The Swedish Final was held on February 16th in Stockholm, hosted by Sven Lindahl. Each of the songs was performed twice (firstly with a big orchestra, then with a small orchestra) and the winner was chosen by a jury of „experts“, with only the top 3 songs being announced. 1 Vårens flickparad Spring’s girl parade Lars…
The Swedish Final was held on February 13th in Stockholm, hosted by Bengt Feldreich. Each of the songs was performed twice (firstly with a big orchestra, then with a small orchestra), and the winner was chosen by postcard voting. 1 Lolo Lolita Lolo Lolita Otto Brandenburg Östen Warnerbring 11858 4th 2 Trollen ska trivas The…
The Swedish Final was held on February 6th at Cirkus in Stockholm, hosted by Jeanette von Heidenstam. Each of the songs was performed twice (firstly with a big orchestra, then with a small orchestra). The winner was chosen by the votes of 4 juries. 1 Spela på regnbågen Play on the rainbow Lars Lönndahl Lily…
The contest made its way to France once again after Jacqueline Boyer had won the contest the year prior. This was the 6th edition of Eurovision, and the second time the contest was held in Cannes, France. The venue for the show was the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, and it was Jacqueline Joubert who…
The Swedish Final was held on February 2nd at Cirkus in Stockholm, hosted by Jeannette von Heidenstam. Each of the songs was performed twice (firstly with a big orchestra, then with a small orchestra) and the winner was chosen by the votes of 4 juries. The voting was only to decide which song would go forward…
[btimeline id=“1874″] The Eurovision Song Contest 1960 was the fifth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after the Netherlands, having won the 1959 contest, declined…
The Swedish Final was held on January 29th at Cirkus in Stockholm, hosted by Thore Ehrling. The winning song was chosen by the votes of 4 juries. It had already been decided before the final that the winning song would be sung by Brita Borg at the ESC, even though she wasn’t actually taking part…
After a French win the year prior, Eurovision was heading to France for its fourth edition. The contest took place in Cannes, France at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on Wednesday 11th of March. The host of the show was Jacqueline Joubert, and the conductor was Franck Pourcel. A total of 11 countries…
Eurovision 1958 was the third edition of Eurovision, and for the first time, the contest was being held in The Netherlands. This was following on from the Dutch win the previous year with Corry Brokken and her entry, Net Als Toen. This began the convention of the winning nation hosting the following year. The…