NSF 1975 - Teach In - Dinge-Dong

Nederlands Songfestival 1975

*Winnaar Eurovisie Songfestival 1975 in Stockholm*

Category:

Music

Tags:

• NSF
• 1975
• Dutch
• Eurovision

[rklrkl64]

I think Teach-In got the balance right for this song and justly got through to the final, where they sadly ditched this for an inferior English version. I don't even speak Dutch and the sheer extra level of phonetically nonsense words in the Dutch version just made my day when I first heard it. I mean "Tikketikketak en dan bim bam bom" is sheer genius phonetically :-) I even thought the opening phrase was "Is a lanker laden?" (it's "Is het lang geleden"!) and kept wondering what a "lanker" was!

[AdeyCol]

Still my fave Eurovision winner of all time.

[tillieanne76]

I love this,shame they didn't sing it in Dutch,but a worthy winner,cheers me up no end.

[Valtteri2]

I love this son so much, such an all-time favorite of mine =) I remember hearing this for the first time in 2003 when i became a eurovision fan at the age of 12, I listened to this song a lot back then, during that spring and summer, and it always makes me feel nice and positive.

this song always reminds me of those happy, sunny spring days, when I'm looking forward to the next, new eurovision song contest =)

[stijnkraft]

@rklrkl64 The tikke tak bim bom actually makes sense, sort of. I never realised that untill now. The song is about how she waits for her love. Tikketak is the sound we make when we're imitating a clock (you'll probably say 'tic-toc'). Bim-bom is the sound a church bell makes. So the whole song is actually pretty sad, because she sing about a summerlove who never shows up ("De tijd was om" means "The time is up").

[donnachamccarrick]

is this the best song ever written? still fresh today- shades of ABBA. puts all that crap xfactor and current eurovision entries to shame. my favourite is the drummer

[DSMWV]

HAHA HOORDE HET LAATST OP RADIO IK GING HELEMAAL STUK XD MEEZINGEN EN LACHEN IS MOEILIJK XD

[christian4ever4]

@rklrkl64 Are you referring to Osama bin laden ?I didn't get your point!

[sheepje1]

@Marcelleke ok maar wat ik melde was een reactie op iemand anders eigenlijk die vond dat dit een ABBA gehalte had :p

[Marcelleke]

@sheepje1 Sinds wanneer zegt het al dan niet scoren van hits iets over de kwaliteit van een artiest of groep? Dat is van zoveel meer factoren afhankelijk dan alleen kwaliteit... ABBA was inderdaad van een andere orde van grootte, maar Teach In wel degelijk meer dan één hit gehad. 'In the summernight', 'Fly away', 'Goodbye love', en in een andere samenstelling 'Upside down' en 'Dear John' haalden de bovenste 5 van de top 40! En daarnaast hadden ze er nog wat die minder hoog kwamen.

[stevealexR1]

@AdeyCol Agree!! Especially when sung in Dutch...