In our new series we will look at Eurovision artists in duet with someone, be it another Eurovision artist or someone not in the Eurovision circle. Eurovision South Africa facebook picked 21 such duets and here is the first one. Continue reading EUROVISION ARTIST OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN in duet with PAUL ANKA
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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
EUROVISION ARTISTS COVERING SONGS OF THE BEATLES – THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD – OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
With Eurovision 2023 taking place in Liverpool, the United Kingdom, and Liverpool is the home of the very successful group THE BEATLES, ESC Covers are looking into a couple of Beatle songs covered by Eurovision artists. Continue reading EUROVISION ARTISTS COVERING SONGS OF THE BEATLES – THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD – OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN TRIBUTE – COVERS OF HER SONGS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Many of OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN songs were covered by other artists. Although a large amount was done in English, there are several in other languages. Continue reading OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN TRIBUTE – COVERS OF HER SONGS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN – EUROVISION 1974 PASSED AWAY
So many facebooks and people have written about the death of OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN since the news broke yesterday evening, that it is stupid to write the same stuff. As ESC COVERS is a website focusing on covers, we have decided to publish covers of some of her songs in Eurovision languages. Continue reading OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN – EUROVISION 1974 PASSED AWAY
BEHIND THAT LOCKED DOOR – OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
Today is the 19th Eurovision artist we are highlighting in our series of such artists covering NON EUROVISION songs. The series will come to an end tomorrow.
Continue reading BEHIND THAT LOCKED DOOR – OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
TOP 10 EUROVISION ARTISTS DUETS
By Steve Humphreys (Australia)
One of my favourite moments from back in Vienna 2015, was seeing just how well contestants Mans Zelmerlow (Sweden) & Guy Sebastian (Australia) got on together during that week. Then this great freindship even transcended onto the Eurovision scoreboard, when both countries gave each other 12 points. There was even talk of a future duet between Mans and Guy, that would be special. This has got me thinking how many times has two stars of the past Eurovision Song Contests have actually got together to make a duet? besides covering a Eurovision entry, itself.
So I did some searching around and came up with my own
Top 10 Eurovision artists duets.
1. Maria Haukaas Storeng & Måns Zelmerlöw- ‘Precious to Me’
2. Christer Björkman & Shirley Clamp- La Vie/ This is My Life
3. Agnetha Faltskog & Tomas Ledin- Never Again
4. Johnny Logan & Nicole – No One Makes Love like You/Niemand liebt so wie du
(composed by Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger)
5. Elisabeth Andreassen & Tor Endresen- All over the World (MGP 15)
6. Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard- Suddenly (From Xanadu movie)
7. Timoteij Feat Alexander Rybak-Vända Med Vinden
8. Malena Ernman & Sarah Dawn Finer – Sancta Lucia (2013)
9. Jan Johansen & Jill Johnson- Let it be me
10. Anita Skorgan Med Jahn Teigen- Friendly
If you know of some other Eurovision duets, let us know in the comments,
Footnote: When putting this Top 10 together I realised that just one artist that actually technically should not be on the list, as they have not appeared on a Eurovision Song Contest stage, Who is that?
that’s Timoteij. I think this is okay as I recon they will make it to Eurovision one year in the not too distant future.(fingers crossed) (also the fantastic Sarah Dawn Finer made it as an interval act in Malmo)
SOUTH AFRICAN COVERS
The titles of over 400 covers of Eurovision songs by South African artists have been loaded in the library and this is more or less complete with there and there the original title of a song to be added once I have checked the spelling. That is the first part of the library – the covers are done alphabetical by original country and inside each country, by date order. The second part is the covers of melodifestivalen songs and this index is in date order and is about 40% complete. I hope to have it finished before the 2015 edition of melodifestivalen starts. I also got requests to do a third section – this is covers of songs by EUROVISION artists, for example not just Abba’s Waterloo but every ABBA song that has been covered in South Africa. This has never really been done and so I have no idea how many such covers exist but I have already loaded a lot – covers from Euro artists such as ABBA, Nicole, New Seekers, Celine Dion, Karel Gott, Nana Mouskouri, Vicky Leandros, Olivia Newton John, Mouth & Macneal etc. Hopefully some fans will see some interesting covers and go and search for them on Itunes or Youtube or wherever. 99% of the songs listed are in my own private collection- either on CD or vinyl single.