Monday, April 30, 2007
64 delicious jazz videos
Dianne Reeves - Lift Every Voice, is one of the 64 delicious jazz videos posted by youtuber sukapura
via bieslog
Labels: jazz, videoclips, work
Rob de Nijs - Jan Klaassen
Labels: Dutch_popstars, nostalgia
ELO - Showdown and Roll over Beethoven
Tee Set - Mary
Labels: Dutch_popstars
Maywood - Rio
Labels: Dutch_popstars, nostalgia
Amsterdam - Lucy Lucy (1970)
Labels: Dutch_popstars
Teach In - Dear John
"John Travolta! Won't you teach me to dance! John Travolta! Won't you give me a chance!"
Labels: Dutch_popstars, nostalgia
Pussycat-Smile
Labels: Dutch_popstars
Jack Jersey - Papa was a poor man
Labels: Dutch_popstars
The Dizzy Man's Band - The Show (live)
Sunday, April 29, 2007
labels
There seems to be something wrong with the labels. New tags don't work and the old ones don't add new posts.
update: I noticed that the problem only occurs with labels consisting of more than one word, like "dutch popstars". The only solution I see now is to first remove all those labels and create new ones without spaces. This is pretty time consuming and the weather is very nice, so be patient...
update: I noticed that the problem only occurs with labels consisting of more than one word, like "dutch popstars". The only solution I see now is to first remove all those labels and create new ones without spaces. This is pretty time consuming and the weather is very nice, so be patient...
Labels: uhm...
Keith West ( Keith Hopkins) - Exerpt from A Teenage Opera
(It's my intention to make a Dutch language cover with a children's choir: "Groentenman, groentenman, doe de spruitjes in de pan, en kook ze dan. Owohowohow" )
Labels: nostalgia, videoclips
Parodies by André van Duin
Krezip - Plug it in and turn me on
Bonnie St. Claire (2)
Mini mini mini
Labels: Dutch_popstars, Maggie_MacNeal
Anita Meyer - Why, tell me why
Labels: Dutch_popstars, videoclips
Maggie MacNeal - When you're gone
M - Pop muzik
Labels: nostalgia, videoclips
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Juliette Greco - Jolie mome
A field day
This morning's bird-protection trip was a magnificent experience. A brief report. Click thumbnails for larger pictures:
A female blackbird sits on two or three eggs in our neighbours' hedge
A selection of pictures of the first lapwing's nest we checked. The little chickens are already crawling around the nest. Watch out. You can easily step on one of them without even noticing!
The second lapwing's nest. The chickens are hatching this moment. One is dry, the other still wet and the third egg is still closed. Last week we found a fourth slightly damaged egg in this nest, but it was gone now.
Along the way we discoverd the nest of a couple of grey geese as well. The female only flew away when we were allready very close. That's how we discovered there was a nest at all.
The whitest egg must have been layed very recently, because it hasn't been made dirty by the geese feet.
We've discovered two godwit's nests today. They're well hidden thus very hard to find and the female only leaves the nest in the high grass when you're at two feet distance. We've marked them so the farmer can mow around them instead of crushing them under his wheels.
Finally we checked the western curlew's nest wich seemed to be o.k.
Labels: birds, diary, splogman shoots photographs
Friday, April 27, 2007
Maggie MacNeal - Terug naar de kust (1976)
One of my favourite Dutch language pop ballads: Terug naar de kust. Lyrics written by Theun de Winter, wellknown Dutch writer/poet and Music by singer-songwriter Sjoukje Smith (=Maggie MacNeal) orchestral arrangement: Ruud Bos.
The song "Terug naar de kust" (=Back to the coast) tells about a person who doesn't feel at ease in the big city and who longs back to the coast where she left her childhood behind. It's one of the few songs she sang in Dutch as a solo artist. In fact Theun de Winter merely made a poem of his own matching the metre of an unpublished english song by Maggie, about something completely different. It was a literary project by Ad Visser in which Dutch musicians where linked to leading figures in the Dutch literature to create a Dutch language popsong.
Maggie MacNeal started her career with Willem Duin as "Mouth and MacNeal", early seventies. They represented The Netherlands in 1974 at the Eurovision Songcontest. She's cute and she's good.
