Eurovision Song Contest 1963

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1963**
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Date:	March 23, 1963
Presenter:	Katie Boyle
Host Broadcaster:	BBC
Venue:	BBC Television Centre, London, United Kingdom
Winning Song:	"Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) for Denmark
Voting system:	Each country had 20 jury members who awarded their five favourite songs 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points in order. All those points would then be added up and the fice song with the most points got 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 votes in order.
Number of Songs:	16
Countries Making Debut	None
Nul points:	Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
Interval Act:	A male/female unicycle troupe.
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth Eurovision Song Contest. 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.

Demark's win was their first. Finland, Norway and Sweden all scored nul point for the first time. Netherlands scored nul point for the second time and became the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a point.

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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
The table is ordered by the countries names.

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Score sheet

		Juries
		Image:ESCUnitedKingdomJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCNetherlandsJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCGermanyJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCAustriaJ.png	Image:ESCNorwayJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCItalyJ.png	Image:ESCFinlandJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCDenmarkJ.png	Image:ESCYugoslaviaJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCSwitzerlandJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCFranceJ.png	Image:ESCSpainJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCSwedenJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCBelgiumJ.png	Image:ESCMonacoJ.png	Image:ESCbb1J.png Image:ESCLuxembourgJ.png
Image:ESCConJ.png	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.