Eurovision Song Contest 1963
The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth Eurovision and was held on March 23, 1963 in London. With Katie Boyle as the presenter, the contest was won by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann who represented Denmark, with their song "Dansevise".
France had won the contest in 1962 but they handed the honour of hosting the event to the United Kingdom because they did not wish to host the contest again so soon after hosting the 1961 event. The same thing happened when the Netherlands won in 1959 and refused to host it in 1960.
One controversial thing that happened was during the voting. After Norway announced the votes, Katie Boyle said that she could not hear them and would go back to them later, however everyone else did hear them. When Katie went back to Norway again the votes had been changed, thus changing the outcome of the contest and giving the victory to Norway's neighbours Denmark at Switzerland's expense.
Interval act
There was no interval act in 1963.Results
| Country(Language) | Artist(s) | Song(Translation) | Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (German/English) | Carmela Corren | Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder | 7 | 16 |
| Belgium (Dutch) | Jacques Raymond | Waarom? (Why?) | 10 | 4 |
| Denmark (Danish) | Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann | Dansevise (A Dance Tune) | 1 | 42 |
| Finland (Finnish) | Laila Halme | Muistojeni Laulu | 13 | 0 |
| France (French) | Alain Barrière | Elle Était Si Jolie | 5 | 25 |
| Germany (German) | Heidi Brühl | Marcel (Marcel) | 9 | 5 |
| Italy (Italian) | Emilio Pericoli | Uno Per Tutte (One for All) | 3 | 37 |
| Luxembourg (French) | Nana Mouskouri | A Force De Prier | 8 | 13 |
| Monaco (French) | Françoise Hardy | L'amour S'en Va | 5 | 25 |
| Netherlands (Dutch) | Annie Palmen | Een Speeldoos (A Musicbox) | 13 | 0 |
| Norway (Norwegian) | Anita Thallaug | Solhverv (Solctice) | 13 | 0 |
| Spain (Spanish) | José Guardiola | Algo Prodigioso | 12 | 2 |
| Sweden (Swedish) | Monica Zetterlund | En Gång I Stockholm (Once in Stockholm) | 13 | 0 |
| Switzerland (French) | Esther Ofarim | T'en Va Pas (Don't Go) | 2 | 40 |
| United Kingdom (English) | Ronnie Carroll | Say Wonderful Things | 4 | 28 |
| Yugoslavia (Croatian) | Vice Vukov | Brodovi | 11 | 3 |
| Venue: BBC Television Centre - London, United Kingdom | ||||
| The table is ordered by the countries names. | ||||
Voting structure
Each country had 20 jury members. Each jury member awarded their favourite song 5 points, their second favourite song 4 points and their third favourite song 3 points, their fourth favourite song 2 points and their fifth favourite song 1 point. All 20 jury members points would then be added up and the song with the most points would get 5 points, the song with the second most points would get 4 points, the song with the third most points would get 3 points, the song with the fourth most points would get 2 points and the song with the fifth most poinst would get 1 point.Score sheet
| Juries | |||||||||||||||||
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| United Kingdom | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Austria | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Italy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Denmark | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Switzerland | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||
| France | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Belgium | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Monaco | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| The table is ordered by appearance. | |||||||||||||||||
| Eurovision Song Contest |
| 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Junior Eurovision Song Contest |
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |