Category Archives: 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

LOOKING AT THE NORWEGIAN EUROVISION ENTRIES – 1981 to 2025 – 1989

In 1989 NORWAY selected BRITT SYNNOVE JOHANSEN to represent them at that year’s Eurovision song contest. The song she sang was VENNERS NAERHET. Inge Enoksen composed the song and Leiv N Grotte wrote the lyrics (both totally unknown to me). I have the vinyl single with the original Norwegian song on th A-side and the English version WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP on the B-side.

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NORBERT’S EUROVISION WINNER – 1989

Norbert from LOVE FOR MUSIC facebook together with Roy of ESC COVERS website have started a new series. Norbert has been following the Eurovision Song Contest for years, some favorites remain others had to make way for new favorites. In this series we will post Norbert’s winner of each Eurovision year.

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STRANGE OUTCOMES AT THE NORWEGIAN EUROVISION SELECTION – 1989

In a weekly series from Morten Thomassen, we will look at strange outcomes at the Norwegian Eurovision selection. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English. Continue reading STRANGE OUTCOMES AT THE NORWEGIAN EUROVISION SELECTION – 1989

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – EUROVISION 1989

Morten Thomassen from Norway decided to write about some of his memories of Eurovision and the Norwegian Eurovision selection. ESC Covers again will publish it after google translating it from Norwegian to English. Continue reading MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – EUROVISION 1989

Listen: Emma with her versions of ‘Door de wind’ and ‘Voilà’

Take a listen to the beautiful voice of Emma. She covered the song Door de wind (Through the wind) by Ingeborg (1989 ESC Belgium) and also performed Voilà (There) by Barbara Pravi (2021 ESC France) as a special guest with world famous André Rieu and his orchestra.

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