Eurovision Song Contest 1956

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The first Euro Vision Song Contest was held on 24 May 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, at that time under the title Gran Premio della Canzone Europea € Visione. The evening was hosted by the Swiss television presenter Lohengrin Filipello; he was the only male solo so far moderator of the competition.

Special

Each of the seven registered countries could submit two titles, this one or different performers could come. The United Kingdom, Denmark and Austria missed the registration deadline of the European Broadcasting Union. Language rules did not exist; it was the unwritten law to sing in the local language. Occurrence were only allowed soloists.

Switzerland and Luxembourg presented only one singer for both songs as occurred for the other countries each two performers or performers. Half of the songs were sung in French; mainly it was called chansons. At that time in youth popular music styles such as rock and roll Calypso or did not occur. Alone for Germany launching Freddy Quinn fell with his boogie -woogie song So every night going out of the frame. The second German title in the waiting room to the great happiness was more talking than singing performed by Walter Andreas Schwarz, an artist who at the time was mainly active as a writer, actor and spokesman of radio plays. The Switzerland sent her then biggest star Lys Assia, which my dad was very successful before with Oh also outside the borders of Switzerland.

Each country sent two jurors. They rated each song - the songs of their own country - to the exclusion of the public. The Luxembourg television waived ( presumably for cost reasons) on your jury and asked the Swiss jury to vote on their behalf with. Speculative also led it to victory in Switzerland. The evaluation documents the jury were destroyed. Was announced only the winning song; all other positions remained secret. Rumor was Freddy, Freddy Quinn later, the 13th, Walter Andreas Schwarz might have become second.

Participant

The following table is sorted according to the boot sequence:

Map

• Participating countries