Eurovision Song Contest 1963
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| Date | 23 March 1963 |
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| Presenter(s) | Katie Boyle |
| Host Broadcaster | BBC |
| Venue | BBC Television Centre, London, United Kingdom |
| Winning Song | Dansevise (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 | Ola & Barbro |
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.
Denmark'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.
[edit] Results
[edit] Score sheet
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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 | ||
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[edit] Map
- Green = Participating countries
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