From yesterday  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.

Today it is 1971 we look at.

1971 recorded the first and only victory for tiny MONACO. SEVERINE won with the French language song UN BANC, UN ARBRE, UNE RUE.

VIRGINIA LEE, at the time the top female singer in South Africa, covered the song. Virginia recorded songs in like 13 different languages and hold this record for many years.  Her cover of Monaco 1971 is called A BRAND NEW DAY. Part of it is in the original French and the part in new English lyrics.