Around 10 days ago I started to post about a Eurovision song with an original version and at least two covers. As ESC Covers is a COVERS website, one of two covers of the original song will be posted.
The 9th song is from 1978. It is PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS by BACCARA for Luxembourg. I started at 1970 and each day I will move one year. I will go on until there is hopefully one for each year that follows and then return back to 1970. Continue reading PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS – LUXEMBOURG 1978
A few days ago I started to post about a Eurovision song with an original version and at least two covers. As ESC Covers is a COVERS website, one of two covers of the original song will be posted.
The fifth song is from 1974. It is CROSS YOUR HEART by TINA REYNOLDS for Ireland. I started at 1970 and each day I will move one year. I will go on until there is hopefully one for each year that follows and then return back to 1970. Continue reading CROSS YOUR HEART – IRELAND 1974
This year we celebrate 70 years of EUROVISION. ESC Covers will pick 70 Eurovision songs but we will not publish the original as those songs are well known. Instead we will pick a cover, in various languages and by various singers. There is no order, it is just as they come into our minds. One song per day will be posted. Continue reading CELEBRATING 70 OF EUROVISION – SONG 20
In a current series, we will look for 30 days to a Eurovision song and two covers of that song to compare if maybe someone who covered it, did it better than the original. Continue reading EUROVISION SONG VERSUS COVERS – PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS
The 2025 Eurovision song contest in Basel, Switzerland was the 69th Eurovision song contest. ESC COVERS website and LOVE FOR MUSIC facebook celebrate this achievement. Continue reading CELEBRATING 69 EUROVISIONS WITH 69 ICONIC PERFORMANCES – DAY 13
ESC Covers have started a new series where we look at one song by a Eurovision artist that is not their Eurovision entry. Some artists have really a lot of other good songs. Continue reading MORE THAN JUST THEIR EUROVISION SONG – TIVOLI TIVOLI – BIRTHE KJAER
In the recent Olympic games in Tokyo, the 3 Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) performed well and won several gold medals. In a short series, we will celebrate their success in the form of Eurovision songs.
ESC Covers got the sad news that American singer B J THOMAS had passed away. Although he is not a Eurovision singer, his biggest hit RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD was covered by a host of Eurovision artists. We will publish some of the cover we could find on Youtube. Continue reading RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD – covers by Eurovision artists
About 10 days ago Cole van Dais, a South African singer, contacted ESC Covers with an idea for a video cover competition in these days of lock down over Covid 19. Cole is the South African female who has done the MOST Eurovision covers and is probably in the top 3 worldwide with maybe just Birthe Kjaer of Denmark and Katri Helena of Finland ahead of her. We worked on her idea and developed a COVER 2 COVER competition. This competition will be launched on 25 July, Cole’s birthday. From that day, for a period of 3 months, singers can submit a cover with a lock down video taken with their phone (or other methods) to us. There will be 3 categories. The first 2 are just open for people who sing in AFRIKAANS, the third category is open to anybody world wide who wants to sing a cover in ANY language other than the language in which the song was sung at Eurovision. One of the songs in this category to select from is WATERLOO of ABBA. It was sung in English at the 1974 Eurovision, so people can cover it in ANY other language but English. The details will be made public on 25 July with all the possible songs in each of the 3 categories plus all details on how to enter, obtain the backtrack etc.
The competition is a joint effort by ESC COVERS website of Roy van der Merwe and two facebooks EuroVisionMusic of Nor Bert and Eurovision Coverage of Andy Mikheev. These 3 will also be part of the judging panel. 6 or 7 more people will be added to judge. There will also be an opportunity for ordinary people to cast votes as each video we receive will be published on several Youtube channels etc. There will be a winner in each of the three categories and we look at having the 3 winners battle it out for an OVERALL winner. There will be prizes but that will be announced much later.
The aim now is just to get the competition out there for artists and singers to make a note of it in their diaries. We will do daily posts on the website and 2 facebooks over things and also have on line shows to highlight the entries. This competition is ideal for singers who want to lift their profiles because with it being Eurovision covers, we will try and have it published in as many social media as possible.
Birthe Kjaer covered the 1968 Eurovision entry from Germany in Danish as SIG JA TIL KAERLIGHED.
