Eurovision 75 - Netherlands

[pepperoni4pouse]

grat song

[marleynl]

Anyone has a recording of : in the summertime of teach in , can't find it here :(

[MrEdje1975]

WE WON THE CONTEST 4 TIMES WE ARE WE ARE THE NETHERLANDS

[centas888]

aciu .



[TOURQPOOL]

classic eurovision, much better in those days, x

[fendweller]

She looks a bit like a young Sybil Fawlty, don't you think?

[LCScampi]

@fendweller YES!!! I thought it was just me who thought that.

[watfordfcfan1]

Responding to Donna below - my second favourite song of all time is ding dinge dong - my favourite is ABBA's Thank You For The Music! It's a small world!

[jovanovicmilan]

My mom had pyjama like hers that evening, so many flowers. Really the same pyjama like my mom`s.

[donnachamccarrick]

I just love this song- best euro winner ever agree 100% about today's euro entries they are not a patch on this. Reminds me of ABBA . my favourite is the drummer- he looks so happy to be there

[gilllianlewis730]

HOW REFRESHING TO HEAR A EUROVISION WINNING SONG (YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE SINGING!) RIGHTLY DESERVED TO BE THE WINNER. AS FOR THIS YEAR "SO CALLED" WINNER. CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE NAME OR MTHE SONG TITLE.

[uyauabing]

geweldig! still trying to make that connection between space-age garb and 17th century VOC-beards. I think the singer was Austrian...but this is one of the more memorable eurovision songs - a bit different form the schlager-type eurokitsch of the era.

[nuladee]

i love a xylophone-playing backup singer in full-length silver pearlescent tights and matching star. It just makes so much sense to me.

[pioneervajo]

i have an idea, SPLIT the eurosongcontest in TWO, a western & an eastern part, so those the eastern europeans can vote for eachother, like they're used to do

[melmertzel]

This song reminds me the BEATLES somehow....regards to beatles by the way...I miss them...

[brittbassa]

O what i love the bassist , nice moves

[melmertzel]

Those years were the years of real humans. I believe those years were the years of real hope...Excuse me frends, we are not real ,because none of us has real hope.I have no courage to imagin myself to be en element in this song of real happiness....

[poppersopper]

yaaay proud to be dutch

[eimaisklhros]

i thought they were germans... and also i want to add that ..then they were making it right. now its all the same f**ing s**t !! its like different songs from the same album..its a same..

[eimaisklhros]

i thought they were germans...

[leehayton]

Excellent harmonies - well written melody.....so much better than the rubbish they put on today.

[stevealexR1]

@leehayton Best Eurovision track ever especially if sung in Dutch

[princepetitmichael]

great

[princepetitmichael]

geweldig lied...en ja..great performance...

love pour vous..votre petit prince qui vous aime beaucoup..

prince petit michael

[stratejisisizsiniz]

italy's era was the best of '75

[Roberto33131]

geweldig...

[jagara1]

Probably the best ever Eurovision song!

Only criticism is that I think the conductor may have got it a touch too fast...

[klausgeorg01]

@jagara1

That can't be because there is a backing tape kicking in (hear the click- click- sound at the beginning, also Harry wears earphones).

[jagara1]

@klausgeorg01 Thanks for the info :)

[klausgeorg01]

@jagara1

You're welcome!

[Makraska]

Wow, I have never heard pot referred to as "ding a dong". Original!

[TheTmny876able]

Well conducted by the world renowened Harry van hoop it had to win!.

[Jobak66]

beautiful <33 

[cavanfan]

What a load of shit

[nielspetersen]

One of the most catchy´s tunes ever written. The lyrichs are maby to simple, but the song will stay with every man who have heard it. It is bouth simple and brilliant at the same time. I also was 9 at the time. Wont ever forget it. It always brings memorys back.

[LCScampi]

@nielspetersen - the lyrics aren't just too simple, they're so meaningless they're terrible! The Dutch version is much better, and that's not great.  Whoever translated it wants a good talking-to (though I suppose he's had it over the years). But CHOON

[milkbluemilk]

this is classic eurovision pop. eurovision this days is the horrible over produced techno pop.

[leonpein1]

The power of the web! I have had this catchy song in my head ever since it came out (very sad I know), but couldn't recall the country or Eurovision year, thought it was norway, couldn't find it, realised I could tap some of the words in google and add 'lyrics' (yeah yeah you knew that years ago, I know), tried you tube, hey presto here it is. cheers you tube! Now I remember how hilariously daft the lyrics are - probably the best example of Europeans trying very hard to rhyme in English.

[snomos]

Undestroyable memories with this song.

I met my one and only wife this year.

Though we are divorced since 10 years the song brings back fantastic memories.

Always get me in good mood.

Unforgettable

[jantunen73]

So stylish and elegant song

[tumadoireacht]

great song -great time vile camera work in the middle(1975)-hilarious outfits hair and make up -where does life go

[sunnsight]

wat leuk om weer eens te zien....Nederland won toen...Wat had die Getty toch een lief gezichtje...

[mellyallen]

reminds me of my mom <3

[LeboviciAB84]

That looks nothing like a fucking flag.

[fatpizzaman]

Why wasn't this song banned on radio on grounds of bad taste, unlike "My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry?

