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EUROVISION COVER – EUPHORIA (Afrikaans)
In 2012 Loreen won the Eurovision song contest for Sweden with EUPHORIA. Tanya V covered it in Afrikaans.
NEW CD – JULIA LINDHOLM
ESC Covers were unable to find any CDs in Georgia (besides Junior Eurovision promo singles) but on Roy’ return home yesterday found a new German CD by Julia Lindholm which feature several covers of mainly songs by Swedish acts – among them two of ABBA. There is also a cover of Euphoria of Loreen. Also one of Alcazar Crying at the discoteque.
Måns Zelmerlöw to perform in Iceland
Måns Zelmerlöw, winner of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, will perform at the Icelandic Finals this year.
On the 11th of March the six final Icelandic entries will compete in Laugardalshöll Arena for the chance to represent Iceland in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, Ukraine.
Last year´s guests of honour was Loreen, winner of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan, with her entry “Euphoria” and the Sandra Kim the Belgian singer who won Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song “J’aime la vie” .
This year, Swedish Måns Zelmerlöw, is set to perform at least two songs at the Icelandic finals in the Laugardalshöll Arena.
His entry, “Heroes”, was the winning act at the 2015 event in Vienna, Austria.
The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the most popular televised events in Iceland and Zelmerlöw´s performance is much anticipated by the fans. The Swedish heart throb is likely to set some hearts aflutter.
Info from Icelandic head of press – David Luther
TOUCH OF CLASS CD
The duo Touch of class originally started as Ronel Erasmus and Deon van der Merwe. Nowadays it is still Deon but he has now been joined by Ruhan du Toit. Their latest CD is out and it is called 100 DUISEND PERDE (one hundred thousand horses). The title track is an original song composed by Michael de Lange who is the vice president of Eurovision South Africa. On the CD is a cover of Sweden’s 2003 Eurovision entry, GIVE ME YOUR LOVE. Ruhan of Touch of class sings it in duet with Tanya V (who covered the 2012 Swedish Euro winner Euphoria in Afrikaans). They do this in English. Another interesting song is WAT JOU HART IN KAN GLO (What your heart can believe in) which Ruhan does in duet with Jasmyn who has covered tons of Euro songs, most recently Russia 2013 and Russia 2015 in Afrikaans. The CD is currently number 2 on the Musica Cd shop charts (they are the largest chain in the country) and number 3 on the official CD charts in South Africa.
R OW’s FAVOURITE SONG – THE FINAL RESULT
Written by Tamas Vamos of Hungary
After 6 weeks and 3 round of voting, we have a winner! Now we can name a song as our all-time favourite in 2015. (The competition started in 2015.)
In the Nominations round, where we were looking for our TOP60, finally we had a drama after the last votes arrived! 5 nominations were enough for qualification, as our club’s members have so different taste of music. But there were 49 songs with 6 or more votes and 12 with 5. So it was a tie and one song was drawn to be eliminated: Unsubstantial blues (Hungary, 2007) was the unlucky entry. Two Swedish songs, Euphoria and Waterloo got the most votes, 26 for each.
In the second round, the 60 songs were in 6 group of ten.
In Group A, Grande Amore got the most (19) votes; Making Your Mind Up and Take Me to Your Heaven both were second with 15. The tie-breaking was based on the more nominations in the first round, so 1981’s winning song went to the Final. Sévérine’s song finished at the bottom with 3 votes, the 9th place belongs to New Tomorrow as they got 5.
Group B: Euphoria had 28 votes, while the second place song is Satellite with 14. The unlucky third was Gravity with 10 votes. La det swinge and Stronger Every Minute finished last with 5 votes for each.
Group C: Monster Like Me won this group with 16 votes, followed by Only Teardrops with 13. Hold Me Now and Calm After the Storm finished as third with 12-12 points. Cliff Richard’s Congratulations finished surprisingly last with only 4 votes, following 1979’s Hallelujah who got 7.
Group D: Rhythm Inside had the second best score in this round, winning its group with 20 votes. Diva became second with 15. The third was Shady Lady with 12. Lane moje and I Feed You My Love both finished last with 4 votes.
