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Straatdeuntje
Belgium was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, on 3 March 1957, by Bobbejaan Schoepen with the song "", written by Harry Frekin and Eric Franssen and performed in Dutch. The song was chosen during a national final with Schoepen performing all entries. Before Eurovision De T.V Maakt Muziek ''De T.V. Maakt Muziek'' was the national final format developed by NIR in order to select Belgium's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1957. The competition was held on 19 February 1957 at 20:45 CET at Studio 6 at the Flageyplein in Brussels. The show was also broadcast in Netherlands on NTS. All three competing songs were performed by Bobbejaan Schoepen, and "Straatdeuntje" was selected as the winning song by an "expert" jury. Competing entries Competing entries were selected by an "expert" jury panel from 7 shortlisted songs. Final The final was held on 19 February 1957. "" was selected by the jury as the winning song and would become Belgium's third entry in the ...
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Straatdeuntje
Belgium was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, on 3 March 1957, by Bobbejaan Schoepen with the song "", written by Harry Frekin and Eric Franssen and performed in Dutch. The song was chosen during a national final with Schoepen performing all entries. Before Eurovision De T.V Maakt Muziek ''De T.V. Maakt Muziek'' was the national final format developed by NIR in order to select Belgium's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1957. The competition was held on 19 February 1957 at 20:45 CET at Studio 6 at the Flageyplein in Brussels. The show was also broadcast in Netherlands on NTS. All three competing songs were performed by Bobbejaan Schoepen, and "Straatdeuntje" was selected as the winning song by an "expert" jury. Competing entries Competing entries were selected by an "expert" jury panel from 7 shortlisted songs. Final The final was held on 19 February 1957. "" was selected by the jury as the winning song and would become Belgium's third entry in the ...
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Bobbejaan Schoepen
Bobbejaan Schoepen (a pseudonym of Modest Schoepen; 16 May 1925 – 17 May 2010) was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music. Schoepen was a versatile entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park Bobbejaanland. His musical career flourished from 1948 until the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of 482 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music."Schoepen Troef", ''Knack Focus'' Magazine, 14 February 2007. Born in Boom, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, he worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium. Schoepen married Dutch former opera singer and photographer's model Josephina (Josée) Jongen on 18 May 1961. They have five children: Robert ("Bob Jr.", 196 ...
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Belgium In The Eurovision Song Contest
Belgium has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 63 times since making its debut as one of seven countries at the first contest in . The only countries with more appearances are (65), (64) and the (64). Belgium have been absent only three times in total, in , and , due to low scores in the previous contests that relegated them from the contest. Belgium has won the contest once, in . In the first 20 years of the contest, Belgium's best result was Tonia's fourth place in . In , Jean Vallée achieved Belgium's first top three placement, when he was second. Sandra Kim became the first and to date only winner for Belgium in 1986, when she won as a 13-year-old in Bergen, performing the song "J'aime la vie". Belgium's only other top three result came in , when the group Urban Trad finished second in Riga, losing out by only two points. Belgium has finished last in the contest eight times, most recently in , and has twice received ''nul points'', in and . After the introduc ...
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Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ...
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Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ...
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Francis Bay
Francis Bay (27 December 1914 – 24 April 2005) was a Belgian conductor. Born as Frans Bayezt, he conducted many Belgian entries in the Eurovision Song Contest and had his own Big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s an ... orchestra titled "Francis Bay and His Big Band''. References External links * 1914 births 2005 deaths Belgian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Eurovision Song Contest conductors Belgian film score composers Male film score composers 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century Belgian male musicians {{Belgium-conductor-stub ...
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most import ...
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Netherlands In The Eurovision Song Contest 1957
The Netherlands were represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 by Corry Brokken with the song "" written by Guus Jansen and Willy van Hemert. The Dutch entry was chosen during a national final called and the country would go on to win the Eurovision Song Contest. Before Eurovision Nationaal Songfestival 1957 Like in the previous year, a national final titled was held with eight songs competing. Again, the show was hosted by Karin Kraaykamp. Four singers took part in the selection, each of them presenting two songs. The winner was again chosen by postcard voting, however, this time, only the top four entries were announced. Corry Brokken, who was already one of the two Dutch representatives in the 1956 Eurovision Song Contest, was the clear winner of the national final, as her entries finished first and second. Marcel Thielemans finished third and fourth, but far behind her. The winning song was "" and would be the third Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. I ...
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Countries In The Eurovision Song Contest 1957
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