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 – 5 van 23 LIEDJIES
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MERCI CHERIE – MAXIMILIAN ARLAND & ANNEMARIE EILFELD
MERCI CHERIE, which won the 1966 Eurovision song contest for Austria and performed by Udo Jurgens, got covered several times. MAXIMILIAN ARLAND and ANNEMARIE EILFELD did it too in German. Continue reading MERCI CHERIE – MAXIMILIAN ARLAND & ANNEMARIE EILFELD
MANIE JACKSON RELEASES A NEW CD WITH SEVERAL DUET PARTNERS
MANIE JACKSON is currently one of the most successful singers in South Africa. Over his career, he has covered successfully songs of G G Anderson, Udo Jurgens, Karel Gott and Andreas Martin in Afrikaans.
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LET THE MUSIC PLAY – AUSTRIA
For the next month or two, INFE Australia, INFE Ireland and INFE South Africa teamed up to pick their favourite Eurovision entry involving a MALE SINGER from each country that have participated in the Eurovision song contest.
STAR OF THE WEEK – KAREL GOTT – TAUSEND FENSTER
STAR OF THE WEEK is a new project, in which throughout the week the attention is focused on 1 singer, duo or group. In the next 6 days we will post 6 songs by Karel Gott, Roy van der Merwe and Norbert Pannemann each picked 3 songs.
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STAR OF THE WEEK – KAREL GOTT
STAR OF THE WEEK is a new project, in which throughout the week the attention is focused on 1 singer, duo or group. In the next 6 days we will post 6 songs by Karel Gott. Roy van der Merwe and Norbert Pannemann each picked 3 songs.
TOP 100 – position 76 – MERCI CHERIE – UDO JURGENS
Here is the EUROVISION TOP 100 made in response to the top 10’s sent by 103 members of Eurovision Cafe, MUSIC, eurovision and beyond, Compare and INFE Australia and some Eurovision stars!
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KISS ME QUICK – UDO JURGENS
Today we are highlighting the 18th Eurovision star doing a cover of a NON EUROVISION song.
MERCI CHERIE – GARRY HAGGER
GARRY HAGGER, stage name of Gert Vanderhaeghe, was born in Tielrode on 29 April 1963. He is a Flemish singer.
DAAR IS NIKS SOOS WARE LIEFDE – GROEP 2
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 twelfth song is DAAR IS NIKS SOOS WARE LIEFDE by GROEP 2 plus the original singer UDO JURGENS of Austria also doing it in Afrikaans. His original German song WAHRE LIEBE IST GANZ LEISE is not on Youtube,
This is not an actual Eurovision entry. It was however composed by UDO JURGENS who participated no less than 3 times in the 60’s for Austria at the Eurovision song contest. This third time, in 1966 he actually won the contest with MERCI CHERI.