For the next month or two, INFE Australia, INFE Ireland and INFE South Africa teamed up to pick their favourite Eurovision entry involving a MALE SINGER from each country that have participated in the Eurovision song contest.
Category Archives: 1981 Eurovision Song Contest
WINNER 1981 – MAKING YOUR MIND UP -BUCKS FIZZ
We all know that taste in music can differ, also during the Eurovision Song Contest… Some countries give the highest points to the winner while other countries ignore the winning song.
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WORST DUTCH EUROVISION ENTRY
It is with utter shock that ESC Covers received the news from the Netherlands that they had a vote to determine the worst Dutch Eurovision entry.
40 years today since Bucks Fizz won Eurovision with ‘Making Your Mind Up’
Today, 4 April, is the 40th anniversary of Bucks Fizz winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with Making Your Mind Up. If you were around what memories do you have of that time?
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LEILA – SEID MEMIC-VAJTA (Yugoslavia 1981)
A few days ago we finished with our Top 100 which were compiled from the top 10’s of 103 people. Now for about 2 weeks, Roy of ESC Covers will do his top 20 of Eurovision songs he would have liked in the top 100 but they did not make it.
On a side note, a big thank you to Carolina of Peru who drew the beautiful Johannesburg Eurofriend, which we use as the featured image.
TOP 100 – position 12 – IO SENZA TE – PETER SUE & MARC
Here is the EUROVISION TOP 100 made in response to the top 10’s sent by 103 members of Eurovision Cafe, MUSIC, eurovision and beyond, Compare and INFE Australia and some Eurovision stars!
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TOP 100 – position 28 – MAKING YOUR MIND UP – BUCKS FIZZ
Here is the EUROVISION TOP 100 made in response to the top 10’s sent by 103 members of Eurovision Cafe, MUSIC, eurovision and beyond, Compare and INFE Australia and some Eurovision stars!
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TOP 100 – position 64 – HET IS EEN WONDER – LINDA WILLIAMS
Here is the EUROVISION TOP 100 made in response to the top 10’s sent by 103 members of Eurovision Cafe, MUSIC, eurovision and beyond, Compare and INFE Australia and some Eurovision stars!
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BLOWING IN THE WIND – PETER SUE & MARC
The 9th song in our series, where we highlight Eurovision artists/stars covering NON EUROVISION songs. Today we have PETER SUE & MARC, who represented SWITZERLAND a record 4 times at the Eurovision song contest (1971, 1976, 1979 and 1981) and each time in another language (French, English, German and Italian), with a cover of a Bob Dylan song BLOWING IN THE WIND. Peter Sue & Marc recorded it in English.
IN DE LENTE – LINDA WILLIAMS
LINDA WILLIAMS represented THE NETHERLANDS at the 1981 Eurovision song contest with the song HET IS EEN WONDER. She has covered a NON EUROVISION song which was a big hit for NANA MOUSOURI, who herself participated in the 1963 Eurovision song contest for Luxembourg. The song Linda has covered is LA PROVANCE which Ralph Siegel composed and Bernd Meinunger wrote the German lyrics. Linda’s cover is called IN DE LENTE. It is the 7th song in our series.