Sometimes when you wait long enough records become affordable. Take for instance this 10" single from Snow Patrol, released on Record S...

It's hard to resist a beautiful picture disc, and some great ones were released in the Eighties. Not that this one is particularly stunn...

It has to be said that I already own the music on this single, as I bought the European edition in 1985. It was on red vinyl too. But it...

Captain Sensible achieved his only chart hit in the Netherlands in the last weeks of 1982 with the single 'Wot!', a track that featu...

I bought a copy of Helen Terry's 'Love lies lost' 13 years ago and I wrote about it on this blog. (I can't believe it's ...

The single ' Goodbye cruel word ' was actually released twice. I didn't know that before, but I bought this single and then disc...

The Sparks' ' This town ain't big enough for both of us ' was one of the first songs I was grabbed by as a child, not just b...

Another one of those San Remo-inspired EP's was released in 1959 by Gianni Ales y su conjunto, also known as  Gianni Ales ed il suo comp...

Back in the Sixties, the Sanremo festival was a popular music festival and spawned many cover versions. This single from the Spanish group L...

This single is a bit of an odd beast. Colin Blunstone has one of the best voices in the business and 'Tracks of my tears' is a class...

It's the song you know in a version that you don't. Jennifer Rush had a big hit in 1985 with 'The power of love', but she al...

It's only 16 months since I bought Claude Lombard's ' Quand tu reviendras ', and even then I was aware that there was also a...

Three decades went by since I bought ' Dreiklangs dimensionen ' by Rheingold. The band was confident enough to also record an Englis...

Having bought a Spanish single of ' We'll live it all again ' before, I was extra cautious before buying this one. Like the othe...

It's always great to find an Abba single I don't have yet, and this is a special one: the German version of 'Waterloo'. Yes,...

You wouldn't think that the American singer with the deep, sultry voice Barry White and the Eurovision Song Contest have anything in com...

In 1979, Belgium was represented by Micha Marah, who performed a handful of songs during a national final. Contrary to what she expected, th...

It's funny how many cover versions there are of 'Piove', the 1959 Italian Eurovision entry by Domenico Modugno. This blog has pr...

Another Danish singer who recorded several covers of Eurovision songs was Poul Bundgaard. I bought one of his singles, ' Sig dejlige tin...

Grethe Sønck was born on 16 July 1929 as Grethe Ingeborg Nielsen Hald. She changed her surname to Sønck in 1968. In 1946, she won a talent c...