A bit of music from way back when …

Wanda Jackson, like so many other American singers in the post-war years, recorded a number of songs in German: Santa Domingo (she never had a clue what the lyrics actually meant).

Here’s Tina Rainford singing Silverbird — in English:

And in German:

Another version of Silverbird, [...]

Connie Francis

Often ignored, sometimes forgotten, but she’s still going strong:

Thank you for the music

In 1979 I was fortunate enough to be among the background singers to accompany ABBA during one of their European concert tours — one of the songs we provided the chorus to was Thank you for the music:

The other song we did was I have a dream:

Speaking [...]

My song for the day

What can I say? I have loved this song since the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979:

Here’s another version (in English):

A version (in Hebrew) recorded a while after the song contest:

Francine Jordi: Song Contest Medley

Francine Jordi is a talented star from Switzerland: