Dolly dots

Dolly dots
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1979, 1998 and 2007
resolution	1988
Website	www.dollydots.com
Founding members
singing	Angela Groothuizen
singing	Angéla Kramers
singing	Anita Heilker
singing	Esther Oosterbeek
singing	Patty Zomer
singing	Ria Brieffies †

The Dolly Dots are originally a six-member Dutch girl group that was particularly popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Band history

1979 to 1988

The group was set up in 1978 by Peter van Asten and Richard de Bois around the ballet dancer Angéla Kramers, who was active on the TV station TROS . The singers Ria Brieffies and Angela Groothuizen joined the dancers Angéla Kramers, Anita Heilker, Esther Oosterbeek and Patty Zomer. In June 1979 her first single Boys was released . With this prelude the sextet could already be heard and seen in Ilya Richter's disco in Germany .

Glamor and formation dancing characterized the external appearance of the performances. In the following years the Dolly Dots were a popular group in Europe and Japan. Several times they were guests on German television in the show Musikladen . In Japan they went platinum for their single Radio . The Dolly Dots had their greatest successes in their home country in 1984, when they reached number one in the Dutch charts with Love me just a little bit more . In the same year they received their own television series. The album display was awarded gold .

At the end of 1984 Heilker left the group after the birth of their daughter. In 1986 the quintet went to the USA to film. The resulting film Swoop into Chaos - When weird birds learn to fly (original title Dutch Treat ) was released in 1987. After its failure and the disappointing performance of the single What A Night , the remaining group members decided to break up the Dolly Dots. On October 2nd, 1988 they gave their farewell concert.

After 1988

In 1993, the gold scrapbook hit the charts. In 1998 all six founding members united and voiced the scrapbook The Collection . They reappeared on television in October ten years after they broke up. In 2004, the premiere of the musical Love Me Just A Little Bit More, based on songs from Dolly Dots, was released. The musical toured the Netherlands until February 2005.

Encouraged by this success, a new album and DVD were released showing highlights from the group's career. In 2006 a new tour followed, in 2007 the members appeared on the TV show Vrienden van Amstel Live , and in May of the same year the Dolly Dots could be seen at three sold-out concerts in Rotterdam . The album Reünieconcert was awarded gold.

The singer Ria Brieffies died of lung cancer on July 20, 2009 at the age of 52. Angela Groothuizen was a jury member for The Voice of Holland from 2010 to 2012 and has been a jury member for The Voice Kids original since 2012 .

Discography

Albums

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NL
1979	Dolly dots	NL21 (7 weeks) NL
1980	American Dream	NL16 (9 weeks) NL
1981	Forever	NL10 (11 weeks) NL
	PS We Love You	NL21 (3 weeks) NL
1982	Take Six	NL22 (5 weeks) NL
1983	Display	NL6th gold (28 weeks)NL
1984	Live In Carré	NL4 (12 weeks) NL
	Thirst!	NL11 (11 weeks) NL
1985	Attention	NL16 (11 weeks) NL
1986	The hits album	NL32 (8 weeks) NL
	Dutch Treat	NL41 (14 weeks) NL
1988	Latest hits	NL72 (1 week) NL
1993	Gold - The Very Best Of	NL31 (10 weeks) NL
1998	The Collection	NL12 (14 weeks) NL
2007	Reünieconcert Ahoy 2007	NL1 (10 weeks) NL

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		NL	DE
1979	Boys (Tell It All About) Dolly Dots	NL9 (13 weeks) NL	-
	Radio Dolly Dots	NL11 (8 weeks) NL	-
	Rollerskating Dolly Dots	NL13 (6 weeks) NL	-
1980	We Believe in Love American Dream	NL10 (9 weeks) NL	-
	Hela-di-ladi-lo American Dream	NL6 (9 weeks) NL	DE37 (11 weeks) DE
	The Dreammachine American Dream	NL29 (4 weeks) NL	-
1981	Leila (The Queen of Sheba) PS We Love You	NL9 (9 weeks) NL	DE73 (2 weeks) DE
	PS PS We Love You	NL6 (9 weeks) NL	DE52 (3 weeks) DE
	STOP PS We Love You	NL6 (9 weeks) NL	DE71 (1 week) DE
1982	Do You Wanna Wanna Take Six	NL8 (7 weeks) NL	-
	Do Wah Diddy Diddy Take Six	NL4 (9 weeks) NL	-
	All The Roses Take Six	NL9 (4 weeks) NL	-
1983	Money Lover Display	NL22 (5 weeks) NL	-
	Don't give up display	NL14 (8 weeks) NL	-
	Love Me Just a Little Bit More (Totally Hooked on You) Live In Carré	NL1 (11 weeks) NL	-
1984	She's a Liar Live In Carré	NL7 (9 weeks) NL	-
	Trick of the Eye Thirst!	NL15 (7 weeks) NL	-
	Give the Girl a Break Thirst!	NL19 (8 weeks) NL	-
1985	Where Were You (When I Needed You) Thirst!	NL23 (5 weeks) NL	-
	Only the rain attention	NL13 (7 weeks) NL	-
1986	Unique attention	NL27 (4 weeks) NL	-
	Dreaming of You Attention	NL26 (3 weeks) NL	-
	This Girl Dutch Treat	NL29 (4 weeks) NL	-
1987	Hearts Beat Thunder Dutch Treat	NL25 (5 weeks) NL	-
	What a night	NL18 (5 weeks) NL	-

Video albums

• 2007: Reünieconcert Ahoy 2007 (NL:gold)

Web links

Commons : Dolly Dots  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dolly Dots in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituaries for time online ( Memento from July 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) and in Telegraaf
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: NL Albums NL Singles Charts DE
3. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: NL