.Willem van Hanegem - Don't Forget Me (Nilsson cover)/Carol (7" single)

Who doesn't know Willem van Hanegem? One of the best football

(soccer) players in the 60s, 70s and 80s of the last century.

After his football career, he ventured his luck as a singer. He took

a Harry Nilsson tune for his big singing breakthrough. The B side

was written by Hans Vermeulen from Sandy Coast.

Willem said it failed to chart due to a lack of promotion from CBS. 

I think Willem is a better singer then Harry could play soccer

but that's about it.

His son Willem van Hanegem jr. (Son of Willlemm 😄) is

a quite popular trance/house/rave producer.

a: Don't Forget Me (H. Nilsson) - 3:03
b: Caroll (H. Vermeulen) - 3:00

©1986 CBS (CBS 650031)
mp3 320 kbps

Old Shatterhand - The Greatest

©1971, 1972, 1973 Polydor Records

vinyl rip

Old Shatterhand was the stage name for Surinam-born Dutch artist Frank Smit and made 4 singles under that name. He was also a member of The Hunters and The Twinkle Stars and worked as a producer for other artists. Old Shatterhand's songs were written and produced by Oscar Harris. 

Chief of the Apache
Thank you
I'm the greatest
Don't ask me why
Mexican Bandido
Girl, you're looking fine
Abracadabra
 Prove me (you can groove me)

It's on Yandex (left button) and Usenet NZB (right button)

Be sure to press the right button (exept if you want to press the left button).

Jay-Jays - Bald Headed Woman

©1995 Phonogram/Mercury

Recorded 1966/1967

After dramatic developments in december 1965, when Holland’s most popular instrumental band The Jumping Jewels lost their name in a court case against their old manager Herman Batelaan, bandmembers decided to start with a new name in which the two “J” ‘s had to return. Instantly a new single was released, two covers from the first LP of The Kinks: Baldheaded woman coupled to Mystifying. As leadguitarist Hans van Eijck didn’t like beatmusic – he’d rather stick to the old instrumentals – he left The Jay-Jays two months later after the band did a very important TV-show promoting their first single. He was replaced by Leo Bennink, who used to play with The Black Albinos and Rene & his Alligators. The record was an instant success though, spurting into the Top Ten and getting the band a lot of work. 

 

 1 Bald Headed Woman /  2 So Mystifying / 3 I Got Love If You Want It / 4 I Keep Tryin' / 5 Come Back If You Dare / 6 Don't Sell The Sun / 7 Waauw! / 8 A Distant Place / 9 Are You A Woman / 10 'Cause You're Mine, Babe / 11 Cruncher / 12 To-Day I'm Gay / 13 All Around The World / 14 Shake It Some More / 15 The Name Of You / 16 Respect / 17 Cool Jerk / 18 Baby You Know You Ain't Right / 19 (I Know) In My Mind / 20 Respect (Backing Tape) / 21 'Cause You're Mine, Babe (Backing Tape) / 22 Are You A Woman (Backing Tape)

 

Fuck The Writer - Keeping the Aspidistra Flying

Listen on Spotify

For all you lovers, writers, happy and unhappy, lonely, free and trying, crawling, kissing and wandering....

Fuck the Writer is a Rotterdam (the Netherlands) based 25 year old singer/songwriter who writes and performs his material by himself. The first album “Maar Ik Dans Niet” (“But I Won’t Dance”) was recorded on a multitracker using a cheap condensator mic, a melodica, 12 string guitar, nylon strings, acoustic bass, wine bottles, a toy piano and a moon guitar . The warm, intimate sound reflects the mood of the winter in which the album was recorded. The second album "Keeping the Aspidistra Flying" (inspired by Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying") was released nationwide and got excellent reviews from press and peers. The third album "Dear Holland", this time recorded in a studio with a band, is soon to be released.
Click on songs to listen to some great music.

https://subroutinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sr006-keeping-the-aspidistra-flying

Herman Brood

Live at Borne and Countdown Café

1982 Soundboard recordings

192 Kbps

Herman was a Dutch rock/blues singer, pianoplayer, poet, actor and painter. Amongst others he played in the Dutch blues band "Cuby And The Blizzards" and acted in the movie"Cha Cha". He had a hit with "saturdaynight" in Holland and Germany.

