De Spelbrekers

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De Spelbrekers at the national preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962

De Spelbrekers was a Dutch hit duo. It was founded in 1945 by the two singers Theo Rekkers (1923–2012) and Huug Kok (1918–2011).

Band history

Rekkers and Kok met during the Second World War in a munitions factory in Bremen , where they were used for forced labor. When they were sent to the Netherlands to choose costumes for a cabaret program, they took the opportunity to escape and went into hiding until the end of the war.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Oh wat ben je mooi
  NL 5 05/01/1956 (8 weeks)
Katinka
  NL 9 05/01/1962 (8 weeks)

The two had their nationwide breakthrough in 1956 with the carnival hit Oh wat ben je mooi . In 1962 they won the National Song Festival with the title Katinka , the Dutch preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg . There they shared the last place with Belgium, Austria and Spain. For the first time in the history of the competition, the Netherlands did not vote. However, the poor performance did not detract from the success in their home country and the song developed into a hit.

In the following years more singles followed, but without any major commercial success. In 1975 the two musicians decided not to perform any more in the future and shifted the focus of their professional activities to music management . The artists they supervise include André van Duin , Jan Blazer , Ben Cramer , Saskia & Serge and Joke Bruijs .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Charts NL
  2. Netherlands - 1962 at diggiloo.net