We watched the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and came up with our own re-rankings of all 13 songs.
The fifth Eurovision Song Contest, and the first to be held within the United Kingdom, took place in late March of 1960. In the end, France won its second contest in three years, also having won in 1958. France joined The Netherlands as the only countries (at that point) to have won the contest twice.
This contest could have been held in The Netherlands, since they won in 1959, but declined to host for the second time in three years, and the United Kingdom got to host for the first time. The Dutch broadcaster had hosted the contest in 1958 after Corry Brokken won in 1957.
Notably, this was the first of four Eurovision contests to be hosted by the legend Katie Boyle. To this day, still nobody has hosted it more.
Anyway, Onto the Music: Eurovision Song Contest 1960
We ranked all thirteen songs from worst to best. In this video, the first that we have done for scoring and review, we also go into the scoring rubric that we use. The video contains a more complete breakdown, but Euro Yard scores on the basis of a total of 500 available points. Ostensibly, an average song would get 250. Different categories have different weights, but we look at multiple areas of the performance in order to try to get the most complete picture possible of how a song did at Eurovision.
What you will see in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 video is how those scores went.
And Yes, There’s the Scoreboard
At the very end, assign our top ten songs points in the same way that a Eurovision jury might today: 12, 10, 8-1. We then add those points to the all-time scoreboard. Following the 1959 contest, Switzerland was in the lead.