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Herman Brood was a drug addict almost whole his life. Depressed by the failure of his drug rehabilitation program and facing serious medical problems because of his prolonged drug use, he committed suicide on 11 July, 2001 by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel at the age of 54.

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tracks: 01 stay alive (4:33) / 02 little trouble maker (2:15) / 03 torture yourself (3:59) / 04 tattoosong (3:12) / 05 doin it (2:41) / 06 easy street (4:00) / 07 redneck lady (3:59) / 08 city lights (3:09) / 09 never bite at hand (3:24) / 10 tattoosong (2:57) / 11 dont torure yourself (4:05) / 12 doin it (2:48) / 13 easy street (3:59) / 14 working the road (3:38) / 15 no more dancin (2:46) / 16 glass house (3:42) / 17 all the girls (2:41) / 18 job (3:07) / 19 city lights (4:12) / 20 saturdaynight (3:29) / 21 redneck lady (4:01) / 22 cant decide (3:15) / 23 bad blood (3:32)

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Ad Visser - Sobriëtas

Vinyl rip, 320 kbbs

©1982 CBS 85990

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This is the original release from 1982. The album is the companion of the book "Sobriëtas" wich Ad Visser released that same year. Don't expect Tinklebell to ring a bell when you have to turn a page though. The synthesizer based tracks are more like an OST. The song Giddiyap a Gogo sung by Daniel Saluheka was a big hit in the Netherlands.

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I've tried to eliminate as many ticks, clicks and scratches as possible but couldn't get it better than this. Played the record too many times.

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Tracklisting: Overture In "S" (4:28) / March Of Hope (4:50) / Delicate Balance (3:30) / Nostalgia For Earth (8:48) / Giddyap A Gogo (4:50) / Relief Of Demorzan (5:28) / Adventure (Restless Breed) (4:44) / A Last Farewell (4:00)

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Incl. scans from the original LP cover

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Ad Visser, Pushkar & Kim Menzer

The Sound Of Blue

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CD D.D.D. rip, 320Kbps

©1988 Blue Eyes CBE 4787

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In 1988 Ad did performance on the RAI Media mess, Amsterdam to promote Blaupunkt and himself. This project was named "The Talkinghead Experience" and had a, for that time, inmensive lasershow. For audio comment he used projectors to give life to a big (3 or 4 metres) three dimensional head. All very impressive. You could buy the music right there as a souvenir. Along the Ad Visser track there were two Pushkar and one Kim Menzer tracks. Everytime I hear Pushkar's "Rainbow Dance" I think of coffee. Maybe he was drugged by Nescafé.

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No hits but fine synthesiser/new age music. If you like Kitaro, Gandalf or Michael Garrison you probably gonna like this too.

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Tracklisting:
1 Ad Visser - The Sound Of Blue (15:45)
2 Pushkar - Rainbow Dance (5:47)
3 Pushkar - Kalaila (11:15)
4 Kim Menzer - Seashore Mystery (9:48)

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Incl. artwork

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Ad Visser - Hi-Tec Heroes

Vinyl rip, 320 Kbps

©1987 Vertigo 830 813-1

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After Sobriëtas Ad Visser made up a new Multi-Media project titled Hi-Tec Heroes. No book this time but a theaterperformance and an album. The theme is the modern tecnology.

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"No News From The Western Frontier" is sung by Gary Brooker from Procol Harum All other vocals and instruments are played by Ad Visser.