When Sjoukje went solo in 1976, "Mouth" found another female singer to form the duo "Big Mouth and Little Eve" which was moderately succesfull. Later he continued as a solo singer, doing Dutch songs mainly.
The song "Terug naar de kust" (=Back to the coast) tells about a person who doesn't feel at ease in the big city and who longs back to the coast where she left her childhood behind. It's one of the few songs she sang in Dutch as a solo artist. In fact Theun de Winter merely made a poem of his own matching the metre of an unpublished english song by Maggie, about something completely different. It was a literary project by Ad Visser in which Dutch musicians where linked to leading figures in the Dutch literature to create a Dutch language popsong.
Maggie MacNeal started her career with Willem Duin as "Mouth and MacNeal", early seventies. They represented The Netherlands in 1974 at the Eurovision Songcontest. She's cute and she's good.
When Sjoukje went solo in 1976, "Mouth" found another female singer to form the duo "Big Mouth and Little Eve" which was moderately succesfull. Later he continued as a solo singer, doing Dutch songs mainly.
Labels: Dutch_popstars, Maggie_MacNeal, nostalgia
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Coconut orchestra record
The world's largest coconut orchestra has made it into the Guinness World Records book. A total of 5,567 people, led by original Monty Python stars Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam and the cast of the Monty Python musical Spamalot, gathered in London's Trafalgar Square yesterday to break the previous record of 1,789 people gathered in one location playing coconuts.
see video (with Dutch voice over)
source www.nu.nl
Labels: uhm...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
ELO live - 10538 overture/Do ya , over the years
Count the differences, kids!
And ... I've posted it before but still worth listening/watching again, the oldest video of 10538 overture (by my knowledge):
Labels: ELO, nostalgia, videoclips
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Tom Hunter
An acoustic collection of lively original songs in the folk music tradition (many of which have become "standards" in families and schools) with guitar accompaniment designed for children ages 5-12. Tom Hunter is a modern-day minstrel with a busy national schedule of conferences, workshops, school visits, and family concerts. For 30 years, he has been singing and writing songs, and exploring what songs do to help us learn, teach, celebrate, grieve, believe, play, and tell the stories of our lives. "Simply put," he says, "we need to sing more. The benefits are huge."
Tom Hunter at myspace
Labels: kids music, links, music in general, work
Monday, April 23, 2007
feeding
Did another inspection of the birds' nests in the neigbourhood and I took some pictures. This one is my favourite. I don't think these coots are more than a day old.
(click for more detailed enlargement)
(click for more detailed enlargement)
Labels: birds, splogman shoots photographs
Sunday, April 22, 2007
MOO....
Saturday, April 21, 2007
24th way to do a cover
short composition
Made after a tough day. No loops, except for the vocodersound. Everything was played manually.
Labels: splogwroughts
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Birth of the Muziekdoos Collective
Monday, April 16, 2007
The peregrin falcons feed their three(!) young ones
Incredible bands
The Incredible Mouth Band
The Incredible Breakfast Band
But of course there's only one incredible whatsoever band
The Incredible Breakfast Band
But of course there's only one incredible whatsoever band
Labels: uhm..., videoclips
Sunday, April 15, 2007
two peregrin falcons born
and the third one sticking it's little head out of the shell already (but that's hardly to see... Only when it moves)
Labels: birds
Dorus, flowers and birds
This is one of the most unrewarded Dutch singer-comedians. Because of silly quarrels of broadcasting companies and heirs, we almost never see him back on television: Tom Manders, here as his most wellknown alter ego, the tramp Dorus, singing, what I see as the first Dutch anti-racist song about the forbidden love between a crocus and a hyacinth.
This morning I stood up without fever. I'm still feeling a bit lousy of course, but I think I'm going to inspect the bird nests in the neighbourhood this morning, not to mention the beautifull blossoms in the trees. Expected weather temperatures are rising towards warm summer's days (25 degrees celsius to 30 degrees locally) which hasn't happened this early in April for over a century.
