Hard to imagine this year, but back in 1966 the Netherlands were still sending quality songs to the Eurovision Song Contest. Milly Scott mad...

The song ' L'amour est bleu ' competed in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967, performed by Vicky Leandros, and it became a big ...

Although the A-side of this single is really the Italian song 'Nessuno mi puo giudicare', all the attention has to be focused on its...

Like I wrote when I bought the French version of 'La, la, la' , I only had the Portuguese and English version of Joan Manuel Serrat&...

Having already bought ' L'amour est bleu ' and ' A taste of Vicky ', I thought I had a pretty decent selection of Japane...

It's funny how Domenico Modugno keeps popping up on this blog, while I'm really only after three of his songs. However, ' Volare...

In September 2021 I wrote: "France Gall only recorded a French and Japanese version of ['Poupée de cire, poupée de son'], as fa...

Conny Froboess represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 with ' Zwei kleine Italiener ', a song that went on to bec...

Lale Andersen (23 March 1905 – 29 August 1972) was a German chanson singer-songwriter, born in Lehe (now part of Bremerhaven). She is best k...

' Un premier amour ' was the winning song of the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest. It was performed by Isabelle Aubret, but as per usual...

Cliff Richard participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, but the amount of singles that spawned is quite amazing. Thanks, of course,...

When Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with  'La, la, la' by Massiel, other acts were quick to jump on the bandwagon. On...

Les petits chanteurs a la croix de bois (' The little singers with the wooden cross') are a Christian boys choir. It was founded in ...

After the EP ' Festival Eurovision 1967 ', Los Stop were back the next year with an EP featuring a Eurovision song. This time, they ...

Esther Van Ginderen-Verbeeck (8 September 1931 – 30 January 2018), also known as Tante Terry (Aunt Terry), was a Belgian Flemish-speaking te...

With ' T'en vas pas ' Esther Ofarim represented Switerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963. I bought the single in Januar...

Seventeen-year-old Susan Pesklevits met Terry Jacks in the mid-1960s when he appeared as a guest on the national teen TV show Music Hop whe...

Back in 1960, Jacqueline Boyer won the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Tom Pillibi '.You wouldn't think so these days - Loreen...

' Kom sol, kom regn' is a Norwegian ballad that won the Melodi Grand Prix 1962, and was Norway's entry to the Eurovision Song Co...

The new year started with the receipt of an order I placed with a Norwegian seller. Four rare singles finally came to me after a delay of ab...