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Tracklisting: Burning Heart (3:10) / Garbage Can (3:21) /Inter Acces (1:02) / Hi-Tec Heroes (3:31) / Hi-Tec Heroes In The Night (4:04) / What's Going On (4:00) / No News From The Western Frontier (5:38) / The Lone Hero (7:02) / The Fountain-Head (1:10) / Futurian Symphony (8:04)

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Incl. scans from the original cover

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Tower

Titan

©1982 Dureco Benelux 88.037

320 Kbps Vinyl Rip

Symphonic Powerrock from the Netherlands. The band had a big hit in Holland with "See You Tonight" and a minor hit with "Goin' Home". The vocals from Marian Pijnaker are increddible strong and the orchestration from Dick Bakker and Hans Hollestelle are ELO-esque. Most of the album written by Catmusic who are famous of their own but under other names (Catapult, Woodpeckers from Space, Videokids, Monotones & the Surfers just to name a few).

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The album was quite succesfull but a second album was never recorded. Tower disbanded and Marian Pijnaker (vocals) and Cor van der Hoogt (Guitar & Vocals) continued as Split Decision. They released one single "Action" [download] but could not reproduce the succes of tower.

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Listen to the power of Tower!
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tracks: 1. Introduction/Titan 9:20 / 2. Get back 3:09 / 3. Moon 4:05 / 4. We are (The boys and girls) 3:03 / 5. Goin' home 3:32 / 6. Space man 3:22 / 7. See you tonight 3:49 / 8. Xio/Epilogue 8:15

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Incl. scans from the original LP cover and innersleeve with lyrics

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Fred van Zegveld

Hammond Organ Dynamite

©1969 Basart Park LBP 3006

320 Kbps Vinyl Rip

Fred van Zegveld became known as the organ player of a charting Beatlesque group called Roek Williams & The Fighting Cats, though they changed their name into Roek's Family on the day Fred joined them in 1968, ready for their biggest hit Get Yourself A Ticket in '69.

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1969 must have been a busy year for him, because Van Zegveld was also a member of a group called The Flood that year, together with two musicians that also played in Roek Williams's group: Richard de Bois on bass (who became a top producer ten years later, for amongst others The Dolly Dots) and Will Luikinga on sax and flute (who became a famous dj on Radio Veronica afterwards).

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Van Zegveld's only solo album "Dynamite" shows his love for Booker T & The MG's, Jimmy Smith and such, though most of the tracks on it are his own compositions. Van Zegveld, who is still active as a musician today, doesn't even own a proper copy of his album anymore, and if he wants to buy one on eBay, he has to pay at least 300 dollars!
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tracks: 1. Family blues (Fred van Zegveld) 3:19 / 2. Here, there, and everywhere (Lennon/McCartney) 3:07 / 3. Daffodil (Fred van Zegveld) 2:00 / 4. Blue organ (Fred van Zegveld) 3:19 / 5. Dynamite (Fred van Zegveld) 4:45 / 6. Misty (Erroll Garner) 4:06 / 7. Whiskey (Fred van Zegveld) 4:06 / 8. Round about 12 (Fred van Zegveld) 2:42 / 9. I wanna be your man (Lennon/McCartney) 6:21

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Incl. scans from the original LP

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Joep Bruijnjé

Vitamins

©1982 Idiot Records

320 Kbps

Joep Bruijnjé's work is famous without being famous himself. He wrote songs for "La Grande Parade", a project from Henk Hofstede (Nits) and he wrote many songs for Jiskefet (Dutch comedy) including the leader. But he is not famous because of his music but because of his photographs. Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, XTC, Phil Collins, Herman Brood, Billy Joel, Prince, The Police, The Cure, Robert Fripp, Simple Minds and U2 are all being photographed by Joep.

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In 1982 he recorded his own minialbum (10"/25 cm) with the help of some idiot records artists. Fay Luyendijk (Fay Lovsky), Robert Jan Stips, Klaas ten Holt, Jacob Klaasse, Mathilde Santing , Peter van Straten, Rob Hauser are all playing on the album. The music is like the Kewi's, Fay Lovsky or Nits with a tip of Gruppo Sportivo.

