Bolland & Bolland
The brothers Robert J. "Rob" (born April 17, 1955 in Port Elizabeth , South Africa ) and Ferdinand D. "Ferdi" Bolland (born August 5, 1956 in Port Elizabeth) are a Dutch producer duo. They are also active as musicians , singers and composers for other artists.
Career
Both learned to play the guitar very early on from their older brother Tom. They were discovered in South Africa when they were 10 or 11 years old and almost got a record deal. In 1969 the Bolland family moved to The Hague in the Netherlands . There the brothers played in different bands. As Bolland & Bolland they wrote or produced a number of songs and albums for Falco ( Rock Me Amadeus , Jeanny , Vienna Calling ), Status Quo ( In the Army Now , which they performed themselves in 1981), Roger Chapman ( Techno Prisoners ) and the Dutch pop singer Gerard Joling ( Without Your Love , Nightlife ). Bolland & Bolland also produced the title music for some TV shows, such as Rudi Carrell's Let You Surprise .
Even with their own singles such as B. Summer of '71 and Tears of Ice they were able to penetrate the Dutch and German charts.
After 1992, they released several singles under the name The Bolland Project . The best known and most successful was the Tribute to Falco, recorded in 1998 with the singer Alida . The Austrian singer, with whom the Bolland brothers celebrated great successes in the mid-1980s (especially with the global hit Rock Me Amadeus ), had died in an accident a few weeks earlier.
In 2003 they presented their musical The Three Musketeers in Rotterdam based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas the Elder. Ä. in front.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 NL
|
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| 1987 | Brotherology |
DE44 (6 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 1991 | Darwin - The Evolution | - |
NL65 (6 weeks) NL |
as The Bolland Project
|
| 2017 | The Golden Years of Dutch Pop Music | - |
NL61 (1 week) NL |
|
More albums
- 1981: The Domino Theory (TELDEC)
- 1984: Silent Partners (TELDEC)
- 1989: Pop Art (East West Records GmbH)
- 1991: Dream Factory (East West Records GmbH)
- 2004: Greatest Hits (EMI Catalog Marketing)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
NL
|
|||
| 1972 | Summer Of '71 Florida |
- |
NL19 (5 weeks) NL |
|
| Wait for the Sun Florida |
- |
NL11 (6 weeks) NL |
||
| 1973 | Ooh La La |
- |
NL27 (3 weeks) NL |
|
| 1974 | Mexico, I Can't Say Goodbye |
- |
NL16 (8 weeks) NL |
|
| 1975 | You Make Me Feel So High |
- |
NL31 (3 weeks) NL |
|
| 1976 | The Last Apache |
- |
NL25 (4 weeks) NL |
|
| 1978 | Spaceman |
- |
NL14 (7 weeks) NL |
|
| 1987 | Tears of Ice Brotherology |
DE11 (19 weeks) DE |
- | |
| 1990 | The Wall Came Tumbling Down |
- |
NL23 (4 weeks) NL |
|
| 1998 | Tribute to Falco |
DE95 (1 week) DE |
- |
as The Bolland Project feat. Alida
|
More singles
- 1974: Dream Girl (girl of my dreams)
- 1976: Souvenir / All Summer Long
- 1977: Time of Your Life
- 1978: UFO (We Are Not Alone) / Funkadelic Man
- 1978: Hold on / Outlaws Paradise
- 1982: You're in the Army Now (TELDEC)
- 1983: Heaven Can Wait / You're in the Army Now (TELDEC)
- 1984: Ten American Girls / Night of the shooting Stars
- 1984: Imagination / The Boat (F1 Team)
- 1985: Imagination / Feels So Good (TELDEC)
- 1985: The Boat
- 1985: The Boat (Special Remix) / A Bordo (Italian Version)
- 1985: The Boat - the 'Recovery of the Titanic' (Ultra Panic-Remix-Version) / All Systems Go Go - 12 "maxi-single (TELDEC)
- 1987: Best Love of My Life / Rhapsody in Rock (TELDEC)
- 1988: And the World Turns on (The European Mix) / And the World Turns on (The USA Mix)
- 1991: Broadcast News - The World Is Burning (EastWest Records GmbH)
Author participations and productions
| year | Title artist |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
|
 AT
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
 US
|
NL
|
|||
| 1979 | Late Night Show Tiffany |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL24 (7 weeks) NL |
|
| Colorado Xandra |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL37 (2 weeks) NL |
||
| 1980 | Presidental Suite Tiffany |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL27 (5 weeks) NL |
