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Rank Eurovision 1959

Cannes, 11 March 1959, with eleven songs. Put them in your order. We won’t say who won until you have finished.

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They start in the order they sang. Drag a song by its dots, tap the arrows, or tap its number to send it straight to a place. It saves as you go. On a keyboard: tab to the list, space picks a song up, the arrows move it, space drops it.

  1. 1 France Jean Philippe — “Oui oui oui oui”
  2. 2 Denmark Birthe Wilke — “Uh, jeg ville ønske, jeg var dig”
  3. 3 Italy Domenico Modugno — “Piove”
  4. 4 Monaco Jacques Pills — “Mon ami Pierrot”
  5. 5 Netherlands Teddy Scholten — “Een beetje”
  6. 6 Germany Alice and Ellen Kessler — “Heut' woll'n wir tanzen geh'n”
  7. 7 Sweden Brita Borg — “Augustin”
  8. 8 Switzerland Christa Williams — “Irgendwoher”
  9. 9 Austria Ferry Graf — “Der K. und K. Kalypso aus Wien”
  10. 10 United Kingdom Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson — “Sing Little Birdie”
  11. 11 Belgium Bob Benny — “Hou toch van mij”

Press space to pick it up, the up and down arrows to move it, space to drop it, or escape to put it back. Page up and page down move it five places, home and end to the top and the bottom. The right arrow reaches its number, where a place can be typed, and its up and down buttons.

Finished? The story of Eurovision 1959 has every score and what went on backstage. Spoilers, obviously.

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Every contest since 1956 is here. Past years tell you how close you came to the real result.

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