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 ...

The 1984 Eurovision winners the Herreys delivered the nonsensical song ' Diggi loo diggi ley ' and somehow went away as the winners ...

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...

This EP actually features four different songs, but it is their cover of 'Oui, oui, oui, oui' (originally performed by Jean Philippe...

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' was the second single taken from Paul Young's third solo album 'Between two fires'. The album and this sin...

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...

'Every time you go away' is probably my least favourite Paul Young song. Not because it's particularly bad, but because I have h...

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...

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...

Hot Chocolate's career really took off with the song 'Emma' in 1974 - their first international hit. But before that, the band a...

The American band Heart has released some classic tracks like ' Magic Man ', ' Alone ' and, oddly, the one I always hear in ...

Although the A-side of this single is De Strangers' take on 'Rivers of Babylon', a big hit for Boney M at the time, this single ...

My collection of singles by the Belgian band De Strangers is still expanding, and it's all because they have recorded so many covers of ...

Released in 1977, this single combines the two Eurovision entries of Gigliola Cinquetti on one disc, with an attractive new sleeve. ' No...

Buying singles online can be a good way out for rare items, but one has to be careful not to be cheated out of huge amounts of money. This p...

The James Bond movies used to be accompanied by classic tunes, songs that would stand the test of time. Before the producers fell for the li...

In 1978, Jean Vallee represented Belgium with ' L'amour ça fait chanter la vie '. I found that single 12 years ago in Chelsea Re...

The majority of my Laurent Voulzy discs come from Antwerp, and this one is no exception. I bought the 7" single of ' Le soleil donn...

It's always nice to find a Eurovision song in a different language than the original version, but performed by the original singer. And ...