Eurovision Song Contest 1961

The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the 6th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1961 in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), and originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1961 de la Chanson Européenne (English: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1961^[1]), the contest was held in France following the country's victory at the 1960 contest with the song "Tom Pillibi" by Jacqueline Boyer. It was the second time that France had hosted the contest, becoming the first country to host the contest on two separate occasions, following the 1959 event which was also held in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. Just as in 1959, the event was presented by Jacqueline Joubert, one of only three individuals to have hosted more than one Eurovision Song Contest. A new record of sixteen countries competed in this event, with the thirteen nations which competed in 1960 returning alongside Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia, all three making their first contest appearances.

Eurovision Song Contest 1961
Dates
Final	18 March 1961 (1961-03-18)
Host
Venue	Palais des Festivals et des Congrès Cannes, France
Presenter(s)	Jacqueline Joubert
Producer	Marcel Cravenne
Director	Maurice Barry
Musical director	Franck Pourcel
Host broadcaster	Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/cannes-1961
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	Finland  Spain  Yugoslavia
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
Voting system	Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs
Winning song	Luxembourg "Nous les amoureux"
1960 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1962

The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Nous les amoureux", composed by Jacques Datin, written by Maurice Vidalin [fr] and performed by Jean-Claude Pascal, the first of an eventual five contest victories for the country. Although not interpreted as such at the time, the winning song has since been reevaluated and reinterpreted as a song about homosexual love, a topic which would have been considered taboo if publicly spoken in 1961. The United Kingdom placed second for the third consecutive contest, while Switzerland came third.

Location

Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes – host venue of the 1961 contest

The 1961 contest took place in Cannes, France, following the nation's victory at the 1960 edition in London, the United Kingdom, with the song "Tom Pillibi", performed by Jacqueline Boyer. The selected venue was the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, built in 1949 to host the Cannes Film Festival and located on the Promenade de la Croisette along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.^[2][3] Due to the growth in the film festival a new building bearing the same name was opened in 1982, with the original building renamed as the Palais Croisette.^[4]

This was the second time that the contest was staged in France, with the same venue having already hosted the 1959 contest.^[2][5][6] It also marked the first time that a country and city had staged the contest on two separate occasions.^[7]

Other events held during the week of the contest included a supper for the participating delegations, which was held after the contest in the Salon des Ambassadeurs in the city's Casino municipal [fr].^[8]

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1961 – Participation summaries by country
Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Italy Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia

Nora Brockstedt represented Norway in the contest for a second consecutive year.

The 1961 contest saw the first entries from Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia. Joining the thirteen countries which had competed in the previous year's event, this led to the contest growing to a record number of sixteen participants.^[2][6]

Belgium's Bob Benny and Norway's Nora Brockstedt both made an second appearance in the contest for their respective countries. Benny had placed sixth in the 1959 contest with the song "Hou toch van mij", while Brockstedt had placed fourth with "Voi-voi" in the previous year's event.^[9] Also among the participating artists was Germany's Lale Andersen, who had gained significant international fame and popularity during World War II, both in Allied and Axis countries, for her interpretation of "Lili Marleen".^[9][10][11] At 56 years old, Andersen was the oldest performer to have competed in the contest, and held this record until 2008, when 75-year-old Ladislav Demeterffy (also known as 75 Cents) competed for Croatia with the group Kraljevi ulice.^[12][13][14]

Eurovision Song Contest 1961 participants^[9][15]

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Songwriter(s)	Conductor
Austria	ORF	Jimmy Makulis	"Sehnsucht"	German	Leopold Andrejewitsch	Franck Pourcel
Belgium	BRT	Bob Benny	"September, gouden roos"	Dutch	Wim Brabants Hans Flower	Francis Bay
Denmark	DR	Dario Campeotto	"Angelique"	Danish	Aksel V. Rasmussen	Kai Mortensen
Finland	YLE	Laila Kinnunen	"Valoa ikkunassa"	Finnish	Eino Hurme Sauvo Puhtila	George de Godzinsky
France	RTF	Jean-Paul Mauric	"Printemps (avril carillonne)"	French	Francis Baxter Guy Favereau	Franck Pourcel
Germany	HR[a]	Lale Andersen	"Einmal sehen wir uns wieder"	German, French	Ernst Bader Rudolf Maluck	Franck Pourcel
Italy	RAI	Betty Curtis	"Al di là"	Italian	Carlo Donida Giulio Rapetti	Gianfranco Intra
Luxembourg	CLT	Jean-Claude Pascal	"Nous les amoureux"	French	Jacques Datin Maurice Vidalin	Léo Chauliac
Monaco	TMC	Colette Deréal	"Allons, allons les enfants"	French	Pierre Delanoë Hubert Giraud	Raymond Lefèvre
Netherlands	NTS	Greetje Kauffeld	"Wat een dag"	Dutch	Pieter Goemans Dick Schallies	Dolf van der Linden
Norway	NRK	Nora Brockstedt	"Sommer i Palma"	Norwegian	Egil Hagen Jan Wølner	Øivind Bergh
Spain	TVE	Conchita Bautista	"Estando contigo"	Spanish	Augusto Algueró Antonio Guijarro	Rafael Ferrer
Sweden	SR	Lill-Babs	"April, april"	Swedish	Bo Eneby Bobbie Ericsson	William Lind
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Franca di Rienzo	"Nous aurons demain"	French	Émile Gardaz Géo Voumard	Fernando Paggi
United Kingdom	BBC	The Allisons	"Are You Sure?"	English	John Alford Bob Day	Harry Robinson
Yugoslavia	JRT	Ljiljana Petrović	"Neke davne zvezde" (Неке давне звезде)	Serbo-Croatian	Miroslav Antić Jože Privšek	Jože Privšek

