Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Hungary has released the entries for A Dal 2018. There's no Origo this year that would really stick out with the first hearing but my 30 second first hearing found a few that could prove worthy in the further hearings and if presented well live on stage. Most of all Yesyes and #yeahla . Otherwise the songs can be easily almost all be put in three categories: 1) Songs that sound off Craig David's debut album Born to do this what comes to sounds and arrangements (and that's a positive thing actually...), 2) semi acoustic simple ones and 3) heavy rock wannabes. Quite strange combo really and this blogger's not quite sure what they have been after this year. Anyways, way better standard than in most countries selections as usual, and luckily most of the songs are in Hungarian. LISTEN TO THE ENTRIES HERE

The Temptations would take this song to #1 and win three Grammys in 1973 with it, but it was originally recorded by another Motown group: The Undisputed Truth in 1971. Their  original version only went to #63, and pretty much forgotten these days as the Temps made it theirs so well.  Anyways, this is a real weird single track as even the single mix almost 7 minutes long, and the album one over 12 minutes! It also has four different lead vocalists and the instruments keep changing and variating.  It would also be The Temptations fourth #1 and also the last. In UK this went to #14.    Countless cover versions have been recorded and performed throughout the decades, including Bill "Wolf" Wolfer with backing vocals by Michael Jackson, Issac Hayes with Soul II Soul's Charlotte Kelly,   Seal , Was (Not Was) , George Michael , Craig David and many others. Run-D.M-C sampled it to their Papa Crazy as did Montenegrin Eurovision star Knez in Autom...

It's time to dust this series. And we start with Craig David's 2000 release Born to do it . This album was a bit of a revolution for me. I hardly knew what 2-step garage was and didn't care for that so much, but the album's r'n'b, electrobeat and simply great melodies conquered me. I loved his voice, the sound and the arrangements and the album delivered hit after hit in the charts. Craig was still in his teens when this his debut was released and he wrote these songs. Before he had already hit the #2 with Artful Dodger and Re-Rewind (The crowd say Bo Selecta) and #6 with Woman trouble . His first solo singles Fill me in and 7 Days went to #1, Walking away #3 and  Rendez vous  #8. The album was re-released in the US including also fabulous Key to your heart .  The album sold over 8 million worldwide (over 1,8 million in the UK alone), making it one of the best selling r'n'b albums by an UK artist. It also debuted at #1 in the UK charts becoming...

One of the finest voices in the music business, Craig David, has been missing from my radar for quite a time now, and that's a shame. Now we can hear him with Blonde in Nothing like this .... always a pleasure. 

Ok, this is old news but worth a mention anyways. I adore Craig David. He's got one of the best voices ever. Period. And a string of very good songs to match, like and Walking away . Seven days , Rise & fall , Rendez vous , You don't miss your water , Insomnia and Rewind . For his Greatest Hits he recorded a new version with the old trick: guest singers from different markets like Nek for Italy and Alex Ubago for Spain. And for the German market he hired Monrose - and this gives me the Eurovision connection :-) - who took part in the German selection 2007 with Even heaven cries .  As I said this is old news as Craig is back already with a new album filled with fantastic Motown samples! And I adore Motown even more than I do Craig so it sounds like heaven. (Well, Janet Jackson did that already with her Janet album in 1993) Like in One more lie and All alone tonight . Why can't BBC just drop these talent shows and ask Craig next year?