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Contests

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1956

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The stalls of the auditorium were reserved for invited guests whereas tickets for the balcony were on sale for 20 Swiss Francs.[1]

Despite the limit of 10 May 1956 set by the official rules to deliver the details about their participating songs, France seems to have been late in naming their songs and singers, and the Netherlands forgot to mention the authors when registering their songs.[2]

Reception: The Swiss victory was deemed deserved in the press.[3][4]

1957

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On 21 February, Deutsches Fernsehen published a press release on the upcoming contest, saying that "at the time of going to press, Belgium, Denmark and Luxembourg hadn't named their participants yet."[5]

The Netherlands had a rehearsal on the morning of 1 March 1957.[6] A common sound/microphone rehearsal was done on 2 March 1957, a camera rehearsal on 3 March 1957.[6]

Each national jury assembled at a venue/seat of their own broadcaster in their home country.[7]

The contest was broadcast using 102 transmitter stations in twelve countries.[8][9]

Reception:

The Dutch victory was deemed deserved in the press.[10][11] Radiocorriere called the Dutch song "pleasant to listen to, not too catchy, however, nor excessively original".[12] Het Parool thought that Corry Brokken's performance was "spicy and suggestive".[13]

The Italian entry received the longest applause (25 seconds), according to Radiocorriere.[12]

The overall quality of the songs was criticised by De Volkskrant, saying that the "schlager character" of the songs was to blame.[14]

Le Figaro criticised the scoreboard for being too small to be read correctly on usual television sets of the time.[10] Radiocorriere said that the voting sequence was "fast and impeccable so that the leaders of the Hessischer Rundfunk must be praised for this as well as for the perfect organisation of the festival".[12]

The image quality of the transmission was deemed "clean" in France, and the sound "satisfying", albeit less on the radio broadcast of France-Inter.[10] Luxemburger Wort wrote that the quality of images was "not the best".[11]

L'Aurore criticised French commentator Robert Beauvais for not giving the titles of several songs.[15]

1961

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French press reported chaotic scenes at the entrance of the auditorium just before the beginning of the show. According to press reports, some seats had been mistakenly reserved two times for different spectators. In addition, some spectators had forgotten to bring their tickets. Amidst this confusion which threatened guests to miss the beginning of the show, the doors to the auditorium were forced and some guests randomly took empty seats.[16]

1964

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90 technicians of DR worked at Tivolis Koncertsal and the Radiohuset.[17] Director of sound was E. Griffiths (EBU technical centre, Brussels).[17]

1983

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Spectators in the auditorium complained that there were no monitors in the hall and that the distance to the stage was such that they could not follow the artists' facial expressions nor watch the introductory film at the start of the show.[18]

The head of the Swiss delegation criticised the greenroom as being too small, badly isolated from the outside air and lacking a separate room for non-smokers.[18]

Country per year

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56fr

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Dany Dauberson seems to have travelled to Lugano quite late: For 22 May, she was announced to sing in the cabaret Villa d'Este [fr] in Paris.[19]

56it

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In the "Voci nuovi" radio selection held in January 1956 to find the six artists for Sanremo, the artists were presented to listeners without their name, just being assigned a number, and listeners voted by sending a postcard with the number corresponding to their favourite voice to RAI.[20] Voting took place in three categories: "female rhythmic voices", "female melodic voices" and "male voices".[20] For each category, a voting lead to two singers chosen for Sanremo, making a total of six artists.[20]

The winners in each category were:[21]

  • "Female melodic voices": Tonina Torrielli, Luciana Gonzales
  • "Female rhythmic voices": Clara Vincenzi, Franca Raimondi
  • "Male voices": Ugo Molinari, Gianni Marzocchi

Tonina Torrielli seems to have enjoyed a great popularity with the Sanremo audience: At the gala held the day after the national final and starring all former Sanremo winners, the spectators applauded wildly, leading her to reprise her song „Amami se vuoi“ again, though it only had placed 2nd at the national final, – an honor that the first-placed „Aprite le finestre“ didn‘t encounter.[22]

Also, pâtisseries in Sanremo seemed to have sold caramel confections named "Tonina" during the festival.[23]

Tonina Torrielli fell ill in the days preceding the Eurovision Song Contest and had to take penicillin.[24]

56nl

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Dolf van der Linden was unable to conduct at Eurovision because of a performance for the navy scheduled that day.[25]

57at

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Press reception: The Austrian entry was considered to be not outstanding enough/too normal.[3]

