The Jogovision Song Contest is a project of The Jogoland Group. All songs written and performed by Joseph L. Thornburg. Costume design and video direction by Joseph L. Thornburg. THANKS camera loan: Tracey Pooler and Shawn Toshikian musical advisor: Tom Barker camera crew: Garren Drew and Ron Ulreich B.R.A. Council: Alice Bell and Melanie Magaña guitar solo on "Jekyll/Hyde": Kain Thornn Hebrew translation: Arlan Wareham Silvio di Oro's jewelry: The Bell Collection Air Tel Aviv / AFG-Deutschland / ALLRUS TV / Éire TVT / Grupp TV Sveriges / ITVC-Italia / Le Monde 7 / NipponWave / Tbilisi TV8 / Televisión Tlaxcala / TV Amazonas / UKBC The Jogoland Group proudly does not use Auto-Tune or similar devices. Make inquiries here.		United States - United Kingdom 日本 - Deutschland - France 7digital - Last.fm
Producer's Note I discovered the Eurovision Song Contest when my family moved to England in 1976. For someone like me who loved music and foreign languages and cultures, it was a fascinating spectacle. I even staged my own little version in the living room for my family--I just improvised tunes and made up "foreign" sounding words as lyrics for each "song". Since returning to the States in 1979, I hadn't given Eurovision much thought until I saw an article in the June 2010 issue of The New Yorker about the contest held earlier that year. After doing some "catching up" on YouTube, I was inspired again to do my own version, but on a much more ambitious scale: twelve real songs, with lyrics in nine different languages, with each song getting its own music video. It took much longer than I thought to complete, and though it was an exhausting and sometimes frustrating experience, I thoroughly enjoyed creating it and I hope to do it again someday. Enjoy! --Joseph L. Thornburg, November 2011