'High Noon', also known as 'The Ballad of High Noon', was the theme song of the 1952 movie  High Noon , starring Gary Cooper...

Back in 1956, the first ever Eurovision Song Contest was organized. The Germans had two singers representing the country, the first of them ...

Back in 2017 I bought this unsightly 7" single without a picture sleeve of Jean Philippe's ' Oui oui oui oui ', assuming th...

The Danish singer Raquel Rastenni was born in Copenhagen on 21 August 1915. She started her career as a dancer in the Helsingør Revue in 193...

'Aprite le finestre' was Italy's first ever Eurovision song, performed by Franca Raimondi in 1956. Although the single still elu...

I posted no. 11 of the Big Four EP's three years ago, and here is no. 20. The formula remains the same: four songs by four different ar...

Jean Philippe represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959 with ' Oui, oui, oui, oui '. Such was the popularity of the ...

As far as I know, the Belgian Eurovision entry from 1959 was only covered twice: once by Koen Crucke in 1996 (released on CD-single only) an...

Louis Neefs recorded a cover version of Jean Philippe's ' Oui, oui, oui, oui ', the French Eurovision entry of 1959. He did so i...

When Corry Brokken appeared on the Eurovision stage to perform ' Net als toen ' in 1957, Danish singer Birthe Wilke was one of her f...

The Argentinian singer Miguel Amador Pontón settled in France in the late Fifties. He released more than just a few EP's, featuring cove...

'Dors, mon amour' was the first Eurovision song to be won by a male soloist. André Claveau (29 December 1911 – 4 July 2003) was a po...

Lars Gunnar "Lasse" Lönndahl (19 August 1928 – 26 December 2022) was a Swedish singer and actor. He was considered the most well-k...

Alan Dale was born in Brooklyn, New York on 9 July 1925. He began his career at age 9 when his comedian father was running short on his pro...

The 'Populaire Platen Kring' ('Popular Records Circle') was a Dutch phenomenon from the early Sixties. The labels do not bea...

There's something odd about the sleeve of this single. With Siw & Lilian Malmkvist prominently on it with their names above, the son...

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

Cora Vaucaire was a French chanson singer, born 22 July 1918 in Marseille (France) and died 17 September 2011 in Paris (France). She recorde...

The esteemed orchestra of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw recorded many things, mainly classical music, but in 1960 they filled two EP's t...

In December 2021 I bought two singles by the 3 Jacksons; one because of their version of 'Abergavenny' , and one because of their ve...