Henk Smitskamp | |
|---|---|
 Henk Smitskamp (1972) | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1 August 1942 Netherlands |
| Genres | Nederbeat |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1960-present |
| Formerly of |
|
Henk Smitskamp (born 1 August 1942) is a Dutch bass guitarist who played in many Nederbeat bands during the 1960s and 1970s.
Smitskamp formed The Motions in 1964 with Rudy Bennett, Robbie van Leeuwen, and Sieb Warner. [1] They were the first Nederbeat band to achieve chart success, and had their first major selling single in 1965. [1] Henk was then involved with three groups: After Tea (1968-1969) and Livin' Blues (1969-1970), and Sandy Coast (1970-1971). [2] [3] Sandy Coast's 1971 single "True Love That's A Wonder" went to number two in the Netherlands. [4]
In 1972, Smitskamp joined Shocking Blue, [5] [6] who had a hit song in 1969 with Venus, and featured Motions member Robbie van Leeuwen. Henk was in Shocking Blue for two years, up until the band ended in 1974. During that time, he played bass on five of their studio albums: Inkpot (1972), Attila (1972), Ham (1973), Dream on Dreamer (1973), and Good Times (1974). A 1972 Shocking Blue single he played on, "Inkpot", peaked at number three in Belgium. [7] When Shocking Blue disbanded, Smitskamp returned to Livin' Blues.
Albums [8]
Extended plays
Singles
Albums [9]
Singles
Albums
Singles
Albums
Singles
Albums
Singles
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in The Hague in 1967. They were part of the Nederbeat movement in the Netherlands. The band had a string of hit songs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, including "Send Me a Postcard" and "Venus", which became their biggest hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970. The band sold 13.5 million records by 1973 but disbanded in 1974. Together with Golden Earring they are considered the most successful Nederbeat-band, if the criterion is scoring hits abroad and especially in the United States.
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group had a string of mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band's contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams, among others. The band's Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. In 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Gordon William Mills was a successful London-based music industry manager and songwriter. He was born in Madras, British India and grew up in Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. During the 1960s and 1970s, he managed the careers of three highly successful musical artists - Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Gilbert O'Sullivan. Mills was also a songwriter, penning hits for Cliff Richard, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Applejacks, Paul Jones, Peter and Gordon and Tom Jones, most notably co-writing Jones's signature song "It's Not Unusual" with Les Reed.
James George Tomkins, known professionally as Big Jim Sullivan, was an English guitarist.
"The Shadow of Your Smile", also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper", is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. The song was introduced in the 1965 film The Sandpiper, with a trumpet solo by Jack Sheldon and later became a minor hit for Tony Bennett. It won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2004, the song finished at number 77 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs poll of the top tunes in American cinema.
The Outsiders were a Dutch band from Amsterdam. Their period of greatest popularity in the Netherlands was from 1965–67, but they released records until 1969. In recent years their legacy has extended beyond the Netherlands, and the group is today recognized as a distinctive exemplar of the garage rock genre.
Nederbeat is a genre of rock music that began with the Dutch rock boom in the mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups and rock bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock. Among the best-known Nederbeat groups are the Golden Earrings, The Motions, The Outsiders and Shocking Blue.
The Essential Collection: 1965–1997 is a box-set compilation album from The Carpenters that, with the exception of a few track changes, is essentially the same as the 1991 From the Top set. Coming in at four discs and 73 songs, this album is one of the biggest of all Carpenters compilation sets. The songs from this box set are everything from the Richard Carpenter Trio recordings from 1965 to their biggest hits in the early 1970s to the last song ever recorded by the Carpenters, "Now".
Robbie van Leeuwen is a Dutch musician who was a guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for Dutch bands, including The Motions and especially Shocking Blue, with whom he landed the world-wide hit Venus. In 1967 he played guitar on the only single ever released by "The Six Young Riders" titled "Let the Circle Be Unbroken". As of January 2023, he is the only surviving member of Shocking Blue's best known four-piece lineup.
Q65 was a Dutch garage rock and psychedelic group formed in 1965, that is often considered one of the more prominent bands associated with the Nederbeat rock wave that took place in the Netherlands in the 1960s.
The History of Rock and Roll is a radio documentary on rock and roll music, originally syndicated in 1969, and again in 1978 and 1981. It is currently distributed as both a 2+1⁄2-minute short feature on internet networks, and a two-hour weekly series hosted by Wink Martindale, distributed to radio stations nationwide. This list below reflects the contents of the more widely heard 1978 version of The History of Rock & Roll.
Inkpot is the fifth studio album by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released in 1972.
Josephine Armstead, also known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. Armstead began her career singing backing vocals for blues musician Bobby "Blue" Bland before becoming an Ikette in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the early 1960s. She also had some success as a solo singer, her biggest hit being "A Stone Good Lover" in 1968. As a songwriter, Armstead teamed up with Ashford & Simpson. The trio wrote hits for various artists, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Tina Britt, Ronnie Milsap, and Syl Johnson. In the 1970s, Armstead appeared in the Broadway musicals Don't Play Us Cheap and Seesaw.
Hendrickus Cornelius "Henk" van Lijnschooten was a Dutch composer, who also wrote under the names Ted Huggens and Michel van Delft.
Robert C. Bushnell was an American bass player and guitarist who has appeared on dozens of albums and singles as a studio musician, including Bobby Lewis's hit "Tossin' and Turnin'" (1961), "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels (1963), "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters (1964) and the remixed hit version of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" (1965).
The Motions were a Dutch band from The Hague founded in 1964 and active until 1970. The lead singer was Rudy Bennett, with Robbie van Leeuwen on guitar, Henk Smitskamp on bass guitar, and Sieb Warner on drums. They were the first Nederbeat band to achieve chart success.
Rudy Bennett is a Dutch singer, who led the Nederbeat groups The Motions and Galaxy-Lin.
Sandy Coast was a Dutch rock band fronted by Hans Vermeulen (1947–2017); they were successful in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The band's biggest hits include "Just a Friend" and "True Love " in The Netherlands.
James Royal is a British pop singer. His most international successful record was "Call My Name" in 1967.
Sieb Warner is a Dutch drummer, who was a member of The Motions, and an early member of Golden Earring.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)