SWEDEN has won the 2023 Eurovision song contest and will host in 2024. That co-inside with the 50th anniversary of them winning in 1974 with ABBA.

For around the next  50 to 60 days ESC Covers will post one song a day which is a Swedish song, either an actual entry, a selection song, or a song by a Eurovision artist covered in South Africa, either in Afrikaans or English.

Song 17 is SISTA ANDETAGET. JAN JOHANSEN, who represented Sweden at the 1995 Eurovision song contest, tried in 2002 again in the Swedish Eurovision selection, but was not successful. The song is very good and it is a pity it did not win.

GUILLAUME WILLEMSE covered it in Afrikaans as VIR EWIG EN ALTYD. Unfortunately the cover is not on Youtube although it appears on a commercial CD by Guillaume.

We have therefore published Jan’s original and a picture of Guillaume.