'Bahama Mama' was the second single from Boney M's fourth album Oceans of Fantasy (1979). In Europe it was released as a double...

Two songs from Shirley Bassey's live performance at the Kosei-Nenkin Hall in Tokyo in 1974 were released on this single. She sings '...

'Gotta go home' was re-written from a German single 'Hallo Bimmelbahn' (1973) by Nighttrain with the brothers Heinz and Jürg...

Speaking of the Beatles, I wasn't really aware that Joan Baez had recorded a cover version of 'Let it be' until I saw this singl...

I recently bought ' Love story ' by Nino Tempo & April Stevens, which is a vocal version of the theme from the movie  Love Story...

The best way to describe this single by Silver Convention is 'vacuous but fun'. The song 'Always another girl' isn't ver...

'Dancing the night away' was the debut single by English garage rock pub rock band the Motors, which was released in 1977 as the le...

'Car Wash' is a song by the American soul and R&B band Rose Royce. Written and arranged by the ex-Motown producer Norman Whitfie...

We're currently enjoying a bit of an indian summer, which is a good time to break out that summerhit from 1979: 'Hooray! Hooray! It...

My friend Puck asked me recently why I started buying so many Boney M singles. The answer is simple: because I enjoy their music and because...

Any new releases by Abba will make use of their back catalogue, since the members of the group have said that  Voyage  from a few years ago ...

'Conquistador' was written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid, both members of the band Procol Harum. The song originally appeared on th...

The interesting story of how 'Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord' became 'Dancing in the streets' in Europe was covered on this...

My most recent purchase of a Boney M single used the same photograph as this one, except this one was released about a decade earlier. It...

Some countries are currently boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest because Israel is embroiled in a war against Palestinians. They seem to ...

Whenever I am in a city I check out the local record shops and I am rarely disappointed. Last week I was in Kaiserslautern and the local rec...

The Danish singer Johnny Reimar  was born on 12 June 1943 in Odense, Denmark. He was an actor, singer and writer and released dozens of albu...

' The entertainer'  is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin.   It was sold first as sheet music in Missouri and in the 1...

Histoire d'O is an erotic novel written by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, with the original French text pu...

Nino Tempo & April Stevens ( Antonino and Carol Vincinette LoTempio ) were a brother and sister singing act from Niagara Falls, New York...