Doe Maar

See all 5 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Doe Maar Radio, featuring artists like Het Goede Doel, Boudewijn de Groot, De Dijk, Toontje Lager and more…

• 
  Search on Spotify

  Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more

1,163,115 plays (51,725 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Doe Maar Ringtones to Cell

More options

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Dutch pop band Doe Maar (1978-1984; reunions in 1999-2000 and 2008-present) is the most popular and succesful Dutch-language pop act ever. Their musical cocktail of pop, ska, punk and reggae was uniquely (sometimes frighteningly) popular in the first half of the 1980s in The Netherlands.

Doe Maar (the band name can be loosely translated as ‘go ahead’ or ‘do as you say’) recorded five studio albums, with the latter four hitting number one in the Dutch album charts.

Having emerged from a hippie community in the south of The Netherlands in the late 1970s, Doe Maar’s self-titled 1979 début album was not much of a success. Founding member and original bass player Piet Dekker left the group. Ernst Jansz (vocals, keyboards), Jan Hendriks (guitar) and Carel Copier (drums) were briefly joined by stand-in bass player Joost Belinfante (of hippie/folk outfit CCC inc.) before Henny Vrienten was recruited as the permanent new bass player in 1980.

The second album, Skunk, was released in the summer of 1981, preceded by the lead single Sinds 1 Dag of 2, which didn’t enter the charts until radio DJ Frits Spits had pretty much singlehandedly changed the song title into the more catchy 32 Jaar (‘32 Years’). Single and album were reasonably succesful, but not more than that. At the end of the year drummer Carel Copier was replaced by René van Collem, who was 20 years of age at the time, more than a decade younger than the rest of the band.

Read more… Edit

Popular tags: ska, dutch, reggae, nederlandstalig, nederpop  See more

Shouts: 74 shouts

Share this artist:

• Send
• Tweet

Top Albums

• Klaar
  Doe Maar

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $8.88
  • eBay Search
• De beste
  Doe Maar

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Skunk
  Doe Maar

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Doris Day en andere stukken
  Doe Maar

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search