How is pop music in the Netherlands in the year 1970?
How is pop music in the Netherlands in the year 1970?
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How is pop music in the Netherlands in the year 1970?
I need to make a paper about Pop Music in Holland during the year 1970. All i can get is the Top 40 List and artists biography. Does anybody who experience first hand the music scene in the Netherlands in the year 1970 can give me an insight? The longer your explanation and description, the better.
Well appreciated.
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Save Your Kisses For Me
Song origins
"Save Your Kisses for Me" was originally written by member Lee Sheriden in August 1974. On bringing the song in to the next songwriting session, others thought that the title was clumsy and reworked it into "Oceans of Love". Sheriden was unhappy with the changes and the song was shelved. A year later when it came to coming up with songs for the next album, they discovered that they needed one more song and Sheriden again put forth "Save Your Kisses for Me". This time it was accepted, as he later recalled:
"I'd had a year to think about it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do on the arrangement, the glockenspiel on the beginning and the big 12-string acoustic guitar and the strings, and then came the day to record the song...It was about midnight and I sang it and it went well. I could see everyone behind the glass panel getting excited and I thought great, they all really like the song, and as I finished I was waiting for them to press the button so they could speak to me and say 'great, we've got a hit' or whatever, and the person pressing it said: 'Lee, we think Martin should sing this song'. But I didn't mind because Martin came in and sung it to perfection."
Soon after, manager Tony Hiller was keen for the group to try for Eurovision, now that the qualifying rounds had changed in the UK. Up till now, a singer was nominated to perform, but for 1976 it was opened up to different singers to enter their own songs. Brotherhood of Man put forward "Save Your Kisses for Me" and it was accepted as one of the 12 finalists. It won A Song for Europe on 25 February 1976, beating second-placed Co-Co by just two points. The song was released as a single and reached number one in the UK Charts two weeks before the Eurovision final, due to be held on 3 April.
Eurovision victory
The performance consisted of the two male singers wearing black and white suits, and the two females wearing white and red jumpsuits with matching berets, standing still and singing with minor arm and leg choreography. The bouncy jingle described the gently conflicted emotions of a young man leaving an adored loved-one in the morning as he leaves for work. The song's final line provided the twist: that he was leaving a three year old behind, ending with "Won't you save them for me...even though you're only three?".
It was awarded the maximum twelve points by seven countries, totalling 164 points compared to the second-placed French entry with 147 points. According to John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, the song is the biggest selling single for a winning entry in the history of the contest. It also scored the highest relative score under the system introduced in 1975 (which has been used in every contest since) After winning the contest, the song reached No.1 in many countries across Europe and eventually sold more than five million copies. In the UK it stayed at No.1 for six weeks and was certified platinum by the BPI in May 1976, becoming the biggest selling single of the year. In the United States, the song was a moderate pop hit (No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100) but went all the way to No.1 on Billboard's Easy Listening (later known as Adult Contemporary) chart.
Post Eurovision
The group followed the single up with the similarly themed "My Sweet Rosalie", which was also a hit around Europe, and was featured on the album, Love and Kisses. The group continued to score hits in the UK, with two more chart toppers in the next two years; however, this was not the case in the United States, where "Save Your Kisses for Me" was the group's final chart entry.
"Save Your Kisses for Me" was succeeded at Eurovision in 1977 by Marie Myriam singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" for France. In a reversal of the 1976 result, the UK were runners-up.
Among many cover versions, country singer Margo Smith had a number ten hit on the Country charts in 1976, while Bobby Vinton had a Billboard top 100 hit in the same year with his version.
The song was chosen in an internet poll conducted by the European Broadcasting Union in 2005 as one of the fourteen most popular songs in the history of the Eurovision, and was one of the entrants in the Congratulations fiftieth anniversary concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, held in October 2005. It was re-enacted by the group (who are still together) along with twelve dancers dressed in matching red, white, and black costumes with briefcases and a live orchestra as the original footage was shown in the background. It came fifth in the final voting.
"Save Your Kisses for Me" is still one of the top 100 selling singles of all time in the UK.
Chart performance
Performance at Eurovision 1976
Country
Peak
position
UK
1
Belgium
1
France
1
The Netherlands
1
Norway
1
Ireland
1
Germany
2
Switzerland
2
Austria
3
South Africa
4
Sweden
6
US
27
Italy
41
US Adult Contemporary
1
References
^ a b Lee Sheriden recalls the song's origins on stage, 23 March 2007, Becon Theatre, Beaconsfield
^ Songs4europe. "A Song for Europe, 1976". http://www.songs4europe.com/20.html. Retrieved 2009-02-20.
