Eurovision Song Contest 1963

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The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the 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), which agreed to stage the event after Template:Esccnty's Script error: No such module "Lang". (RTF), which had won the Template:Escyr, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in Template:Escyr and Template:Escyr. The contest was held at the BBC Television Centre on Saturday 23 March 1963 and was hosted by Katie Boyle for a second time.

Sixteen countries participated in the contest, the same countries that had also participated the previous two years.

The contest this year was won by Template:Esccnty with the song "Script error: No such module "Lang".", performed by Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann. This was the first victory for any of the Nordic countries. Four countries got nul points, with Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty failing to score any points for the first time and the Template:Esccnty for the second time, becoming the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.[1]

Location

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BBC Television Centre, London - host venue of the 1963 contest.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was willing to host the contest instead of the previous year's winner Template:Esccnty's Script error: No such module "Lang". (RTF), as was the case in Template:Escyr. They would do so again in Template:Escyr, Template:Escyr, and Template:Escyr because the winning broadcasters of the previous year declined 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 one of the largest broadcasting facilities in the world until the property was redeveloped in March 2013.[2]

Participants

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Only one of the performing artists had previously competed representing the same country in past editions: Ronnie Carroll had represented the Template:Esccnty.

Eurovision Song Contest 1963 participants[3][4]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s) Conductor
Template:Esc ORF Carmela Corren "Script error: No such module "Lang"." German, English Template:Hlist Erwin Halletz
Template:Esc BRT Jacques Raymond "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Dutch Template:Hlist Francis Bay
Template:Esc DR Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Danish Template:Hlist Kai Mortensen
Template:Esc YLE Template:Ill "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Finnish Börje Sundgren George de Godzinsky
Template:Esc RTF Alain Barrière "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Alain Barrière Franck Pourcel
Template:Esc HRTemplate:Efn Heidi Brühl "Marcel" German Template:Ill Willy Berking
Template:Esc RAI Emilio Pericoli "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Italian Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc CLT Nana Mouskouri "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Eric Robinson
Template:Esc TMC Françoise Hardy "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Françoise Hardy Raymond Lefèvre
Template:Esc NTS Annie Palmen "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Dutch Pieter Goemans Eric Robinson
Template:Esc NRK Anita Thallaug "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Norwegian Template:Ill Øivind Bergh
Template:Esc TVE José Guardiola "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Spanish Template:Hlist Rafael Ibarbia
Template:Esc SR Monica Zetterlund "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Swedish Template:Hlist Template:Ill
Template:Esc SRG SSR Esther Ofarim "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist Eric Robinson
Template:Esc BBC Ronnie Carroll "Say Wonderful Things" English Template:Hlist Eric Robinson
Template:Esc JRT Vice Vukov "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Serbo-Croatian Mario Nardelli Miljenko Prohaska

Production and format

The production mode was unusual in comparison with other Eurovision Song Contests: In contrast to most previous and following editions which were filmed in concert halls or theatres, the staging of 1963 was done in television studios.[5] 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 employedTemplate:Sndthe 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][6] The use of television studios allowed a broader variety of staging elements not seen before in the contest, and the use of close-ups so to create an atmosphere of intimacy for television viewers.[5]

After the Template:Escyr was the only one to be held on a Sunday, the contest was held on a Saturday again in 1963.

Contest overview

Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 1963[7]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Say Wonderful Things" 28 4
2 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 0 13
3 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Marcel" 5 9
4 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 16 7
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 0 13
6 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 37 3
7 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 0 13
8 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 42 1
9 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 3 11
10 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 40 2
11 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 25 5
12 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 2 12
13 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 0 13
14 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 4 10
15 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 25 5
16 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 13 8

Spokespersons

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Template:Ill announcing the points from Finland

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country via telephone. Known spokespersons at the 1963 contest are listed below.

Detailed voting results

Each participating broadcaster assembled a 20-member jury panel 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 songs with the most points got 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 votes in order. Errors in the Norwegian (see below) 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.

One controversy this year was during the voting. When it was Template:Esccnty'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. 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 been altered, thus changing the outcome of the contest and giving the victory to Template:Esccnty at Template:Esccnty'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] The Swiss participating broadcaster, SRG SSR, reportedly intended to appeal and following numerous complaints, checked the transmissions of the votes made.[10][11] It was confirmed a month after the contest that the Norwegian jury didn't change their votes.[12]

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]

Detailed voting results[13][14]
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rowspan="16" Template:Vert header 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 Template:Esc Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
3 Template:Esc Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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2 Template:Esc Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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1 Template:Esc Template:Esc

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.[15] Reports estimate that 50 million people would see the contest.[16]

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu ORF ORF Hanns Joachim Friedrichs [4][17]
Template:Flagu BRT BRT Template:Ill and Denise Maes [18]
RTB RTB Pierre Delhasse [19][20]
Template:Flagu DR Script error: No such module "Lang"., Program 1 Template:Ill [21]
Template:Flagu YLE Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [4][22]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill
Script error: No such module "Lang". Jan Sederholm
Template:Flagu RTF RTF Pierre Tchernia [4][23]
Template:Flagu ARD Script error: No such module "Lang". Hanns Joachim Friedrichs [24]
Template:Flagu RAI Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:Ill [25]
Template:Flagu CLT Script error: No such module "Lang". Pierre Tchernia [4][26]
Template:Flagu Script error: No such module "Lang". Pierre Tchernia [4]
Template:Flagu NTS NTS Willem Duys [27][28]
NRU Hilversum 1 Coen Serré [27][29]
Template:Flagu NRK Script error: No such module "Lang"., NRK Øivind Johnssen [30][31]
Template:Flagu TVE TVE Template:Ill [4][32][33]
RNE RNETemplate:Efn Template:N/A [32]
Template:Flagu SR Script error: No such module "Lang"., SR P1 Template:Ill [34]
Template:Flagu SRG SSR TV DRS Template:Ill [35]
TSR Template:Ill [36]
TSI Renato Tagliani [4][37]
Radio BeromünsterTemplate:Efn Template:N/A [38]
Radio Sottens Template:N/A [39]
Radio Monte Ceneri Template:N/A [37]
Template:Flagu BBC BBC TV David Jacobs [40]
Template:Flagu JRT Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". Saša Novak [4][41]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu RÉ Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [42]
Template:Flagu RTP RTP Federico Gallo [4][43]

Notes

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References

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External links

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