For 9th July 2013- We have a New Schlagertunes Top 15 Playlist--

TOP 15

1 Dance the Pain Away- Agnetha Faltskog NEW

2  A S A P -Lena feat.Miss Li NEW 

3 Begging- Anton Ewald

4 Neon (Lonely People)- Lena NEW 

5 I feed you my Love- Margaret Berger

6  In And Out Of Love- Martin Rolinski

7  Magnetic Heart-  Marco Mengoni 

8  Kedvesem (Zoohacker Remix)- Bye Alex NEW

9   Invincible- Jack Rowan  NEW

10 It's Showtime (Theater)- Katja Ebstein

11 Believe in Me (Blutonium Boy & Matty Menk Radio Mix)- Bonnie Tyler

12  Dix pas cent pas [Jesse Voorn Club Mix]- Kati Wolf  

13  Love Kills- Roberto Bellarosa 

14  On Top of the World - Swedish House Wives

15  We write the songs-Bjorn & Benny + AVICII 

More ABBA Gold..The ole question comes up again, will they get back together?

With the recent release of the wonderful Agnetha Faltskog album "A" as expected this new album of original new songs has sparked the various question will they? won't they? reform or perform as Abba. Most certainly it looks highly unlikely! still I found the most joy in discoving a wonderful U-tube copy of the Svt broadcast of a performance of  'Tivedshambo' this will certainly remain in the history books as the very
last time Abba ever performed 'Live' together as a group. Sad but true, and fitting that they came together at least to sing for their manager Stig, who is so often overlooked today.

  So the reason was to perform for Stig Anderson's tribute as part of a 'This is your life' style TV-show called "Här Är Ditt Liv" it was on swedish Tv back on 16th January 1986.
(tack to Stephen Layton for this clip)

More Agnetha sings new song 'Bubble' from the album "A"

Mid JUNE 2013 TOP Schlager-Tunes 15- Bonnie's on top!

TOP 15

1 Believe in Me (Blutonium Boy & Matty Menk Radio Mix)- Bonnie Tyler 

2  Magnetic Heart-  Marco Mengoni 

3 Begging- Anton Ewald

4 When You Really Loved Someone- Agnetha Fältskog

5 Dix pas cent pas [Jesse Voorn Club Mix]- Kati Wolf  NEW

6 Poupée de cire poupée de son-  Jenifer 

7  Det Svär Jag På- Arvingarna FLASHBACK TRK

8  I feed you my Love- Margaret Berger

9  We write the songs-Bjorn & Benny + AVICII  NEW

10 In And Out Of Love- Martin Rolinski

11 Love Kills- Roberto Bellarosa

12  It's Showtime( Theater) -Katja Ebstein FLASHBACK TRK

13  L'essenziale- Marco Mengoni

14  Alibi- Eddie Razaz 

15  On Top of the World - Swedish House Wives NEW

In our very own chartlist this month, Bonnie has bounced up to the top!

with a great Remix of the Eurovision power ballad from Malmo. In fact the chart has a real revival aspect with Agnetha's first single from her fab new album "A" rising to 4 this month.

We have in this chartlist - a couple of Flashback tracks' it happens when an ole hit becomes all new again

with our listening trends, and I have been listening lots to Dame Katja Ebstein. In fact Katja holds the amazing record of 3 Eurovision 70's enries all for Germany and each time scoring a Top 3 placing. Yet

never the winning honours, a record that will be very hard to beat or equal at Eurovision Song Contest anytime soon. 

The German entry that came 2nd to Ireland's Johnny Logan in 1980, I luv the best- it's 'Theater' or '..Showtime' in english.

At seven is a great Melodifestivalen classic from Arvingarna back in 1999. They finished in a healthy 3rd place behind 'Take me to your heaven' I did not realise that the songwriting credit for this 

entry go to none other than Lena Philipsson. 

Oh, look what they've done to our Lena from Germany!

..Well the last we saw of Lena she was all wet giving the votes for Malmo from Germany in Eurovision Song Contest Malmo 2013. As we know our luvly Lena got flustered and gave the odd score wrong..so when Lena signed up for doing the new ad for German technology Doosh'. They took no chances and over-dubed her? We simply loved the result, and check out the bang -a- boomerang at the end

We miss unser star Lena   ; )

Le Return of : Schlagertunes PlayList Top 15 for MAY 2

it's actually 328 days.. to go until Eurovsion Song Contest 2014- how to survive the long break from all the Eurovis-icle fun? We throught during this time we could bring back to schlagertunes blog our Top 15 Playlist, we had it before on the blog.
It's simply what has been played regular on the schlagertunes Air port Express through out the Schlager Townhouse during Melbourne's cool winter months. As we just never stop playing Euro-tunes even in the off-season. It maybe often interesting to see which songs stand the test of time after Malmo and Melodifestivalen 13. So here is the first Playlist for the 2nd half of May.

