#Katrina and the Waves

[best-overplayed-song]

#best overplayed song bracket #polls #tumblr bracket #katrina and the waves #neil diamond

[80smusicgifs]

Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine - 1985

#katrina and the waves #music gifs #80s music #80s #1980s #80s gifs #my gif #retro #retro music

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #445:

Only one American has ever won the Eurovision Song Contest. Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves took home the win for the United Kingdom in 1997.

Leskanich is originally from Topeka, Kansas.

[Sources]

'Made in the USA - Americans who have competed at the Eurovision Song Contest,' Aussievision.net.

Participants of Dublin 1997: Katrina and the Waves, Eurovision.tv.

#esc facts oc #eurovision #eurovision facts oc #eurovision song contest #esc #esc winners #esc 1997 #katrina and the waves #Katrina Leskanich

[youcanlearnfrombooks]

Katrina and the Waves with Eric Burdon performing a cover of The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of This Place."

#youtube #katrina and the waves #eric burdon #china beach #dana delany #tv series #1990 #the animals

[myimaginaryradio]

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves - 1983

#katrina and the waves #walking on sunshine #classic rock #80s #weather songs #Youtube

[admiralgiggles]

#Walking on Sunshine #Katrina and the Waves #i love the 80s #good shit #earworm #Youtube

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tara Lipinski skating to Walking on Sunshine in the 1997 US National gala.

(Photo by Barry Mittan)

#Katrina and the Waves #Walking on Sunshine #Tara Lipinski #Figure skating #1997 US Nationals #United States #Women #1996–1997 #Yellow

[mitamicah]

For the song asks: 24, 12, 14?

Yay more of these :D!! Thank you 💚💚

24. A song to listen to on a long drive when you have the really strong urge to keep driving until you find somewhere to start a new life (preferably a europian city whose language you don’t speak)

You know what - yeah this one works: Still Breathing by Green Day

Still Breathing by Green Day

12. A song to listen to whilst you lie in a meadow?

More meadow time let's gooooo

I just recently watched the second season of Heartstopper and I love this song so much it definitely gives me meadow vibes :'D

Paradise by Carmody

14. A song to sing to the sun?

I'm not completely sure what this entails so I'll try to go with my gut feeling on this one x'D

... Okay I couldn't find a good one so Walking on Sunshine it is x'D

Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & the Waves

#I really hoped I could find a good one to the sun question but my mind went blank :'D #well xD #katrina and the waves #carmody #green day #replies

[eurovision-revisited]

1997 Dublin - Number 24 - Katrina and The Waves - "Love Shine A Light"

It's another case of me putting the winner in the twenties. There's no doubt that Love Shine a Light is a strong song sung well, and having a relatively big name like Katrina & the Waves helped. However this song feels positively Maltese to me. It's a song that drifts through the open door of a charismatic church meeting. It's distilled Eurovision sentiment, wanting to see absolutely everyone saturated and dripping with a surfeit of love. Love, love, love. It's pitched way above my love tolerance levels.

Let's rewind a bit. In the UK, the Great British Song Contest was still riding the wave of Britpop, Three Lions and draping literally everything in the Union Jack. It was also still under the control of Jonathan King. The actual final, however, had been cut to 30 minutes on Mothering Sunday by the BBC with four of the eight songs eliminated thanks to radio only semi-final. This has resulted in three of those four songs just vanishing, with the one survivor only in discoverable because they'd appeared on the kids show Blue Peter the week before the competition which someone video-taped.

Katrina scraped home in a 100% televoted competition. It was a three-way fight for top spot with only four songs competing. Since 1995, the variety of songs in the competition was reducing with the BBC & Radio 2 tendency to default to MOR, so as to not scare the licence payers too much. Katrina epitomises this with added feel-good vibes. The BBC must have been very happy not only with the song, but with the win. It's everything that Terry Wogan could ever have dreamed of. Especially romping home in Dublin by 70 clear points. Of the four televoting countries who could vote for them, Katrina and the Waves scored 46 out a possible 48. It was a song that captured Europe's zeitgeist.

This is Katrina's only Eurovision entry or attempt. This one song revived the career of a band who had one major worldwide hit and relied on touring it. They now had two and Katrina would forever afterwards get work whenever anyone in the UK mentions the word 'Eurovision'. She even cropped up as a judge at Benidorm fest this year.

#Youtube #esc #esc 1997 #eurovision #eurovision song contest #dublin #dublin 1997 #national finals #The Great British Song Contest 1997 #United Kingdom #Katrina and the Waves

[babolat85]

Love Shine a Light - Katrina and The Waves

Hadn’t listened to this in a while, and now it’s come up on my Spotify playlist every day for a week.

