These were the new entries in the Dutch Top 40 that never made the UK Top 40:
Irene Moors & De Smurfen - No Limit
The Smurfs first hit the UK Top 40 in the late 70s and then returned in the mid-90s most notably with their cover of "I Want To Be A Hippy" retitled "I've Got A Little Puppy". What perhaps isn't so well know is that The Smurfs music comes from Holland. Here they are doing a cover of "No Limit" by fellow Dutch act 2 Unlimited. Both versions topped the Dutch charts. Collaborating with The Smurfs is Irene Moors who is a Dutch comedian.
E-Rotic - Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex
It's expected that the majority of records featured here will be Dutch records, but if it's not Dutch then there's a good chance it will be German. This is the case with E-Rotic, a German Eurodance act whose records tended to go with the theme of their name. They will return later on in the year with a record which picks up where this left off.
Age certainly seemed no barrier to entering the Dutch Top 40. Arie Passchier had his one and only Dutch Top 40 hit at either aged 58 or 59, only his birth year of 1936 is known. It was a re-issue of a 1988 record that failed to chart at the time.
Yes that's right, "I Alone" by Live never made the UK Top 40. Despite it being pretty well known at the time it only managed to make number 48 in the UK charts and they were yet to have their first UK Top 40 hit. It made number 22 in Holland. It seemed almost inevitable an American act would appear at some point, well here they are.
Marc Daniels isn't a very Dutch sounding name, but he is Dutch and this record is sung in Dutch. As such I needed Google Search and Google Translate to find out what it's all about. Turns out to be about the now King of the Netherlands Willem Alexander who had gone public with his then girlfriend Emily Bremers.
Frans Bauer - Het Leven Is Te Mooi
I've just come across a new genre of music, Levenslied. It's described as being a sentimental Dutch language sub-genre of popular music. A genre I suspect would only work in Holland. As you've probably guessed Frans Bauer is Dutch and he falls under this genre. It sounds a bit like someone pressing the demo button on a keyboard and singing over the top of it.
You wait all these years to come across the Levenslied genre and then 2 records come along at once. Except this one is sung in English so contradicts the genre description really. It's a cover of the Everly Brothers record and Gordon sounds a bit like a Dutch Gary Barlow. Yes that's right, he's Dutch and he's not really called Gordon. His real name is Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth.
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