song “Net als toen“, composed by Guus Jansen, written by Willy van Hemert and performed by Corry Brokken. Notable among this year’s participants were Denmark’s Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler, the first duo to compete in the contest, who made an impact with a passionate on-screen kiss at the end of their performance; and Germany’s Margot Hielscher, the first Eurovision act to use a prop during their performance, in this instance a telephone.

An award was presented to the winning composer for the first time, taking the form of a medallion, which was awarded at the end of the broadcast by Eberhard Beckmann, director of Hessischer Rundfunk. The medallion had been commissioned by Deutsches Fernsehen and designed by sculptor Hans Mettel. It featured the Eurovision logo and the words “Grand Prix 1957” on one side, and the mythological figure Europa on a bull on the other side.

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957

R/O	Country	participant (s)	song – TRAnslate – language	Votes	RANK
1	🇧🇪 Belgium INR	Bobbejaan Schoepen	Straatdeuntje (Street tune) Dutch	005	08
2	🇱🇺 Luxembourg CLT	Danièle Dupré	Amours mortes (tant de peine) [Dead love (so much sorrow)] French	008	04
3	🇬🇧 United Kingdom BBC	Patricia Bredin	All English	006	07
4	🇮🇹 Italy RAI	Nunzio Gallo	Corde delle mia chitarra (Strings of my guitar) Italian	007	06
5	🇦🇹 Austria ÖRF	Bob Martin	Wohin, kleines Pony? (Where to, little pony?) German	003	10
6	🇳🇱 The Netherlands NTS	Corry Brokken	Net als toen (Just like then) Dutch	031	01
7	🇩🇪 Germany ARD	Margot Hielscher	Telefon, telefon (Telephone, telephone) German [b]	008	04
8	🇫🇷 France RTF	Paule Desjardins	La belle amour (Beautiful love) French	017	02
9	🇩🇰 Denmark DSR	Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler	Skibet skal sejle i nat (The ship will sail tonight) Danish	010	03
10	🇨🇭 Switzerland SSR SRG	Lys Assia	L’enfant que j’étais (The child I was) French	005	08

5.1.Spokespersons. Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1957 contest are listed below.

• 🇳🇱 The Netherlands – Siebe van der Zee

6.Detailed voting results.The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in reverse order to the order in which each country performed. 

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
		Total score	🇨🇭	🇩🇰	🇫🇷	🇩🇪	🇳🇱	🇦🇹	🇮🇹	🇬🇧	🇱🇺	🇧🇪
C o n t e s t a n t s	🇧🇪 Belgium	5	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	Χ
	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	8	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	Χ	0
	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	6	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	Χ	1	1
	🇮🇹 Italy	7	0	1	0	0	2	0	Χ	2	1	1
	🇦🇹 Austria	3	0	0	0	0	1	Χ	0	2	0	0
	🇳🇱 The Netherlands	31	7	3	4	1	Χ	6	1	1	3	5
	🇩🇪 Germany	8	0	0	6	Χ	0	0	1	0	0	1
	🇫🇷 France	17	0	2	Χ	6	1	0	0	2	4	2
	🇩🇰 Denmark	10	0	Χ	0	0	5	0	3	2	0	0
	🇨🇭Switzerland	5	Χ	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0

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. In total, the contest was broadcast in 12 countries. 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. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

The 1957 contest is the earliest edition to exist in full in the EBU’s archives, as the 1956 edition has survived solely through audio recordings, with some missing segments, and limited video footage of the winning reprise performance through newsreel and other recordings. Although the number of households which had access to a television in Europe continued to grow, this edition, as in the case of the 1956 contest, was still mainly accessed by spectators via radio.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇦🇹 Austria	ORF	Unknown	–
🇧🇪 Belgium	NIR	Unknown	–
	INR	Unknown	–
🇩🇰 Denmark	Statsradiofonien TV	Svend Pedersen	–
	Program 2
🇫🇷 France	RTF	Robert Beauvais	–
	Paris-Inter	Unknown	–
🇩🇪 Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Unknown	–
🇮🇹 Italy	Programma Nazionale	Unknown	–
	Secondo Programma	Unknown	–
🇱🇺 Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Unknown	–
🇳🇱 The Netherlands	NTS	Piet te Nuyl Jr.	–
🇨🇭 Switzerland	SRG	Unknown	–
	TSR	Robert Beauvais
	Radio Beromünster	Unknown	–
	Radio Sottens	Unknown
	Radio Monte Ceneri	Unknown
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	BBC Television Service	Berkeley Smith	–

