DATE – 21st MARCH
VENUE – AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING – NETHERLANDS = SWITZERLAND = BELGIUM = GERMANY = FRANCE = MONACO = ITALY = UNITED KINGDOM = LUXEMBOURG = SPAIN = YUGOSLAVIA = IRELAND
WINNING COUNTRY – IRELAND
WINNING ARTIST – DANA
WINNING SONG – ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING
YOUTUBE VIDEO CHOSEN FROM THE 1970 SONGS – GWEBDOLYNE by JULIO IGLESIAS
INTERESTING FACT – ALTHOUGH JUST 12 PARTICIPANTS, THERE WAS A GREAT WINNER.
Featured image – Youtube
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 YEARS OF EUROVISION – SONG 10
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 – ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING
DANA represented Ireland at the 1970 Eurovision song contest with ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING. It turned out to the first winner for Ireland. Continue reading MORE THAN JUST THEIR EUROVISION SONG – PLEASE TELL HIM THAT I SAID HELLO – DANA
The first episode of the R S G (radio sonder grense) series started after 6 pm on Sunday 2 July. Elsje van Jaarsveld presented it while Ilse Schurmann wrote the text and produced the show. Continue reading R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 1
From today ESC COVERS will look at 1 or 2 highlights from every Eurovision song contest from 1970 to 2023. This may be an actual entry, a cover from that year or just a specific artist. Continue reading EUROVISION HIGHLIGHTS FOR ESC COVERS FROM 1970 TO 2023 – 1970
For the next weeks, we will publish the top Eurovision song from 1970 to 2022 as rated by ESC Covers. Continue reading ESC COVERS TOP EUROVISION SONG FOR 1970
Unfortunately Virginia Lee from South Africa covered the 1970 Eurovision winner ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING in English – the same language as the original by Dana from Ireland.
Dana won the 1970 Eurovision song contest for Ireland (their first victory) with ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING. Willeke Alberti covered it in Dutch – in 1994 Willeke represented the Netherlands at Eurovision.
IRELAND 1970
Alles herinner my – Manuel Escorcio
(title should be Soveel herinner my)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhQjT14cdA
All kinds of everything – Dana
