Dutch Beat Explosion 60's

Within the extremely specialized world of 1960s garage collectors, Dutch beat from the mid-1960s is known as an especially fertile area of interesting, obscure rock from that era. Most Dutch beat reissues, however, concentrate on the party-line R&B-punkers, giving relatively light treatment to the poppier and folkier aspects of the genre. This 28-song anthology of rarities (rare certainly in the United States), as the liner notes declare, "was carefully planned...to find the best songs possible of melodic Dutch beat." What we hear is a decent, though by no means stunning, cross-section of Dutch rock from circa 1964-1966 that bears considerable influence from British Invasion pop-rockers, as well as lighter traces of folk-rock. There's just one band that might be familiar to the average rock listener: the Golden Earrings (later to become Golden Earring). They're represented by a song from their first LP. There are definite echoes of the Beatles, Hollies, and the Byrds, and fainter ones of British bands like the Kinks throughout. Yet just as the average garage compilation is distinctively inferior to and less varied than Rolling Stones albums, even as it obviously takes inspiration from them, so this one is more generic and less striking than the best British Invasion pop and folk-rock from the 1960s. Indeed, it is cuts below the best Dutch band of the period, the Outsiders. Still, the awkward sullenness that typifies much Dutch rock of the 1960s does come through often. There are some tracks that linger in the memory, like the Cavaliers' Byrds-Merseybeats blend "You Can Not Make Me Cry" and the Haigs' "Never Die," with its ascending key shifts and John Lennon-esque harmonica. The sound is very good, considering how scratchy many such rarity compilations from the '60s often are. This disc does not, by the way, have one of the supreme slices of melodic Dutch beat, Sound Magics' "Don't You Remember," which was reissued on the album The V-Lips Greatest Hits.

 

Tracks:

01. The Sandy Coast - I'm A Fool (single B-side, 1966) (Jan Vermeulen) - 2:32

02. The Sandy Coast - Subject Of My Thoughts (single A-side, 1966) (Hans Vermeulen) - 2:47

03. The Golden Ear-Rings - She May Be (1965) (George Kooymans) - 1:47

04. The Scarlets - Now I Know (single A-side, 1966) (Peter de Looff) - 2:30

05. The Jay-Jays - To-day I'm Gay (1966) (Tjibbe Veeloo) - 2:34

06. The Nicols - Lord, I've Been Thinking (single A-side, 1967) (Marinus Gerritsen, George Kooymans) - 2:07

07. The Nicols - I Can't Forget Her (single B-side, 1967) (Ed Koetsier) - 2:13

08. The Toreros - Come (single A-side, 1966) (Jan Hollestelle, Rudy Kleijn) - 2:03

09. The Kwyet - No Time For Tears (single A-side, 1966) (Cees Vlottes) - 2:53

10. James Mean - Seeing Her (single A-side, 1966) (Ferdi Karmelk) - 2:19

11. The Tykes - Hey Girl (single B-side, 1967) (Joop Douwma, Lourens Leeuw) - 2:34

12. Johnny Kendall and The Heralds - Girl (single A-side, 1966) (Gerard van Veen, Frits van Es) - 2:03

13. Double Dutch - Your Out Of Sight (single A-side, 1967) (A. Rohé, A. Start, R. Jonglisto) - 2:36

14. Double Dutch - Double Cross (single B-side, 1967) (Windhouwer, Heitman, Jonglisto) - 2:18

15. Penny Wise - Silver Girls (single A-side, 1967) (Donald van Os, Jacques Zwart) - 2:10

16. The Sound Magics - When I Meet Her (single B-side, 1966) (Rob van Waegeningh, Hans van Hemert) - 2:17

17. The Haigs - Never Die (single A-side, 1965) (Jaap Rog) - 2:13

18. Hamlets - Looking In Your Eyes (single A-side, 1966) (Wim van der Leden) - 2:06

19. Hamlets - It's Autumn (single B-side, 1966) (Wim van der Leden) - 2:12

20. Midnatt Fyran - Always And Ever (single B-side, 1966) (Lenne Broberg, Bengt Dalén) - 2:14

21. Wow - Love Is Gone (single B-side, 1966) (Henk de Brey, Henny Hersbach) - 2:40

22. The Condors - Set Me Free (single B-side, 1967) (Ed de Gelder, Peter de la Haye) - 2:48

23. The Cavaliers - You Can Not Make Me Cry (single B-side, 1965) (Frits van Antwerpen) - 2:53

24. The Nameless - Love Time (single B-side, 1967) (P. Buwalda) - 2:36

25. The Elements - The Loves I Had Before (single A-side, 1967) (Jack Smulders, John Brands) - 2:37

26. The Mods - She Was Married (single B-side, 1966) (Willem Beeken, Rob van der Berg, Harry de Louw) - 2:39

27. RO-D-YS - Just Fancy (single A-side, 1967) (Harry Rijnbergen) - 2:58

28. Short '66 - Good Weekend (single B-side, 1969) (Jerry Göbel) - 3:02

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