N°56 ANDRE VAN DUIN - BIM BAM

Bells make me think of church bells and stuff like that and although wanting to go in a totally different direction the chuirch bells reminded me of an Andre Van Duin song which, when I was a little boy, I found very very very funny.

Andre is a Dutch entertainer, actor, singer, whatever. He does about anything but he's most famous for his sketches, his revueshows and his funny songs. This is one of 'em. In his shows he used to be accompagnied by the late Frans van Dusschoten and Corrie Van Gorp. Their succes in The Netherlands and Belgium was huge. Later he'd become the host of many different tv shows. In between he released over 30 full albums throughout his career and as many singles. He'd score 3 number 1 hits: Willempie is the first (and probably most known), Bim Bam his second and in the 1990's he scored a third top hit with his Pizzalied.

In 2004 he celebrated his 40 year old career and he dis so with a complete new theater show. At the moment he's working on  another show to be premiered ... yesterday !!!! Andre was celebrated many times with a huge number of awards.

The song above by the way is based on Edith Piaf and Jean Villards, Les trois cloches.

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