Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956

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Annie M. G. Schmidt

"Voorgoed voorbij":
Jelle de Vries
Finals performance
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Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest
1956 • 1957►

The Netherlands held a national final to select the two entrants that

Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (NTS), the Dutch broadcaster, would send to the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano
, Switzerland. The final was held on 24 April 1956.

Before Eurovision

For its national selection, NTS invited a number of songwriters to send in entries.[1] From the submitted entries, a jury consisting of Hugo de Groot [nl], Harm Smedes and Max Dendermonde [nl], chose eight songs for the national final.[2] Corry Brokken, Jetty Paerl and Bert Visser were chosen separately by NTS to sing the entries.[1]

Het Eurovisie Song Festival

The final was held at the AVRO TV Studios in

NTS with the title Het Eurovisie Song Festival, and also in Belgium on NIR.[4][2] It was produced by Piet de Nuyl jr. and directed by Ger Lugtenburg [nl].[3] Two songs were sung by Bert Visser; Corry Brokken and Jetty Paerl sang three songs each.[5] The artists were accompanied by the Metropole Orkest under the direction of Dolf van der Linden.[1]

The songs were ranked by postcard voting.[3] The postcards with votes for the song which should place first, participated also in a lottery: The prize was a journey to the final in Lugano.[2][6] The results were announced on 5 May 1956 in a TV show held at the Minerva Theater in Heemstede.[2][7] In total, 6,694 postcards were received.[8]

The top two songs were "Voorgoed voorbij", written and composed by

Annie M. G. Schmidt and composed by Cor Lemaire [nl].[9][8] "'t is lente", written by Alexander Pola [nl] and composed by Else van Epen [nl], came third.[8]

National final – 24 April 1956[8][10][11]
Place Artist Song Votes
1 Corry Brokken "Voorgoed voorbij" 1,854
2 Jetty Paerl "De vogels van Holland"[a] 1,530
3 Corry Brokken "'t Is lente" 1,210
4 "Mei in Parijs" 1,034
5 "Ik zei ja" 478
6 Jetty Paerl "De telefoon" 438
7 "Gina mia" 116
8 "Meisje" 34

At Eurovision

There were seven participating countries, and each was drawn to perform two songs in the same order via two rounds, with Netherlands performing first in each round, making "De vogels van Holland" the first song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest history.[13][14]

Both of the Dutch entries were conducted at the contest by the musical director Fernando Paggi.

Each country nominated two jury members who voted for their respective country by giving between one and ten points to each song, including those representing their own country.[15] All jury members were colocated in a separate room in the venue in Lugano and followed the contest via a television set.[16] The Dutch jury members were Lia Dorana and Ger Lugtenburg [nl].[17]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Credited as "Vogels van Holland"[8][12]

References

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  3. ^
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  4. ^
    OCLC 224973665. Retrieved 1 November 2023 – via Delpher
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    OCLC 1367886223. Retrieved 2 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  6. OCLC 643834779. Retrieved 5 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  7. OCLC 72688418. Retrieved 3 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  8. ^
    OCLC 643834779. Retrieved 2 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  9. ^ Crommert, Richard van de (27 May 2010). "Jetty Pearl vandaag jarig". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  10. OCLC 224973665. Retrieved 5 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  11. OCLC 643834779. Retrieved 7 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  12. OCLC 72687086. Retrieved 2 November 2023 – via Delpher
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  13. ^ Sivertsen, Eirik (13 May 2009). "Hva vet du om ESC?" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  14. ISBN 9783531919058
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  15. ^ "Reglement du Grand Prix Eurovision 1956 de la Chanson Européenne (version définitive)" [Rules of the Grand Prix of the Eurovision Song Competition 1956 (final version)] (PDF) (in French). European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 June 2016.
  16. ISBN 978-1-84583-065-6
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  17. ^ "Dorana en Lugano: Lia in de jury". Algemeen Dagblad. 18 April 1956. p. 7. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

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