Now we move over to the 4th cover, the last for today. This one features a bridge in COSTA RICA, a small country in LATIN AMERICA but they became the first to join R O W in a big way.
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EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – COVER THREE
Now it is time for the 3rd compilation cover – and this time the cover features a famous bridge in the United States of America.
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – COVER TWO
I will do two a day so now it is time for the second one. The theme for the covers is BRIDGES to fit in with BUILDING BRIDGES. The first one is a famous bridge in SOUTH AFRICA, the second one a famous bridge in AUSTRALIA – wonder if you can guess the other 4 countries for the remaining bridges?
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – COVER ONE
Finally the time has come to publish the 6 covers of the compilation CD’s especially created to celebrate the fact that Eurovision is 60 years old. Over the next few days all 6 covers will be displayed. Once all 6 covers are on board, you can write to us on the website if you interested in winning such a compilation. You have to give us your name, whether you will be in Vienna or not and which of the 6 CD’s you would like if you are a winner – there are plus minus 100 copies to be won. A big thank you to Gerry of the USA for the wonderful designs.
BEST OF MELODIFESTIVAL IN AFRIKAANS COMPILATION
In 2013 when Eurovision was in Malmö, we had this compilation available. There has been demand for it again since Måns Zelmerlöw is coming to Eurovision for Sweden and his CARA MIA cover is on this. So I have agreed to make a few more copies available of this compilation in Vienna in the Euro Fan Café.
The index
01 – ELEKTRIES – Andre Huysamen
(Elektrisk of Anniela)
02 – BAD BOY – Burger le Roux
(Man boy of Eric Saade)
03 – KAN EK JOU WYS – David Fourie
(Cara mia of Måns Zelmerlöw)
04 – DANS MET MY – George Meiring
(Pame of Daniel Nitsogiannis)
05 – VIR EWIG EN ALTYD – Guillaume Willemse
(Sista andetaget of Jan Johansen)
06 – LIEFDE – Jan Mattys van Lill & Chrizhan
(Love by Carola Häggkvist & Andreas Johnson)
07 – JY LAAT MY LEEF – Jaycee Crause
(Efharisto of Bosson)
08 – EK SE JOU NAAM – Kobus Muller
(Moving on of Sarah Dawn Finer)
09 – KOM ONS DANS – Leandie Lombaard
(Kom of Timoteij)
10 – LEEF VIR VANDAG – Marlouise
(Odet var min vag of Nordman)
11 – DAAR’S ‘N STER VIR JOU – Nedine Blom & Andries Botha
(Golden star of Elysion)
12 – EK SAL VIR ALTYD LEWE – Patricia Lewis
(Live forever of Magnus Carlsson)
13 – MUSIEK WAT AANHOU SPEEL – Pieter Jordaan
(Something in your eyes of Jenny Silver)
14 – HEMELRUIM – Rea le Roux
(Human frontier of Neo)
15 – GEE JOU HART VIR MY – Shaun Tait
(Lay your love on me of B W O)
16 – GLIMLAG – Steven Sterling
(Under your spell of Evan)
17 – SIEK EN SAT – Sunette Bridges
(Varje timma, var minut of Javiera)
18 – JY IS DIE BESTE – Tobi Jooste
(We are all the winners of Nick Borgen)
COMPILATION CD – SWEDISH COMPOSERS
I received a request from someone to do a compilation CD featuring covers in South Africa of Eurovision songs composed by Swedish composers for other countries than Sweden.
Here is the index
01 – NORWAY 2004
Die lewe is wat jy daarvan maak – Dominec
02 – LITHUANIA 2005
Later en later – Jennifer Zamudio
03 – BELGIUM 2006
Je t’adore – Shine 4
04 – SPAIN 2007
Wees deel van my lewe – Andre Martinez
05 – LATVIA 2007
Hierdie nag – Qualitrio
06 – NORWAY 2007
Dans met my – Leandie Lombaard
07 – LATVIA 2008
Hi hi ho – Willem Botha
08 – IRELAND 2009
Verby met jou – Bianca Pienaar
09 – GREECE 2009
Asemloos – Chrismarche
10 – AZERBAIJAN 2010
Drup oor my hart – Jaycee Crause
11 – DENMARK 2010
In tye soos die – Burger le Roux & Charne Grabie
12 – IRELAND 2010
Dit is vir jou – Jasmyn
13 – NORWAY 2010
Vier seisoene – Steven Sterling
14 – AZERBAIJAN 2012
Wanneer die musiek verdwyn – Cole van Dais
15 – UNITED KINGDOM 2012
Ware liefde maak jou vry – Steve D
16 – NORWAY 2012
Bly – Ruan de Waal
17 – CYPRUS 2012
Kan nie wag nie (la la la) – Chrizaan
18 – AZERBAIJAN 2011
My hart het klaar besluit – David Fourie & Monique Steyn
ROCKING SON
It is interesting to compare the original versions of songs from DSCHINGHIS KHAN with the new covers by ROCKING SON OF DSCHINGHIS KHAN
VIVA LA MUSICA
Who remembers this song from the Polish selection one year?
It is a Thomas Gson composition and one of my favourites. I also like the Swedish duo a lot and it is a pity they did not make it in Poland that year. Eurovision is all about music and so songs with music in the title is always special.
MISSING OUT ON THE 60th CELEBRATION COMPILATIONS
Now that all 60 songs have been made public, we can look at a few of the songs that just missed out. One of them is the 2005 BELGIUM entry LE GRAND SOIR of NUNO RESENDE which has been covered in Afrikaans by CHARL BOTHMA
EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 60 of 60
We finally reached the end of the 60 songs on the compilation CD’s for the 60th celebration of Eurovision and we ending off with the UNITED KINGDOM where on 31 March a show will happen to celebrate 60 years of Eurovision. We have picked their 2004 song HOLD ON TO OUR LOVE of JAMES FOX. The Afrikaans cover is done by GUILLAUME WILLEMSE.
