In 1961 the musical  Bye Bye Birdie  opened in London's West End, after its Broadway debut a year earlier. The role of the titular Conra...

Although Siw Malmkvist performed 'Alla andra får varann' for Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1960, she never recorded it in...

There are many versions of 'L'amour est bleu', the song with which Vicky Leandros appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest in 196...

In 1966 Chris Clark recorded 'Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday', a song written by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells. Stevie Wonder recorde...

Almost ten years ago I bought my first copy of Vicky Leandros's 'L'amour est bleu'. Why it didn't end up on this blog ba...

Just four weeks ago I posted a version of ' Do it again, a little bit slower ' by Herman & Dorothy, and here I am with the origi...

I have my share of copies of Vicky Leandros's 1967 Eurovision entry for Luxembourg: in French ( two , no, three different copies), Ger...

You'd be forgiven if you've never heard of Ritty McGarrety - I hadn't either. It was purely by chance that I saw this single and...

One of the singles Ricky Wilde recorded when he was a teenager was ' Do it again, a little bit slower '. It was obviously a cover ve...

Somehow I can vaguely recall hearing this song on the radio when I was much younger. It's one of those songs that you fail to identify u...

Kirsti Sparboe (born on 7 December 1946) was just 18 years old when she represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Karusell...

Laila Sinikka Halme was born on 4 March 1934. She represented Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963 with 'Muistojeni laulu'...

Frank Ifield was an English-born Australian easy listening and country music singer known for his yodeling vocal style. His family emigrated...

Lado Leskovar was born as Vladimir Leskovar in Ljubljana on 23 March 1942. He began his music career in the early Sixties. In 1967 he repres...

Udo Jürgens represented Austria in 1965 with the song ' Sag ihr, ich lass' sie grüssen '. It reached fourth place in the competi...

'Bonne nuit, ma chérie' by Wyn Hoop was the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1960. It is a relatively unknown German ...

Whenever a single sleeve promises 'San Remo' in big letters it's time to be on my guard, because this could be one of the many c...

' Playboy' was Finland's song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966. The candidates for the Finnish qualifier were selected from a...

Franca di Rienzo got the honour to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961. Her song was 'Nous aurons demain', ...

' Kun kello käy' was the Finnish entry for the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest in London, performed by Kristina Hautala. It was compos...