Group E: The winner of this group is Waterloo with 19 votes, the second is Rise Like a Phoenix (14). Quédate conmigo and Goodbye to Yesterday both got 12 votes so they became third. The oldest song in this whole round, Nel blu dipinto di blu became last with 4 votes. The second last were Love Shine a Light, This Is My Life and Alexander Rybak’s Fairytale – all of them got 7 votes. Fairytale got more nominations in the first round, but the rest two had the same amount. As there are more songs from the UK, the Icelandic one is ranked higher.
Group F: Undo won this group with 17 votes, followed by Gina G with 15. (Her song missed to win the group as finished behind Sanna, but not so much – just a little bit…) The third place is the best Hungarian entry in our competition: Kati Wolf got 13 votes. The last two are Euro-Vision with 3 votes and Molitva (who one the similar competition in Hungary) with 4.
In the FINAL:
There’s only one song who did not get any nil points: Rise Like a Phoenix!
The most zeros went to Ooh… Aah… Just a Little Bit.
All the songs in the TOP12 got at least one douze points from someone.If you want to feel some excitement, watch the video but not this table below which contains the amount of the points the songs got from the 53 voters.
All the songs in the TOP12 got at least one douze points from someone.If you want to feel some excitement, watch the video but not this table below which contains the amount of the points the songs got from the 53 voters.
R O W TOP SONGS – EUPHORIA
For the 4th year in a row, OGAE members voted this as the best song. I do like it, as I am a Thomas Gson fan but EUPHORIA by LOREEN is by no means my top song – with such a title you would expect much more energy and joy. But this Eurovision winner of 2012 is going down as a classic.
R O W BEST SONG – FINAL TWELVE
Hello again Rest of the World!
Thank you so much for all your diligence, hard work and sacrifice in getting through round two of our search for the favourite Eurovision song for our brilliant fan club. The results have been tallied. The top twelve songs have been selected… by YOU!
Now… We ask for you to provide a typical Eurovision scorecard to the twelve songs… That is allocate 12, 10 and then 8-1 points in order of your most favourite (12 points), down. This means two songs will indeed receive nil points from each voter. C’est la vie!
The finalists are as follows:
ABBA – Waterloo
Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up
Gina G – Ooh Aah… Just A Little Bit
Dana International – Diva
Lena – Satellite
Loreen – Euphoria
Emmelie de Forest – Only Teardrops
Conchita Wurst – Rise Like A Phoenix
Sanna Nielsen – Undo
Il Volo – Grande Amore
Loic Nottet – Rhythm Inside
Morland & Debrah Scarlett – A Monster Like Me
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The timeframe to get these votes through – until midnight 10 January CET.
As previously, please send your votes to escvotes@gmail.com .
Should you wish to discuss this further, please feel free to comment below… If anyone wishes to complain, please send an email directly to our customer service division transvision.vamp@bidc.com (this is not monitored).
Have fun!!!
Rest of the World…. Start voting….
NOW!
R O W BEST SONG
Hello to our wonderful fan club!
Thank you so much for everyone who voted in our search for our favourite Eurovision song for ROW. A staggeringly brilliant 55 people voted!!!
We have our 60 songs for round two!
This is going to be tough…
There are now 6 groups of 10 songs each… We have the wonderful (awful) task now of picking just TWO songs from each group. That’s right… Pick YOUR favourite TWO songs from each of the 6 groups… For round 3, we will then, by the most voted for, reduce our 60 to just 12!!!!
The groups are as follows:
| Group A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Séverine – Un banc, un arbre, une rue (Monaco, 1971) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up (United Kingdom, 1981) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicole – Ein bißchen Frieden (Germany, 1982) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charlotte Nilsson – Take Me to Your Heaven (Sweden, 1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Helena Paparizou – My Number One (Greece, 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Verka Serduchka – Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Ukraine, 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Friend in London – New Tomorrow (Denmark, 2011) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ott Lepland – Kuula (Estonia, 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Krista Siegfrids – Marry Me (Finland, 2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Il Volo – Grande amore (Italy, 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group B
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EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 39 of 60
Because so many songs from Sweden have been covered in South Africa, we are doing a second one – this time their 2012 entry EUPHORIA by LOREEN who also won Eurovision that year. The Afrikaans cover is by Tanya V