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tracks: 1.: Trois Sur Quatre / 2.: Ghetto Boy / 3.: Back To The Border / 4.: Caroline / 5.: Twice A Year / 6.: Just Another Day / 7.: Billy / 8.: Painting And Drawing / 9.: Last One

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Robert Jan Stips

U.P.

©1981 CBS 85424 Vinyl

Rip at 320Kbps

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Robert Jan Stips (Supersister, Nits) solo album. Recorded at the Arnold Muhren (the Cats) Studio in Volendam. With his brandnew Oberheim Synthesiser (one of the first in the Netherlands) RJ spent his days and nights designing sounds, playing with them, writing and recording on his Teac 4 track machine together with one of the first drum machines ever, the ‘Dr Rhythm‘. U.P. (Joepie een synthesizer) was written and recorded during these sessions.
-Tracks: 1. Money makers 3:12 / 2. Wake up 4:34 / 3. Tomorrow (is another day) 3:30 / 4. Shivers 4:10 / 5. Nuts in a shell 3:18 / 6. Camera 3:12 / 7. No more Mondays 3:54 / 8. Much better 2:57 / 9. Welcome tourists 3:14 / 10. Fortune & fame 7:22
-Including LP Coverart and Lyrics

In 1982 a single came out.

As the album was already printed and in the stores you'd get the single for free if you desided to buy the album. It came in a plain white sleeve, the White Single :-)

A side: How The West Got Lost. This could be a little bit plagiarism.
B side: Fortune & Fame. A shorter and instrumental version as appeared on the album.

STARS ON 45 PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE STAR SISTERS - Hooray For Hollywood

©1984 Red Bullet
MP3, 320 kbps

Stars On 45 Producer: Jaap Eggermont
Vocals: Patricia Paay, Sylvana van Veen, Yvonne Keeley

Tracks:

1. A tribute to Marilyn Monroe

2. Alexander's ragtime band

3. Mister sandman4

. Cry me a river

5. This is only the beginning

6. Hooray for Hollywood

7. Sentimental gentleman

8. Lullaby of broadway

9. Hawaiian summer

10. Drivin' with my baby

11. Showbusiness

STARS ON 45 PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE STAR SISTERS - TONIGHT 20.00 HRS

©1983 CNR Records 655.177
MP3, 320 kbps

Stars On 45 Producer: Jaap Eggermont
Vocals: Patricia Paay, Sylvana Maanurdin, Yvonne Keeley

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Swing Medley: (17:01)

1.1 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (0:30)
1.2 South American Way (0:23)
1.3 Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (0:45)
1.4 In The Mood (0:50)
1.5 Rum And Coca Cola (0:30)
1.6 Tico Tico (0:20)
1.7 Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy) (0:40)
1.8 Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand (0:44)
1.9 Joseph Joseph (0:44)
1.10 Ti-Pi-Tin (0:24)
1.11 A String Of Pearls (0:33)
1.12 Hold Tight (Sea Food) (0:33)
1.13 Beer Barrel Polka (Skoda Lasky) (0:43)
1.14 Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (1:01)
1.15 Moonlight Serenade (1:05)
1.16 Oh! Ma-Ma! (Luna Mezzo Mare) (1:06)
1.17 Tuxedo Junction (0:46)
1.18 Pistol Packin' Mama (0:36)
1.19 Pennsylvania Polka (0:44)
1.20 Yes, My Darling Daughter (0:24)
1.21 Happy Days Are Here Again (0:55)
1.22 American Patrol (0:46)
1.23 Chattanooga Choo Choo (1:13)
1.24 In The Mood (0:46)

SIDE B
2. Double Dutch Jive (Schön/Hollestelle/Eggermont) (5:35)
3. Stars Serenade (Duiser/Eggermont/Duiser) (5:20)
4. Plaza-7900 (Duiser/Eggermont/Duiser) (5:14)

Ingrid Kup
Feel Me

©1982 Teldec Digital 6.25034 AP
320 Kbps. Vinyl rip

Ingrid Kup, great voice, no recognition. Once she was half of the duo Big Mouth & Little Eve who had one hit (Uncle) in 1975. In 1977 the duo stopped and Willem (Big Mouth) and Ingrid (Little Eve) both went solo.

