Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your numero uno is a real classic “Domenico Modungo – Nel blu dipinto di blu” and comes from a country that currently doesn’t participate in Eurovision anymore: Italy. If you say “what the *** is this?” think again 
. The song is (in all of it’s cover versions) the most successful Eurovision song ever! Maybe you’ll know what I mean if I tell you the inofficial title: Volare!. It was 1958, the third Eurovision Song Contest with 10 countries competing. Domenico Modungo had to sing first, but due to technical problems, which prevented the song to be broadcast to all the participating countries he was allowed to sing again after the other 9 countries had finished their performances. Nevertheless, the song only came third but still became an international mega hit, that almost everyone knows in one of its hundreds of versions ranging from Dean Martin to Celine Dion. The Eurovision Times would like to thank everyone who voted and commented the Best Eurovision Songs Ever. We hope you had fun and don’t forget to vote for the “Worst Eurovision Songs Ever”, our next big ranking!
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And here it is: THE WINNER: Domenico Modungo – Nel blu delpinto di blu
Love the song, the atmosphere and the fact that it’s a song from the earlier years…
No surprises with this win. Maybe people new to the contest will not know of it, but I think most long term Eurovision followers (even those who weren’t alive in ’58 like myself) will agree it is deserving of this result.
a real honorable winner – gratulazione!!
a good winner, an evergreen, a classic, amazing lyrics, great singing (he was 6th in 59 with another great song and he was highly underrated in 66 being last when he totally deserved top 10 !)
i do think it wasn’t greatly performed hence it’s only 3rd place, much more charisma for Lys and André, but his song was modern for the time and it’s definitely stronger
Some facts about this song.
Very nice facts.
One of the few songs to top the Billboard Hot 100 that’s not in English.
Sold over 1 million.
First Grammy winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the very first Grammys in 1958. (Only foreign-language song to do so)
Outsold everyone else that year and was single of the year for 1958.
Knocked off the top spot then regained its position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1958_%28U.S.%29#Hot_100
The end. :p
Thanks Louis. And all this information is for the original version? Wow that’s impressive
The more I look singers’ biographies, the happier I am to know that some singers had hits here (even if it wasn’t with their Eurovision song.) Lulu, Mouth & McNeal are examples.
But Eurovision songs that were hits:
Eres Tu
Save Your Kisses For Me
Volare
Waterloo
Ooh Ahh…Just A Little Bit (the first Eurovision song I learned 100%, but didn’t know it was Eurovision :p)
Paul Mauriat’s instrumental cover of L’amour Est Bleu.
Grande Mimmo!!Great Domenico!from Italy
congratulations! a real classic!
first I thought I didn’t know this song… but of course I do! I had no idea this song was so old, though.
I still don’t get why this song didn’t win in 1958.
This would certainly be my number one, especially as I have so many cover versions and variances of it.