Friends since high school, Ted and Susan Ottaviano (who share the same last name but are not related) initially worked musically with Jade ...

If I had to buy promotional copies of all my singles, I would be bankrupt. However, this particular promotional single is something special,...

Charlie 'Rocky' Roberts (23 August 1941 - 13 January 2005) spent some time in the U.S. navy, was a welter weight championship boxer ...

Dorthe Larsen (born 17 July 1947) grew up in Copenhagen. She received her musical training from her father, who was conductor of the Aarhus ...

The Danish entry of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1966 was Ulla Pia's ‘Stop, Mens Legen Er Go’’ (‘Stop, While The Going Is Good’). It w...

Ronnie Tober represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Morgen ' ('Tomorrow') in 1968. The Blue Diamo...

The Dutch Eurovision entry in 1966 was called ' Fernando en Filippo ' and was performed by Milly Scott, the first black singer to ev...

In 1977 Heddy Lester represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ' De mallemolen '. The song was also r...

Why would I buy yet another copy of Louis Neefs' 1969 Eurovision song ' Jennifer Jennings '? As I pointed out recently, he recor...

Jarkko & Laura are a Finnish pop-duo, consisting of Jarkko Antikainen (born 9 August 1950) and Laura Ruotsalo (born 12 August 1949). The...

Dario Compeotto represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 with the song ' Angelique' . The Swedish singer Gunnar Wi...

The funny thing about Eurovision singles is that there were often many editions and versions in different languages. I already owned Maxi ...

At the beginning of this century it was quite a task to acquire all the physical releases of Eurovision Song Contest entries. Around 25 CD-s...

It's hard to believe, but it's ten years since I saw Black, or should I say Colin Vearncombe, live at Paradiso in Amsterdam. It was ...

The group One 2 Many only released one album, but it was a great pop album and one of those albums that I still play regularly. Their bigges...

The earliest Eurovision song to obtain legendary status is Domenico Modugno's 'Volare', or, more correctly, ' Nel blu dipint...

The Spanish group Mocedades represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the song 'Eres Tu'. Without winning, the s...

It was reported recently that the Netherlands will be sending two unknown singers to next year's Eurovision Song Contest. Some people th...

A few East German singles from Abba, released by the state-run record company Amiga have already popped up on this blog: Dancing Queen/Ferna...

When I posted this single recently, I noticed that there was no previous entry about Loreena McKennitt on this blog. Which is strange, beca...