In 1981 Ingrid collaborated with Frank Duval and made a few singles and an album. Frank wrote the songs and produced them. The songs can be discribed as powerballads (think Bonnie Tyler or Doro)

Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) is an audio disc mastering technique developed by Teldec. Instead cutting onto a lacquer-coated disc, DMM cuts the groove directly in copper metal resulting in a higher quality.

Tracks: 01 Love what's your face / 02 What's there about her / 03 Hey butterfly / 04 Song of hope / 05 I'd Like To Be Your Woman / 06 Feel Me / 07 I Will Not Die / 08 Do you remember / 09 Tears in your eyes / 10 Life Goes On

Including coverart and lyrics.

Kewi University Of Swing

Terracotta me, baby

©1983 ( idiot records / Wea )
320 Kbps Vinyl rip

Two students Kees (KE) and Willem (WI) released this on their own idiot records label (previous 1000 idiots, meaning that there always be 1000 idiots would buy their stuff). It's not easy to categorise their music, it's just too strange. Try some Squeeze with a bit of David Bowie mixed with Gruppo Sportivo and Nits.

Some tracks do end very adrupt. That's not a fault in ripping or coding but it's the way te Kewis intended them.

tracks: 1. Little Asia 2:50 / 2. Greatest Tut 2:14 / 3. The Little Lonely Accordeon 1:02 / 4. Girls on Vacation 2:12 / 5. Robin Hood 3:07 / 6. Doremifa 1:56 / 7. Right Left 3:54 / 8. Monday 3:14 / 9. The Battle of Peak A Boo 2:13 / 10. Biggles 2:44 / 11. Someone 3:12 / 12. Terracotta Me Baby 3:06 / 13. Kewi Music 2:42Coverart included

Johan Timman - Trip Into The Body (1981)

©1981 Fleet/Ariola 203911

256 Kbps

Johan Timman released this album of electronic music in 1981. Nobody had heard from him before (but he had played in the Dutch progressive rockgroup Think Tank) and nobody has heard from him again (although he played on Bolland & Bolland's "In The Army Now")

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"Trip Into The Body" is a conceptalbum about... A trip into the body (you would never have guessed). He wrote, recorded, produced and played all the instruments (Moogs, vocoders) himself. The music has aged very well and sounds quite fresh. A comparison to Kraftwerk, Kitaro, Jean-Michel Jarre and Yello Magic Orchestra comes to mind but the concept and the music is more original. Well, it was in 1981.

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Warning: Don't let young children listen to "The Brain", they could easely be scared by the BRAAAAIIIIINNNN.

-Tracks: Trip into the body [6:30] / The Brain [5:52] / The Heart [4:03] / The Blood (The march of the white and the red corpuscles) [6:22] / The Blood cells and the Antibodies (Look out for the killer) [5:45] / The Windpipe [0:43] / The Lungs [5:12] / The Hemoglobin [0:42] / Inside the Tympanic Cavity [1:21] / Hearing (Ocean of sound) [6:57]

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Oblique - Oblique

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1985 CBS 26218

320 Kbps
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Tags: Ambient, Electronic, New Age, Experimental, Instrumental, Easy Listening.Oblique is Gerard Stokkink and Tom Bachmann. The album is used as music for the danceperformance "Oblique" from the Shusaku & Dormu Dance Theatre (Don't expect a dance-album now...). The LP was highly acclaimed as it was listed by MusicMaker as 'one of the best Dutch albums ever'.

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Nevertheless Oblique never made another album again and stopped in 1988 as a band in order to fully focus on composing music for audio-visuals.

