Serbia won the 2007 Eurovision song contest. Congratulations to Marija Šerifović and her girls!
You can download all versions of the 2007 winning song on the official
Serbian Eurovision site. It features the song Molitva in Serbian, English, Russian and Finnish plus a host of remixes.
While Serbia is celebrating the victory it's time for Eurocovers to get back to all year round
business as usual: Coverversions of Eurovision songs from 1956 to 2007.
First there some updates on previous posts sent to me by e-mail or added in the comments. Thanks to all for your contributions.
CHINESE VERSIONSI have updated the Chinese versions document with some more information and have re-uploaded it
here. (word.doc,
updated januari 2009)
A great addition is a lovely Chinese version of
Johnny Blue, the 1981 entry from Germany originally by Lena Valaitis.
(Thanks to Anonymous, not the Andorran band)
雷安娜 - 別了憂鬱
Annabelle Lui -
Bie liao you yu Johnny Blue
on LP 舊夢不需記 (No Need To Remember Old Dreams) 1981 & best of CD 真經典 Zhen Jin Dian.
UPDATE: The CD re-issue of the 1981 Annabelle Lui LP can be ordered
at YesAsia.com (Global) - -
PUPPETS ON A STRINGIn the comments on the
Tatjana Hubinská article with the Slovak version of
Puppet On A String, Lou Kash from
Funky Czech-In posted a nice biography of the singer which I have added to the article.
(Thanks Lou!)
The
Year Of The Puppet, featuring coverversions of Sandie Shaws 1967 Eurovision winner isn't over yet. I will be featuring more versions all through 2007.
Meanwhile you can hear an exotic version of the song at the
I'm Learning To Share blog.
It's by the Old Oak Casablanca Steel Orchestra from Trinidad and you can find backgrounds and songs of one of Trinidad's longest running steel bands in
this article.
Check out this blog for some amazing 78's, advertisments and loads of interesting odds and ends. The
Gerty Molzen post is a must see/hear!
(Thanks Jim!)
The
Year Of The Puppet celebrates the 40 year anniversary of Sandie Shaw's Eurovision victory with
Puppet On A String. Introduction to the series in
this Eurocovers post.
Other versions of Puppet On A String already featured are from
France,
Singapore (Mandarin-Chinese),
Jamaica.
Yugoslavia,
Estonia,
U.K. (Comedy),
Iceland,
Lithuania,
USA (Musical),
Spain,
Brasil,
UK punk,
Norway (gloom) Norway,
Turkey,
Portugal,
Basque country Organland,
Tirol,
Denmark,
CzechoSlovakia (Czech),
Hungary,
Russia,
Yugoslavia (Slovenia),
Chile/Argentina/Mexico,
Sweden,
Netherlands,
Hong Kong,
Finland,
Scotland,
Poland,
Czechoslowakia (Slovak)
Another blog tip:I found an interesting LP featured at
7 Black Notes, a blog about the S
trange Side Of Movie Music.
In the december article
Smile On Your Brother a soundtrack LP of the movie
Come Together from 1971 is featured. The Eurovision connection here is that the LP features no less than 4 versions of the 1967 Eurovision song Love Is Blue (Originally L'amour est bleu by Vicky).
quote:
"with enough versions of "Love Is Blue" (both instrumental and vocal) to put you off that tune for life". Check it out and click the pic for the LP.
Paul Mauriats disco version of
Love Is Blue was featured in the
very first Eurocovers Post ever.