|
| 1985 |
Rock Me Amadeus Falco |
DE1  (23 weeks)DE |
AT1 (24 weeks) AT |
CH2 (20 weeks) CH |
UK1 (15 weeks)UK |
US1 (17 weeks) US |
NL3 (10 weeks) NL |
Sales: + 857,500
|
|
Vienna Calling Falco |
DE4 (19 weeks) DE |
AT3 (16 weeks) AT |
CH7 (11 weeks) CH |
UK10 (9 weeks) UK |
US18 (14 weeks) US |
- | ||
|
Jeanny, Part I Falco |
DE1 (21 weeks)DE |
AT1 (19 weeks) AT |
CH1 (16 weeks) CH |
UK68 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
NL1 (13 weeks)NL |
Sales: + 325,000
|
|
| 1986 |
Jeannie (The Pure Truth) Frank Zander |
DE13 (9 weeks) DE |
AT4 (8 weeks) AT |
CH21 (4 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | |
| The Sound of Music Falco |
DE4 (17 weeks) DE |
AT4 (14 weeks) AT |
CH11 (8 weeks) CH |
UK61 (3 weeks) UK |
- | - | ||
|
In the Army Now Status Quo |
DE1 (19 weeks) DE |
AT1 (16 weeks) AT |
CH1 (14 weeks) CH |
UK4th  (14 weeks)UK |
- |
NL11 (7 weeks) NL |
Sales: + 750,000
|
|
|
Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2, one year later) Falco |
DE1 (16 weeks) DE |
AT4 (15 weeks) AT |
CH3 (9 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | ||
| 1987 | Emotional falco |
DE50 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK85 (3 weeks) UK |
- | - | |
| 1988 | Viennese blood Falco |
DE9 (11 weeks) DE |
AT4 (10 weeks) AT |
CH24 (5 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | |
|
Love House Samantha Fox |
DE25 (12 weeks) DE |
- |
CH19 (4 weeks) CH |
UK32 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
NL10 (7 weeks) NL |
||
| 1990 | La Colegiala Sandra Reemer |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL23 (5 weeks) NL |
|
| 1991 | House In De Zon Rob De Nijs |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL23 (5 weeks) NL |
|
| 1992 |
Titanic Falco |
DE47 (4 weeks) DE |
AT3 (18 weeks) AT |
- | - | - | - | |
| Airborne Mix The Heavy’s |
- | - |
CH31 (4 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | ||
| Dance Mephisto Falco |
- |
AT17 (3 weeks) AT |
- | - | - | - | ||
| 1996 | 50 Jaar Brood & Vrienten |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL33 (3 weeks) NL |
|
| 2000 | Mope Bloodhound Gang |
DE34 (8 weeks) DE |
- |
CH77 (7 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | |
| Follow That Dream Follow That Dream |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL25 (6 weeks) NL |
||
| 2001 |
Jeanny Reamonn feat. Xavier Naidoo |
DE18 (9 weeks) DE |
AT31 (8 weeks) AT |
CH86 (5 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | |
| 2003 | Everything Tooske Breugem & Bastiaan Ragas |
- | - | - | - | - |
NL2 (10 weeks) NL |
|
| 2005 |
NDW 2005 Fler |
DE9 (17 weeks) DE |
AT19 (15 weeks) AT |
- | - | - | - | |
| On days like this Fettes Brot with Finkenauer |
DE9 (26 weeks) DE |
AT10 (26 weeks) AT |
CH69 (7 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | ||
| 2007 | Men of the West (T. Börger Version 2007) Falco |
DE55 (5 weeks) DE |
AT14 (7 weeks) AT |
- | - | - | - | |
| 2009 | Ici les enfoirés Les enfoirés |
- | - |
CH29 (8 weeks) CH |
- | - | - | |
| 2011 |
Vienna Calling Massimo Schena & Lukas Plöchl |
- |
AT72 (1 week) AT |
- | - | - | - | |
| 2018 |
Rock Me Amadeus Sun Diego x Falco |
DE71 (2 weeks) DE |
AT63 (1 week) AT |
- | - | - | - | |
Awards for music sales
|
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
 platinum
|
Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
|||||
|
Germany (BVMI)
|
- |
2 × gold2
|
- | 500,000 | musikindustrie.de |
 France (SNEP)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 500,000 | infodisc.fr |
 Canada (MC)
|
- | - |
platinum1
|
100,000 | musiccanada.com |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 7,500 | nztop40.co.nz |
|
Netherlands (NVPI)
|
- |
gold1
|
- | 75,000 | nvpi.nl |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
silver1
|
gold1
|
- | 750,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
silver1
|
6 × gold6th
|
platinum1
|
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Web links
- Bolland & Bolland at Discogs (English)
- Contributions to authors and productions - Rob Bolland at austriancharts.at
- Contributions to authors and productions - Ferdi Bolland at austriancharts.at