Here at partyvision.co.uk, we have hunted high and low, searched karaoke cds from various publishers, and found some mp3+cdg files that can be burned onto a CD to give you some proper Eurovision karaoke files.
They are mainly British, Danish and Swedish files, but hopefully more will be added soon.
- Italy 1958 - Dean Martin - Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) (cover)
- Denmark 1963
- UK 1967 - Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a String
- Sweden 1968 - Claes-Göran Hederström - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej
- UK 1968 - Cliff Richard - Congratulations
- UK 1973 - Cliff Richard - Power To All Our Friends
- Sweden 1974 - ABBA - Waterloo
- UK 1976 - Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses For Me
- Denmark 1978
- Denmark 1979
- Sweden 1979 - Ted Gärdestad - Satellit
- Sweden 1980 - Tomas ledin - Just nu!
- Denmark 1981
- UK 1981 - Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
- Denmark 1982
- Sweden 1982 - Chips - Dag efter dag
- Denmark 1983
- Sweden 1983 - Carola - Främling
- Denmark 1984
- Sweden 1984 - The Herreys - Diggi-loo Diggi-ley
- Sweden 1986 - Lasse Holm & Monica Törnell - Är det det har du kallar kärlek
- Denmark 1987
- Sweden 1987 - Lotta Engberg - 4 bugg o en coca-cola (original lyrics)
- Sweden 1988 - Tommy Korberg - Stad i ljus
- Denmark 1989
- Sweden 1989 - Tommy Nilsson - En dag
- Denmark 1990 - Lonnie Devantier - Hallo Hallo
- Sweden 1991 - Carola - Fångad av en stormvind
- Denmark 1992
- Sweden 1992 - Christer Björkman - I Morgon är En Annan Dag
- UK 1992 - Michael Ball - One Step Out Of Time
- Sweden 1993 - Arvingarna - Eloise
- Sweden 1995 - Jan Johansen - Se Pa Mig
- UK 1996 - Gina G - Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit
- Sweden 1997 - Blond - Bara hon älskar mig
- UK 1997 - Katrina & the Waves - Love Shine A Light
- UK 1998 - Imaani - Where Are You?
- Sweden 1999 - Charlotte Nilsson - Tusen och en natt (swedish)
- Denmark 2000
- Sweden 2000 - Roger Pontare - När vindarna viskar mitt namn (swedish)
- Denmark 2001
- Sweden 2001 - Friends - Lyssna till ditt hjärta (swedish)
- Denmark 2002
- Denmark 2004
- Sweden 2004 - Lena Ph - Det Gör Ont (swedish)
- Denmark 2005 - Jakob Sveistrup - Tænder På Dig (danish)
- Denmark 2006
- Latvia 2007 - Bonaparti.lv - Questa Notte
- Serbia 2007 - Marija Serifovic - Molitva
- Spain 2007 - D'Nash - I Love U Mi Vida
- Norway 2009 - Alexander Rybak - Fairytale
- UK 2009 - Jade - It's My Time
As well as these 35 ESC songs, we are also pleased to be able to provide you with a few selected NF and even a JESC song in karaoke files:
- Chattanooga - Hallå hela pressen (Melodifestivalen 1982)
- Pernilla Wahlgren - Picadilly circus (Melodifestivalen 1985)
- Anna Book - ABC (Melodifestivalen 1986)
- Lena Philipsson - Kärleken är evig (Melodifestivalen 1986)
- Carola - Mitt i ett äventyr (Melodifestivalen 1990)
- Drömhus - Stjärna på himmelen (Melodifestivalen 1999)
- Date - Om du förlåter mig (Melodifestivalen 2001)
- Hanna Hedlund - Anropar Försvunnen (Melodifestivalen 2002)
- Princess - Zidada (Dansk MGP 2004)
- Prinsesse - Zidada (Dansk MGP 2004)
- Cool Kids - Pigen Er Min (JESC 2004)
- Olsen Brothers - Little Yellow Radio (Dansk MGP 2006)
After downloading a file, you should unzip the file, which will leave you with a cdg file and an mp3. To play these files together, you will need a karaoke player. I use Power CD+G Player Pro. You can download a free trial version here, and the software can be registered for a small fee. Double click on the .cdg file and open it with Power CD+G Player Pro. It will then play the mp3 synchronised with the lyrics on screen. If your PC has an s-video connection you can buy a scart to s-video + audio cable to display the lyrics on your tv. If you have a karaoke machine you can burn the songs onto a CD and use them like you would your existing karaoke discs.
We have just purchased software to enable the creation of more cdg files, so hope to be offering many more ESC karaoke songs in advance of Eurovision 2008. Check back soon for offerings from the more recent ESCs, ESC winners, and other popular ESC songs.
Also some rather clever chap has made a lot of karaoke videos and put them on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=eurovisionandmore&p=r You can save these videos to your hard drive using http://vixy.net and burn them onto a DVD.
Often on soulseek (P2P software you can download at www.slsknet.org) it is possible to find instrumental versions of ESC songs, so using them combined with printed lyrics from diggiloo.net is a good way to provide a greater choice of karaoke songs. Alternatively, you could compile a video of the songs live at Eurovision, so the performers could also copy the dance moves!
Bear in mind that if you invite non-Eurovision fans, the number of songs they know well will be extremely limited. Obviously, the songs known by your guests depend largely on where they are from, for example someone from Sweden is more likely to know Diggi-loo Diggi-ley than a guest from Croatia!
Also you should note that foreign language songs (except English ones) will be harder for people to sing, though you could see this as being more fun, and as you probably will have seen recently, with the success of the siblime Dragostea Din Tei, that everyone can (or thinks they can) sing along with foreign language songs just as loudly and out of tune!
