With the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest taking place tomorrow, there's a lot of speculation about Abba. Will they appe...

Hard to imagine this year, but back in 1966 the Netherlands were still sending quality songs to the Eurovision Song Contest. Milly Scott mad...

Michèle Torr represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with ' Une petite Française '. The song reached fourth place ...

The song ' L'amour est bleu ' competed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967, performed by Vicky Leandros, and it became a big ...

It doesn't happen very often that two versions of a single appear with the same seller, especially when you're after both versions. ...

Although the A-side of this single is really the Italian song 'Nessuno mi puo giudicare', all the attention has to be focused on its...

Like I wrote when I bought the French version of 'La, la, la' , I only had the Portuguese and English version of Joan Manuel Serrat&...

Having already bought ' L'amour est bleu ' and ' A taste of Vicky ', I thought I had a pretty decent selection of Japane...

It's funny how Domenico Modugno keeps popping up on this blog, while I'm really only after three of his songs. However, ' Volare...

The Milestones represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with ' Falter im Wind '. It remains one of the most underr...

I bought 'Children, Kinder, enfants' in 2009, a single by an international group of singers. I bought it a few times after that, bec...

Back in 1977 Ilanit represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time. She'd been the country's first representa...

In September 2021 I wrote: "France Gall only recorded a French and Japanese version of ['Poupée de cire, poupée de son'], as fa...

Having bought ' Pump pump ' and ' Schon wieder macht mein Herz bump bump ', obviously I was curious whether I could get hold...

Conny Froboess represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 with ' Zwei kleine Italiener ', a song that went on to bec...

Lale Andersen (23 March 1905 – 29 August 1972) was a German chanson singer-songwriter, born in Lehe (now part of Bremerhaven). She is best k...

' Un premier amour ' was the winning song of the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest. It was performed by Isabelle Aubret, but as per usual...

Cliff Richard participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, but the amount of singles that spawned is quite amazing. Thanks, of course,...

During the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 Portugal was represented by Anabela with the song 'A cidade (até ser dia)', written by Pe...

I already bought a clear vinyl copy of Domenico Modugno's ' Piove ' five years ago, but I was pretty surprised to find another v...