The Bendik Singers were a four-member Norwegian vocal group, brought together by singer and composer Arne Bendiksen to participate in the E...

Sometimes it's no fun being a collector. I already had ' Pas pour moi ' and ' Nee voor mij ', the French, English and Du...

I think this single is probably one of the most wellknown by the Carpenters. When you hear the first few lines, you'll instantly recogni...

Many years ago, 43 to be exact, I got the album Het beste uit de Top 40 van het jaar . It was one of the first albums I owned and I played i...

Swedish singer Thory Gunhild Elisabet Bernhards was born on 12 October 1920 in Örebro. Her career started in the middle of World War II, whe...

If you would ask me what the most beautiful winning songs of the Eurovision Song Contest are, it is likely that my answer would include ...

Although I already own 'n Beetje and 'n Beetje , two singles by Teddy Scholten, this EP is the one that rules them all. It features...

Owning Pale shelter , Pale shelter , Pale shelter and Pale shelter was not quite enough. While that last one is the 12" single of the...

During the Sixties there was – not for the last time – fear for a nuclear disaster. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 was still fresh in ever...

After Nana Mouskouri covered Abba's hit single ' Chiquitita ' in 1984, she probably thought she could take on another song from ...

MCA Records was pretty smart when it came to selling their singles. They probably knew that the interest in Dannii Minogue was at least in p...

'Baby Love' is a 1986 song by American singer Regina. The song was written by Stephen Bray, Regina Richards & Mary Kessler and s...

Two years before Bob Benny represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest with ' September gouden roos ', he appeared on the Eur...

‘September, Gouden Roos’ was written by Wim Brabants (pseudonym for Clem de Ridder) and Hans Flower. Belgium was in the middle of the Congo...

'Tipi-tii' (best translated as 'Chirpy-chirp') was the Finnish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 in Luxembourg. It w...

In 1976, Mary Cristy represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ' Toi, la musique et moi '. I bought the single...

One of my favourite Eurovision songs from 1988 was the Finnish entry 'Nauravat silmät muistetaan' by the band Boulevard. Unfortunate...

At the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, Norway was represented by Kirsti Sparboe with the song 'Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli' (...

"The great radio and television competition in 1957 for the best European melody will live long in the memory. No less than 10 contries...

Denmark participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1960 with the song 'Det var en yndig tid', performed by Katy Bødtger. The son...