Tuesday 12 April 2011

Dump - "Annabelle" (Nederglam)...

My girlfriend Sophia is a HUGE Glam fan (come to GlamRacket if you're in London!) and has been introducing me to a lot of great Nederglam.  That 'Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet' compilation is AMAZING.  Lots of ace songs on there that I'll be posting about over the course of this blog.  But today, let's go with, the perhaps unfortunately named, Dump.  They only released 2 singles - "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"/"You You" (1974) & "Annabelle"/"Baby Baby" (1975) - but wow, what 2 singles!  "Annabelle", to me, has everything.  It flat out ROCKS in the verses - powerful and insistent verging on menacing - and then comes in with a chorus so strong and catchy it's impossible to not have it stuck in your head forever afterwards.  One has to admire the singer's energy and enthusiasm, not to mention intensity.  Check out the handstand around 2:27 in "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"!

These clips are taken from a 70's Dutch music program called 'Van Oekel's Discohoek'.  Bizarre and entertaining, Van Oekel, his accountant, and other actors often interrupt the musical performances with their own bits, adding to the confusion/strangeness by visibly reading from their scripts.  Such as in this clip of "Annabelle", so here's an uninterrupted version of the song (great blog too).  Not limited to only Dutch music, there are a number of clips of Donna Summer appearing on the show.






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