57be

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More press reception: De Telegraaf called the national final "attractive", praising the set design and lighting, and adding that there were "various good interpretations".[26] It predicted that "Straatdeuntje" would not do too badly in Frankfurt.[26] De Maasbode wrote that the execution of the songs in the national final was "naive" and technically not adapted to the medium of television.[27] Het Vrije Volk said that "Straatdeuntje" had won as the best song and that the other two entries were "substandard".[28]

On 23 February 1957, De Standaard reported that "Straatdeuntje" had been selected as the Belgian entry.[29] [three days after De Telegraaf, De Standaard ist the first Belgian newspaper to report the entry]

57de

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Press reception: The German entry was considered to be not outstanding enough/too normal.[3] De Telegraaf wrote that none of the national final entries was "high-flying" and that "Telefon, Telefon" seemed much like cabaret.[30]

57fr

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Reception:

Newspaper La Croix wrote that the program would considerably improve if the artists for each song were chosen in a better way.[31] L'Aurore estimated that Robert Beauvais did a good job as a presenter.[32] L'Aurore otherwise complained about the misleading title of the program since there were neither seven songs presented nor seven juries in each heat.[33] It also said that the explanation of the rules took too much time, and that the staging was lacking originality.[33] Nice-Matin criticised the programme for its camera placements leading to cut frames.[34]

"La Belle Amour" was called "nicely nostalgic" by L'Aurore, and "Les Aurochs" a "song of a rare stupidity".[35]

In Frankfurt, Paule Desjardins felt so much pressure that she was afraid of forgetting the lyrics.[36]

57it

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The entry "Venezia mia" (independent composers' competition) was written by a Mario Peragallo. It is not known whether this is actually the well-known classical composer Mario Peragallo [it] (1910-1996) or an unknown composer with the same name.[37]

All shows were sold out.[38]

Protesting against the exclusion of his entry "La cosa più bella", composer Dino Olivieri claimed that several other Sanremo entries had been published before the start of the festival and showed discs produced by a Roman music publishing firm that he had allegedly bought in Rimini.[39] A claim that all Sanremo songs had been recorded by Nilla Pizzi and published by a Roman publishing firm was denied.[40]

The presenters played a series of small jokes/sketches between the songs, a novelty in the Sanremo Festival, according to Corriere della sera.[41]

In the first semi-final on 7 February, singer Gianni Ravera was forced to have blue paint on his bald head for a good exposure on television screens.[42]

Shortly before going on stage for her Sanremo performance on 10 February, Tonina Torriello was victim of a light "illness" ("un improvviso malore") which led her "voice to be absent [...] generous applause helped to consolate her".[43][44][45] She was later diagnosed with laryngitis and admitted to hospital.[46]

Already before its first performance in the Sanremo Festival, newspaper Il Tempo said that Corde della mia chitarra was favourite to win the festival.[47]

Stampa Sera reported that an argument among a young couple in Turin ended with the girlfriend being taken to hospital for a broken nose: The lovers were watching the Sanremo festival and had an argument over the quality of the songs and the singers, the girlfriend defending Claudio Villa.[48] After trading insults, the boyfriend attacked the young woman, hitting her with punches and grabbing her by the throat.[48]

Reception in the press

The jury selecting the Sanremo entries was reportedly criticised of lacking competency.[49] La Stampa also criticised the composition of the Sanremo jury: It claimed that the jury was mainly composed of the participating songwriters, their music publishers as well as their families and friends.[50]

Conductor Cinico Angelini was praised by La Stampa for "transforming also less gifted songs, he has given each of them their character".[51] In contrast, Il Tempo wrote that Trovajoli's orchestration was better and harmonic whereas Angelini's concept was outdated.[47]

The overall quality of the songs was deemed as low by La Stampa.[52] In contrast, Corriere della sera said the quality of this festival was higher than the previous of 1956.[41]

Flemish TV magazine De TV-kijker complained that only part of the show was broadcast in Belgium and cut off early so that the viewers didn't know who actually won the competition.[53] Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad called the show "well presented, well dressed, and well broadcast."[54]

57nl

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WTL "song contest":

The five rejected/withdrawn songs from Dutch songwriters association WTL were broadcast on the program Onze artisten – onze muziek, broadcast on Radio Luxembourg on 10 March 1957 at 12:15 CET.[55][56] They were sung by Corry Brokken, Truusje Koopmans [nl] and Bert van Dongen.[55][56] Listeners could vote by postcard for their favourite song in this separate "song contest".[57] The five presented songs were "Goenacht" (sung by Truusje Koopmans), "Mooie Johanna van Volendam" (Bert van Dongen), "Zomeravond" (Corry Brokken), "Stappen in de nacht" (Truusje Koopmans and Bert van Dongen), and "Als de bomen bloeien op het plein" (Corry Brokken).[57] After the broadcast, De Telegraaf said that NTS had been right to refuse the songs for their poor quality.[58]

