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ONS LIEFLINGE – RUDI & CHARNE

Ten or so years ago, Rudi Claase started the ONS LIEFLINGE concept – a male-female duo. His first female duet partner was CORLEA and they brought out two CD’s. Once they parted ways, Rudi brought in ZITA and one CD was made. Their ways parted as well and then he teamed up with CHARNE and this is their first CD. It is a double CD with CD 1 featuring Afrikaans songs and CD 2 featuring English songs.

On the English CD is two EUROVISION covers. The first is COME WHAT WAY, the winning Eurovision song from Luxembourg 1972 which Vicky Leandros sang as Apres toi in French. The second is IN LOVE WITH YOU,the Dutch 1984 entry which Maribelle sang as Ik hou van jou in Dutch. Both songs have been covered several times before – both in English and in Afrikaans.

There are also two EURO related songs on the CD – I HAVE A DREAM of ABBA and WE’RE GONNA STAY TOGETHER of Vicky Leandros and Tony Christie.

The ONS LIEFLINGE is a good concept but not all songs in the double CD have been made to be sung in duet.

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SPOTLIGHT ON EUROVISION COMPOSERS – PIET SOUER & PETER VAN ASTEN

In 1998 Maurice Kroon released a song called WE SLAAN DIE SLAG. Two of the four composers of this song are Eurovision composers:

PIET SOUER who wrote the 1983 Dutch entry SING ME A SONG, sung by Bernadette

PETER VAN ASTEN who wrote the 1984 Dutch entry IK HOU VAN JOU, sung by Maribelle

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62 COVERS UNTIL KIEV – DAY 20 (Netherlands 1984)

NETHERLANDS 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9vKUm2pj-Q
Ek hou van jou – Eden

Ek hou van jou – Ge Korsten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZoz6k820A
Ek hou van jou – Danie Jansen

Ek hou van jou – Andre Smit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGuf1-O10o
Ik jou van jou – Maribelle

GIRL GROUPS FROM THE NETHERLANDS PART 3

Dolly Dots were a popular Dutch girl band in the 1980s. With their style of upbeat dance/pop, they scored many hits throughout Europe. The sextet consisted of Angela Groothuizen, Angéla Kramers, Anita Heilker, Esther Oosterbeek, Patty Zomer and Ria Brieffies. The Dolly Dots had many hits between 1979 and 1988. They were most successful in the Netherlands, but they also scored hits in the rest of Europe. Their single “Radio” was a big hit in Japan. “P.S.” was a Top 50 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play hit in 1981. They also enjoyed hits in Turkey, Lebanon, Iceland, and toured through Egypt. At the peak of their success in 1984 the Dolly Dots had their own TV series, Barbie dolls, wallpaper, and a #1 hit, “Love Me Just a Little Bit More (Totally Hooked On You)”. At the end of the next year, Anita Heilker left the group to have a daughter. She later became the Dutch voice of Donald Duck. The rest of the band continued as a five-piece. Heilker had already launched her own career. In 1986 she released four solo singles (“You’ve Got Me Keyed Up”, “Into The Night”, “Dancing On The Moon” and “Don’t Treat Me Like This”), as well as a solo album (The Girl In Black). Since the TV series’ success in 1984, there had been plans to record a Hollywood movie. In the summer of 1986 the 5 remaining Dolly Dots finally went to the US to work with an unfinished script and made a movie called Dutch Treat, which was released later that year. The movie and its soundtrack were modest successes in The Netherlands but were not released in the US due to poor reviews. The group broke up in 1988. Their last single was an attempt to break into the UK market. The Dolly Dots teamed up with hit producers Stock Aitken Waterman and released the song “What a Night”. It reached number 18 in the Dutch charts, but was not successful in the UK. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, composed by Richard Debois and Peter van Asten (who wrote the 1984 Dutch entry Ik hou van jou), would have been a great Euro entry.

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EUROVISION 60th CELEBRATION – SONG 14 of 60

Next up is a real South African classic with around 15 people having covered it. It is the 1984 song IK HOU VAN JOU of Netherlands, originally sung by Maribelle. The song was introduced to South Africa 10 years after its Eurovision duet when Dana Winner covered it. We have picked the first Afrikaans cover done by boy band EDEN in 2001.

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SHEEBA – IRELAND 1981

I read on another website that one of the three members of SHEEBA, who sang for Ireland at the 1981 Eurovision with HOROSCOPES has retired. She is Maxi (Irene McCoubrey). Here is the cover of another Sheeba single COMING TO YOU. Interesting is that this song was composed by Dutch composers Peter van Asten and Richard de Bois who write the 1984 Dutch entry IK HOU VAN JOU for Maribelle.

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