Continue reading JONAS GLADNIKOFF – SUCCESSFUL SWEDISH EUROVISION COMPOSER
Seeing the name JOHN BALLARD as one of the composers of the song for DO RE DOS in Moldova 2018, the name looked very familiar and asked around and Andreas in Germany reported he was also involved in 4 other Euro entries recently – namely
2013 – AZERBAIJAN – HOLD ME
2014 – RUSSIA – SHINE
2016 – RUSSIA – YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
2017 – GREECE – THIS IS LOVE
ESC Covers really hopes the song he is involved with in Moldova will be their entry.
It is sad that with the final of the Swedish selection happening this weekend, we learn of the death of Lars “Dille” Diedricson. He was born on the 12th of August 1961 and died on the 6th of March 2017 in Gothenburg. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 as the songwriter for “Take Me to Your Heaven” performed by Charlotte Nilsson for Sweden. Patricia Lewis covered it in South Africa and it went double platinum. Lars was so impressed with Patricia’s cover that he produced a CD for her in Stockholm in 2000.
So difficult to find a quote here because there is so much but least settle for this
I’m sure I had my dinner watching something on TV, there’s not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn’t see.
Now the question is, is there a SINGLE EDITION of EUROVISION you have not seen? And why?
For me from 1980 when I saw the first on video cassette from a penfriend, there is not a single edition of Eurovision I had not seen – however prior to 1980, I have not seen a single episode.
Yes, we are really into the groove of showcasing just how many songs have been covered in South Africa and this compilation has been done on the request of some SWEDISH composers – this is to once again remind Eurovision fans that it is a SONG CONTEST and a good song can be sung by any artist in any language. This compilation also highlight just how success Swedish composers are as it feature Eurovision songs they have written for countries other than Sweden. Gerry from the USA once again created a special cover design.
In 2013 when Eurovision was in Malmö, we had this compilation available. There has been demand for it again since Måns Zelmerlöw is coming to Eurovision for Sweden and his CARA MIA cover is on this. So I have agreed to make a few more copies available of this compilation in Vienna in the Euro Fan Café.
The index
01 – ELEKTRIES – Andre Huysamen
(Elektrisk of Anniela)
02 – BAD BOY – Burger le Roux
(Man boy of Eric Saade)
03 – KAN EK JOU WYS – David Fourie
(Cara mia of Måns Zelmerlöw)
04 – DANS MET MY – George Meiring
(Pame of Daniel Nitsogiannis)
05 – VIR EWIG EN ALTYD – Guillaume Willemse
(Sista andetaget of Jan Johansen)
06 – LIEFDE – Jan Mattys van Lill & Chrizhan
(Love by Carola Häggkvist & Andreas Johnson)
07 – JY LAAT MY LEEF – Jaycee Crause
(Efharisto of Bosson)
08 – EK SE JOU NAAM – Kobus Muller
(Moving on of Sarah Dawn Finer)
09 – KOM ONS DANS – Leandie Lombaard
(Kom of Timoteij)
10 – LEEF VIR VANDAG – Marlouise
(Odet var min vag of Nordman)
11 – DAAR’S ‘N STER VIR JOU – Nedine Blom & Andries Botha
(Golden star of Elysion)
12 – EK SAL VIR ALTYD LEWE – Patricia Lewis
(Live forever of Magnus Carlsson)
13 – MUSIEK WAT AANHOU SPEEL – Pieter Jordaan
(Something in your eyes of Jenny Silver)
14 – HEMELRUIM – Rea le Roux
(Human frontier of Neo)
15 – GEE JOU HART VIR MY – Shaun Tait
(Lay your love on me of B W O)
16 – GLIMLAG – Steven Sterling
(Under your spell of Evan)
17 – SIEK EN SAT – Sunette Bridges
(Varje timma, var minut of Javiera)
18 – JY IS DIE BESTE – Tobi Jooste
(We are all the winners of Nick Borgen)
From tomorrow the composer page will split into THREE, one for RALPH SIEGEL, one for BERND MEINUNGER and one for BJORN & BENNY. These three have written so many songs that to have all 3 on one page becomes a little bulky. Only these 3 will be worked on prior to Vienna and after Vienna in the quiet Eurovision period, I will start on other composers, notable those from Sweden. As you can understand, this is a long term project and it is not something that can be done overnight. But it is such fun for me, today I entered some Bjorn and Benny songs in Czech and Slovak – so exotic. There are also 12 of so by SUCHI KIDS, sung in Dutch.
The idea is that as many of the Eurovision composers will be listed in our library but as you can imagine, this is a huge task. Big progress has been made with that of RALPH SIEGEL and BERND MEININGER and I plan to so do BJORN & BENNY before Vienna. All others will only be looked at after the 2015 Eurovision and will work on it during the low season of Eurovision in June, July and August.
The composer page is a very long term project and I have started with Ralph Siegel but he had done most of his best work with Bernd Meinunger doing the lyrics, so I have started to add him as well. But Bernd has written probably the most lyrics in the history of anybody – even outside of Eurovision and I will also list all those songs where he did lyrics to songs written by other composers. Bernd once said he has done lyrics for the entire alphabet, from singers starting with A to singers ending with Z. Hopefully some of you will also go and look at what is available so far of Bernd and celebrate with probably the best composer pair EUROVISION has ever seen.
