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The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after France, who had won the 1962 edition, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in 1959 and 1961. The contest was held at the BBC Television Centre on Saturday 23 March 1963 and was hosted by Katie Boyle for a second time.

Eurovision Song Contest 1963
Dates
Final	23 March 1963
Host
Venue	BBC Television Centre London, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)	Katie Boyle
Musical director	Eric Robinson
Directed by	Yvonne Littlewood
Executive producer	Harry Carlisle
Host broadcaster	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/london-1963
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	None
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
Voting system	Twenty-member juries awarded points to their five favourite songs.
Nul points in final	Finland Netherlands Norway Sweden
Winning song	Denmark "Dansevise"
1962 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1964

Sixteen countries participated in the contest, the same countries that had participated the previous year.

The contest this year was won by Denmark with the song "Dansevise", performed by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann. This was the first victory for any of the Nordic countries. Four countries got nul points, with Finland, Norway and Sweden failing to score any points for the first time and the Netherlands for the second time, becoming the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.[1]

Location

The BBC was willing to host the contest instead of the previous year's winner France, as was the case in 1960. They would do so again in 1972 and 1974 because the winning broadcasters from the year before could not afford to produce the contest. The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained to be one of the largest such facilities in the world until it redeveloped in March 2013.[2]

Format

Two studios (TC3 and TC4) were used: one for the mistress of ceremonies Katie Boyle, the audience, and the scoreboard (TC3); the other for the performers and the orchestra accompanying them (TC4). Unusually, a boom microphone (normally used for drama and comedy shows) was employed – the viewer could not see this, so it appeared 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.[1]

After the 1962 edition was the only one to be held on a Sunday, the contest was held on a Saturday again in 1963.

Voting controversy

One controversy this year was during the voting. When it was Norway's turn to announce their votes, the spokesman in Oslo, Roald Øyen, 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. Boyle asked Norway to repeat their results, but the Norwegian spokesman asked Boyle to return to them after all the other results were in. When Boyle 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, the Norwegian spokesman had not given the correct votes on the first occasion, because votes from the 20 jury members were still being tallied.[1]

Monaco was also asked to repeat their voting a second time as initially Monaco gave one point to both the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. However, when Boyle went back to Monaco to receive the votes again Monaco's one vote to Luxembourg was efficiently discarded (although this did not have any effect on the positions of the countries).[1]

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.^{[original research?]}

Participating countries

All countries which participated in the 1962 edition also participated in the 1963 edition.

Conductors

The participating conductors were:[3][4]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Ronnie Carroll	United Kingdom	1962

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[5][6]	Points	Place[7]
1	United Kingdom	Ronnie Carroll	"Say Wonderful Things"	English	28	4
2	Netherlands	Annie Palmen	"Een speeldoos"	Dutch	0	13
3	Germany	Heidi Brühl	"Marcel"	German	5	9
4	Austria	Carmela Corren	"Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder"	German, English	16	7
5	Norway	Anita Thallaug	"Solhverv"	Norwegian	0	13
6	Italy	Emilio Pericoli	"Uno per tutte"	Italian	37	3
7	Finland	Laila Halme	"Muistojeni laulu"	Finnish	0	13
8	Denmark	Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann	"Dansevise"	Danish	42	1
9	Yugoslavia	Vice Vukov	"Brodovi" (Бродови)	Serbo-Croatian	3	11
10	Switzerland	Esther Ofarim	"T'en va pas"	French	40	2
11	France	Alain Barrière	"Elle était si jolie"	French	25	5
12	Spain	José Guardiola	"Algo prodigioso"	Spanish	2	12
13	Sweden	Monica Zetterlund	"En gång i Stockholm"	Swedish	0	13
14	Belgium	Jacques Raymond	"Waarom?"	Dutch	4	10
15	Monaco	Françoise Hardy	"L'Amour s'en va"	French	25	5
16	Luxembourg	Nana Mouskouri	"À force de prier"	French	13	8

Detailed voting results

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. Errors in the Norwegian (see above) and the Monegasque votes meant their scores had to be announced twice, with an adjustment to the scores being made in each case before the final score was verified.

