These were the new entries in the Dutch Top 40 that never made the UK Top 40:
Gijp is Rene van der Gijp, a Dutch former football player who retired from playing in 1992. I don't speak Dutch, but the title looks suspciously like "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna". That's because it basically is, but Jo'Anna has been replaced with Jomanda who is a Dutch healing medium.
Vanessa & David McWilliams - Candlelight
Let's start with David McWilliams. He came from Northern Ireland and is best known as the original singer of "The Days Of Pearly Spencer" which never made the UK Top 40. In fact he never had a UK Top 40 hit. Vanessa is a Dutch singer who isn't really called Vanessa, her real name is Connie Witteman. This was a record that kept going round my head when I went to Holland. It's half Dutch I suppose.
De Dijk were a Dutch rock band who were active from 1981 - 2022. They had a dozen Top 40 hits in Holland, but most charted in the lower reaches. As all their records were in Dutch they never troubled the UK charts. We've now reached the first record that doesn't really ring a bell to me.
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