Inge Brück was born on October 12, 1936 in Mannheim (Germany). She represented Germany during the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with ...

Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh from Heaven 17 didn't have enough work on their hands, so they devoted part of their time to the '...

'Tubular bells' remains Mike Oldfield's best known piece of work, even if it was the first album he ever recorded. Since its r...

Rock 'n' roll can be exciting, as I found out quite early on, when I got the album The best of the top 40 of the year in the summ...

Sergio Endrigo was born in Pola, Istria (Italy) on June 15, 1933 and started his career in music in the early 1960's. After releasing ...

Released in 1985, 'Experience' was a single by Diana Ross that went by almost unnoticed, even if the song was written by the Bee G...

Serge & Christine Ghisoland (both born in 1946) are a singing duo and married couple from Mouscron, Belgium, best known for their part...

As you can gather from this blog, my collection focuses on pop music, but I do enjoy a bit of classical music now and then. Whether George...

I'm not really sure if a sleeve like the one shown here would be well received nowadays, with all the #metoo scandals we have been wit...

The previous two entries on this blog came with the big one: this single. I have been hunting for the two Wilde Three singles for decades ...

Stevie Wonder has a lot of big hits on his name, but sometimes even Stevie Wonder released unsuccessful singles. 'He's misstra kno...

American singer-songwriter Tommy Roe was born on May 9, 1942 started his career in the USA, but moved to the UK after a successful tour wi...

'Who comes up with these things?' is a question I ask myself sometimes when I hear remixes of great old songs. Take for instance t...

German singer Walter Andreas Schwarz was born on June 2, 1913. In 1956, he was one of two performers representing Germany during the first...

Although most people will remember ' Shouldn't have to be like that ' as Fra Lippo Lippi's only achievement, they actually...

I recently re-discovered Elvis Costello's 'Everyday I write the book', a song that was regularly on TV back in 1983 and 1984, ...

Although I realise that I already had the A-side track of this single on the B-side of ' Je ogen hebben geen geheimen ' by Carola,...

John Paul Young will forever be remembered for that other single, ' Love is in the air ', but that isn't the only single he ev...

Julee Cruise became a big star for a moment when she rode the wave of the phenomenon that was 'Twin Peaks' in the early 1990's...

Tom Spencer was one of many people who recorded a cover version of the Gershon Kingsley tune 'Popcorn', but he is the only one - a...