TOP 15

1  Begging- Anton Ewald

2 L'essenziale- Marco Mengoni

3 Ljubav Je Svuda- Moje 3 NEW

4 Love Kills- Roberto Bellarosa

5 Alibi- Eddie Razaz

6 I feed you my Love- Margaret Berger

7 When You Really Loved Someone- Agnetha Fältskog

8 Believe in Me- Bonnie Tyler 

9  Magnetic Heart-  Marco Mengoni NEW

10 Something- Andrius Pojavis

11 Birds - Anouk

12  Geef Er Een Lap Op (Making Your mind up 2013) -SugarFree NEW

13  Heartstrings- Janet Leon

14  Poupée de cire poupée de son-  Jenifer NEW

15  In And Out Of Love- Martin Rolinski

The Grand opening of Eurovision Song contest 2013- it's a bugs life

Re-Live that magical opening and song 'We Write The story' by Bjorn Benny & Avicci

Sarah Dawn Finer - as Linda Woodruff she made us laugh, finally in Malmo she made me cry..

Sarah Dawn Finer is also singer known as the EBU personality Lynda Woodruff, during Malmo

The song "The winner takes it all"  is as we know a best loved Abba song written by Björn Ulveus and Benny Andersson.
It has been released world wide on iTunes just after the performance in Malmo's Eurovision Grand Final. 

Just like the legendary four swedes she made us laugh with joy and also cry...

Favourites for Malmo 2013- We do believe in Bonne for UK & Anouk from NL

                                             This may well be my final pick of favourites for Eurovision 2013 .. yet it certainly is'nt a case of  last but least. Far from it, in fact I have only 2 picks from Eurovision's Big 5 finalists this year -with Italy's Marco and UK. I also like Germany's Cascade song 'Glorious' and while this tune is not a rip of 'Euphoria' it is very simular in style and production so I think may be a big disadvantage in the Grand Final.
                                           I do like Cascada as a dance artist- but Malmo 2013 is all about  one international name Bonnie Tyler.
The return of an 80's diva and a wonderful personality as well, I wonder why she never got involved in Eurovision before? it certainly sounds like the Beeb had no problems getting Bonnie on board for 2013.
The story goes they popped around said 'will you do it?' Yes- Ok just pick a track off that new album..and we have 'Believe in Me'
                                      So the song it is a hit single, a grower of a tune. It certainly did'nt grab me on first hearing yet I have every faith that Bonnie Tyler will nail it on the Grand final night. A winning song? hmmm... I cannot be sure, Malmo is going to be a bit like Dusseldorf I think, we really have no clear favourite. Denmark maybe, but look what happened to France the favourite of 2011. I think Denmark may just make it this year. Maybe as 'Running scared' did for Azerbaijan back then the winner may win from the most scores instead of the most 12 pointers.
                                   Who could give us a surpise winner? it could be our Bonnie or even Anouk with her 'Birds'
it's going to be a cliff hanger whatever happens...

                                     
  Just how far can this 'Bird' fly in ESC 2013? Or will she fall from the sky?

My favourites for Malmo 2013- Lithuania's 'something..'

Lituania a country that have always brought to us, some homegrown interesting Eurovision entries in the past few years.

As well as so often as is the case for Malmo 2013  a self penned tune by Andrius Pojavis. I actually like 'Something' -these pidgin engliska songs, with

with a stong melody. However following on from the fantastic 'Love is Blind'from 2012 I through this song was a bit of a downgrade for

Lituania, I like the artist, yet the song finished up in the 2013 pile I called

"Great tune, but it has'nt got a chance to qualify" ( ...and not a small pile for this years ESC)  

                If you took a look at Andrius Pojavis's National Final performance of 'Something'it was rather bad, the top-hat did not help at all

the eye-brows did.

Yet during the month's inbetween they re-vamped the song completely for Eurovision and did all the right things..So while I am happy

to see a singer-songwriter in the Grand Final as it's always good to have self-penned stuff. The question is just how do Lituania continue

to qualify each year in the Grand final with such ease and songs that are always good but borderline... 

                in the past seven years only twice with 'Nomads of the night'and who remembers Le Great 'East European Funk'by InCulto did

Lituania not make it into the Grand Final! A record that cannot be equaled by their baltic cousins Estonia or Latvia. I guess we can

call it the 'Luck of the Lit's'

Malmo 2013: Petra Medes the perfect host and what a frock

Semi-final 1 has begun and what a show.
   Also we get the chance to see Sweden's one woman host the wonderful Petra Medes, and that dress that was designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. It even out turned out better than the rising dress effect of Moldova's song and performance of 'O'Mie' by Aliona Moon.

What will Petra bring us next?