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	–
🇲🇨 Monaco	Radio Monte-Carlo	Unknown	–
🇸🇪 Sweden	Sveriges TV	Nils Linnman	–

6.Notes.

• [a] ^a b Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – “Working group of public broadcasters of the Federal Republic of Germany”
• [b] The song also contains words in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
• [c] Bobbejaan Schoepen was internally selected to represent Belgium at Eurovision 1957. The song “Straatdeuntje” that Bobbejaan performed at Eurovision was selected through a national final with three songs.
• [d] France held a national selection to choose the song for Eurovision Song Contest 1957. A total of six shows took place, and each song was performed by two different artists. The winner of each show was chosen by a regional jury. After the six shows, a professional jury selected the song “La belle amour” for Eurovision 1957 was performed by Josette Privat / Paul Durand Orchestra. The song was selected among the six show’s winners without the Final being aired – just three days before Eurovision 1957. Paule Desjardins was internally selected to sing “La belle amour” in Frankfurt.
• [e] United Kingdom held a national selection to choose the song for Eurovision Song Contest 1957. Each of the six songs were performed by two artists. “All” was performed by Malcolm Lockyer Quartet / Patricia Bredin. After the show, the BBC internally chose Patricia Bredin to sing “All” in Frankfurt.

7.Trivial / Fun facts:

• The participating countries were represented by one song each, but the duration of the songs varied. The UK entry lasted for only 1:52 minutes, whereas the Italian lasted for 5:09 minutes. Even though the rules suggested that a song should not exceed three minutes, the Italian entry was not disqualified despite heavy protests. The incident lead to the restriction of each song to last a maximum of three minutes. Another change was that the National juries could not vote for their own song anymore, a rule that still applies today.
• The longest song in the Eurovision Song Contest is Italy’s “Corde Della Mia Chitarra” from 1957: 5 minutes and 9 seconds. After the contest, the rules were tightened so songs couldn’t be longer than 3.5 minutes initially and later 3 minutes.
• The Eurovision Song Contest is normally held every year in May. The earliest Eurovision date was in 1957, on 3rd March and the latest was in 1999 and 2010 when it was held on 29th May.
• The first scandal in Eurovision history occurred in 1957 where the Danish singers Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler kissed for 11 seconds in the end of the song. Generating a furious reaction.

8. The Class of 1957 – All the participants:

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Countries (in order of appearance)
Final	Belgium ⦁ Luxembourg ⦁ United Kingdom ⦁ Italy ⦁ Austria ⦁ The Netherlands (winner) ⦁ Germany ⦁ France ⦁ Denmark ⦁ Switzerland
Artists (in order of appearance)
Final	Bobbejaan Schoepen ⦁ Danièle Dupré ⦁ Patricia Bredin ⦁ Nunzio Gallo ⦁ Bob Martin ⦁ Corry Brokken (winner) ⦁ Margot Hielscher ⦁ Paule Desjardins ⦁ Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler ⦁ Lys Assia
Songs (in order of appearance)
Final	“Straatdeuntje” ⦁ “Amours mortes (tant de peine)” ⦁ “All” ⦁ “Corde della mia chitarra” ⦁ “Wohin, kleines Pony?” ⦁ “Net als toen” (winner) ⦁ “Telefon, Telefon” ⦁ “La belle amour” ⦁ “Skibet skal sejle i nat” ⦁ “L’enfant que j’étais“

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