Eurovision Song Contest 1959 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

Domenico Modugno, who had a major hit last year with his Eurovision entry, now entered the contest again and reached a sixth place. But again, his song Piove became a big hit particularly in Europe. T.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 1959: 11 March 1959
Location: Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
Broadcaster: RTF
Host(s): Jacqueline Joubert
Participating countries: 11
Voting: Each country had 10 jurors who could all give 1 vote to their favourite song. So each country devided 10 points freely among the other participants.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1959

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	5	The Netherlands	Teddy Scholten	Een beetje	21	1
	10	United Kingdom	Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson	Sing little birdie	16	2
	1	France	Jean Philippe	Oui, oui, oui, oui	15	3
	8	Switzerland	Christa Williams	Irgendwoher	14	4
	2	Denmark	Birthe Wilke	Uh-jeg ville řnske jeg var dig	12	5
	11	Belgium	Bob Benny	Hou toch van mij	9	6
	3	Italy	Domenico Modugno	Piove	9	6
	6	Germany	Alice and Ellen Kessler	Heut' woll'n wir tanzen geh'n	5	8
	9	Austria	Ferry Graf	Der k. und k. Kalypso aus Wien	4	9
	7	Sweden	Brita Borg	Augustin	4	9
	4	Monaco	Jacques Pills	Mon ami Pierrot	1	11

Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)

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Domenico Modugno, who had a major hit last year with his Eurovision entry, now entered the contest again and reached a sixth place. But again, his song Piove became a big hit particularly in Europe. The new participating country Monaco ended up with only one point. The United Kingdom returned to the contest while Luxembourg backed out for one year, making the number of participants in this contest 11. The Netherlands won for the second time.