Production and format

The contest was organised and broadcast by the French public broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF).^[6] Marcel Cravenne [fr] served as producer and director, Maurice Barry [fr] served as cinematographer, Gérard Dubois served as designer, and Franck Pourcel served as musical director, leading forty musicians of the Orchestre national de la RTF.^{[1][17][18][19]} 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 also conducting for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor.^[9] The event was presented by Jacqueline Joubert, who had also hosted the 1959 contest; Joubert remains as of 2024^[update] one of only three individuals to have presented multiple Eurovision Song Contests, alongside the UK's Katie Boyle (1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974) and Sweden's Petra Mede (2013, 2016 and 2024).^[20]

Each country, participating through a single EBU member broadcaster, was represented by one song performed by up to two people on stage. The results of the event were determined through jury voting, with each country's jury containing ten individuals who each gave one vote to their favourite song, with no abstentions allowed and with jurors unable to vote for their own country.^[6][21][22] The jury comprised members of the public who represented the average television viewer.^[23] Many of the other aspects of the show were however almost identical to the previous contest in Cannes, including the opening film, direction, production and the scoreboard used during the voting process.^[5][24]

The stage design was notably larger than in previous years, featuring a central large staircase covered in flowers, trees and shrubs, with an painted outdoor scene in the background, giving an impression of a Mediterranean garden.^[5][17][24] Dubois chose the trees to be featured within the stage design with André Racot, the head of the Cannes municipal gardens, making sure that the trees were not too dark when shown on black-and-white television.^[17][25] The original design featured the green room within the stage, with the artists remaining on stage after they had performed, however this idea ultimately did not feature in the final design constructed for the event.^[17][26]

The draw to determine the running order took place on 16 March 1961 at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, conducted by Jacqueline Joubert and assisted by two children aged six and four.^[27][28] The draw also featured interviews with some of the participating acts conducted by Robert Beauvais.^[27] Rehearsals commenced in the contest venue on the same day.^[28]

Contest overview

Jean-Claude Pascal, the winning artist of the 1961 contest

The contest was held on 18 March 1961 at 20:00 (CET) and lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes.^[6][9][29] It was the first time that the contest was staged on a Saturday night, which has since become the traditional day on which the grand final of the contest is staged.^[6] The interval act was a dance performance by Tessa Beaumont and Max Bozzoni [fr] titled Rencontres à Cannes, with music by Raymond Lefèvre.^[29][30][31] The prize for the winning artist and songwriters, an engraved medallion, was presented by Tessa Beaumont.^[29][30][32]

The winner was Luxembourg represented by the song "Nous les amoureux", composed by Jacques Datin, written by Maurice Vidalin [fr] and performed by the French singer and actor Jean-Claude Pascal.^[33] This was the first of an eventual five contest victories that Luxembourg would go on to achieve.^[34] The United Kingdom's entry came second for the third consecutive contest, while the Swiss entry placed third.^[6][22]

Although not widely interpreted as such at the time of the contest, it has since become known that the winning song speaks clandestinely of a homosexual relationship: the lyrics refer to a love that is frowned upon by society and forbidden by religion, however the singer hopes that one day their relationship will continue without controversy.^[35][36] Songs of such subject matter would have been considered taboo, and would not have been allowed to be spoken of widely in 1961; same-sex sexual activities were illegal in almost half of the countries competing in the contest at the time, including in Austria, West Germany, the UK and Spain.^[35] Therefore, the true meaning of the lyrics was required to be hidden behind subtext and double meanings, an interpretation later affirmed by Pascal, himself a gay man although not publicly out at the time.^[35][36][37] Given the song was released before the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement, it has since been interpreted as an early protest song in favour of rights for sexual minorities.^[36][37] The song has since been used more visibly to highlight LGBTQ rights, including in a promotional video by the French government to highlight homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.^[38]

