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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1963**
Date:	16 February 1963
Presenter:	Sven Lindahl
Venue:	Cirkus Cirkus (Stockholm) Cirkus is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, that holds 1,650 people. It was built in 1892 and originally used as a circus , but is today mostly used for concerts and musical shows.-External links:*... , Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Voting:	An expert jury
Winner:	En gång i Stockholm performed by Monica Zetterlund Monica Zetterlund Eva Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish singer and actress.-Biography:Zetterlund was a singer particularly noted for her jazz work. She began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English... /Carli Thornhave
Winner's result at Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition... :	Thirteenth (last) place

Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

1963 (known as Eurovisionsschlagern, svensk final) was the selection for the sixth song to represent Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

. It was the fifth time that this system of picking a song had been used. One singer performed the song with a large orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

and one with a smaller orchestra. 816 songs were submitted to SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

for the competition. The final was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV

SVT1

SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

but was not broadcast on radio. Monica Zetterlund performed En gång i Stockholm at Eurovision, and became the first and only artist to score "nul points" for Sweden.

Results

Place	Artist¹	Artist²	Song	Songwriters
1st	Monica Zetterlund Monica Zetterlund Eva Monica Zetterlund was a Swedish singer and actress.-Biography:Zetterlund was a singer particularly noted for her jazz work. She began by learning the classic jazz songs from radio and records, initially not knowing the language and what they sang about in English...	Carli Thornehave	En gång i Stockholm En gång i Stockholm "En gång i Stockholm" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, performed in Swedish by one of Scandinavia's leading jazz singers, Monica Zetterlund ....	Bobbie Ericson, Beppe Wolgers
2nd	Gerd Söderberg	Roffe Berg, Hasse Burman & Charlie Norman	Storstadsmelodi	Gunnar Lundén-Welden, Carl Gyllenberg
3rd	Carli Thornehave	Lars Lönndahl Lars Lönndahl Lars "Lasse" Lönndahl, born August 19, 1928, is a Swedish singer and actor, born in Stockholm. He is considered the most well-known Swedish singer of the 1950s and 1960s with nicknames including "The Swedish Frank Sinatra" and "World's Oldest Teenager"...	Twist till menuett	Thore Skogman Thore Skogman Thore Skogman was a Swedish entertainer.Skogman was born in Hallstahammar, Sweden. He made his debut recording in 1955 and came third in Sweden's national song contest Melodifestivalen in 1963. In the 1960s he wrote "Fröken Fräken" that became one of his most successful hits...

1: Performer with large orchestra
2: Performer with smaller orchestra

Eliminated songs

Artist¹	Artist²	Song	Songwriters
Lars Lönndahl Lars Lönndahl Lars "Lasse" Lönndahl, born August 19, 1928, is a Swedish singer and actor, born in Stockholm. He is considered the most well-known Swedish singer of the 1950s and 1960s with nicknames including "The Swedish Frank Sinatra" and "World's Oldest Teenager"...	Gunnar Wiklund	Vårens flickparad	Britt Lindeborg
Roffe Berg, Hasse Burman & Charlie Norman	Gerd Södergren	Hong Kong-sång	Bobbie Ericson, Bo Eneby
Anna-Lena Löfgren Anna-Lena Löfgren Anna-Lena Löfgren was a Swedish singer from Stockholm. During the years 1962 and 1995, more than 40 of her songs made it onto Svensktoppen, the record chart of Sveriges Radio. Löfgren became one of the most best known schlager singers in Sweden during the 1960s.She made her first public...	Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson is a Swedish singer and has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years.Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and, following their marriage, Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and...	Säg varför	Ulf Källqvist
Per Lindqvist & Ulf Lindqvist	Lily Berglund	Rosen och vinden	Owe Thörnqvist
Lily Berglund	Mona Grain	Fröken Eko	Britt Lindeborg
Gunnar Wiklund	Tommy Jacobsson	Scheherazde	Åke Gerhard
Mona Grain	Ann-Catrine Widlund	Jag är så trött på allt det här	Bo Harry Sandin
Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson is a Swedish singer and has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years.Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and, following their marriage, Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and...	Per Lindqvist & Ulf Lindqvist	Zum zum zum, lilla sommarbi	Sam Samson, Fritz-Gustav

1: Performer with large orchestra
2: Performer with smaller orchestra

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