ESC COVERS want to wish German composer RALPH SIEGEL a happy birthday today. Continue reading RALPH SIEGEL CELEBRATES HIS 79TH BIRTHDAY TODAY
Tag Archives: Ge Korsten
R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 9
The 9th episode started at 18.10 on Sunday 27 August. Elsje van Jaarsveld presented it while Ilse Schurmann wrote the text and produced the show. Technical production is by Wihan Nel. Continue reading R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 9
R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 6
The sixth episode started at 18.10 on Sunday 6 August 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 6
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
R S G SERIES ON THE SONGS FROM THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST – episode 3
The third episode of the R S G (radio sonder grense) series was broadcast after 6 pm on Sunday 15 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 3
EUROVISION HIGHLIGHTS FOR ESC COVERS FROM 1970 to 2023 -1973
ESC COVERS started to 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 -1973
TRIBUTE TO TONY MARSHALL – cover 4 of 5 – GAAN DIT GOED MET JOU (U LI NAUA TU)
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 4 of 5 – GAAN DIT GOED MET JOU (U LI NAUA TU)
GEOGRAFIE MUSIEK – JERUSALEM – GE KORSTEN & RINA HUGO
Ons is steeds besig met geografie musiek waar ons kyk na liedjies met ‘n dorp, stad of streek se naam in die titel. Continue reading GEOGRAFIE MUSIEK – JERUSALEM – GE KORSTEN & RINA HUGO
LIEFDESTYD – GE KORSTEN
Mike Howell discovered that GE KORSTEN covered the 1973 Eurovision entry from Germany, JUNGER TAG by GITTE in Afrikaans as LIEFDESTYD. Continue reading LIEFDESTYD – GE KORSTEN
LIEFLING- GE KORSTEN
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 second song is LIEFLING by GE KORSTEN plus the original song FRIEDEN by PETER MAFFAY.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but one of the composers of the song, Michael Kunze had done the lyrics to several songs in Eurovision song contest over the years.