In 1982 Paola sang Peter Pan at the German selection and ended in 2nd place after Nicole – it was the third year in a row that songs of Ralph occupied the top 2 places.
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100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 9 (Papillon)
Nicole had a lot of hits in the years 1981 to 1985 and Papillon was one of them. Nicole originally recorded it in German but she also recorded versions in English, French and Dutch for example. The song was also a big hit in South Africa in Afrikaans by two of the biggest female singers – Carike Keuzenkamp and Rina Hugo.
MILLENNIUM TOP 50 – ESC COVERS (positions 48 & 47)
POSITION 48 – HASTA LA VISTA BABY – OLEXSANDR PONOMARJOVU – UKRAINE 2003
POSITION 47 – LA VOIX – MALENA ERNMAN – SWEDEN 2009
MILLENNIUM TOP 50 – ESC COVERS (positions 50 & 49)
Over 25 days we will reveal our top 50 of the millennium (2000 to 2017). We will do 2 a day.
POSITION 50
SOLAYOH – ALYONA LANSKAYA – BELARUS – 2013
POSITION 49 – I LOVE BELARUS – ANASTASIYA VINNIKOVA – 2011
ULTIMATE MILLENNIUM TOP 50 (2000 to 2017)
ULTIMATE MILLENNIUM TOP 50 (2000 – 2017) as voted by members from the Eurovision friends group
#1. SWEDEN 2012: “Euphoria”
#2. RUSSIA 2015: “A million voices”
#3. ITALIA 2015: “Grande amore”
#4. SWEDEN 2015: “Heroes”
#5. RUSSIA 2016: “You are the only one”
#6. BELGIUM 2015: “Rhythm Inside”
#7. ESTONIA 2012: “Kuula”
#8. SPAIN 2012: “Quedate conmigo”
#9. NORWAY 2015: “A monster like me”
#10. GREECE 2001: “Die for you”
#11. BELGIUM 2017: “City Lights”
#12. ESTONIA 2015: “Goodbye to yesterday”
#13. ESTONIA 2009: “Rändajad”
#14. ICELAND 2009: “Is it true?”
#15. AUSTRALIA 2016: “Sound of silence”
#16. SERBIA 2007: “Molitva”
#17. THE NETHERLANDS 2013: “Birds”
#18. SWEDEN 2014: “Undo”
#19. DENMARK 2013: “Only teardrops”
#20. THE NETHERLANDS 2014: “Calm after the storm”
#21. GREECE 2005: “My number one”
#22. AUSTRALIA 2015: “Tonight again”
#23. TURKEY 2003: “Everyway that I can”
#24. FRANCE 2016: “J’ai cherché”
#25. NORWAY 2013: “I feed you my love”
#26. ITALIA 2013: “L’essenziale”
#27. BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 2006: “Lejla”
#28. DENMARK 2010: “In a moment like this”
#29. LATVIA 2016: “Heartbeat”
#30. UKRAINE 2004: “Wild dances”
#31. AZERBAIJAN 2009: “Always”
#32. ISRAEL 2015: “Golden Boy”
#33. FYROM 2012: “Crno I belo”
#34. PORTUGAL 2017: “Amar pelos dois”
#35. ICELAND 2010: “Je ne sais quoi”
#36. CYPRUS 2012: “La la love”
#37. MOLDOVA 2013: “O mie”
#38. FINLAND 2017: “Blackbird”
#39. ICELAND 2012: “Never forget”
#40. UKRAINE 2013: “Gravity”
#41. AUSTRIA 2016: “Loin d’ici”
#42. ITALIA 2017: “Occidentali’s Karma”
#43. BULGARIA 2017: “Beautiful mess”
#44. FRANCE 2009: “Et s’il fallait le faire”
#45. BULGARIA 2016 – “If love was a crime”
#46. SAN MARINO 2013: “Crisalide (Vola)”
#47. LATVIA 2015 – “Love Injected
#48. CZECH REPUBLIC 2015 – “Hope never dies”
#49. GERMANY 2011 – “Taken by a stranger
#50. TURKEY 2010 – “We could be the same”
100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 8 (Le papa pingouin)
The 8th song in our series is Le papa pingouin by Sophie & Magaly who represented Luxembourg at the 1980 Eurovision. The song reached position 9th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTECukPlnuk
NEW VIDEO – LOIC NOTTET
100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 7 (Alright, okay, I love you)
ESC Covers always thought THE WINDOWS were the German equivalent of the Dutch duo MOUTH & MACNEAL. They were active the same time and Windows even covered their song “How do you do”. This song was composed by Ralph Siegel for them. Thanks for the help of Mike Howell we now could add the Afrikaans cover by Kobu & Hannelie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FzmcVu_GM
100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 6 (Help a friend)
One of the favourite Ralph songs of ESC Covers – this kind of anthem song should have been used at Eurovision.
Interesting to see all who are part of HELPING HANDS.
100 RALPH SIEGEL SONGS – SONG 5 (Merry Christmas and a Happy Year)
It is probably not so well-known that Ralph wrote several songs for the Bellamy brothers – among them
1 – our love is like Christmas
2 – neon cowboy
3 – on a summernight
4 – nobody’s perfect
5 – merry Christmas and a happy New Year
ESC Covers selected the last one since we are at the end of 2017 and we wish all our readers a fantastic 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcbY1L1rXU