liberating music

It seems appropriate to celebrate the Dutch 'liberation day' with a compilation of 'dutch successes' of the fifties. More than that I just felt like a sharity. The 10 inch lp is not divided into tracks, it's the opposite: what's so special about this album is that some of the tracks are connected with each other by a pianist, like on other of this kind of compilations was done with applause. I'm not sure how that was done. Technically it was possible with multiple real to real players but I think pianist Gerard van Krevelen played it live while the existing recodings where playing in the studio, or I like to think it, anyway.
Take a listen, you'll find it surprisingly interesting and fun:

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Babe [NL 80s]

Lee Towers - I can see clearly now (Dutch "Gala of the year" 1988)

Okay, this isn't Heino, but I hope I can get away with it just this one time ...

Patrick Allenbach, Dorus, Kralingen etc...

Taken from splogman.com



At the moment I spent most of my spare time digitizing records, taking pictures of sleeves and ... what's the english word ... retoucher ... restoring, yes! I'm not sure what the use is apart from me having a lot of home-ripped digital music and being able to throw or give away most of it. I have a lot of second hand penny-worth albums waiting to be processed, not to mention five shoe boxes of weird singles, flexi discs etc... Readers Digest has produced a lot of flexi discs, promoting their collections of "best of" boxes. In the Netherlands it was mostly Willem Duys who recently passed away who presented them (I have to listen and digitize a lot of those yet...) and appearently for the French speaking community it was Patrick Allenbach.



I've noticed that playing flexidiscs wet [demineralized water of course) enhances the sound quality enormously. So that's standard procedure.



And last but not least for today: Dorus [Tom Manders] song 'popfestival' (and hashish, I feel it's important to mention that to enhance it's appeal to you)



The song describes the Kralingen Popfestival, in Rotterdam 1970, inspired by the one in Woodstock.

Gruppo Sportivo May 20th, 2011 Almere, NL

Gruppo Sportivo play their unforgettable songs from the seventies at the occasion of their 35th anniversary.

Chief of the Apache

I found this wacky song on a compilation album (K-Tell or something) out of a box with water damage which was delivered at Radio Zwolle some years ago. This Old Shatterhand who hasn't released any other songs apart from this one and its b-side "Thank You" must have been an undercover Dutch artist, judging by the accent. Also when I googled I found this labelscan with "Oscar Harris productions" on it. Harris also being the co-writer of the song, is a pretty wellknown Dutch-Surinam singer and producer. I don't think it's Harris himself singing here. It might be Alexander Curly, but I'm not sure...







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Toby Rix & Willem Breuker Kollektief

At this vid from 2000, Toby is 80 years old. According to his website he is still performing.



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Luv' - Ooh, yes I do 1979

Dutch pride from the late seventies till mid eighties. I love Luv', I allways have, as a group that is.

Constant has a rocking horse

Not safe for work if there are any dutch speakers around.



Notice the shave-and-a-hair-cut ending...

Duelling Fiddles

These are the Dutch violinists Benny Behr (playing with organ-player and TV-personality Cor Steyn) and Sem Nijveen.

update: Sem is playing with jazz-pianist Roelof Stalknecht. See comments for more details.

Jan Rot - LOLA (Kinks NL)

Sacrilege, but Jan Rot gets away with it again...

Mini strips (mini comics)

Frits Jonker tells in his blog how he has lettered a lot of these mini strips in the eighties.





source: Frits Jonker's weblog

Veronica Unlimited - What kind of dance is this

Radio Veronica was one of the popular off-shore pirate stations which where taken off air by a change of law in 1974. Veronica made it's way into the public broadcasting system a few later. Here the anniversary of Veronica's Top 40, The Netherlands first hitparade was celebrated in a TV broadcast, by the group Veronica Unlimited, founded naturally for the occasion but they would record other songs as well later. The (veronica off-shore) jingles were included in the recording.

365grammofoonplaten

Taken from Bas Trimbach's daily blog. Each day he searches through his collection for an appropriate record to fit the news or occasionaly his own life.

another Aquarius cover

While preparing a Dutch language podcast I came across this album from 1973. It's an album to promote the cultural life of the village of Bergen (north of Amsterdam near the coast). This is the contribution of Ritmisch jeugdkoor Petrus en Paulus o.l.v. Ton Stroomer (=rhythmic youth choir Peter and Paul conducted by Ton Stroomer).
By the name of the choir and what I understand from the lyrics this is one of the many Catholic Youth choirs in that period in The Netherlands. Petrus and Paulus is the name of the Catholic church in Bergen and it seems the choir still exists.

This is for everyone who would like to hear yet another cover of Aquarius from Hair

Boudewijn de Groot - Aeneas Nu

One of The Netherlands most celebrated singers, Boudewijn de Groot in his lesser known psychedelic period:



During that period however THIS duet with Elly Nieman was a big hit:



A few years after this Elly became successful as a religious singer together with her husband Rikkert Zuyderveld.

Dutch pulp

A beautiful collection of dutch, american, french pulp book covers from Twincollector


via Au Carrefour Etrange

Marga! Marga! Marga! Uhghuhuhgraahh!!!!!........

If you loved the previous post of Peer Mullens performing Oh Peter, hier niet zoenen! (Oh Peter, Do Not Kiss!), then you will undoubtedly be swept away by the romantic interlude of  Gerard en Marga.
From the Dutch LP: Candy by Peer Mullens & Vrolijke Trekkers

Oh Peter, hier niet zoenen!

Peer Mullens
Oh Peter, hier niet zoenen! (Oh Peter, Do Not Kiss!)
From the Dutch LP CANDY
Thanks to Darlene!

De Kermisklanten - Crazy Accordeon

They were Dutch, they were married, they were known by almost everybody in the Netherlands and Germany. They were Henny and Coby Voskuilen, better know as De Kermisklanten, translated roughly as "The Village Fair Busters". Henny died about year ago.
I don't particulary like this kind of music, in fact I'm almost allergic to it, but I bought some of their albums just for the sleeves and having worked as an accordeon duo with my wife myself, I respected them immensely for the way they kept it going, all those years. They must have had supernatural powers and some of their performances... well...