"Voorgoed voorbij" was the second Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956

Eurovision Song Contest 1956

The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 was the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzerland on 24 May 1956...

 - the only Contest where competing countries were permitted to enter two songs - performed in Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

 by Corry Brokken

Corry Brokken

Corry Brokken is a former Dutch singer.Brokken won the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the Netherlands singing "Net als toen"...

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The song is in the chanson style popular in the early years of the Contest. Brokken sings to a former lover, asking him why their relationship is "over for good". She explains that while it may have only been a brief fling to him, she took it more seriously.

The song was performed eighth on the night, following Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

's Franca Raimondi

Franca Raimondi

Franca Raimondi was an Italian singer, born in Monopoli, Province of Bari, Apulia.In 1956, Raimondi won the Festival della canzone italiana with the song "Aprite Le Finestre" ...

 with "Aprite le finestre

Aprite Le Finestre

"Aprite le finestre" was the first Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 , performed in Italian by Franca Raimondi....

" and preceding Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

's Lys Assia

Lys Assia

Lys Assia born Rosa Mina Schärer on 3 March 1924, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. When Lys Assia was a young girl she was a dancer. In 1940, however, she stood in for a female singer...

 with "Refrain

Refrain (song)

"Refrain" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, co-written by Émile Gardaz and Géo Voumard, performed by Lys Assia representing Switzerland. It was the first-ever winner of the Contest, but not the first-ever performance by Switzerland...

". As the scoreboard of this Contest has never been made public, no definitive statement can be made about its success or lack thereof, however the song is known not to have won.

The song was accompanied at the 1956 contest by Jetty Paerl

Jetty Paerl

Jetty Pearl is a Dutch singer, who was most famous in the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Dutch artist Cees Bantzinger.During the World War II, she lived in London, as the Netherlands was occupied by Nazi Germany...

 with "De vogels van Holland

De Vogels Van Holland

"De vogels van Holland" was the first Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 - the only edition of the contest at which two entries per country were allowed - performed in Dutch by Jetty Paerl...

" and was succeeded as Dutch representative at the 1957 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1957

The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the 2nd Eurovision Song Contest. Like the first contest, this one was still mainly a radio programme, but there was a noticeable increase in the number of people with televisions....

 by Brokken with "Net als toen

Net Als Toen

"Net als toen" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 performed in Dutch by Corry Brokken representing the Netherlands....

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