Showing posts with label National Day Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Day Singapore. Show all posts

Friday, August 07, 2026

Andy 60s Music Celebrates National Day on 9th August, 2026 With Sparkle, You'll Be OK, Giants.

Our Singapore National Day Parade (NDP) 2026 has a three-track thematic album that includes, 'Go Beyond' rather than one main anthem. So officially the track includes 'Sparkle' by Gareth Fernandez and Dru Chen, 'You'll Be Okay' by Jasmine Sokko, and 'Giants' by Iman Fandi and weish.

NDP 2026: 'Sparkle' - 
Gareth Fernandez, Dru Chen 
[Official Music Video]. YouTube Video by: NDPeeps.

NDP 2026: 'You'll Be Okay' - 
Jasmine Sokko.
[Official Music Video] YouTube Video by: NDPeeps.

NDP 2026: 'Giants' - 
Iman Fandi, weish 
[Official Music Video] YouTube Video by: NDPeeps.


Image from:

SINGAPORE PM LAWRENCE WONG 
SINGS 'WONDERFUL TONIGHT'
| 黄循财 | 新加坡总理 #singapore 
#lawrencewong #song 
YouTube Video: SINGMA TV


The NDP 2026 Colours Party and Guard of Honour Contingent.

A HAPPY NATIONAL DAY EVERYONE!
Comments have been surfaced:

RONALD HO
Wishing all a joyous National Day. Another year passed, 
a nation to become we have been struggling. When will 
we become one, a truly successful nation? It will not be in numbers, 
in GDP, in wealth. It will be in respect for each other, 
in social cohesion, and to help sincerely when we see some of us 
in need of help. Then we are a nation of Singaporeans.
9.8.26

STEVE HO
Good morning sir. Happy 61st birthday to Singapore! 👍👍
9.8.26

MERLIN LIM
This Tiny Red Dot Surrounded By Bigger Neighbors 
Waiting To Pounce n Gobble SG, Log Stock n Barrel, Is
My Home Sweet Home. Very Much Grateful Bro Andy.
MAJULAH 👌😘 SINGAPURA !!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
9.8.26

TAN SWEE LENG
Happy National Day to my fellow Singaporeans!
May we always remain united and harmonious as 
we strive for progress and prosperity.
9.8.26

JERRY SARAM
Good afternoon. Happy National Day to you too. 
Majullah Singapura
9.8.26

MARK QUEK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE.
9.8.26

EDDY ENG
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY
9.8.26

RONNIE SEE
DEAR ANDY, HAPPY NATIONAL DAY SINCE 1965, 61 YEARS. 
When we were younger!
9.8.26

RICHARD RAJOO
AND A VERY HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO YOU, TOO🌹 
ANDY, 2026 👍🙏.
9.8.26

PAUL IBRAHM
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY
9.8.26

VINCENT TAN
HAPPY NATIONAL DY SINGAPORE 61st BIRTHDAY
9.8.26

MICHAEL BANGAR
Hi Andy! Yourself, wifey and Family. Enjoy the long weekend.
9.8.26

BARBARA VAN DORT
Andy Happy Singapore Day to you and family. 
Enjoy the Celebration. xx
9.8.26

ANDY
Pop Music Not Pills. ©
Thanks to all those who wrote in above. Nothing like having 
a peaceful and radiant Singapore to live in. We're very fortunate 
to celebrate 61 years of joy and prosperity.
9.8.26

SAMMIN & ESTHER ANG
Happy 61st Birthday Singapore
9.8.26

GEORGE CHEW
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SG
9.8.26

XUAN YAN
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY
9.8.26

CHEW HEE HONG
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE 1965-2026
9.8.26

DAVID WONG
MAJULAH SINGAPURA
9.8.26

FREDA HANUM
61-SG NATIONAL DAY, GO BEYOND. 
MAJULAH SINGAPURA. GO BEYOND.
9.8.26

CEDRIC CORK
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY SINGAPORE
9.8.26

FABIAN FOO
祝福新加坡
国泰民姿好运连连
August 八月
Happy National Day, Singapore
9.8.26

ANTHONY TAN
GOOD MORNING BROTHER
SAME TO YOU!
9.8.26

ANDY
Pop Music Not Pills. ©
Still some more messages coming in. 
Thanks, guys for the greetings and best wishes
9.8.26

