Eurovision Song Contest 1961 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

The stage was much bigger than the previous years and now decorated with flowers. Critics called the winning song, Nous les amoureux, a goodnight song. Belgium, Spain and Yugoslavia were discussed bec.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 1961: 18 March 1961
Location: Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
Broadcaster: RTF
Host(s): Jacqueline Joubert
Participating countries: 16
Voting: Each country had 10 jurors who could all give 1 vote to their favourite song. So each country devided 10 points freely among the other participants.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1961

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

Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)

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The stage was much bigger than the previous years and now decorated with flowers. Critics called the winning song, Nous les amoureux, a goodnight song. Belgium, Spain and Yugoslavia were discussed because some thought it was not politically correct (due to regimes) to accept these countries. There were 16 countries competing in this contest with Spain, Yugoslavia and Finland making their debut. Luxembourg achieved their first victory.