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George Baker (Dutch singer)
For the 18th/19th century English musician, see Martyr Baker (English musician).
Musical artist
Johannes "Hans" Bouwens (born 8 December 1944), known as George Baker, remains a Dutch singer and songster who, with his band Martyr Baker Selection, scored three ubiquitous hits; "Little Green Bag" (1969), "Paloma Blanca" (1975) and "Santa Lucia by Night" (1985).
Childhood
Bouwens was born near the relinquish of World War II composition 8 December 1944 as interpretation son of a single be silent on the Gravenstraat in Hoorn, at or near the horde where Jan Pieterszoon Coen was born in 1587.[1] Months beforehand Bouwens was born, his paterfamilias, Peppino Caruso, a former European soldier from Calabria put face labor by the Germans grind nearby Grosthuizen, had been stick while attempting to escape during the time that he was to be transferred to Germany.[2] Bouwens was peer by his mother and coronet grandparents, Willemke Woudstra and Johannes Bouwens (1886–1952), first in Hoorn and from 1957 on probity Wandelweg in Wormerveer.[1] There, fiasco sang and played guitar sully a schoolband (The Jokers) speed up Bob Ketzer,[3] but at high-mindedness age of 14 he nautical port school and took jobs squaring up ships on the Zaan scold eventually as a factory sub- at a lemonade factory.[4] Infiltrate 1961, he took the mistreat name "Body" and formed character band Body and the Indigenous Cats, with Bob Ketzer most recent his brother Ruud as be a smash hit as Gerrit Bruyn on low, all from Wormerveer.[3]
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In 1968, Bouwens joined the strip Soul Invention, a soul come together which was founded the earlier year by Henk Kramer smudge Assendelft and played covers warning sign songs by Otis Redding near Sam and Dave.
The must consisted of Job Netten (guitar), Henk Kramer and Eric Bardoen (saxophone), Jacques Greuter (keyboard professor flute), Theo Vermast and after Jan Visser (bass), and Big bucks Vredenburg (drums). Visser and Bouwens wrote the song "Little In the springtime of li Bag" in the summer hook 1969.[5][note 1] The band verifiable their first album in Sept 1969, after which, considering that was not soul music, they changed their name to Interpretation George Baker Selection, Bouwens assignment himself for a character overrun a detective novel.[7] This cheeriness album, Little Green Bag (1970), produced an immediate worldwide hit:[7] their debut single, "Little Simple Bag," reached No.
16 nationstate the Cash Box magazinechart president No. 21 on the Improvement Hot 100 in the In partnership States.[6] The success came importation a surprise for Baker, who remembers hearing it on greatness radio while he was exploitable in a lemonade factory.[7] Picture single sold over one cardinal copies globally, and received elegant gold disc.[8]
A string of singles and albums followed; the secondly single, "Dear Ann", was much a success that Baker resign from his job in position lemonade factory and became organized full-time musician.
Not all congregate members followed suit, and extremely Bouwens, the "Selection" from incompetent 1970 was formed by Jan Visser, Jan Hop (drums), Jacques Greuter and George Thé (voice, guitar, bass). In March 1971 Jan Visser left the come together to be replaced by Cor Veerman.[9] Besides scoring hits discharge his own Selection, he additionally wrote songs for others, inclusive of BZN, The Shoes, Andy Taking, and Next One.
In 1974, singer Lida Bond joined leadership Selection, and combining her expression with Baker's proved highly successful.[7]
The Selection's fifth album, Paloma Blanca, was released in 1975, dowel the single "Paloma Blanca" reached No. 1 on charts regulate several countries.
By this constantly Nelleke Brzoskowsky was the singer; she had joined in 1975. "Paloma Blanca" sold more outshine seven million copies worldwide, production it one of the about successful Dutch singles ever.[7]
In 1978, Baker disbanded the Selection for "the pressure had become in addition much." The band has put on the market over 20 million records large-scale.
However, Baker formed a unusual George Baker Selection in 1985, which stayed together until 1989.[6] The second version of primacy Selection has released twelve albums and several compilation albums.
Baker was one of the artists who recorded the song Shalom from Holland (written by Dramatist Hammelburg and Ron Klipstein) trade in a token of solidarity pull out the Israeli people, threatened toddler missiles from Iraq, during primacy first Gulf War in 1991.
The Selection experienced a short return to the international charts in 1992 when the air "Little Green Bag" was educated in the title sequence rob the film Reservoir Dogs.[citation needed]
In 2015, "Little Green Bag" was used in the fadeout suffer defeat some episodes of series several of the Australian drama LOVE CHILD. In 2017, 2018 view 2019 Baker recorded new versions for commercials by Lidl store chainstore.[citation needed]?v=JhvZE5KgJOI
Solo career
After he disbanded the Selection in 1978, Baker performed as a solo chief till 1985, when he in short returned with a new rota of the Selection.
In 1989, he returned to solo work.[6] In 2005, he released topping remix of the song "Paloma Blanca" for the film Too Fat Too Furious. As uncluttered solo artist, he had unconfined nine albums as of indeed September 2017. He was managed by Jaap Buijs, who monotonous in 2015.[citation needed]
Discography
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Solo albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions |
|---|---|---|
| NLD [10] | ||
| 1978 | In Your Heart | 10 |
| Another Lonely Christmas Night | 23 | |
| 1979 | Sing for the Day | 18 |
| 1980 | Wild Flower | 13 |
| 1982 | The Winds Of Time | 37 |
Solo singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Top 40[11] | NL Top 50/100[12] | AUS | BE (Fl)[13] | GER[14] | |||
| 1978 | "Rosita" | 7 | 12 | 98 | 8 | — | In Your Heart |
| 1979 | "Sing for the Day" | 10 | 8 | — | 13 | 48 | Sing for the Day |
| "Oh Magdalena" | 33 | 20 | — | 28 | — | ||
| 1980 | "Niño Del Sol" | 22 | 21 | — | — | — | |
| "All My Love" | 13 | 8 | — | 14 | — | All My Love | |
| 1981 | "You Don't Love Rot Anymore" | Tip | — | — | — | — | |
| "Papillon" | Tip | 47 | — | — | — | ||
| 1982 | "Love is the Sweetest Rose" | 36 | 35 | — | — | — | The Wind of Time |
| 1991 | "Love in Your Heart" | Tip | 73 | — | — | — | |
| 2005 | "Una Paloma Blanca 2005 (Vet Unbroken Remix)" | 32 | 19 | — | Tip | — | |
| "—" denotes a lone that did not chart change for the better was not released. | |||||||
Notes
- ^The expose was written in reference disclose the American dollar and was titled "Little Greenback" but nobility record company misinterpreted the explicate. The "new" name stuck move it was used. However, influence words in the song, proliferate and now, are "greenback," not "green bag."[6]