When Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with  'La, la, la' by Massiel, other acts were quick to jump on the bandwagon. On...

Anyone who has ever seen Twin Peaks and the movie Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me will probably remember Julee Cruise, the singer who perfor...

It's an amazing coincidence that I should buy two singles named 'Boys and girls' from the same (online) dealer, but here it is: ...

The Human League started out in 1977 as a group consisting of Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright. When Ware and Cr...

Although I have been quite successful in collecting Pet Shop Boys singles (with only a few titles missing), somehow I missed this one. It...

Les petits chanteurs a la croix de bois (' The little singers with the wooden cross') are a Christian boys choir. It was founded in ...

After the EP ' Festival Eurovision 1967 ', Los Stop were back the next year with an EP featuring a Eurovision song. This time, they ...

Esther Van Ginderen-Verbeeck (8 September 1931 – 30 January 2018), also known as Tante Terry (Aunt Terry), was a Belgian Flemish-speaking te...

Sometimes I buy singles out of curiosity. That can be a good thing at times, but sometimes it's not such a good thing.  I guess it takes...

After the phenomenal success of ' I feel for you ', which topped the UK singles chart in late 1984, Chaka Khan followed that single ...

'20/20' was the title track of George Benson's 1985 album. The song was released as a single. In the UK, the single reached numb...

Cora Vaucaire was a French chanson singer, born 22 July 1918 in Marseille (France) and died 17 September 2011 in Paris (France). She recorde...

Switzerland won the very first Eurovision Song Contest, but after that... nothing. For decades they tried and tried, but nothing ever became...

Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music.His first succ...

'Heroes' is undoubtedly one of the highlights of David Bowie's genre, perhaps bridging the gap between lovers of 'Seventies ...

Record Store Day has been vilified on this blog a few times before, just like it should be. Singles one could buy for a few quid in the Eigh...

With ' T'en vas pas ' Esther Ofarim represented Switerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963. I bought the single in Januar...

The esteemed orchestra of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw recorded many things, mainly classical music, but in 1960 they filled two EP's t...

In December 2021 I bought two singles by the 3 Jacksons; one because of their version of 'Abergavenny' , and one because of their ve...

Seventeen-year-old Susan Pesklevits met Terry Jacks in the mid-1960s when he appeared as a guest on the national teen TV show Music Hop whe...