JAMES HO
Thanks Andy...your passion for music is remarkable! 
Always enjoyed the Golden National Songs oldies...
but NOT this year...none of the 3 songs makes the mark...
was the committee trying too hard? just my personal opinion.
9.8.26

LIM KUAN MIN
Good morning and Happy National Day!
9.8.26

CHRISTOPHER TOH
Happy National Day to you too!
9.8.26

OLIVER B.
Happy National Day
9.8.26

MD. JALANI
HAPPY 61st BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!
9.8.26

ANNA LAW
HAPPY NATIONAL DAY
9.8.26

NICHOLAS STRAVENS
And to you too...
9.8.26

TRACY NG
Hello from Guangzhou!
9.8.26

IVOR LESSLAR
N2U2
9.8.26

PATRICK TENG
CHEERS!
9.8.26

RICHARD THAM
Let's Celebrate HAPPY NATIONAL DAY.
9.8.26

CATS ENTERTAINMENT
Happy 61st National day Andy....
have a fabulous celebration 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🎈🎉❤️
9.8.26

ANDY
Pop Music Not Pills. ©
Thanks to all the above folks who have written in.
Appreciate the fun we've had celebrating Singapore's birthday. 
You can still write in anytime. It's your mailbox.

Images: Google.

Friday, July 31, 2026

Andy's 60s Music Blog Reaches 5.75 Million Plus Views End July 2026.

Nearly 6M Views.

5,756,470+ VIEWS
since end July 2026.
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶


That's five and three quarter million plus views.


Since 21st November 2008, the viewership 
climbed to 5.75 million+ today. Thanks to all
 blog readers, contributing writers and friends.
 


Blog:

1] @ Number 2 on the top 15 Best Music Blogs in Singapore.

2] @ Number 21 on the top '50 Best Music Blogs in SE Asia'.

3] Read by 204 countries under 'Flag Counter' Application...

4] Read by Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam

5] Archived officially by National Library Board, Singapore.

6] VintageRadioSG Brian Richmond Interview 'Music n Me'

7] Written suggestion of an Award by Readers of the Blog.

Blogger's First Car In Singapore: A Fiat 600. 
Doors open the other way; engine is behind, in the boot?
1964.


Saturday, August 09, 2025

Happy National Day 2025 Singapore's 60th Birthday! Pop Stars In Singapore!




Elvis Presley: Andy Singapore 60s Music Blog
Celebrates Singapore's 60th Birthday 2025.
But he only performed in the U.S.

'Happy 60th Singapore.' says Lady Gaga.


Sammin Ang with wife Esther, the most pop duo 
in the Singapore music circle today. In red and
white, celebrating SG 60th National Day.


Yes, and Blackpink too. They were in Singapore, right? 
Happy Birthday Little Red Dot!


With Taylor Swift. And we didn't know?
Did she say hello to the Merlion?

The Island Voices, Singapore 2025.
Red and White, baby!

Coldplay in Singapore too?
Yes, they were.

Dato' Sri Siti Nurhalizah from Malaysia,
has performed in Singapore.


"Happy 60th Birthday Singapore!!!"
Paul Anka.


Paul Anka in Singapore 
'Crazy Love' Live at the Star Theatre.
YouTube Video by: G. 

And our own biggest pop star who lives here:
 Prime Minister Lawrence Wong,
singer, guitarist and overall musician!

Images from 
Google.
WA/META AI.

Thursday, August 07, 2025

Andy's Music Quote: "I Do It For Fun, Not For Funds!" Old Friends n New! A Happy National Day 2025. 'Here We Are.'

Andy's Original Music Quote:
"I do it for fun, not for funds!"

These are OLD friends and some NEW ones whom I 
met in 2025 because of this blog connection. 

Roll out the flags guys, it's Singapore's 
National Day on 9th August 2025.

A HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL ! 
OUR 60th BIRTHDAY.

Students who are still with me through the years,
30 years perhaps? OLD friends indeed, today.
And they all love pop music in Chinese and English
and read this blog too.