Detailed voting results[8][9]

		Total score	United Kingdom	Netherlands	Germany	Austria	Norway	Italy	Finland	Denmark	Yugoslavia	Switzerland	France	Spain	Sweden	Belgium	Monaco	Luxembourg
Contestants	United Kingdom	28		3			5		3	3	3		3	5	2		1
	Netherlands	0
	Germany	5					2										3
	Austria	16	4						4	1			2		3	2
	Norway	0
	Italy	37	2	1			3		2	5	4	5		3		3	5	4
	Finland	0
	Denmark	42	3	5	2	3	4	2	5			3			5	5		5
	Yugoslavia	3											1	2
	Switzerland	40	5		4	5	1	5		4				4	1	4	4	3
	France	25		4	1	2		4			5	4		1		1	2	1
	Spain	2									2
	Sweden	0
	Belgium	4				4
	Monaco	25	1	2	5	1		3			1	1	5		4			2
	Luxembourg	13			3			1	1	2		2	4

5 points

Below is a summary of all 5 points received:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 5 points
5	Denmark	Belgium,  Finland,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  Sweden
3	Italy	Denmark,  Monaco,  Switzerland
	Switzerland	Austria,  Italy,  United Kingdom
2	United Kingdom	Norway,  Spain
	Monaco	France,  Germany
1	France	Yugoslavia

Spokespersons

This section needs additional citations for verification. (June 2021)

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1963 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

Broadcasts

This section needs additional citations for verification. (June 2021)

Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF	Hanns Joachim Friedrichs	[4]
Belgium	RTB	French: Pierre Delhasse	[4]
	BRT	Dutch: Herman Verelst [nl] and Denise Maes	[4]
Denmark	Danmarks Radio TV	Ole Mortensen [da]	[4]
Finland	Suomen Televisio	Aarno Walli [fi]	[4][11]
	Yleisradio	Erkki Melakoski [fi]
France	Première Chaîne RTF	Pierre Tchernia	[4]
Germany	Deutsches Fernsehen	Hanns Joachim Friedrichs	[4]
Italy	Programma Nazionale	Renato Tagliani [it]	[4]
Luxembourg	Télé-Luxembourg	Pierre Tchernia	[4]
Monaco	Télé Monte Carlo
Netherlands	NTS	Willem Duys	[4]
Norway	NRK, NRK P1	Øivind Johnssen	[4]
Spain	TVE	Federico Gallo [es]	[4]
Sweden	Sveriges TV, SR P1	Jörgen Cederberg [sv]	[4][12]
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Theodor Haller [de]	[4]
	TSR	French: Georges Hardy [fr]	[4]
	TSI	Italian: Renato Tagliani	[4]
United Kingdom	BBC TV	David Jacobs	[4]
	BBC Light Programme	Michael Aspel
Yugoslavia	Televizija Beograd	Serbo-Croatian: Ljubomir Vukadinović [sr]
	Televizija Zagreb	Serbo-Croatian: Gordana Bonetti [hr]	[13]
	Televizija Ljubljana	Slovene: Saša Novak	[4]

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Portugal	RTP	Federico Gallo	[4][14]

References

External links

Media related to Eurovision Song Contest 1963 at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1963

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[ru] Евровидение-1963

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1963 — восьмой конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 23 марта 1963 года в Лондоне (Великобритания) в новом телецентре BBC в боро Хаммерсмит и Фулем. Как и Нидерланды в 1960 году, Франция отказалась от своего права, как победитель, организовывать очередной конкурс, поскольку уже принимала его дважды в 1959-м и 1961-м. Вновь на помощь пришла Великобритания, и вновь ведущей была назначена Кейти Бойл. Впервые в роли продюсера конкурса выступила женщина — Ивонн Литтлвуд.

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