After 'The woman in you', the ballad 'Someone belonging to someone' was the second single release from the soundtrack of the movie 'Staying alive', a movie featuring John Travolta dancing his heart out to in the sequel to the movie 'Saturday night fever'.
Accoing to the brothers Gibb in the liner notes to their 1990 box set, the song was 'a fair ballad from a silly film'.
My collection: 7" single no. 4618 Found: La La Land, Den Haag, March 5, 2010 Cost: 1 euro Tracks: 'Someone belonging to someone' (Bee Gees) / 'I love you too much' (David Sanborn)
'Give me the night' was the title track of George Benson's 1980 album. The song was written by Rod Temperton, who would go on to work with people like Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Donna Summer and Kim Wilde.
When it was released as a single, it was Benson's most successful single up to that point, peaking at number 7 in the UK singles chart and number 8 in the Dutch Top 40.
My collection: 7" sigle no. 4617 Found: La La Land, Den Haag, March 5, 2010 Cost: 1 euro Tracks: 'Give me the night' / 'Dinorah, Dinorah'
In 1975, 10CC made an important step in their career. Eric Stewart comments: 'At that point in time we were still on Jonathan King's label, but struggling. We were absolutely skint, the lot of us, we were really struggling seriously, and Philips Phonogram wanted to do a deal with us. They wanted to buy Jonathan King's contract. I rang them. I said come and have a listen to what we've done, come and have a listen to this track. And they came up and they freaked, and they said 'This is a masterpiece. How much money, what do you want? What sort of a contract do you want? We'll do anything, we'll sign it'. On the strength of that one song, we did a five-year deal with them for five albums and they paid us a serious amount of money.'
The song was 'I'm not in love', one of the tracks on 10CC's 1975 album 'Original Soundtrack', their first to be released on the Mercury label. But the first single from that album was not 'I'm not in love', but 'Life is a minestrone', a track that was more similar to 10CC's earlier work. It reached number 17 in the Dutch Top 40 and number 7 in the UK singles chart.
My collection: 7" single no. 4616 Found: La La Land, Den Haag, March 5, 2010 Cost: 1 euro Tracks: 'Life is a minestrone' / 'Channel swimmer'
Marty Wilde himself wrote 'Bad boy'. Until then, his hits had been covers of American rock 'n' roll songs. It proved to be his last top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number 7 in early 1960. The song was also a top 50 hit in the USA. Shortly after its release, it was covered by Robin Luke, in 1964 by Françoise Hardy and later by Nirvana and Robert Gordon.
The B-side, 'It's been nice', was a Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman composition, and was later recorded by The Everly Brothers and Freddy Cannon.
My collection: 7" single no. 1763 Found: House of Rhythm, London, October 20, 1992 Cost: 60p Tracks: 'Bad boy' / 'It's been nice'
Cindy & Bert are a German schlager vocal duo from Völklingen, Saarland consisting of Jutta Gusenberger (born 26 January 1948) and Norbert Berger (born 12 September 1945). They were most successful in the Seventies, and are known for their participation in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
'Die Sommermelodie' was chosen as the country's entry for the 19th Eurovision Song Contest through an internal selection. German observers considered it a particularly weak song choice. They finished last place together with three other songs that received only 3 points. Cindy & Bert divorced in 1988, with Cindy starting a solo career as Cindy Berger while Bert moved into production.
My collection: 7" single no. 4615 Found: Vinylroy.nl, received March 3, 2010 Cost: 2 euro Tracks: 'Die Sommermelodie' / 'Musik für zwei Verliebte'
'Flieger' ('Flyers') was the German entry for the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest, performed in German by Italian singer Nino de Angelo. Five years before, De Angelo had his breakthrough with 'Jenseits von Eden', a number 1 hit in Germany and Switzerland, and a top 10 hit most of Europe.
This Eurovision song was composed by Dieter Bohlen, internationally best known as one half of the very successful German Europop duo Modern Talking. The song finished 14th in a field of 22 competitors.
My collection: 7" single no. 4614 Found: Vinylroy.nl, received March 3, 2010 Cost: 2 euro Tracks: 'Flieger' / 'Laureen'
Liliane Saint-Pierre performed the song 'Soldiers of love' almost entirely in Flemish during the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest. However, two versions of the single were released at the time: one single featured the Flemish version on the A-side, and this single featured a French version on the A-side.
In the bilingual country of Belgium, this may have been a wise decision, because the south of Belgium simply refuses to feign interest in any Flemish entry. Although I have to admit, I don't know if this helped matters much for Liliane over there.
My collection: 7" single no. 4613 Found: Vinylroy.nl, received March 3, 2010 Cost: 2 euro Tracks: 'Soldiers of love (Version Française)' / 'Soldiers of love (instrumental)'
After 'The woman in you', the ballad 'Someone belonging to someone' was the second single release from the soundtrack of the movie 'Staying alive', a movie featuring John Travolta dancing his heart out to in the sequel to the movie 'Saturday night fever'.