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1961^[9][39]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Spain	Conchita Bautista	"Estando contigo"	8	9
2	Monaco	Colette Deréal	"Allons, allons les enfants"	6	10
3	Austria	Jimmy Makulis	"Sehnsucht"	1	15
4	Finland	Laila Kinnunen	"Valoa ikkunassa"	6	10
5	Yugoslavia	Ljiljana Petrović	"Neke davne zvezde"	9	8
6	Netherlands	Greetje Kauffeld	"Wat een dag"	6	10
7	Sweden	Lill-Babs	"April, april"	2	14
8	Germany	Lale Andersen	"Einmal sehen wir uns wieder"	3	13
9	France	Jean-Paul Mauric	"Printemps (avril carillonne)"	13	4
10	Switzerland	Franca di Rienzo	"Nous aurons demain"	16	3
11	Belgium	Bob Benny	"September, gouden roos"	1	15
12	Norway	Nora Brockstedt	"Sommer i Palma"	10	7
13	Denmark	Dario Campeotto	"Angelique"	12	5
14	Luxembourg	Jean-Claude Pascal	"Nous les amoureux"	31	1
15	United Kingdom	The Allisons	"Are You Sure?"	24	2
16	Italy	Betty Curtis	"Al di là"	12	5

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson, connected to the contest venue via telephone lines and responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.^[40][41] Known spokespersons at the 1961 contest are listed below.

•  Netherlands – Siebe van der Zee [nl]^[42]
•  Sweden – Roland Eiworth [sv]^[24]
•  United Kingdom – Michael Aspel^[43]

Detailed voting results

Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries. The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in reverse order to that which each country performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in performance order.^[22][26] The detailed breakdown of the points awarded by each country is listed in the tables below, with voting countries listed in the order in which they presented their votes.

Detailed voting results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1961^[44][45]

		Total score	Italy	United Kingdom	Luxembourg	Denmark	Norway	Belgium	Switzerland	France	Germany	Sweden	Netherlands	Yugoslavia	Finland	Austria	Monaco	Spain
Contestants	Spain	8		1			2			2		1	1				1
	Monaco	6		1					1						3			1
	Austria	1		1
	Finland	6	2	2		1				1
	Yugoslavia	9		1		1			1	2			1			3
	Netherlands	6	2							1	1			2
	Sweden	2								2
	Germany	3				1						1				1
	France	13		2	1						4	1			1		2	2
	Switzerland	16	2	2								4	2	1		2	2	1
	Belgium	1			1
	Norway	10				1		5						1	2			1
	Denmark	12					8					2	1		1
	Luxembourg	31	3			1			1	1	5	1	1	5	3	4	4	2
	United Kingdom	24	1		8	1		1	7				3					3
	Italy	12				4		4		1			1	1			1

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.^[40] 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. These commentators were typically sent to the venue to report on the event, and were able to provide commentary from small booths constructed at the back of the venue.^[46][47] Local press reported a total of 14 commentators reporting on the contest, with a total of 16 countries broadcasting the event.^[8][17]

No official accounts of total international viewing figures are known to exist; an estimate given in the French press ahead of the contest suggested there would be 40 million viewers across Europe.^[17] Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref.
Austria	ORF	ORF		[48]
Belgium	BRT	BRT	Nic Bal [nl]	[49][50]
	RTB	RTB	Robert Beauvais
Denmark	DR	Danmarks Radio TV, Program 1	Sejr Volmer-Sørensen	[51]
Finland	YLE	Suomen Televisio, Yleisohjelma [fi]	Aarno Walli [fi]	[52][53]
France	RTF	RTF, France I	Robert Beauvais	[23][32][54]
Germany	ARD	Deutsches Fernsehen	Wolf Mittler	[55]
Italy	RAI	RAI Televisione, Secondo Programma	Corrado Mantoni	[56][57][58]
Luxembourg	CLT	Télé-Luxembourg	Robert Beauvais	[50][59]
Monaco	Télé Monte-Carlo, Radio Monte Carlo		Robert Beauvais	[50][54]
Netherlands	NTS	NTS	Piet te Nuyl Jr.	[60][61]
	NRU	Hilversum 1	Coen Serré
Norway	NRK	NRK Fjernsynet, NRK	Leif Rustad	[62][63]
Spain	TVE	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]	[64][65]
	RNE	RNE		[64]
Sweden	SR	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Jan Gabrielsson [sv]	[66]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	TV DRS, Radio Bern		[67]
		TSR	Robert Beauvais	[68]
		TSI, Radio Monte Ceneri		[69]
		Radio Sottens		[54]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC TV	Tom Sloan	[1]
Yugoslavia	JRT	Televizija Beograd, 1. program Radio Beograda		[70]
		Televizija Ljubljana [sl]	Saša Novak	[71][72]
		Televizija Zagreb		[73]
		2. program Radia Ljubljana		[71]

Notes and references

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD^[16]

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External links

• Official website

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