Sing, Little Birdie
From a UK perspective, the Eurovision Song Contest was a shaky start in the first decade of the second half of the last millennium. The entry deadline for the inaugural 1956 contest was missed. For the second contest in 1957 Patricia Bredin sang ' All ', the first contest entry to be sung in English, being voted seventh out of ten finalists. After such a lackluster performance—the Netherlands won with ' Net als toen ', performed by Corry Brokken, despite the handicap of having to sing in Dutch as mandated by the rules of the time—the UK rested between engagements in 1958. The second UK attempt was in 1959, when Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson performed ' Sing, Little Birdie '. Fortunately, I remember it like it was 55 years ago. I claim one point for being able to name the song; another point for naming the duo that sang it; a third point for being able to sing a snatch of the lyrics. Unfortunately nul point (a Eurovision joke in the UK) for thinking it was
