The trio Aska came to prominence when they were chosen to represent Yugoslavia at the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest. The members of the grou...

In 1966, Udo Jürgens won the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Merci Chérie '. Given the fact that Eurovision was very much a popular T...

Imagine being sixteen years old and winning with ' Non ho l'eta ' at the Italian San Remo festival, and then going on to the Eur...

This EP is an obvious attempt to profit from the popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest during the mid-Sixties. Released on the Week-end ...

Although 'Exodus' is undoubtedly the lead track on this EP by José Guardiola, I bought it for one of the other tracks: his version o...

Ten years after she won the Eurovision Song Contest, Gigliola Cinquetti competed again in 1974 with the song ' Si '. I bought the si...

I was reading an article about Louis Neefs a little while ago, and I found out that he recorded his song 'Jennifer Jennings' in seve...

When I wrote an entry about the UK release of ' Waiting for that day ' in 2009 (!), it said that the single was not released in Euro...

Now that physical record buying is an option again, it is interesting to buy singles out of curiosity. Obviously the Popcorn Makers were wel...

'Auntie' is a song released by Philips Records in 1972 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC. It is named after the affec...

German singer Manuela recorded a generous amount of cover versions during her career, and two of them already made their way to this blog: ...

'You Only Live Twice' is the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film of the same name. The music was by veteran Bond film composer Jo...

Although Agnetha Fältskog is often named as the most beautiful and talented of the two Abba women, I usually prefer Frida. She has recorded ...

The Portuguese girl group Doce represented their country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982 with the song 'Bem Bom'. I wasn'...

Some would say that this blog focuses too much on Eurovision lately, and they would be right of course. So it is nice to venture out in pop ...

You wouldn't expect it when you see the sleeve (pictured here), but this is actually the Ben Liebrand remix version of 'The eve of t...

Jahn Teigen became a celebrity in Norway because of 'Mil etter mil'. Not because he won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 with ...

In 1971, Norway sent Hanne Krogh to the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Lykken er'. It was her first of three appearances at ...

I bought Anita Skorgan's ' Oliver ' not so long ago, her second attempt at Eurovision success. That single featured the English ...

I've posted a lot of singles by Willy Alberti recently, and that's mainly because I discovered these Eurovision covers by him for re...