^ O'Connor, John Kennedy. The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History. Carlton Books, UK. 2007 ISBN 978-1-84442-994-3
^ BPI. "Statistics - Certified awards - Brotherhood of Man". http://www.bpi.co.uk/. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
^ Tsort. ""Save Your Kisses for Me" Bobby Vinton version". http://tsort.info/music/c4ak72.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
^ UK Charts. "Best selling UK singles". http://ukcharts.20m.com/bestsell.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
^ Chartstats. "UK Chart details". http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=6970. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
^ Dutch Brotherhood of Man site. "Charts - Belgian chart position". http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/sunra/953/indexen.html. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
^ Infodisc. "French chart position". http://www.infodisc.fr/Artistes.php. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
^ Radio 538, Netherlands. "Dutch chart details". http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=6811. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ Norweigiancharts. "Norway Chart position". http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?key=389&cat=s. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ Irishcharts.ie. "Irish chart details". http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ Dutch Brotherhood of Man site. "Charts - German chart position". http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/sunra/953/indexen.html. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
^ Rock.co.za. "South African chart position". http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(B).html. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
^ Swedish Charts
^ Hit Parade Italia. "Italian chart position". http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_anno/hpy1976.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
Preceded by
"Bye Bye Baby" by Bay City Rollers
Top selling single of the year (UK)
1976
Succeeded by
"Mull of Kintyre" by Wings
Preceded by
"I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)" by Tina Charles
UK number one single
March 27, 1976 for six weeks
Succeeded by
"Fernando" by ABBA
Preceded by
Ding-A-Dong by Teach-In
Eurovision Song Contest winners
1976
Succeeded by
L'oiseau et l'enfant by Marie Myriam
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Brotherhood of Man
Martin Lee Lee Sheriden Nicky Stevens Sandra Stevens
Singles
"Love One Another" "United We Stand" "Where are You Going To My Love" "This Boy" "Reach Out Your Hand" "You and I" "California Sunday Morning" "Say a Prayer" "Happy Ever After" "Our World of Love" "When Love Catches Up on You" "Lady" "Lady Lady Lady Lay" "Spring of 1912" "Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby" "Save Your Kisses for Me" "My Sweet Rosalie" "Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In)" "Angelo" "Highwayman" "Figaro" "Beautiful Lover" "Middle of the Night" "Goodbye Goodbye" "Papa Louis" "Taxi" "Honey Don't Throw Our Love Away" "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" "Lightning Flash" "Cry Baby Cry" "When the Kissing Stops"
Albums
United We Stand We're the Brotherhood of Man The World of the Brotherhood of Man Good Things Happening Love and Kisses from Brotherhood of Man Oh Boy! Images B for Brotherhood Twenty Greatest Higher Than High Singing a Song Good Fortune Sing 20 Number One Hits 20 Disco Greats / 20 Love Songs Lightning Flash The Butterfly Children Greenhouse The Seventies Story
Related pages
Brotherhood of Man discography List of Brotherhood of Man songs Tony Hiller Barry Upton Congratulations (Eurovision) Eurovision Song Contest 1976 United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
Record Labels
Pye Records Deram Records Dawn Records EMI Warwick Records Dazzle Records
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Eurovision Song Contest winning songs
1950s
"Refrain" "Net als toen" "Dors, mon amour" "Een beetje"
1960s
"Tom Pillibi" "Nous les amoureux" "Un premier amour" "Dansevise" "Non ho l'et" "Poupe de cire, poupe de son" "Merci, Chrie" "Puppet on a String" "La, la, la" "Boom Bang-a-Bang" "Un jour, un enfant" "De troubadour" "Vivo cantando"
1970s
"All Kinds of Everything" "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" "Aprs toi" "Tu te reconnatras" "Waterloo" "Ding-A-Dong" "Save Your Kisses for Me" "L'oiseau et l'enfant" "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" "Hallelujah"
1980s
"What's Another Year" "Making Your Mind Up" "Ein bichen Frieden" "Si la vie est cadeau" "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" "La det swinge" "J'aime la vie" "Hold Me Now" "Ne partez pas sans moi" "Rock Me"
1990s
"Insieme: 1992" "Fngad av en stormvind" "Why Me?" "In Your Eyes" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Nocturne" "The Voice" "Love Shine a Light" "Diva" "Take Me to Your Heaven"
2000s
"Fly on the Wings of Love" "Everybody" "I Wanna" "Everyway That I Can" "Wild Dances" "My Number One" "Hard Rock Hallelujah" "Molitva" "Believe" "Fairytale"
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