Posted on December 28, 2008 by Werner Patels
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, [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2008 by Werner Patels
Often ignored, sometimes forgotten, but she’s still going strong:
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by Werner Patels
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 [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2008 by Werner Patels
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:
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Posted on October 11, 2008 by Werner Patels
Francine Jordi is a talented star from Switzerland:
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