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The Netherlands (1978 – 1984, 1999 – 2000, 2008 – present)

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.

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1		Smoorverliefd			192
2		De bom			140
3		Pa			124
4		Is dit alles			123
5		Belle Hélène			114
6		Sinds Een Dag Of 2 (32 Jaar)			107
7		Doris Day			94
8		1 nacht alleen			83
9		Nederwiet			79
10		Tijd genoeg			67
11		Nachtzuster			62
12		Watje			60
13		Liever dan lief			53
13		Dansen met Alice			53
15		Alles gaat voorbij			49

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