Dieter Bohlen had two songs in the 1989 Eurovision song contest 1 – AUSTRIA – NUR EIN LIED sung by Thomas Forstner 2 – GERMANY – FLIEGER sung by Nino de Angelo Dieter Bohlen is of course one half of the very successful duo MODERN TALKING and he wrote this song for then READY FOR […]
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – ALFONS WEINDORF & BRUNNER & BRUNNER
28 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
The Brunner brothers Karl and Johann together with Alfons Weindorf wrote the 1994 Eurovision entry for Austria FUR DEN FRIEDEN DER WELT sung by Petra Frey, The Brunner brothers released many songs over the years and this song DU BIST LEBEN FUR MICH they brought out in 1996, again using Alfons to write the melody […]
NEW VIDEO – ICH TROJE (POLAND)
27 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
Ich Troje represented Poland at Eurovision in 2003 and 2006. Here is their latest video -LETNIA PRZYGODA (summer adventure)
PROMO SINGLE – NETHERLANDS
27 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
In recent years the Netherlands has not brought promo singles to Eurovision. This year, according to your knowledge, they brought nothing to promote their entry LIGHTS AND SHADOWS by OG3NE.We had seen some promo item that probably was handed out at the AMSTERDAM event. To not have the Netherlands spot in the library stay empty, […]
PROMO SINGLE – BELGIUM
27 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
Belgium’s 2017 entry CITY LIGHTS by BLANCHE was hard to get as a promo single – big demand, small supply, so we had one made for the African library.
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – PIET SOUER & PETER VAN ASTEN
26 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
In 1998 Maurice Kroon released a song called WE SLAAN DIE SLAG. Two of the four composers of this song are Eurovision composers: PIET SOUER who wrote the 1983 Dutch entry SING ME A SONG, sung by Bernadette PETER VAN ASTEN who wrote the 1984 Dutch entry IK HOU VAN JOU, sung by Maribelle
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – BOBBY LJUNGGREN, HAKAN ALMQVIST & INGELA FORSMAN
25 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
The trio of Bobby Ljunggren, Hakan Almqvist and Ingela Forsman wrote the song KARLEKEN TILL DEJ for ROBERT RANDQUIST in 1997. A year later the three wrote KARLEKEN AR for Jill Johnson and she represented Sweden that year at the Eurovision song contest. Interesting that both songs are about KARLEKEN
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – LASSE HOLM & GERT LENGSTRAND
25 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
The second in our series of songs by EUROVISION composers – songs that were not their Eurovision entries. Today it is HENRIK ABERG who is a Swedish singer (probably unknown outside of Sweden) and his song JENNY OCH JAG. The song has two composers and both are Euro composers: LASSE HOLM – he is most […]
PROMO SINGLE – ESTONIA
24 July 2017 By Leave a Comment
In Kyiv, members of press got the Estonian promo item as a 12 inch vinyl single. It is special and unique, but far too big to fit into the EUROVISION library in Johannesburg, South Africa, so now we had a special promo single made. This won’t get lost now.
