For several days to come we will look at the German Eurovision winner of 1982 NICOLE and original songs by her that have been covered by South African artists in Afrikaans or English. Continue reading NICOLE WITH HER ORIGINAL FLIEG NICHT SO HOCH, MEIN KLEINER FREUND
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ONTHOU BLES BRIDGES SE DOOD 23 JAAR GELEDE – 12 van 23 LIEDJIES
24 Maart 2023 was die 23ste herdenking van die dood van BLES BRIDGES in ‘n motor ongeluk. ESC Covers het besluit om vir 23 dae elke dag een van sy videos te plaas. Continue reading ONTHOU BLES BRIDGES SE DOOD 23 JAAR GELEDE – 12 van 23 LIEDJIES
GEOGRAFIE MUSIEK – TREIN NA PRETORIA – MANIE JACKSON met DIE BRIELS
Ons is steeds besig met geografie musiek, liedjies wat ‘n dorp, stad of streek se naam in hulle titels het. Continue reading GEOGRAFIE MUSIEK – TREIN NA PRETORIA – MANIE JACKSON met DIE BRIELS
MANIE JACKSON RELEASES A NEW CD WITH SEVERAL DUET PARTNERS
MANIE JACKSON is currently one of the most successful singers in South Africa. Over his career, he has covered successfully songs of G G Anderson, Udo Jurgens, Karel Gott and Andreas Martin in Afrikaans.
Continue reading MANIE JACKSON RELEASES A NEW CD WITH SEVERAL DUET PARTNERS
JULIA – MANIE JACKSON
On Saturday 25 July 2020 ESC COVERS will launch the COVER2COVER competition. In category one are 14 songs by South African artists that are covers of EUROVISION songs (actual entries or selection songs or Eurovision related because of the original artist who was an entry at Eurovision or by the composers who had written a Eurovision entry). We will list all 14 in the next days, the Afrikaans cover plus the original song.
The seventh song is JULIA by MANIE JACKSON plus the original song KOMM MIT MIR NACH VENEDIG by G G ANDERSON.
This is not an actual Eurovision entry but G G ANDERSON took part in 1988 in the German Eurovision selection with Hattest du heut’zeit fur mich.
NEW COVER OF A RALPH SIEGEL SONG
The brand new MANIE JACKSON has just been released and on it is a cover of an old Ralph Siegel song – the cover is called SING VAN LIEFDE (sing of love). Pity the CD does not have more covers of German schlager songs on.
ANDREAS MARTIN
This morning ESCCovers got a very sad e-mail.
“Do you remember Andreas Martin? About one month ago, his wife disappeared and has not been found since then. Now, also the public do not know about Andreas Martin. Some say he is in a psychiatric clinic”.
We know and love Andreas so much, from about 1984 when we discovered him and he songs. He took part for example in the German Eurovision selection in 1989 with HERZ AN HERZ which ended 4th that year.
South African music fans may not know Andreas as a singer, but many of his songs have become classics in Afrikaans covered by especially BLES BRIDGES – the most know is Andreas song ABSCHIED VON DEN STERNEN which Bles sang as REIK NA DIE STERRE.
Other fantastic songs of Andreas include SOLO TU (which Manie Jackson covered), AMORE MIO and DER HIMMEL KANN WARTEN.
After the death of two German schlager icons, CHRIS ROBERTS and ANDREA JURGENS, we cannot afford to loose another one.
MANIE JACKSON – SPECIAL COVER
On Manie Jacks0n’s gospel CD is one special track
LEEF VIR HOM (Live for him)
It is the Afrikaans cover of a big Bles Bridges English hit, FIGHT FOR LOVE but originally a hit for UDO JURGENS, the composer in German.
This cover was done for Udo but he passed away tragically before we would give it to him. But hopefully all UDO fans will enjoy the song.
