DANNY, at the age of 78, is one of 7 candidates in the 2021 Finnish Eurovision selection. For 15 days, we will focus on songs covered by Danny. The 5th song we are featuring is a cover of the 1978 Eurovision entry from the UNITED KINGDOM. The original song is THE BADOLD DAYS by Co co. For this cover, Danny teamed up with ARMI, who was a Miss Finland and their Finnish cover is called JAI TAAKSE PAIVAT NUO.
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ON MERI TANAAN RAUHATON – DANNY
DANNY, at the age of 78, is one of 7 candidates in the 2021 Finnish Eurovision selection. For 15 days, we will focus on songs covered by Danny. The 4th song we are featuring is a cover of the 1981 Eurovision entry from GREECE. The original song is FENGARI KALOKERINO by Yiannis Dimitrias, Danny calls his Finnish cover ON MERI TANAAN RAUHATON.
SAASTA SUUKKOSI VAIN – DANNY
DANNY, at the age of 78, is one of 7 candidates in the 2021 Finnish Eurovision selection. For 15 days, we will focus on songs covered by Danny. The 3rd song we are featuring is a cover of a Eurovision winner. It is the 1976 entry of the United Kingdom SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME by Brotherhood of man. Danny calls his Finnish cover SAASTA SUUKKOSI VAIN.
AMARILLO – DANNY
lkka Johannes Lipsanen (born September 24, 1942), commonly known by his stage name Danny, is a Finnish singer and guitarist. Still active, Danny’s singing career is one of the longest in Finland, spanning over more than 50 years. He has recorded many evergreen hit songs. And now at the age of 78 he is one of the 7 finalists in the Finnish Eurovision selection. To celebrate this achievement, ESC Covers has decided to highlight around 15 songs Danny has recorded over his long career, most covers – after all this is a website focusing on the covering of songs. The second song of Danny is a solo release, covering the song (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO, originally by British singer Tony Christie. Tony was in the British Eurovision selection in the 70’s with QUEEN OF THE MARDI GRAS. Danny covered the Tony Christie song in Finnish but kept the title as AMARILLO.
VAI NIIN VAL NIIN – DANNY & EIJA MERILA
Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen (born September 24, 1942), commonly known by his stage name Danny, is a Finnish singer and guitarist. Still active, Danny’s singing career is one of the longest in Finland, spanning over more than 50 years. He has recorded many evergreen hit songs. And now at the age of 78 he is one of the 7 finalists in the Finnish Eurovision selection. To celebrate this achievement, ESC Covers has decided to highlight around 15 songs Danny has recorded over his long career, most covers – after all this is a website focusing on the covering of songs. We start off today with Danny in duet with Eija Merila covering the song HOW DO YOU DO, originally by Dutch duo Mouth & Macneal. This duo represented the Netherlands at the 1974 Eurovision song contest with I SEE A STAR. The Finnish title of How do you do is called VAI NIIN VAL NIIN.
EUROVISION COVER – BEATLES (Finnish)
Danny covered the 1977 Eurovision entry from Sweden BEATLES in Finnish.
EUROVISION COVER – FENGARI KALOKERINO (Finnish)
Danny covered the 1981 Eurovision entry from Greece FENGARI KALOKERINO in Finnish as ON MERI TANAAN RAUHATON.
EUROVISION COVER – JUDY JUDY (Finnish)
Danny covered the 1976 Eurovision entry from Belgium JUDY JUDY in Finnish.