While the votes for the Radio 2 Summer hit were being counted, Bart Kaëll sang a new version of his last week with Raymond van het Groenewoud. Father father father. This week Yevgueni can put the singer in the spotlight. They cover in honor of Raymond’s 70th birthday Beer parties (if only I have this).
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Covering a song, it dares to be disappointing for Yevgueni. The group that became familiar with When she smiles brought during the One program There is only one like that ever their own version of Master prick leg, in the presence of the original performer Boudewijn De Groot. He didn’t like it. Fortunately, the viewers were enthusiastic, but it was with a little heart that they released their version of Thursday Beer parties (as long as I have this) submitted to Raymond van het Groenewoud.
Last February, the singer turned seventy. To celebrate that, Radio 2 launched Raymond & friends, where every month a Flemish artist is asked to choose a song from his oeuvre and to do their own thing with it. Previously names such as Bart Herman and Paul Michiels passed in review. It was Van het Groenewoud himself who came up with Yevgueni.
Nen Ollander from Rekkem
“I just heard nen Ollander on Radio 2 ”, he told his producer one summer evening. “If you are still looking for someone for a cover: that seems like a good candidate.” The singer in question turned out not to come from the Netherlands, but from the West-Flemish Rekkem. For Klaas Delrue (44) Beer parties (as long as I have this) the perfect song for a corona-era artist.
“It’s about that one sentence, as long as I have this. That is about ‘the playing’, the music. Everything we as artists have to miss now ”, says Delrue. “It could almost become the battle song of the people from the culture sector.” The group can rest assured: Van het Groenewoud gave his blessing.
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