"Solvherv" was the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963

Eurovision Song Contest 1963

The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the 8th Eurovision Song Contest. France had won the contest in 1962 but were incapable of hosting in 1963, as was their right, due to financial shortcomings. As was the case in 1960 - and as would become a tradition when smaller broadcasters could not afford to...

, performed in Norwegian

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 by Anita Thallaug

Anita Thallaug

Anita Thallaug is a Norwegian actress and singer. She has featured in musicals, cinema and TV programs. Under the name Vesla Rolfsen, at the age of seven, she was performing at the Spider theatre in Oslo....

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The song is in the chanson style, popular in the early years of the Contest. Thallaug describes her feelings when she is with her lover, comparing the happiness she knows she will have with him to the happy knowledge that Spring is soon to arrive when the Winter Solstice

Winter solstice

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 occurs.

The song was performed fifth on the night, following Austria

Austria

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's Carmela Corren

Carmela Corren

-Biography:Carmela Corren was born on February 13, 1938 in Tel Aviv. She dreamed of being a dancer but switched to singing in the wake of an injury....

 with "Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder

Vielleicht Geschieht Ein Wunder

"Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder" was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, performed predominantly in German by Carmela Corren....

" and preceding Italy

Italy

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's Emilio Pericoli

Emilio Pericoli

Emilio Pericoli is an Italian singer. He was born in Cesenatico, Romagna.Pericoli's success was closely tied to the Sanremo Festival. He recorded a cover version of the song, "Al di là", by festival winner Betty Curtis. The song was an international success, hitting the charts in the U.S. and #30...

 with "Uno per tutte

Uno Per Tutte

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". At the close of voting, it had received the dreaded nul points, placing 13th (equal last) in a field of 16. This was the first occasion on which Norway had failed to score a point in Contest history, and the country would go on to claim the unwanted record of the most zeroes.

In the Norwegian final, it was sung by Nora Brockstedt

Nora Brockstedt

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 (with the big orchestra) and Jan Høiland

Jan Høiland

Jan Høiland is a Norwegian singer, who lived for many years in Harstad. The song "Tio tusen röda rosor" by Thore Skogman was the biggest hit for Jan Høiland. Today, this is the song which is most associated with Jan Høiland...

 (with the small orchestra), but Brockstedt was fully booked and didn't have the time to go to London. Anita Thallaug was selected to go to London, but never recorded the song. It was issued in a version by Jan Høiland, using the big orchestra arrangement, but it was not a bestseller in Norway.

It was succeeded as Norwegian representative

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest

Norway has been participating in the Eurovision Song Contest since 1960 and only been absent twice: in 1970, when they boycotted the contest over disagreements about the voting structure, and in 2002, when they did not qualify....

 at the 1964 contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1964

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 by Arne Bendiksen

Arne Bendiksen

Arne Joachim Bendiksen, born 19 October 1926 in Bergen, Norway, died 26 March 2009, was a Norwegian singer, composer and producer, described as "the father of pop music" in Norway....

 with "Spiral

Spiral (song)

"Spiral" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed in Norwegian by Arne Bendiksen. This was the first occasion on which Norway had been represented by a male vocalist....

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