This morning I stood up without fever. I'm still feeling a bit lousy of course, but I think I'm going to inspect the bird nests in the neighbourhood this morning, not to mention the beautifull blossoms in the trees. Expected weather temperatures are rising towards warm summer's days (25 degrees celsius to 30 degrees locally) which hasn't happened this early in April for over a century.
Labels: birds, diary, nostalgia, other Dutch stars, videoclips
Saturday, April 14, 2007
first baby falcon is born!
I missed the little bird's moment of fame at 15:00 this afternoon, because I've been sleeping all day. I've not been feeling well since last sunday and I'm running a fever since wednesday, with peaks up to 40 degrees celcius at night and is not dropping below 38 during the day. It's only slowly getting better.At least the temperatures at night are "only" round 39 now, which means that the difference between dream and reality, past and presence, order and chaos which was completely lost at night is slowly returning now. During the day I have my better moments like now. It's a pity. The weather is really summer-like here, but I can't bear the bright light and the outside noises too long. W. is showing the same symptoms as I did a week ago, so that'll be fun :-( Tomorrow Remco will take over my classical radioshow again. He will have some very unique recordings from an even so unique Amsterdam Music Academy project. When I'm well I will take measures to enable the RZ music computer to shuffle through classical music when there's no-one available, cause I want my weekend back.
Meanwhile I'm sleeping, eating fruit, drinking lot's of fluids and switching on the pc to see how the falcons are doing. I don't listen too much music. There's something soothing about the silence and the ambient noises too. We've got a book here named: "Illness as a positive experience". Well, let's at least say that there is a positive side: the fact that my body appaerently orders me to slow things down.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Manakin moonwalk
Labels: birds
The Falcon's nest (2)
According to experts the first little falcon will start it's way through the egg shell any moment now: here
Blackbird bathing
Norwegian Blue
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Singing Sisters (7)
The times they are changing
There was a time when the U.S.A didn't have any problem whatsoever with Iran building nuclear powerplants.
via wesker.weblog
via wesker.weblog
Labels: uhm...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Splogman on last.fm
Yes,
Good news from WM Recordings:
Over the next few months we will make our complete catalogue available on Last.fm.
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you.
You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, and much more.
Eight WM-releases are available for streaming, downloading, tagging and sharing so far. More releases will be added soon. Check out our Last.fm label page here.
best wishes,
Marco Kalnenek
Good news from WM Recordings:
Over the next few months we will make our complete catalogue available on Last.fm.
Last.fm is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then produces a large number of features personalised to you.
You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, other people with similar music taste, gigs in your local area, charts and quilts for your personal site, and much more.
Eight WM-releases are available for streaming, downloading, tagging and sharing so far. More releases will be added soon. Check out our Last.fm label page here.
best wishes,
Marco Kalnenek
Labels: splogman sings, splogwroughts
The Singing sisters (6)
Monday, April 09, 2007
The Golden Earring When The Lady Smiles
One of the best Dutch videoclips ever. It was a bit controversial round that time (apr. 1983) because of the raping of a nun. Personally I was more shocked by the lobotomy when I first saw it. There are some known Dutch guest stars appearing like Hans Van Den Burg and actor Huub Stapel (from the cult classic The Lift, about a killer elevator, directed by Dick Maas who also directed this videoclip).
Labels: Dutch_popstars, Golden_Earring, nostalgia, videoclips
The Tee Set - Long ago (1967)
Labels: Dutch_popstars, videoclips
Teach in and Champagne
Teach in won the Eurovison Songcontest in 1975 with Ding A Dong. Not all of the members could cope with the stress the succes brought along, so the constitution of the band changed a lot untill they finally broke up in 1980.
Champagne
Champagne
Labels: Dutch_popstars, videoclips
The Singing Sisters (5)
The singing sisters (4)
The Singing sisters (3)
Alright Splogman, but what do they sound like?
Labels: girls, music in general, other Dutch stars, sleeves, zingende zusjes
The Singing sisters (2)
The singing sisters (1)
Hear and see Marry and Thea Verhey. In the sixties they were the most wellknown duo among all the Dutch religious singing sisters with guitar and ukelele.
