Today's post was prompted by a recent edition of Rol's widely acclaimed 'Namesakes' series - a concept so good its somewhat surprising nobody else had thought of it before.
Last week's episode featured a ropy Dutch string band called The Crooks who mutated over time to become a slightly less ropy Dutch folk band called King's Galliard. That name was familiar to me because they are included on a compilation of Dutch folk and folk-rock that I picked up from a market stall in The Hague many years ago.
The album rejoices under the title "Dutch Rare Folk: 43 Lost Classics". Having dusted it off for possibly the first time since I bought it I don't think you could describe all, or indeed any, of them as lost classics. But it is better than I remember it being and it seems that the Netherlands were awash with fine female folk singers back in the 1970s.
"De Boerenplof / De Skotse Trije" - King's Galliard
"It Gefang" - Irolt
"'t Visserke" - Deirdre
Further Dutch sounds of the seventies below...
It's all Double Dutch to me
ReplyDeleteThree great videos, and Ding-A-Dong.
ReplyDeleteIf only someone had thought of Namesakes earlier and then not abandoned the idea... they'd have saved me a lot of hard work!
They wouldn't have shown the same level of professionalism and dedication that you demonstrate on a weekly basis.
DeleteKing's Galliard are a bit "hand-over-the.ear", but O am impressed with the Irolt track. For some reason I have played Ding a Dong all the way through.
ReplyDeleteKG were by no means a highlight of the compilation but were an improvement on their predecessors The Crooks, about whom you said "I truly dislike #1, it's on a par with Atomic and Union City Blue".
DeleteThose red breeks leave little to the imagination
ReplyDeleteA splendid set of clips. Teach-In won the Eurovision Song Contest with that song. Back in the day I wouldn't have known the rest were Dutch - that came later.
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