Amerivision Song Contest 1958
edit| Amerivision Song Contest 1958 | |
|---|---|
| Dates | |
| Final | September 13 1958 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton, Canada |
| Presenter(s) | Kate Aitken |
| Host broadcaster | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 9 |
| Debuting countries |  Chile |
| Non-returning countries |  Cuba |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Jury from each country distributes 10 points across their favorite songs. |
| Winning song |  Uruguay"Mi Poncho" |
The Amerivision Song Contest 1958 was the third edition of the annual Amerivision Song Contest, organised by the American Broadcasting Union (ABU) and host broadcaster CBC Television. The edition was hosted in the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Canada, as Canada earned the right to host this edition by winning the previous one.
For the first time in the contest history, a country abstained itself from the contest, that being Cuba, due to the complications caused by the Cuban Revolution, the country ended up not participating of the contest, only returning to it decades later. However, Chile debuted in this edition.
Participating countries
edit| Country | Broadcaster | Artist | Song | Language | English title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina
|
TVP | Leda y María | "Romance del enamorado y la muerte" | Spanish | "Romance of the Lover and Death" |
 Brazil
|
Tupi | Maysa | "Caminhos cruzados" | Portuguese | "Crossed Paths" |
 Canada
|
CBC | Jack Scott | "My True Love" | English | |
| Chile
|
UCV | Carmen Barros | "María bonita" | Spanish | "Beautiful María" |
 Colombia
|
Canal 1 | Nelson Pinedo | "El vaquero" | "The Cowboy" | |
 Mexico
|
Las Estrellas | Los Tres Ases | "Regálame ésta noche" | "Gift Me Tonight" | |
 Puerto Rico
|
WKAQ-TV | Virginia López | "Tus promesas de amor" | "Your Promises of Love" | |
 United States
|
NBC | Sarah Vaughan | "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" | English | |
| Uruguay
|
Canal 10 | Amalia de la Vega | "Mi poncho" | Spanish | "My Poncho" |
Returning artists
edit| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Leda y María | Argentina
|
1957 |
| Maysa | Brazil
|
1956 |
| Nelson Pinedo | Colombia
|
1956 |
| Virginia López | Puerto Rico
|
1957 |
Contest overview
edit Winner
| R/O | Country | Artist | Song | Points | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina
|
Leda y María | "Romance del enamorado y la muerte" | 17 | 2 |
| 2 | Canada
|
Jack Scott | "My True Love" | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Colombia
|
Nelson Pinedo | "El vaquero" | 7 | 6 |
| 4 | Chile
|
Carmen Barros | "María bonita" | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | United States
|
Sarah Vaughan | "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" | 15 | 3 |
| 6 | Puerto Rico
|
Virginia López | "Tus promesas de amor" | 8 | 5 |
| 7 | Uruguay
|
Amalia de la Vega | "Mi poncho" | 22 | 1 |
| 8 | Brazil
|
Maysa | "Caminhos cruzados" | 11 | 4 |
| 9 | Mexico
|
Los Tres Ases | "Regálame ésta noche" | 3 | 8 |
Detailed voting results
editTotal score
|
Argentina
|
Canada
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Colombia
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Chile
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United States
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Puerto Rico
|
Uruguay
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Brazil
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Mexico
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contestants
|
Argentina | 17 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
| Canada | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Colombia | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Chile | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| United States | 15 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Puerto Rico | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Uruguay | 22 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Brazil | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Mexico | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||