I have a few singles of Mai Tai's 'Am I losing you forever' ( here , here and here ), but I didn't know that there was an e...

Back in 1985, the Norwegian duo Bobbysocks won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'La det swinge'. The English version ' Let it sw...

It took me a while to continue the Annie story after this entry , perhaps because it is slightly embarrassing to own up to the fact that I a...

Silvio Francesco (Paris, July 13, 1927 – Lugano, August 20, 2000) was an Italian schlager singer, entertainer, clarinetist, guitarist, dance...

Although ' Eres tu ' is considered a Eurovision classic by many, the fact that Mocedades recorded the song in many other languages i...

An EP like this is slightly frustrating, because I only bought it for one track, but I get four of them, which aren't necessarily attrac...

Quite why Alison Moyet decided to record a cover version of ' Weak in the presence of beauty ' is not something I know. The original...

Dutch singer Reggy van der Burgt was born on 14 September 1944 in Uden. She started singing early on, but things really took off when she i...

Flamenco is the national pride of Spain, a music style with a lot of pathos and drama. Lola Flores could be seen as one of the biggest cultu...

In Spain, promotional singles were often made in a special edition of only one side. The B-side remained blank, and for some people, includi...

Paola represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 with the song ' Bonjour, bonjour '. The song was sung in German...

The Spanish record company Belter released this promotional EP featuring three Eurovision songs in 1969 and called it Eurovision '69 . F...

Gianni Mascolo (3 November 1940 – 21 December 2016) was an Italian singer, best known for his participation on behalf of Switzerland in the ...

I've had a certain soft spot for Mouth & MacNeal, mostly because they were my very first single . But also because they delivered a ...

In 1972 the New Seekers represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Beg, Steal or Borrow '. It wasn't u...

Such was the popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest in those early years that pretty much every song was covered by a handful of artists....

Although I was quite a fan of The The ever since their single 'Uncertain smile', I never knew that they released an exclusive track ...

Although I already own ' Brothers in arms ' on a 7" single (and on CD), the 10" single format has a bit of an attraction f...

In December 2021 I bought a blue vinyl EP of 'Angelique' by Dario Campeotto, the Danish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 19...

I already own a few singles by Gemini, the duo formed by Karin and Anders Glenmark. What's interesting about this duo is that they worke...