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toetsen: Gerard Stokkink; drums, percussie: Tom Bachmann; producer: Oblique; producer +engineer: Emile Elsen; design: Yvonne Roth; fotografie: Ronald Loosveld; schilderij: Jean-François André; bas: Oswald Kiemeneij; bas: Ed Simpson Baikie; gitaar: Hans Hollestelle; gitaar: André de Wert; toetsen: Jaap Hamburger; sax, klarinet: Michael Moore; sax: Tom Barlage; sopraan: Conny van Kuik;

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Tracks: 1. Blue Mountain 4:38 (Gerard Stokkink) 2. Sculpture 5:05 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 3. Endless cruise 4:51 (Gerard Stokkink) 4. Archer 0:23 (Tom Bachmann) 5. Rose 6:12 (Gerard Stokkink) 6. Anemone 1:29 (Gerard Stokkink,Oswald Kiemeneij) 7. Policeman in the sand 4:07 (Gerard Stokkink) 8. Arena 3:54 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 9. Yellow turtles 5:00 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 10. Travellers 1:55 (Gerard Stokkink) 11. Ramblas 4:20 (Gerard Stokkink) 12. Seals 3:15 (Gerard Stokkink)

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Ad Visser

Sobrietas

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CD rip, 224 kbbs /Dino Records 2253 /Released in 1990.

Original lp was released on CBS records in 1982

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Allthough this CD is titled Sobrietas it's not the same as the original release from 1982. It's more a kind of a sampler containing 5 tracks of the LP Sobrietas (tracks 2,7-10), 3 tracks from the Hi-Tec Heroes CD (track 4, 5 & 6 ) and 2 tracks were singles (1 & 3). Missing are "Overture in S", "March Of Hope", "Nostalgia for Earth" and the song Giddiyap a Gogo sung by Daniel Saluheka wich was a big hit in the Netherlands.

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Despite the missing tracks it's a great Electronic, Synth-pop, Ambient experience.

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Tracklisting:

1 Head Over Heels In Paradise (4:52) / 2 Delicate Balance (3:30) / 3 Hallucinado (4:20) Vocals - Maggie Reilly / 4 The Lone Hero (6:57) / 5 Futurian Symphony (9:16) / 6 No News From The Western Frontier (5:41) Vocals - Gary Brooker / 7 March Of Hope (4:50) / 8 Nostalgia For Earth (8:48) / 9 Relief Of Demorzan (5:28) / 10 A Last Farewell (4:00)

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Bramlaan - Aloft In A Balloon

In 1979 Bram Laan won the "vara's voorstelling", a new talent contest. Bram meets Don Willard who's got a recordingstudio (MusicFarm). Bram starts writing and recording with Don and the result is "Aloft In A Balloon" released in 1981.

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Bram tells on his homepage that Jimi Hendrix is his main inspiration. He is also influenced by Peter Gabriel, Preisner, David Bowie, Prince, Sting and Deep Forest. The way Bram Laan sings resembles that of Peter Gabriel.

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He uses strange soundeffects like thunder, rain, deformed vocals and walking on gravel. You might think that you get some weird psychedelic stuff but you don't. What you get is Electronic Acoustic Fantastic.

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Tracks: 1. Laughter 2:55 /0 2. Locked in a feeling 3:13 / 3. An ordinary lady 3:21 / 4. Miracle alley 3:36 / 5. Laughing eyes 2:41 / 6. Star wobble (Space-station) 6:23 / 7. Aloft in a balloon 3:29 / 8. Killarney Forest 5:29 / 1. So it rains 5:04 / 2. Don't waste your time 4:06 / 3. Lyin' flyin' 2:56 / 4. Songflower 3:32 / 5. You must have read my mind 3:16 / 6. Halo 5:05 / 7. Blossom wine 4:30 / 8. A flashing day a time in life 3:18

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Vinyl rip, 320 kbbs

©TITT Music Hilversum Music