Friday 3 December 2021
Boom bang-a-bang - Heidi Brühl
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After covering the song ' La la la ' in 1968, Heidi Brühl continued the next year with another winning Eurovision song: her version ...
Veronica vrij - Ben Cramer
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This single is an interesting one. I think I saw it many times without realizing that the B-side, 'Aan het mooie Noordzeestrand', is...
Spaar al jou kusjes - Peter Silver
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Peter Silver may have been a minor player in the Dutch music scene, since he never had any hits, but he still managed to release a dozen sin...
La la la - Claire Lepage
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Claire Lepage is a popular singer of the late Sixties. She was born in Lachute (Canada) on 9 November 1945. This single by her presents two ...
Uno per tutte - Marino Marini e il suo quartetto
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Here's another version of 'Uno per tutte', the song that was performed by Emilio Pericoli at the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest wh...
Thursday 2 December 2021
Em Aranjuez come tue amor - Amalia Rodrigues
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Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues GCSE, GCIH (23 July 1920 – 6 October 1999), better known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese fadista ...
Speeldoos - Sandy Fort
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Sandy Fort was born as Jopie Sandifort in Rotterdam in 1931. She was part of the duo Sandy & Max, who released a version of 'Moon ri...
Dio come ti amo - José Guardiola
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José Guardiola was born on 22 October 1930 in Barcelona. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and reached his...
La, la, la -Gitte Hænning
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Gitte Hænning is no stranger to the Eurovision Song Contest: she represented Germany in 1973 with the song ' Junger Tag '. She also ...
Waarom toch, waarom - Dick Rienstra
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Dick Rienstra (Assen, 1941 – 2021) was a Dutch singer and actor. He began his musical career in a local group, The Double S Combo, where he ...
Dikke Lou - De strangers
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The 1984 Eurovision winners the Herreys delivered the nonsensical song ' Diggi loo diggi ley ' and somehow went away as the winners ...
Wednesday 1 December 2021
Rock bottom - Brothers of the world
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If you didn't want to fork out 10,000 Italian lira (or whatever the price of a vinyl single was at that time) for the original version o...
Oui oui oui oui - Les Djinns
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This EP actually features four different songs, but it is their cover of 'Oui, oui, oui, oui' (originally performed by Jean Philippe...
Een beetje - John de Mol
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The Dutch national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 took place on 17 February of that year in Hilversum. It was a complicated affi...
Some people - Paul Young
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'Some people' was the second single taken from Paul Young's third solo album 'Between two fires'. The album and this sin...
San Remo festival - Robertino
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Robertino Loreti was born in Rome on 22 October 1947. As a child he sang in restaurants and in the early Sixties he was discovered by Danis...
Sunday 28 November 2021
Every time you go away - Paul Young
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'Every time you go away' is probably my least favourite Paul Young song. Not because it's particularly bad, but because I have h...
(We don't need this) Fascist groove thang (Rapino Brothers remixes) - Heaven 17
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I tend to think that the Nineties were the turning point for pop music. All the creativity of the Eighties seemed to have evaporated and mad...
Vivre, vivre heisst leben - Carole Vinci
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Carole Vinci initially wanted to be a sports teacher. At the end of 1977 she was approached to participate in the Swiss preselection for th...
You'll always be a friend - Hot Chocolate
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Hot Chocolate's career really took off with the song 'Emma' in 1974 - their first international hit. But before that, the band a...
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