The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth Eurovision and was held on March 23, 1963 in the United Kingdom. With Katie Boyle as the presenter, the contest was won by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann who represented Denmark, with their song "Dansevise".
France had won the contest in 1962 but they handed the honour of hosting the event to the United Kingdom because they believed hosting the event twice in a short space of time was not a good idea. The same thing happened when the Netherlands won in 1959 and refused to host it in 1960.
Interval Act
There was no interval act in 1963.
| Country (Language) |
Artist(s) | Song (Translation) |
Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (German/English) |
Carmela Corren | Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder | 7 | 16 |
| Belgium (Dutch) |
Jacques Raymond | Waarom? (Why?) |
10 | 4 |
| Denmark (Danish) |
Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann | Dansevise (A Dance Tune) |
1 | 42 |
| Finland (Finnish) |
Laila Halme | Muistojeni Laulu | 13 | 0 |
| France (French) |
Alain Barrière | Elle Était Si Jolie | 5 | 25 |
| Germany (German) |
Heidi Brühl | Marcel (Marcel) |
9 | 5 |
| Italy (Italian) |
Emilio Pericoli | Uno Per Tutte (One for All) |
3 | 37 |
| Luxembourg (French) |
Nana Mouskouri | A Force De Prier | 8 | 13 |
| Monaco (French) |
Françoise Hardy | L'amour S'en Va | 5 | 25 |
| Netherlands (Dutch) |
Annie Palmen | Een Speeldoos (A Musicbox) |
13 | 0 |
| Norway (Norwegian) |
Anita Thallaug | Solhverv (Solctice) |
13 | 0 |
| Spain (Spanish) |
José Guardiola | Algo Prodigioso | 12 | 2 |
| Sweden (Swedish) |
Monica Zetterlund | En Gång I Stockholm (Once in Stockholm) |
13 | 0 |
| Switzerland (French) |
Esther Ofarim | T'en Va Pas (Don't Go) |
2 | 40 |
| United Kingdom (English) |
Ronnie Carroll | Say Wonderful Things | 4 | 28 |
| Yugoslavia (Croatian) |
Vice Vukov | Brodovi | 11 | 3 |
| Venue: Television Centre - London, United Kingdom | ||||
| The table is ordered by the countries names. | ||||
| Juries | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||
