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.
We have just heard the news that a song composed by Danne Attlerud of Sweden is one of the songs in the 2015 Irish selection. I went Danne for the first time in 2004 in Istanbul when he composed (with others) the song for Norway that year – HIGH – which remains one of my top songs. I will dearly like Danne to be at Eurovision again, he has come so close several times, like with Malta in 2013 and Denmark in 2014. I can ask so many questions over this, but I will keep it easy – who sang HIGH for Norway in 2004?
I have not forgotten but with load shedding – 5 hours last night, it is difficult to get to everything. The latest question is quite simple – name one of the two countries who have TWO artists in the 60th anniversary show hosted by the BBC on 31 March.
This is a very easy question – with ESC Covers publishing the covers of several Herrey’s vinyl singles, we need you to name one of the 3 Herrey brothers – the first name, so there are 3 to choose from.
The 5th question revolves around SAN MARINO and I have published three promo CD’s singles, 2012, 2013 and 2014, all three of Valentina Monetta and all three composed by Ralph Siegel. The question is easy, which one took San Marino into the final?
Today’s question is about Montenegro because many people commented on me wearing a Montenegro t-shirt during the interview last night with the KYKNET show, FLITS. I have received many t-shits over the years at Eurovision and have 41 of them. The Montenegro one is my favourite because of the little design that looks like a vinyl single. Any way, the question is that Montenegro had a song in Eurovision one year composed by Ralph Siegel. This is also the only Montenegro entry covered in Afrikaans. Give the title of this song.
N R K, the Norwegian broadcaster, announced today the 11 songs for their selection for Vienna. It is a comeback for TOR ENDRESEN who has represented Norway before at Eurovision. I was playing with the idea to ask a very tough question and then discovered I do not even know the answer myself. Tor was in the Norwegian selection many years ago with a song called RADIO LUXEMBOURG. It did not win that year (I wanted to ask which year but then discovered I do not even know myself) but the song became a huge hit. The interesting aspect of this song is that it was composed by ROLF LOVLAND who wrote the 1985 and 1995 Eurovision winners and of course the world wise success YOU RAISE ME UP. So the easy question is, what is the song called that Tor had in the Eurovision – it is a famous city in the USA. This fits in well with his new song ALL OVER THE WORLD, so lets hope we get people all over the world entering our competition
2007 when the contest was held in Helsinki, Finland, the Czech republic made its début. They participated just 3 times and then withdrew, only to return this year in Vienna. But a Czech singer sang for AUSTRIA in 1968 with a song composed by UDO JURGENS called TAUSEND FENSTER. What is the name of this singer? He is the most known of all Czech singers and a couple of years ago celebrated his 70th birthday and a CD set with his 70 biggest hits were released. There songs are in the Czech language and some interesting ones are
Delilah of Tom Jones in Czech
El condor paza of Simon & Garfunkel in Czech
Let your love flow of Bellamy brothers in Czech
Mandy of Barry Manilow in Czech
Love me tender of Elvis Presley in Czech
Annie’s song of John Denver in Czech
Unfortunately NO euro cover but is is still interesting to hear these songs in a very exotic language byone if the world’s best singers (in my opinion).
It is no secret that I am a RALPH SIEGEL and and in fact it was him that got me into EUROVISION so no surprise that the first question is about him. A few days ago I published the covers of two compilation CD’s I have made for Ralph of his songs in Afrikaans. So the question is, name one of his EURO entries COVERED in Afrikaans – and there are quite a few you can choose from.