Thursday 13 May 2021
Moskow Diskow / Eurovision - Telex
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Nothing is more appropriate this month than highlighting that classic Belgian song 'Euro-vision' by Telex. They performed it on the ...
Voor altijd - André van Duin
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During an impressive career of six decades, André van Duin started out as a comedian and did theatre shows, TV programmes, even performed as...
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Wednesday 5 May 2021
Soldi - Mahmood
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Alessandro Mahmood represented Italy during the 2019 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Born in Milan to an Italian mother from Sardini...
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The wrong place - Hooverphonic
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This month, the Eurovision Song Contest will finally take place in Rotterdam. Last year the Contest did not take place because of the Covid-...
Thursday 15 April 2021
Refrain, du goldner Traum aus meiner Jugendzeit - Lys Assia
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Only two years ago I was able to buy Refrain , the 7" single of the first ever winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest. The song ma...
Saturday 10 April 2021
Touch my life (with summer) - Ellen Nikolaysen
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Ellen Helen Nikolaysen was born in Oslo (Norway) on 10 December 1951. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the...
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Ding-a-dong - Teach-In
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My collection already contains Teach-In's 'Ding-a-dong' in English , Dutch and German , so you might say that this addition to ...
Popcorn - La Strana Societa
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'Popcorn' needs no introduction on this blog: I have featured many different versions of this Gershon Kingsley composition, and they...
Waterloo - Swedish Group
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Swedish Group is the name of an anonymous band that recorded a cover version of 'Waterloo' right after Abba won the Eurovision Song ...
Dio, come ti amo - Domenico Modugno
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The name of Domenico Modugno is forever linked to the legendary Eurovision song Volare . That was his first Eurovision appearance. People te...
Monday 5 April 2021
The spirit of Joe Hill - Laurie Dryden
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Laurie Dryden only ever released one single, this 'The Spirit of Joe Hill', a song written by Mike Hawker and Marty Wilde. Hawker al...
At Veani - Schlomo Artzi
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Schlomo Artzi was born on November 26, 1949, in Moshav. When Artzi was eight years old, his family moved to northern Tel Aviv. Artzi's ...
Sunday 28 March 2021
Petit Bonhomme - Camillo
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This cheerful young man is called Camillo Felgen, born in Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg on 17 November 1920. He started his career as a tea...
I got stung / One night - Elvis Presley
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Another icon from the past that hasn't featured much on this blog is Elvis Presley. Important though he was, his music never touched me ...
Monday 22 March 2021
Lay lady lay - Bob Dylan
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Those of you who are into Bob Dylan will probably wonder why he has never appeared on this blog before. To some, he is truly the best ever a...
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Rock this town - Stray Cats
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These days you don't hear any rock 'n' roll or rockabilly music in the charts anymore, but 40 years ago, while pop music was bei...
Sunday 21 March 2021
Lapponia (English version) - Monica Aspelund
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My collection of Monica Aspelund singles seems to revolve around one song: Lapponia, the song she represented Finland with at the 1977 Eurov...
A day of love - Ashes and blood
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The Yugoslavian band Pepel In Kri - credited in the Eurovision Song Contest as Ashes and Blood - represented their country with the song ...
Mikado - Simone Drexel
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Simone Drexel was born on 13 May 1957 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1973 she took first place in the talent competition of the youth ...
Saturday 13 March 2021
Eons roll by - Gentlemen without weapons
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I didn't really know that the Gentlemen without weapons album 'Transmission' came with two single releases. I bought Uncondition...
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