Eurovision Song Contest 1963
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the annual
Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
and took place in
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,
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. It was organised by the
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(EBU) and host broadcaster
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(BBC), who agreed to stage the event after , who had won the edition, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in and . The contest was held at the
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on Saturday 23 March 1963 and was hosted by
Katie Boyle Caterina Irene Elena Maria Boyle, Lady Saunders (née Imperiali dei Principi di Francavilla; 29 May 1926 – 20 March 2018), usually known as Katie Boyle, was an Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer, television personality, gam ...
for a second time. Sixteen countries participated in the contest, the same countries that had participated the previous year. The contest this year was won by with the song "
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", performed by
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Jørgen Ingmann Jørgen Ingmann (born Jørgen Ingmann Pedersen; 26 April 1925 – 21 March 2015) was a Danish jazz and pop guitarist from Copenhagen. He was popular in Europe and had a wider international hit in 1961 with his version of "Apache". He and his w ...
. This was the first victory for any of the Nordic countries. Four countries got nul points, with , and failing to score any points for the first time and the for the second time, becoming the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.


Location

The BBC was willing to host the contest instead of the previous year's winner France, as was the case in . They would do so again in and because the winning broadcasters from the year before could not afford to produce the contest. The host venue was the
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,
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,
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, 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.


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 employedthe 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. After the 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 '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 at '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. 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). 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.


Participating countries

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


Conductors

The participating conductors were: * Eric Robinson * Eric Robinson *
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Erwin Halletz Erwin Halletz (Vienna, 12 July 1923 – 27 October 2008) also performed as René Roulette, was an Austrian orchestra leader and songwriter. Songs * Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby "Onkel Satchmo's Lullaby") is a 1959 * Einmal komm' ich wieder * Viellei ...
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Øivind Bergh Øivind Bergh (3 December 190925 January 1987) was a Norwegian violinist and orchestral leader. Biography Øivind Ingvard Bergh was born in Hamar, Norway. His parents were Even Johannesen Bergh (1873–1958) and Karen Hanssen (1881–1940). He ...
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George de Godzinsky George de Godzinsky (5 July 1914, Saint Peterburg, Russia — 23 May 1994, Espoo, Finland) was a Finnish composer, pianist and conductor of Polish descent. Godzinsky is known for his Schlager music although he composed music for movies and oper ...
* Kai Mortensen *
Miljenko Prohaska Miljenko Prohaska (17 September 1925 – 29 May 2014) was a Croatian composer, arrangement, music arranger and Conducting, orchestra conductor. He was mainly known for founding a number of prominent Croatian orchestras and for his longtime serv ...
* Eric Robinson *
Franck Pourcel Franck Pourcel (14 August 1913 – 12 November 2000) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor of popular and classical music. Biography Early life Born in Marseille, France, Pourcel started learning the violin at the age of six. Later, ...
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Francis Bay Francis Bay (27 December 1914 – 24 April 2005) was a Belgian conductor. Born as Frans Bayezt, he conducted many Belgian entries in the Eurovision Song Contest and had his own Big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of mu ...
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Raymond Lefèvre Raymond Lefèvre (20 November 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer. Biography and career Born on 20 November 1929 in Calais, France, Raymond Lefèvre is best known for his interpretation of ...
* Eric Robinson


Returning artists


Participants and results


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.


5 points

Below is a summary of all 5 points received:


Spokespersons

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. # Pete Murray #
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Werner Veigel Werner Veigel (9 November 1928 – 2 May 1995) was a Dutch-born German journalist and news presenter. Veigel was born in The Hague, the son of a German salesman. After his education he successfully completed a sales trainee ship in a trav ...
# Emil Kollpacher # Roald Øyen # Enzo Tortora # # TBC # # # Armand Lanoux # Julio Rico # # Ward Bogaert # TBC # TBC


Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.


Notes


References


External links

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