Eurovision Song Contest 1963

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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. In fact, the reason why Norway had to announce their votes again was that the Norwegian spokesperson didn't use the right procedure the first time and therefore there was doubt whether he gave the correct votes on the first occasion.

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

Results

Score sheet

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 85%" !colspan="2" rowspan="2" | !colspan="43"|Results |-

Country	Language	Artist	Song	English Translation	Place	Points
	German/English	Carmela Corren	Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder	Maybe A Miracle Will Happen	7	16
	Dutch	Jacques Raymond	Waarom?	Why?	10	4
	Danish	Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann	Dansevise	Dance Ballad	1	42
	Finnish	Laila Halme	Muistojeni Laulu	The Song Of My Memories	13	0
	French	Alain Barrière	Elle Était Si Jolie	She Was So Pretty	5	25
	German	Heidi Brühl	Marcel	Marcel	9	5
	Italian	Emilio Pericoli	Uno Per Tutte	One For All	3	37
	French	Nana Mouskouri	À Force De Prier	By Persistently Praying	8	13
	French	Françoise Hardy	L'Amour S'En Va	Love Goes Away	5	25
	Dutch	Annie Palmen	Een Speeldoos	A Musical Box	13	0
	Norwegian	Anita Thallaug	Solhverv	Solstice	13	0
	Spanish	José Guardiola	Algo Prodigioso	Something Marvellous	12	2
	Swedish	Monica Zetterlund	En Gång I Stockholm	Once In Stockholm	13	0
	French	Esther Ofarim	T'en Va Pas	Don't Go	2	40
	English	Ronnie Carroll	Say Wonderful Things	-	4	28
	Serbo-Croatian	Vice Vukov	Brodovi	Ships	11	3
	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

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