With busker and very OLD friend Ioleen Chia [pink] and her friends. 
Well known for her singing, guitar playing and drumming, Ioleen
used to be in an SG girl band in the 70s called, D'Aces.


Andy with OLD friend Fabian Foo, and very
NEW friends Colin Goh and Richard Tham.
Blu Jaz baby, for a Charity Ball!


With NEW friend, Tony Goh [famed Tony, Terry, Spencer Group]
with OLD friend Jimmy Yap at Tony's huge recording studio in
the heart of Shenton Way.

'Here We Are': Singapore National Day Song 2025.
Official Music Video. 60th Birthday.
YouTube Video from: NDPeeps.


With NEW friends, Busker Christopher Nathan and 
on-looker Mr Kai at the Toa Payoh Hub NTUC. Chris
 sings and plays hot, hot  hits from the 70s, 80s...


"I DO IT FOR FUN, 
NOT FOR FUNDS!" 
SAYS ANDY.

 
He's an OLD neighbour and friend and I haven't met him for years!


With NEW friend Jean Granger from Paris, France, 
whom I met with OLD friend, the late Alfred Wong. Jean
loves pop music and familiar with songs from Gay Paree!

Singing 'Diana' with a NEW gentleman Robert Wesley Seng,
whom I met at the Singapore National Library Lobby. He is also
another well-known Singaporean music producer, song-writer,
arranger and photographer.

Sunday, August 11, 2024

'Singapore National Day Songs Infiltrated Me,' Says Hiroshi Deguchi

 


UP TO 350 VIEWS 
   15 COMMENTS    

Always so positive, always so honest, here's a music and home maker I met at a media site a few years ago. Readers can check Hiroshi-san's other postings on this blog by clicking his name under LABELS below the article.

Hiroshi Deguchi From Japan says:

"I became interested in Singapore when I happened to visit there for the first time in 1981. So attracted by Singaporeans that I had been eager to learn anything Singaporean and national songs, too. 

When I first heard the song. I thought it a little too intrusive. I would have hated it if our government had done the same. We should not have been pushed, I thought. But soon I started to think those songs were necessary for people who have different ideas and origins like Singapore to become one. 

I was there every summer in August, a week or so after the National Day Parade, so those National songs infiltrated me. I learned them by heart. It is not easy for me to say which song I like the best but 'Stand Up For Singapore' is one of the best surely."

Author: Hiroshi Deguchi.

Thanks so much Hiroshi-san. Comments are welcome.

This picture of Hiroshi has just been taken today, 
11 August 2024, wearing his 'Majullah Singapura' T-Shirt
when I requested for a new photograph.
Thanks my friend.

Author Hiroshi-san and his family 
in Singapore 
2003 meeting Sir Stamford Raffles too.

'Stand Up For Singapore'. [1984]
YouTube Video from: TheMarches09.

Thursday, August 08, 2024

Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Singapore Is Home @ 58 Years Young! Happy Birthday! Says Kit Chan With Lyrics

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16 CHATS, COMMENTS

Wishing All Blog Readers, Friends,
Contributing Writers 
A Happy National Day 2023!

Kit Chan - Home (25th Anniversary Remake) 
(Official Music Video)
Banshee Empire.

Whenever I am feeling low
I look around me and I know
There's a place that will stay within me
Wherever I may choose to go
I will always recall the city
Know every street and shore
Sail down the river which brings us life
Winding through my Singapore

Chorus:

This is home truly
Where I know I must be
Where my dreams wait for me
Where that river always flows

This is home surely
As my senses tell me
This is where I won't be alone
For this is where I know it's home

When there are troubles to go through
We'll find a way to start anew
There is comfort in the knowledge
That home's about its people too

So we'll build our dreams together
Just like we've done before
Just like the river which brings us life
There'll always be Singapore

Repeat Chorus:

For this is where I know it's home
For this is where I know I'm home...

Singer/Composer: 
Kit Chan/Dick Lee.

From Freda Hanum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
Member of 'The Teepees' Pop Group.

PM Lee Hsien Loong's selfie with 
blogger Andy at the Botanical Gardens

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