Serge & Christine Ghisoland performed ' A la folie ou pas du tout ' at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972. Apparently there was...

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...

Jacques Raymond was born as Jozef Remon in Temse (Belgium) on 13 October 1938. He represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 wi...

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...

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...

Vicky Leandros was just 17 when she was offered to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967 with 'L'amour est ble...

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...

The Greek band Bang was formed in 1987 consisting of members Thanos Kalliris, Vasilis Dertilis and Michalis Capoulas. The band's first r...

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...

Tajči, a.k.a. Tatjana Matejaš, was born on 1 July 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia. She represented Yugoslavia in 1990 with the song 'Hajde da lu...

Guy Mardel was one of many Eurovision artists who recorded his song for the competition in different languages. His 1965 entry ' N'a...

I've no idea why Ernst Bader, who provided the German lyric of ' Puppet on a string ', decided on 'Hoopoe in May' when h...

I don't know exactly how unusual it is for a French artist to record a German version of their song, but I think it doesn't happen v...

The Norwegian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 was ' Sámiid Aednan ', and I found that single seven years ago after a l...

Strictly speaking, I already had 'Need your love so bad' on a single, as it appeared on the flipside of ' Albatross ', a sin...

In 1969, the Eurovision Song Contest was organized in Spain, after Massiel's controversial win in 1968. The Spanish record company Belte...

Just two years ago I got ' I giorni dell'arcobaleno ', a single by Nicola di Bari and his Eurovision entry from 1972. It's a...

The Buranovksie Babushki formed in the 1970s in Buranovo, a small rural locality in the Udmurt Republic of Russia. They became famous when t...

Iva Zanicchi was born on 18 January 1940. Her career started in 1962 when she participated in the Castrocaro music festival, where she ended...

Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was born on 1 November 1957. While studying medicine, he represented Portugal in 1981 with the song 'Play...