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...

You could say that 'Can't help falling in love' is an overly familiar song, as it has been recorded by everyone from Elvis Presl...

'Swing Your Daddy' was a single by singer Jim Gilstrap. It became a hit for him in 1975, charting in various countries around the wo...

' Daddy's home ' is a song by American doo-wop group Shep and the Limelites. The song was written by the three members of the b...

Although the Bee Gees mainly recorded together, the members of the group also had some solo recordings with medium success. 'I'll ki...

Promises was a girl trio that recorded three singles on the CBS label in 1976 and 1977. They debuted with 'The old fashioned way', a...

Alan Tarney wrote 'We don't talk anymore' in 1979, planning to use it on an album with the Tarney/Spencer Band. However, Tarney ...

'Star' was a single taken from Earth Wind & Fire's 1979 studio album  I Am . The song was written by Maurice White, Allee Wi...

I already bought ' This is my life ' in 2010, but I didn't buy this single for that song. I didn't buy it for the tittillati...

I bought the 'Original Double Hit' single featuring 'Ma Baker' and 'Baby do you wanna bump' three years ago, and fo...

I heard 'Sweet Lui-Louise' on the radio recently and when I heard it, I thought it was a track by Bachman Turner Overdrive, because ...

After the Sparks enjoyed international success with 'This town ain't big enough for both of us', they released 'Amateur hour...

It's pure coincidence that I found this single just days after I found a different version of 'Magnetic fields' -this time it...

I was lucky to buy a few Austrian pressings of Abba singles last year while I was in Vienna, but I was very surprised to find one online in ...

After the German pressing of ' A-ba-ni-bi ', featured recently on this blog, I found myself confronted with the French one, which fe...