Back in the Sixties and Seventies, trumpet players had a good time. They had an instrument that was very popular with casual record buyers a...

This single spent a long time on my wantlist, and when I ordered it online I didn't pay enough attention to the description, otherwise I...

Although I already had a single featuring 'Ice in the sun' on the B-side of ' Pictures of matchstick men ' on an unsightly ...

'Crying in the rain' was composed by Carole King with lyrics by Howard Greenfield, originally recorded by American duo the Everly Br...

'I just don't know what to do with myself' is a song written by Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. The song was first record...

Dutch singer Willeke Alberti had profited from the Eurovision Song Contest before, having recorded ' Uno per tutte ' with her father...

Although I already had ' Pictures of matchstick men ' in my collection, it was an unsightly 'old gold' release, without a pi...

Marianne Faithfull passed away recently, on 30 January. I bought her debut single just 11 days earlier and I really wanted to post this sing...

Back in 1964 Cliff Richard had a hit with ' I could easily fall in love with you '. It isn't easy to find a good copy of a singl...

Nora Nova represented West-Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 with 'Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne'. The song...

This is a classic song and the single is very hard to find. I can't remember when I first heard the song, and I think it didn't even...

It has become common practice for me, when I buy singles online, to search for 'Ulvaeus', because you never know when you might pick...

For a few years I have been checking out this double 7" single package of the Beatles called 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Most peopl...

Most people will be familiar with 'Je t'aime... moi non plus', the sensual single by Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin. This si...

The song 'Puppet on a string' by Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967, and what followed was a tsunami of cover versi...

In 1964 the Antwerp group The Strangers released this 4 track EP featuring a cover version of Gigliola Cinquetti's 'Non ho l'eta...

Rika Zaraï was 25 years old when she recorded this EP. It features four tracks and it included a version of the French entry for the Eurovis...

Los Sírex is a Spanish rock band founded in 1959 in Barcelona and active until 1972. In 1977 they got together again and were active until 2...

With ' Lille dukke ' I thought I had the oldest Eurovision cover version by Gitte Haenning, but she was already active in 1961, at t...

Throughout her career Gitte Haenning has been associated with the Eurovision Song Contest. She appeared on the Eurovision stage once, with ...