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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 17 I’ve been waiting for you

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC  Covers, as usual, add a cover to each ABBA song and for I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU, it is by DIANNE CHANDLER, a British singer who came to South Africa and recorded the song here and released it as a vinyl single.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 16 If it wasn’t for the nights

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC COVERS add a cover to every ABBA song.  For the song IF IT WASN’T FOR THE NIGHTS, we have HAZELL DEAN who also sings it in English.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 15 I have a dream

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC COVERS again add a cover of the ABBA song and we have decided on a cover in Croatian by TEREZA KESOVIJA. It is called PRONADI PUT. According to Norbert she had taken part in Eurovision for both old Yugoslavia as well as Monaco.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 14 Hasta manana

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC Covers also add a cover to every ABBA song. Today’s cover is in Afrikaans. HASTA MANANA was the first ABBA song covered in AFRIKAANS. GLENYS LYNNE, the JILL of the group FOUR JACKS AND A JILL (who performed in English), decided to sing solo in Afrikaans and had several big hits, mostly covers and this was one of them.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 13 Head over heels

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC Covers add a cover for each ABBA song, but HEAD OVER HEELS is a difficult song. We were unable to find any vocal covers and only a PAUL MAURIAT instrumental cover.

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1964 Eurovision Song Contest, 1974 Eurovision Song Contest

STAR OF THE WEEK – GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI – Song 6 Quelli erano i giorni

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STAR OF THE WEEK is a project by INFE South Africa and INFE Ireland, in which throughout the week the attention is focused on 1 singer, duo or group.

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STAR OF THE WEEK – GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI – Song 5 Ora che amo te

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STAR OF THE WEEK is a project by INFE South Africa and INFE Ireland, in which throughout the week the attention is focused on 1 singer, duo or group.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 12 Gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC Covers add a cover to each ABBA song and for GIMME GIMME GIMME A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT we picked a cover in BULGARIAN by MIMI IVANOVA & START called GOVORYA NA SYN.

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1974 Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA 50 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS – Song 11 Fernando

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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 from Monday September 20 to Tuesday November 9. We’ll be posting what we think are the 50 best ABBA songs in alphabetical order. Enjoy!
ESC Covers will also pick a cover of an Abba song and in the case of FERNANDO, we have picked a Czech cover by VERA SPINAROVA. It is also called FERNANDO.

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