Although this EP doesn't really have a title, I bought it especially for the cover version of ' Eres tu ', the Spanish entry to ...

In 1962, Claudio Villa represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest with ' Addio, addio ', a song composed by Domenico Modugno a...

Tosca Verkooyen was born in 1969. She recorded her first single in 1979 together with Anny van de Ruit, the singer who would go on to record...

After recording ' Ciao ciao bambina (Piove) ' in 1959, Dalida continued the next year with another cover version of an Italian Eurov...

Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with ' What's another year '. Noelle Cordier, herself a Eurovision veteran ...

The Belgian band The Strangers have appeared on this blog before , and most of their singles I own are covers of Eurovision songs. This one ...

Ronny Temmer (Oudenaarde, 23 April 1942) is a Flemish pop singer, who was popular during the 1960s. His name remains associated with the son...

In 1988, Nora Brockstedt re-recorded ' Voi Voi ', the song with which she represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1960....

Nicole Josy and Hugo Sigal represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 (with ' Goeiemorgen morgen ') and in 1973 (wit...

Although Heidi Brühl was selected internally to sing five songs for the German national final for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963, other...

A lot has been written about Annie on this blog, particularly the lyrics of her Eighties singles which were a bit morbid at times. Those lyr...

The The have released three singles from their new album Ensoulment until now, but unfortunately the first and third one have eluded me unt...

Although war crept in to some Abba tracks from time to time (most notably 'Waterloo' and 'Fernando'), the feeling of paranoi...

After a short break, Abba returned to the studio in the spring of 1982. The first results were deemed disappointing: the tracks 'Just li...

'Head over heels' was released in March 1982 as the second single from the album The Visitors .  Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead voca...

At the start of the 1980s, Abba was slowly falling apart. After the divorce of Björn and Agnetha (which some felt was documented in 'The...

Having released one album and six singles on the WEA/Arti label, Dutch singer Annie found herself without a recording contract. No wonder: a...

My recent post about All About Eve's 'Wild hearted woman' was one part of the story. There's another part to it, of course, ...

'Lay all your love on me' was not intended to be a single but after a remixed version gained popularity in nightclubs, the song was...

I've always viewed 'Super trouper' as an Abba-by-numbers track. Sure, the melody is there and the vocals are spot on, but the ly...