#youtube #katrina and the waves #eurovision #1997 #united kingdom #uk #esc #eurovision song contest #love shine a light #music #music video #youtube music

[sallygcronin]

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - New Year's Eve Party - Contributors, Community and Music

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – New Year’s Eve Party – Contributors, Community and Music

Welcome to the New Year’s Eve party and an opportunity to thank the friends who have contributed amazing posts throughout the year and those who have visited, commented and kept me motivated. It would be impossible to mention everyone but I do hope that you know how much your support means to me as a person, blogger and author. I cannot take all the credit for the blog as I have an amazing group…

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#Food Environment Carol Taylor #Abba #Celine Dion #Christina Aguilera #Creedence #D.G. Kaye Spiritual Awareness #Daniel Kemp The Desolate Garden #Jazz singer William Price King #Katrina and the Waves #Malcolm Allen The World as seen by a Nomad

[best-overplayed-song]

#best overplayed song bracket #tumblr bracket #tournament poll #journey #katrina and the waves

[krispyweiss]

Pointer Sister Anita Dies at 74

Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters died Dec. 31 of cancer, her family said.

She was 74.

“(Anita) was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long,” Pointer’s family said in a statement. “Her love of our family will live on in each of us.”

With Anita, June and Ruth, the Pointer Sisters scored a string of hits including a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire” and “Slow Hand,” “I’m so Excited” and “Automatic” among others.

“My favorite sister’s voice, after June,” Arnold McCuller said of Anita Pointer.

Katrina and the Waves toured with the Pointer Sisters in 1985 and the experience stuck with the eponymous frontwoman.

“Anita was so kind and generous with her friendship and guidance to me,” Katrina wrote on Facebook. “I learned a lot standing (on the) side of stage every night watching her amaze and excite the crowd.”

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#the pointer sisters #anita pointer #ruth pointer #june pointer #bruce springsteen #katrina and the waves #arnold mcculler

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #356:

The United Kingdom's 1997 win with Katrina & the Waves was not only a moment of joy for the nation, but the band as well. Their winning song 'Love Shine A Light' turned into the group's biggest hit since their claim to fame 'Walking on Sunshine.'

'Walking on Sunshine' would peak on US charts at 9, and 8 on the UK charts. However, 'Love Shine A Light' would peak at 3 on the UK charts upon its release.

Colin Larkin, ed. (2003). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. p. 288.

Dublin 1997, Eurovision.tv.

Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 297.

#esc facts oc #eurovision #eurovision song contest #esc #eurovision facts oc #Katrina & the Waves #esc 1997 #katrina and the waves

[secondlifep]

Fucking Amazing Mashup Master!!

Most of you will probably not like this, but thats ok ... maybe @doyourememberrocknrollradio and @fallenangelofdoom might enjoy the sheer talent and craziness of what this YouTuber does...

This one in particular is soooooo amazing ... especially with the very beginning and the Slayer Scream so well placed!

#what secondlifep listens to #bill mcclintock #Master Mashups #Slayer #Katrina and the waves #Youtube

[weaversweek]

Uncool 50 - long live rock and/or roll

Part of the #Uncool50 project, an autobiography told through pop singles.

At some point in summer 1989, I came across BRMB’s evening rock and indie show. Don’t recall if it was when they got a powerful new transmitter, or a schedule reshuffle, or both. Whatever, it was the cutting-edge new music at a time I could hear it properly.

John Slater was the DJ, he had a long interview each week with some pop star or other. One week, it was Katrina Leskovich and Kimberley Rew from Katrina and the Waves. They promoted “That’s the way”, which somehow wasn’t a big hit, or any hit at all. Would it have been better if they’d stuck to the original lyric, “Cooking in the kitchen”?

They Might Be Giants burst out of nowhere in early 1990 with “Birdhouse in your soul”. What is that song all about? Don’t know at the time, don’t really know now. Not sure I care. It’s words as a sound, sussuration and murmuration and once heard, never ever forgotten.

Around this time, I fell in with the group of rock fans in my year. Boozy parties, late nights, cheap beer (enough to put me off the drink for life), and barely-repressed sexuality. And music that was loud, but often more pretentious than quality. Some groups did pass my quality threshold: dirty blues rock from Thunder and The Almighty, pre-grunge from Californian group Love/Hate. From that time, I pick “Radical your lover” from Little Angels, on the grounds that I think it’s the best rock single of the time.

An honourable mention to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, the local heroes we’d needed since Slade. They put on a show just before Christmas at the Civic Hall, and for many years it was the hottest ticket in town. Closing number was usually their signature hit “Kill your television”. And one of the folk I hung with has gone on to play with the band, the biggest success for anyone I went to school with.

Good rock music remained part of my life, and were this a 100-song list, there would be a few grunge tunes scattered throughout, and some Iron Maiden here or hereabouts. But it’s a 50-song list, and not entirely rock...

#uncool50 #personal #autobiography #katrina and the waves #they might be giants #little angels #ned's atomic dustbin #rock music