We can announce that ESC Covers together with ESC United will join forces to bring you more detailed coverage of the 2015 Swedish selection from both Andra chance and the final in Stockholm. Thank you to all who have been involved to make this possible, especially those at Melodifestival who approved the accreditation for our journalist and his cameraman.
FORTH QUESTION – of 12
Today’s question is about Montenegro because many people commented on me wearing a Montenegro t-shirt during the interview last night with the KYKNET show, FLITS. I have received many t-shits over the years at Eurovision and have 41 of them. The Montenegro one is my favourite because of the little design that looks like a vinyl single. Any way, the question is that Montenegro had a song in Eurovision one year composed by Ralph Siegel. This is also the only Montenegro entry covered in Afrikaans. Give the title of this song.
SOUTH AFRICAN COVERS UPDATE
Over the past 2 weeks I have been able to regularly UPDATE the South African covers in our library and I have just started with LUXEMBOURG, so more or less half way now. There are a few blanks as I have to check the correct spelling of the original titles (like some of France) before writing it down. I have put a deadline to have it completed by APRIL but it could be earlier if I continue at this rate
VALENTINA MONETTA – 2014 PROMO SINGLE
And here is the last of the Valentina promo singles, the 2014 song from the Copenhagen contest.
THIRD QUESTION – of 12
N R K, the Norwegian broadcaster, announced today the 11 songs for their selection for Vienna. It is a comeback for TOR ENDRESEN who has represented Norway before at Eurovision. I was playing with the idea to ask a very tough question and then discovered I do not even know the answer myself. Tor was in the Norwegian selection many years ago with a song called RADIO LUXEMBOURG. It did not win that year (I wanted to ask which year but then discovered I do not even know myself) but the song became a huge hit. The interesting aspect of this song is that it was composed by ROLF LOVLAND who wrote the 1985 and 1995 Eurovision winners and of course the world wise success YOU RAISE ME UP. So the easy question is, what is the song called that Tor had in the Eurovision – it is a famous city in the USA. This fits in well with his new song ALL OVER THE WORLD, so lets hope we get people all over the world entering our competition
VALENTINA MONETTA – 2013 PROMO SINGLE
Here is the second Valentina promo CD, the one from the 2013 Eurovision in Malmo
World Of Violence is the new single by Bogi
Bogi is a young and rising star in Hungary. She appeared in the 2013 and 2013 editions of the A Dal national selection with Tükörkép and We All respectively. We All took Bogi to the final four in 2014 and was also an entry at the Eurovision OGAE Second Chance competition in 2014.
Now Bogi returns with her brand new single World Of Violence. The song is composed by Péter Halász and Zoltán G Tóth . The arrangement is by Arnold Vigh and mixed and mastered at Silverhill Studio. The single is available via iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/hu/album/world-of-violence/id956564284?i=956564478. The song will also feature in the 2015 edition of the Hungarian Eurovision selection, A Dal.
You can see the video for World Of Violence below.
Source: Eurofied.com; Magneoton; www.esccovers.com
SECOND QUESTION – of 12
2007 when the contest was held in Helsinki, Finland, the Czech republic made its début. They participated just 3 times and then withdrew, only to return this year in Vienna. But a Czech singer sang for AUSTRIA in 1968 with a song composed by UDO JURGENS called TAUSEND FENSTER. What is the name of this singer? He is the most known of all Czech singers and a couple of years ago celebrated his 70th birthday and a CD set with his 70 biggest hits were released. There songs are in the Czech language and some interesting ones are
Delilah of Tom Jones in Czech
El condor paza of Simon & Garfunkel in Czech
Let your love flow of Bellamy brothers in Czech
Mandy of Barry Manilow in Czech
Love me tender of Elvis Presley in Czech
Annie’s song of John Denver in Czech
Unfortunately NO euro cover but is is still interesting to hear these songs in a very exotic language byone if the world’s best singers (in my opinion).
VALENTINA MONETTA – 2012 PROMO CD SINGLE
Valentina participated for San Marino 3 years in a row and all three the promo CD’s are very nice and special. Here is the first one from 2012
FIRST QUESTION – OF 12
It is no secret that I am a RALPH SIEGEL and and in fact it was him that got me into EUROVISION so no surprise that the first question is about him. A few days ago I published the covers of two compilation CD’s I have made for Ralph of his songs in Afrikaans. So the question is, name one of his EURO entries COVERED in Afrikaans – and there are quite a few you can choose from.