For several days to come we will look at the German Eurovision winner of 1982 NICOLE and original songs by her that have been covered by South African artists in Afrikaans or English. Continue reading NICOLE AND HER ORIGINAL SONG GIB MIR NOCH MEHR
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NICOLE AND HER ORIGINAL SONG ICH BRAUCH MEHR WIND UNTER MEINEN FLUGELN
For several days to come we will look at the German Eurovision winner of 1982 NICOLE and original songs by her that have been covered by South African artists in Afrikaans or English. Continue reading NICOLE AND HER ORIGINAL SONG ICH BRAUCH MEHR WIND UNTER MEINEN FLUGELN
R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 4
The fourth episode of the R S G (radio sonder grense) series was broadcast after 6 pm on Sunday 24 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 4
ONTHOU BLES BRIDGES SE DOOD 23 JAAR GELEDE – 15 van 23 LIEDJIES
24 Maart 2023 was die 23ste herdenking van die dood van BLES BRIDGES in ‘n motor ongeluk. ESC Covers het besluit om vir 23 dae elke dag een van sy videos te plaas. Continue reading ONTHOU BLES BRIDGES SE DOOD 23 JAAR GELEDE – 15 van 23 LIEDJIES
TRIBUTE TO TONY MARSHALL – cover 3 of 5 – MOOISTE HEUWELLAND
TONY MARSHALL passed away a few days ago and ESC Covers have decided to pay tribute to him by publishing 5 songs of his that were covered in Afrikaans. Continue reading TRIBUTE TO TONY MARSHALL – cover 3 of 5 – MOOISTE HEUWELLAND
ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 42 The way old friends do
ABBA has been in the music business for 50 years. To celebrate that happy event, INFE Ireland and INFE South Africa are hosting the ABBA TOP 50. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
For THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO, ESC Covers have picked an Afrikaans cover. There are at least 4 different Afrikaans covers available, but we picked ANNELI VAN ROOYEN’s one as it was the first one to be released and also the biggest hit.
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EK LEWE – ANNELI VAN ROOYEN
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The eighth song is EK LEWE by ANNELI VAN ROOYEN plus the original song JOANA by ROLAND KAISER.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but some of the composers of the song had written songs for several Eurovision selection songs.
LIKE OLD FRIENDS COMPETITION
The next competition is about the ABBA song THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO which was covered in Afrikaans many years ago, originally by Anneli van Rooyen. Several other artists covered it as well, and one of the most recent is by BRAVO, a 4 man band. Bravo actually toured in Spain some years ago and performed there at Spanish holiday resorts and got good reviews from the crowd when they sang Abba songs.
In order to win copies of the single SOOS OU VRIENDE (like old friends) by BRAVO, you must tell us which Eurovision artist you would like to be friends with – doing things together – maybe a long holiday or just hand out at the movies.
Rebecca Mikaelsson, a graphic artist from Stockholm, Sweden once again did a beautiful cover for this. I like her work a lot, you cannot help but notice the covers and that is so important in the music business.
