American Song Contest – Week Three

The American Song Contest continues tonight! WOO HOO! The US’ officially licensed Eurovision spinoff continues with twelve more performances tonight, and you can bet we’ll be there watching! Week Three’s songs have been released – here’s the playlist! Don’t forget, TKR will be presenting a YouTube livestream show, “The Kirkham Report Guide to American Song Contest – After The Songs!” every week directly following each East Coast airing of ASC, starting at 10:10 PM ET/7:10 PM PT – I will be going over my impressions of the songs, performances, staging, and more, and I’ll be doing my best to interact

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: The Basics!

GREETINGS PEOPLES!  It’s that time of year again! The 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Countdown starts NOW! Because I got a little bit later start than usual, I will be scattering some stuff around, doing one song most days but doing two or possibly three songs on other days, just so we get done in time for the semi-finals beginning May 10th! 40 songs to be ranked, 40 artists to spotlight, plus news and other ESC related specials – all coming between now and the official broadcasts beginning with the first semifinal on May 10, followed by the second semifinal on

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BREAKING NEWS: The participants in the American Song Contest have been revealed!

I’ll have a full run down later, but for now, as released about 1 hour ago, here’s the complete list of each state/territory and their performers for the first (hopefully annual) American Song Contest, premiering March 21 on NBC! According to the Wikipedia article, the songs will not be announced until they are performed on the show, and will be released as each week’s show goes forward. Atlantic Records is the shows’ industry partner and will release the songs accordingly. As announced a couple weeks ago, Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg have been named hosts of the ASC, which, in

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TKR on YouTube – An upcoming online concert I want EVERYONE to PLEASE check out!

Hey all – there’s a super special live concert happening THIS MONDAY – Memorial Day – at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific, and I want everyone in the VC to check it out…because I think Marko Stunt is about to become a HUGE music star…and you’ll all want to be there from the beginning… (UPDATE 6/21/21: unfortunately, Marko has gotten into a REALLY BAD HABIT of purging his Twitch videos and not cross posting to YouTube, so the concert is no longer available…but man it was AWESOME!!  Marko, dude – please stop purging your older videos – you’re erasing history,

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Countdown to Eurovision ’21: #24 – Bulgaria

#24 – Bulgaria “Growing Up Is Getting Old” Victoria Songwriters: Helena Larsson, Maya Nalani, Oliver Björkvall, Victoria Georgieva The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of May, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, through May 11, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such. 

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Countdown to Eurovision ’21: #25 – Israel

#25 – Israel “Set Me Free“ Eden Alene Songwriters: Amit Mordechai, Ido Netzer, Noam Zaltin, Ron Carmi The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of May, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, through May 11, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again,

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Countdown to Eurovision ’21: #39 – Australia

#39 – Australia “Technicolour” Montaigne Songwriters: Jessica Cerro, Dave Hammer The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of May, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, through May 11, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again, these are MY opinions, and I realize

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TKR on YouTube – ARRRRGGHHH! Tech Issues, Unboxing, and a little bit of Marko…

OMG everyone! I have been going stark raving MAD since last Friday – my PC is on the fritz and it might be two weeks or more before it gets back! AAAARRRRGGGGGHHH! SO if you don’t see me for a few days or longer, you know why – I am not used to doing this on my laptop and this is my first attempt at using this editing program, and I hope it’s not too jarring. SO we have…let me see…a little bit of drama…a little bit of unboxing…a little bit of wrestling commentary…a little bit of Marko Stunt…and one

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TKR on YouTube – 1969 – contest entry for Beth at RedrumRecords

Ok, my friend Beth @ Redrum Records is running this little contest centered around Woodstock and 1969 right now…and so here’s my entry – hope you like it! I took a couple liberties, hope no one minds…hehh heh – due to a copyright claim, you may need to watch this on your PC or tablet, it appears to be blocked on a mobile device, sorry…

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