See also dezingendezusjes.nl and De Zingende Zusjes at Showcase
See also dezingendezusjes.nl and De Zingende Zusjes at Showcase
Labels: girls, other Dutch stars, sleeves, zingende zusjes
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Easter 2007
Well it's Easter, that strange blend of traditions from various ages and cultures. For instance did you know, that painting eggs was originally Catholic symbolism? Well I didn't untill Remco told me the day before yesterday. Eggs were painted red, as a symbol for the blood of Christ that was shed to deliver us from death. Later on we started to paint them in various colours, to make it less scairy for kids (or something like that) I'm not sure were the easterbunny came in.
Meanwhile the weather is nice overhere. I'm still very much interested in birds and shooting pictures of them.
I'm listening a lot of music, good old-fashioned studio albums by Queen and Kate Bush and I'm wondering why it's not 'allowed' by many weird-music-fans to like the latter. I still love each and every album by her. At first I was a bit disappointed by her come back doubleCD: Aerial, but this week I've been playing it over and over again. It brings me in the right mood, you know!
I'm not sure if I'll be posting a lot the coming time. I'm busy making radio (This afternoon a classical radioshow with Gerard van der Leeuw.) and also I'm working on a new musical experiment called Cunningly Mutilated Memories with stuff like this
See ya!
Labels: birds, diary, splogman shoots photographs, splogman sings, splogwroughts
Monday, April 02, 2007
Oh Darling....
23. This season's group 8 of the Geert Grote School - Oh Darling
During this production I nearly fell down and died ...
During this production I nearly fell down and died ...
Labels: 50 ways-project, covers, Geert Grote School, kids music, music from zwolle, remix, splogwroughts, work
My pupils and I on stage
Too long for youtube and on top of that my pc refused to run my video-software properly, so here it is: the unedited version of our performance on march 21st (archive.org)Playlist:
Au clair de la lune
A liki wokki
The monkeys of Zambuanga
Kaljinka
Vois sur ton chemin
Labels: De Wendakker, kids music, music from zwolle, work
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Armand - Ben ik te min
"Am I not worthy" (because your dad drives a bigger car than mine, because your parents have more dough than mine?). Besides Joop Visser, Armand is the only real Dutch protest-singer that was ever worth mentioning, if you ask me. The eternal hippy and Dutch king of canabis never stopped performing with his old songs though for small audiences after his national succes wore off. I like him because he is sincere and he is still crazy after all these years... This is his most famous song. He must have sung it as many times as Mick Jagger sang 'I can get no Satisfaction'.
Labels: Dutch_popstars
thisisaraudiopodcastspecialstereoremix
thisisaraudiopodcastspecialstereoremix
of ookoi's headbang session on march 16 at 17:10 CET.
Mixed today by splogman in between the lovely weather, birthday visits and presenting a classical radioshow. The enhanced and edited version of Vreemde geluiden radioshow episode 28 with ookoi as well as some extra goodies and options can be downloaded here.
Oh yes, I also spotted a Picoides major, (Great Spotted Woodpecker) which made me very cheerfull and a couple of geese that looked like big Canada Geese only with completely black wings and white belly. I can't find this variety anywhere in my books. However, when i look at this picture and taking in mind that this is supposed to be a very common bird overhere (as well as yesterday's Egyptian Goose, a friend mailed me, thanx so much :p ) it probably was a variety of the Branta Canadensis.
Their heads definitely looked like this:
of ookoi's headbang session on march 16 at 17:10 CET.
Mixed today by splogman in between the lovely weather, birthday visits and presenting a classical radioshow. The enhanced and edited version of Vreemde geluiden radioshow episode 28 with ookoi as well as some extra goodies and options can be downloaded here.
Oh yes, I also spotted a Picoides major, (Great Spotted Woodpecker) which made me very cheerfull and a couple of geese that looked like big Canada Geese only with completely black wings and white belly. I can't find this variety anywhere in my books. However, when i look at this picture and taking in mind that this is supposed to be a very common bird overhere (as well as yesterday's Egyptian Goose, a friend mailed me, thanx so much :p ) it probably was a variety of the Branta Canadensis.
Their heads definitely looked like this:
Labels: birds, music from zwolle, ookoi, Radio Zwolle, remix, splogwroughts