[TruxEU]

still awesome today :) 

[MrEurocat]

Looking back at this I have to sat ESC was so much better.........even the "joke" songs were classics

[flyingsnot]

Great song and great memories!! This is from an age when winning the eurovision meant something..........

[klazien56]

Haha, the last time Holland won the Eurovision Songcontest!! Songs like this bring back the good old days.

[grundie]

The conductors bow tie is amazing.

[ericasabi1]

when the Netherlands still had good professional songs in the Eurovision songfestival.

[rickdddm]

love this song

[OperaDanceHall]

The old  times

[Fietjee09]

if they sing it in dutch, it's much better

kiss from Holland

[cheekyhamsta]

I was 9 at the time (no excuse), but IMO this is one of the more memorable and catchier Eurovision songs from the 1970s and I'm glad to hear it again. That singer has such a warm voice, a bit like Jackie Lee's. Daft title, and despite the band's outfits certainly not a rock song (isn't this one of the typically funnier aspects of Eurovision?) but I think it would have made a great children's programme theme song.

[6PBP6]

@cheekyhamsta

You are so right, I was 9 too and I remember this one so you are right, very catchy and also very "piff paff poff" typical Eurovision :-)

[cshuba22]

And the freaks of Western Europe. The half naked ugly western european girls. I still prefer than Easter at least for the look because none of them can sing that great.

I know this is so bad right now to the Western European, now they can not vote for each other because there are other countries but learn to live with it.

[odeya37]

@UAkosmosdemon -Wash your mouth then learn how to properly write in english

[rintsik]

@PaulBeekhuizen

i was 11 - very good time was !

[mastik36]

@PaulBeekhuizen I give you 500% of right! Eurovision was so much nicer before all those eastern countries invaded our contest.

[Ruud22NL]

@PaulBeekhuizen what nonsense, can;t you stand it we do not win anymore with silly old fashioned songs we sent? how come Norway ended 1st in 2009 and iceland 2nd or Germany 1st in 2010 and Denmark 4th for example in 2010. that we cannot do that anymore is our own fault, sending old fashioned rubbish. Eastern Europe does not send freaks we send bagger as we say in good Dutch

[mcflay76]

@Ruud22NL do not say many words, just enjoy a good song! Greetings from Siberia

[shmuckler]

@PaulBeekhuizen Finnish Lordy was not a freak show at all, right.

[Ruud22NL]

@PaulBeekhuizen and again calling other countries' entries freaks? How arrogant and discriminative, we just send boring songs lately, and you call good qualititive entries from Eastern Europe freak songs? So let us just stay old fashioned...and never win again and remain in the 70's with boring entries like the 3j's and Sienek

[luxemburgo221]

One of the best songs from the netherlands!

[ferryireland]

How many nice remembers of this song; i was only 15 years old and i feld yet much simpaty to Holland and dutch people generally.

Paolo F., Modena, Italy

[sickoldman69]

Nederland forever!

[winnetou086]

Happy days on planet Earth.

Hard to find them nowadays. Wonder why?

[toozpeek]

@winnetou086 and if you think ahead it only will become worse

[melmertzel]

@winnetou086 I think those years were the life,and the people were full of life. 60s and 70s were misterious years ;at the higest level of art,there was a contest of idealist pepoles for the best.

[johnbongo1]

This is the perfect pop song from the most perfect pop band - the essence of '70's Eurovision. Positive, pure and innocent, carefree and catchy as hell, this is wind-in-your-hair music. Everything else was just a twisted corruption...

[martiniisgood]

Haha, dat accent inderdaad!

[student2905]

Very good song and decent stage performance. Definitely a winner song.

[Islatjee8]

..omg ..

ik vind het in het nederlands veel leuker !

:O

[CZ3333]

Gosh what a shock, I have always remebered this tune from the age of 11 years old, and I have not heard it since.

Great thank you for posting this XXXXXX

[englishman1960]

this song along with Mississippi from Pussycat and No Limit from 2 Unlimted were the three best songs to come out of Holland

[beschermengel]

truly a winning song,

happy, and well put together.

:)

it sticks to you like honey.

[mutinyonthekitkat]

Harry von Hoof. A v cool name!

[johnlivia6061]

van Hoof, he's not German. thank you

[elfferichfour]

Ja, ja volgens mij toch een beetje afgekeken van Golden Earrings nummer 1 hit uit 1968 : dong dong di ki di gi dong. Verder natuurlijk een heel ander liedje.

[chanBoss]

We can all see weed was involved.

[edward5432]

Where was Terry Wogan?

[eurovision0portugal]

changing his wig?...

[spinaze]

gewoon met je heupen wat bewegen, daarmee win je het songfestival, ipv die achterlijke en overdreven moves van de laatste jaren. prachtig

[Dikwerf]

En natuurlijk omdat dit een veel beter nummer is dan die rotzooi die ze tegenwoordig naar voren schuiven. Dit heeft een melodie die staat!

[prikibruno]

Haary von hof lol

[prikibruno]

lol that accent

[prikibruno]

WAHAA LOL

[degroterodekater]

Teach inn Rules!

[swansafc1912]

So uplifting its beautiyful, my best wishes

to you all & all those close to you.

[swansafc1912]

Excellent clip this is a super song i remember the shadows thought they had it won

but then teachin taught them a lesson thanks

to the sender happy xmas to all.

[giftednumber10]

The Shadows were robbed!