I read on another website that one of the three members of SHEEBA, who sang for Ireland at the 1981 Eurovision with HOROSCOPES has retired. She is Maxi (Irene McCoubrey). Here is the cover of another Sheeba single COMING TO YOU. Interesting is that this song was composed by Dutch composers Peter van Asten and Richard de Bois who write the 1984 Dutch entry IK HOU VAN JOU for Maribelle.
We turn our attention now to GREECE and the entry they had when they hosted Eurovision in 2006. It is EVERYTHING sung by ANNA VISSI. The Afrikaans cover is by AMOR VITTONE.
The next song is a real classic in South African terms. The original song is FUR ALLE by WIND, GERMANY 1985. In Afrikaans it has been covered by various artists but the biggest hit was the version of ANDRE SCHWARTZ
With Australia now into Eurovision 2015, I was wondering how many Euro songs have been covered by Australian artists. This is the only one I have in my collection.
Its time for the final question and in a few days I will re-cap all 12 questions in one post.
Of the countries missing at Eurovision 2015, I am the saddest about CROATIA. They provided three time my favourite of the year – 1995, 2004 and 2013. So the question is about Croatia. What year did they debut as an independent country at Eurovision?
We are almost at the end. For the 11th question, lets go back to SWITZERLAND who hosted the first contest. Over the years they sang in all 4 their national languages. Peter, Sue & Marc represented them 4 times, each with a different language. The question is simple – name of our those 4 songs.