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

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Results

Country (Language)	Artist(s)	Song (''Translation'')	Place	Points
Austria Austria (German/English)	Carmela Corren	Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder (''Maybe a miracle will happen'')	7	16
Germany Belgium (Dutch)	Jacques Raymond	Waarom? (''Why?'')	10	4
Denmark Denmark (Danish)	Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann	Dansevise (''A Dance Tune'')	1	42
Finland Finland (Finnish)	Laila Halme	Muistojeni Laulu (''The song of my memories'')	13	0
France France (French)	Alain Barrière	Elle Était Si Jolie	5	25
Germany Germany (German)	Heidi Brühl	Marcel (''Marcel'')	9	5
Italy Italy (Italian)	Emilio Pericoli	Uno Per Tutte (''One for All'')	3	37
Luxembourg Luxembourg (French)	Nana Mouskouri	A Force De Prier	8	13
Monaco Monaco (French)	Françoise Hardy	L'amour S'en Va	5	25
Netherlands Netherlands (Dutch)	Annie Palmen	Een Speeldoos (''A Musicbox'')	13	0
Norway Norway (Norwegian)	Anita Thallaug	Solhverv (''Solctice'')	13	0
Spain Spain (Spanish)	José Guardiola	Algo Prodigioso	12	2
Sweden Sweden (Swedish)	Monica Zetterlund	En gång I Stockholm (''Once in Stockholm'')	13	0
Switzerland Switzerland (French)	Esther Ofarim	T'en Va Pas (''Don't Go'')	2	40
United Kingdom United Kingdom (English)	Ronnie Carroll	Say Wonderful Things	4	28
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (Croatian)	Vice Vukov	Brodovi	11	3
The table is ordered by the countries' names.

Score sheet

		Juries
		United Kingdom	Netherlands	Germany	Austria	Norway	Italy	Finland	Denmark	Yugoslavia	Switzerland	France	Spain	Sweden	Belgium	Monaco	Luxembourg
Contestants	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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★ Green = Participating countries

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