Lasse Mårtenson represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with 'Laiskotellen'. The song was composed by Mårtenson and ...

When I wrote my post about ' Hullu yö ' recently, I noticed that my post about another single by Kaija was missing from this blog. I...

Strictly speaking, the lead track of this EP is 'The day the rains came', as it's the first track on the A-side, but it's th...

When Malta started participating in the Eurovision Song Contest in the early 1970's, they insisted on performing in Maltese. This didn...

The Portuguese Grupo Música released their last single in 1978, featuring covers of 'A-ba-ni-bi', the Israeli winning song of the Eu...

Grupo Música is another one of those anonymous acts who were busy recording covers of Eurovision songs. This single is their first release, ...

There's some more Portuguese covers of Eurovision songs in the batch of singles I received recently. This one was released in 1976 and f...

I do love covers of Eurovision songs, for some reason, and sometimes there's a particular twist that really interests me. This EP featur...

Although I already own ' Un grand, grand amour ' 13 years already, somehow I never got my hands on the original Portuguese version o...

Kirsten & Søren represented Denmark three times during the Eighties, and always with schlager-informed ditties that were either infectio...

I discovered Marie Fredriksson's solo material after she joined Per Gessle and started the Roxette phenomenon. During the Nineties they ...

The song ' Dschinghis Khan ' by the band of the same name was a big success in 1979. So much so, that several acts recorded cover ve...

Although Finland only ever won the Eurovision Song Contest once with Lordi's 'Hard Rock Hallelujah', there's another hard-ed...

The new Depeche Mode album is called 'Memento mori' and it promises to be a dark affair. The lead single 'Ghosts again' cert...

The Dutch 'favorieten expres' version of 'Près de ma rivière' appeared on this blog almost a decade ago, but recently I ac...

I bought the 7" single ' En un mundo nuevo ' 13 years ago, the Spanish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1971. The song was...

Carmela Corren (née Bizman, 13 February 1938 – 15 January 2022) was an Israeli singer and actress. She dreamed of being a dancer, but switch...

Ami Aspelund represented Finland in 1983 with the song 'Fantasiaa'. It was written Kaisu Liuhala and composed by Kari Kuusamo. Accor...

Although Danish singer Birthe Kjaer didn't get to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest until 1989 with the classic '...

Generally speaking, Australians aren't exactly good in preserving old records. There are several cd-singles and singles from Australia i...