Thursday 7 October 2021
Este mundo - Katja Ebstein
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Katja Ebstein represented Germany in 1971 with the song ' Diese Welt '. And just like the song ' Wunder gibt es immer wider '...
Popcorn - Popcorn Orchestra
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This cheap looking sleeve hides the fact that the Popcorn Orchestra is actually French synth god Jean Michel Jarre. At least, that is what m...
Ich hab' auf Liebe gesetzt - Marianne Rosenberg
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German singer Marianne Rosenberg released this single in 1980, featuring not just one, but two cover versions in German of contemporary hits...
Walk away - Matt Monro
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When Matt Monro participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 with 'I love the little things', he was quite impressed with the...
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Dancing queen / Fernando - Abba
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This single was released in the GDR, or 'East Germany' as we called it until 1990, when that part of Germany was under communist rul...
Sunday 3 October 2021
Hotel California - Eagles
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Although I do own ' Hotel California ' on one of those re-release singles from the 'Old Gold' series, it always feels a bit ...
Here in my heart / Aldri i livet - Finn Kalvik
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For the first time in two years, I went to a real record fair this weekend. It was quite great to see a bunch of dealers at the Ahoy in Rott...
Oxygene 2 - Jean Michel Jarre
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It's time for a much needed break from the Eurovision repertoire on this blog, and it comes in the shape of French synthesizer god Jean ...
A force de prier - Nana Mouskouri
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For the longest time I have been searching for a good and cheap copy of 'A force de prier'. I bought the English version, ' The ...
Ballare stretti - Sergio Dalma
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Sergio Dalma represented Spain with ' Bailar pegados ' in 1991. By that time, recording songs in other languages had become less fas...
Ho sognato te / La danza delle note - Sandie Shaw
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When I wrote an entry on ' Wiedehopf im Mai ' last month, I already promised that the Italian version of ' Puppet on a string ...
Sunday 26 September 2021
A la folie ou pas du tout - Christian Lorant
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Serge & Christine Ghisoland performed ' A la folie ou pas du tout ' at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972. Apparently there was...
Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel - Tonia
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Arlette Antoine Dominicus was born in Anderlecht on 25 July 1947. She released her first single as Tonia in 1963, and continued to release s...
Waarom - Jacques Raymond
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Jacques Raymond was born as Jozef Remon in Temse (Belgium) on 13 October 1938. He represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 wi...
Catherine - Daniele Vidal
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Daniele Vidal was born on 27 June 1952. She was born in Morocco when it was a French colony. She debuted in 1969 at age seventeen with the r...
On and on and on - Abba
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The song 'On and on and on' was taken from the album 'Super Trouper' and in Europe it was never released on a 7" single...
Sunday 12 September 2021
L'amour est bleu - Vicky
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Vicky Leandros was just 17 when she was offered to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with 'L'amour est ble...
夢みるシャンソン人形 日本語盤 - France Gall
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It ain't easy to decipher the title on this particular single, but that's because it is written - and sung! - in Japanese. If you us...
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Stop - Bang
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The Greek band Bang was formed in 1987 consisting of members Thanos Kalliris, Vasilis Dertilis and Michalis Capoulas. The band's first r...
Charlie Chaplin - Tania Tsanaklidou
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In 1973 the Eurovision Song Contest dropped the rule that artists had to perform songs in (one of) the official language(s) of their country...
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