| Eurovision Song Contest 1963 |
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| Dates | |
| Final date | 23 March 1963 |
| Host | |
| Venue | BBC Television Centre London, United Kingdom |
| Presenter(s) | Katie Boyle |
| Conductor | Eric Robinson |
| Director | Yvonne Littlewood[1] |
| Host broadcaster | BBC |
| Interval act | Ola & Barbro |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries | None |
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Participation map
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| Vote | |
| 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 five song with the most points got 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 votes in order. |
| Nul points | Finland Netherlands Norway Sweden |
| Winning song | Denmark "Dansevise" |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| ◄1962 1964► | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the 8th Eurovision Song Contest. France had won the contest in 1962 but were incapable of hosting in 1963, as was their right, due to financial shortcomings. As was the case in 1960 - and as would become a tradition when smaller broadcasters could not afford to organise a contest - the BBC stepped in to save the event. Once again four countries got the famous nil points.
The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. Two studios were used: one for the mistress of ceremonies Katie Boyle, the audience, and the scoreboard; the other for the performers and the orchestra accompanying them. Unusually, a boom microphone (normally used for drama and comedy shows) was employed - the viewer doesn't see this, so it appears as if the artists were miming to their vocals. This was not the case, but this innovation was to create a new look for the contest.
One controversy this year was during the voting. When it was Norway's turn to announce their votes, the spokesman in Oslo did not use the correct procedure in that the song number, followed by the name of the country, should have been announced before awarding the points. Katie Boyle asked Norway to repeat their results, but the Norwegian spokesman asked Katie to return to them after all the other results were in. When Katie went back to Norway again the votes had mysteriously altered, thus changing the outcome of the contest and giving the victory to Norway's neighbours Denmark at Switzerland's expense. In fact, there was some doubt as to whether the Norwegian spokesman gave the correct votes on the first occasion.
It has also been speculated as to whether the juries were indeed on the end of a telephone line or in the actual studio given how clearly their voices could be heard as opposed to sounding as though they were being redirected through a telephone line.
It is also been stated that Luxembourg came sixth in the Monaco voting as Monaco give one point to both the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. However when Katie Boyle went back to Monaco to receive the votes again Monaco's one vote to Luxembourg was efficiently discarded.
Denmark's win was their first. Finland, Norway and Sweden all failed to score any points for the first time. The Netherlands received no points for the second time, and became the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.
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| Results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| United Kingdom | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Germany | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| France | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monaco | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Below is a summary of all 5 points in the final:
| N. | Recipient nation | Voting nation |
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| 5 | Denmark | Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden |
| 3 | Italy | Denmark, Monaco, Switzerland |
| Switzerland | Austria, Finland, United Kingdom | |
| 2 | United Kingdom | Norway, Spain |
| 1 | France | Yugoslavia |
| Monaco | Italy |
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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| Ronnie Carroll | United Kingdom | 1962 |
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