1. Earlier this year Roy published on the ESC Covers website the cover images of two compilation CDs he had made for Ralph Siegel of Ralph Siegel’s songs in Afrikaans. Name one of Ralph Siegel’s Eurovision entries that have been covered in Afrikaans.
2. A Czech singer sang for Austria in 1968 with a song composed by Udo Jurgens called Tausend Fenster. What was the name of the singer?
3. Tor Endresen is one of the contestants in this year’s Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix. Name the title of the song that Tor performed at an earlier Eurovision Song Contest. It is a famous city in the USA.
4. Name the title of the only song composed by Ralph Siegel that has been performed at Eurovision by Montenegro.
5. San Marino was represented by Valentina Monetta three times at Eurovision. Which of these three songs took San Marino into the Final?
6. What is the first name of one of the three Herrey brothers.
7. Jonsi represented Iceland in a duet at Eurovision in 2012. Name the song he sang.
8. How many entries in 2014 had just one word in their song title?
9. Name one of the two countries that have two artists in the 60th anniversary show hosted by the BBC on 31 March.
10. Who sang ‘High’ for Norway in 2004?
11. Switzerland hosted the first contest. Peter, Sue & Marc have represented them 4 times, each time in a different language. Name one of the 4 Eurovision songs by Peter, Sue & Marc.
12. In what year did Croatia debut as an independent country at Eurovision?
Its time for the final question and in a few days I will re-cap all 12 questions in one post.
Of the countries missing at Eurovision 2015, I am the saddest about CROATIA. They provided three time my favourite of the year – 1995, 2004 and 2013. So the question is about Croatia. What year did they debut as an independent country at Eurovision?
The selection CD of Iceland 2015 is now available on Itunes
1. Aldrei of seint – Regína Ósk 2. Augnablik – Stefanía Svavarsdóttir 3. Brotið gler – Bjarni Hall 4. Fjaðrir – Sunday 5. Fyrir alla – Cadem 6. Í kvöld – Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir 7. Í síðasta skipti – Friðrik Dór 8. Lítil skref – María Ólafsdóttir 9. Milljón augnablik – Haukur Heiðar Hauksson 10. Myrkrið hljótt – Erna Hrönn Ólafsdóttir 11. Piltur og stúlka – Björn og félagar 12. Þú leitar líka að mér – Hinemoa 13.–24. Karaoke versions of all songs
In reaction to AUSTRALIA being allowed into EUROVISION 2015, I have now come up with an idea for 2016.
I have just written to RALPH SIEGEL to ask him to compose a song for NAMIBIA for 2016 and fund their entry into Eurovision 2016. After all, Namibia was a German protectorate and German is still widely spoken there. In the 70’s German singers like Heino and Tony Marshall had number one hits in their charts. Heino even sang a song about SOUTHWEST AFRICA as it was called before independence.
We are almost at the end. For the 11th question, lets go back to SWITZERLAND who hosted the first contest. Over the years they sang in all 4 their national languages. Peter, Sue & Marc represented them 4 times, each with a different language. The question is simple – name of our those 4 songs.
We have just heard the news that a song composed by Danne Attlerud of Sweden is one of the songs in the 2015 Irish selection. I went Danne for the first time in 2004 in Istanbul when he composed (with others) the song for Norway that year – HIGH – which remains one of my top songs. I will dearly like Danne to be at Eurovision again, he has come so close several times, like with Malta in 2013 and Denmark in 2014. I can ask so many questions over this, but I will keep it easy – who sang HIGH for Norway in 2004?
It has been brought to our attention that Anne Gadegaard who was in the Danish 2015 Eurovision selection with SUITCASE has taken part for Denmark way back in 2003 at JUNIOR EUROVISION – her song was called ARABIENS DROM
After an evening of lights and glitz from the Gigantium in Aalborg, the winner of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prize was announced, and Denmark have choose the band Anti Social Media to represent them in Vienna with the song The Way You Are.
You can watch their winning entry below. Do you think it is Denmark’s year again in 2015?
I have not forgotten but with load shedding – 5 hours last night, it is difficult to get to everything. The latest question is quite simple – name one of the two countries who have TWO artists in the 60th anniversary show hosted by the BBC on 31 March.