Postcard voting:

Within two days after airing the national final, NTS had already received 8,743 postcards by viewers who participated in the postcard voting.[59] (about 10,000 postcards according to De Telegraaf[60]) According to NTS, viewers' reactions to the final variedly greatly, from "a big disappointment" to "the best program that I've ever seen".[59] Het Parool reported on 11 February that more than 15,000 postcards had been received, De Telegraaf reported about 17,000 postcards.[61][62]

Press reception of the national final:

Het Vaderland said that the overall quality of the songs in the national final was poor and that the whole song contest was a stupid thing.[63] De Telegraaf called the quality of the songs "insufficient", with the exception of "Net als toen".[64] Het Rotterdamsch Parool called the lyrics and the melodies "poor".[65] Whatever the Dutch entry chosen, Algemeen Handelsblad predicted it wouldn't stand a chance in Frankfurt.[66] De Telegraaf likewise said "Net als toen" would have few or no chances in Frankfurt.[64] De Gooi- en Eemlander and Het Vrije Volk predicted few chances.[67][28]

The Metropole Orkest was judged "outstanding"[66] and "shining"[68], the production and direction of the show were said to have been "okay"[66] or "depressing".[64] De Maasbode said that the show had been worth watching while criticising the lack of movement of the TV cameras.[69] Het Vrije Volk disliked the "poor" decoration/set design.[28]

At Eurovision:

De Telegraaf reported that bets ahead of the contest saw "Net als toen" in the top five.[6] The Dutch delegation, consisting of Corry Brokken, Sem Nijveen, Dolf van der Linden and Piet te Nuyl Jr., left for Frankfurt via flight from Schiphol airport on the morning of 28 February 1957.[70] The journey to Frankfurt was Corry Brokken's first flight, therefore she asked Dolf van der Linden the permission to pinch him in the arm from time to time.[71][72] Songwriters Guus Jansen and Willy van Hemert were to stay in the Netherlands.[70] However, Guus Jansen, finally having travelled to Frankfurt on the very day of the final, turned up in the auditorium in Frankfurt whereas van Hemert stayed in the Netherlands, where he was summoned to the TV studios in Bussum to be interviewed by Siebe van der Zee after the victory.[73][74]

The Dutch jury assembled in a TV studio in Bussum.[75] According to De Telegraaf, it was the hotel "De Rozenboom" where the jury assembled to watch the show, after having visited the TV studios.[76] Among the jury members was a lawyer from The Hague as well as a soldier.[75]

When Brokken won, there were reportedly six photographers at the venue to take pictures of her.[77]

The Dutch delegation was welcomed and celebrated back home by NTS program director Wim Rengelink [nl] on the evening program of NTS on 4 March 1957, shortly after having landed at Shiphol airport.[78][79] Corry Brokken is quoted to have said that there was only one photographer (plus her husband and her mother) to welcome her back at Shiphol.[77]

Paris-Presse characterised "Net als toen" as "pleasant" and attributed its victory also to Corry Brokken's smile, because "finally, jury members are not made of wood".[80] De Groene Amsterdammer called "Net als toen" "not a masterpiece" but acknowledged its good presentation by Corry Brokken, Sem Nijveen and Dolf van der Linden.[81]

"Net als toen":

Guus Jansen said in a radio interview broadcast on 5 March 1957 on KRO that it was the voice of Bruce Low [nl] that had inspired him to write the song.[82] Just one week before the national final, NTS called him and asked whether he had any song ready.[82]

According to her memories, during the first meeting in preparation of the national final, Corry Brokken disliked one of two songs that she should sing.[83] Piet te Nuyl Jr. then offered her other songs from which she chose "Net als toen".[83][84]

57uk

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The Sunday Times heavily criticised the national selection Festival of British Popular Songs: "four out of five words were misleading. The first session was as festive as an indignation of shop stewards, as euphonious as the public-address system at Waterloo, as British as bubblegum; and I neither believe nor, frankly, hope, that any of the songs we heard will become popular." [85]

64fr

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At the start of the rehearsals in Copenhagen, France was tipped to win by the press. However, an observator was quoted to say that she "looks like a piece of wet wienerbrød".[86]

64lu

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At the rehearsals in Copenhagen, the Luxembourgish delegation brought a box of Cognac bottles for the Danish cameramen and sound technicians. Press reports speculated that this was made to ensure Luxembourg advantageous images and sound quality in the live contest.[87]

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