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.
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SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – PIET SOUER & PETER VAN ASTEN
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
PROMO SINGLE – IRELAND
Ireland does not supply the press with a promo single every year and this year they handed out a sticker. So we had to produce a promo single for the African library and this is how it will look. DYING TO TRY is quite a good song, pity it was recorded by maybe the wrong singer.
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – BOBBY LJUNGGREN, HAKAN ALMQVIST & INGELA FORSMAN
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
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 known as one of the composers of the 1983 Eurovision song of Sweden – Framling of Carola Haggkvist.
GERT LENGSTRAND – he is most know as one of the composers of the 1999 Eurovision song of Sweden and eventual winner that year – Take me to your heaven of Charlotte Nillson.
PROMO SINGLE – ESTONIA
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.
PROMO SINGLE – ICELAND
Are you as tired of PAPER was we are, then this is just the right medicine. The 4th in our series of promo singles is called PAPER by Svala and is the 2017 Eurovision entry from Iceland. In Kyiv we all got paper and links to down, so now we have a proper promo single.
PROMO SINGLE – UNITED KINGDOM
The third in our series of promo singles of Eurovision 2017 is NEVER GIVE UP ON US of Lucie Jones.
Thank you to Stephan Haroldt for a great design
SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – PIERRE KARTNER
We start today with a new daily series with will probably stretch over 100 days to look at various EUROVISION composers but at OTHER songs they have composed. Often a Euro composer has just made it with one song in Eurovision but has had many others released and some even were bigger hits.
The first one is PIERRE KARTNER of THE NETHERLANDS. ESCCovers likes the song he wrote for SIENEKE called IK BEN VERLIEFD (SHA LA LIE). It was the entry of the Netherlands in 2010.
The song we look at is ALLEEN DROMEN DOEN WE APART (The only thing we do apart is dreaming) sung by the Dutch duo of Frank & Mirella. The single came out in 1994.
NEW EUROVISION COVERS by DIRK LAZENBY
The day started off great when we received the latest two Eurovision covers. A singer from Cape Town, DIRK LAZENBY has recorded a full CD and on it will be two Eurovision covers.The CD is currently at the printers and once it becomes available, we will inform you about the details.
The two euro covers are
Lithuania 2012 Love is blind of Donny Montell which will be called JY’S DIE EEN VIR MY (you are the one for me)
Belarus 2012 We are the heroes of Litesound which will be called EK WIL JOU HELP WEES (I want to be your hero).
Andy Mikheev, the chief editor of ESCKaz website heard the two covers and said it is of the BEST ever to come out of South Africa.
Roy van der Merwe, the president of Eurovision South Africa loves both songs as well. but most know he just love covers and is not as objective when it comes to real world quality,which according to Andy these two covers are.
Dirk is still fairly unknown but this CD, if the other songs are of the same standard, is destined for big things.
A special thanks to Riaan Steyn who is helping Dirk to realize his dream with this CD.
