Robert Long

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Robert Long (1979)

Robert Long , real name Jan Gerrit Bob Arend Leverman (born October 22, 1943 in Utrecht , † December 13, 2006 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch singer-songwriter .

Life

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Vroeger of later (sooner or later)
  NL 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Quintuple platinum
× 5
Quintuple platinum
05/25/1974 (74 weeks)
Levenslang (lifelong)
  NL 2 
platinum
platinum
02/26/1977 (19 weeks)
Homo sapiens
  NL 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
February 16, 1980 (33 weeks)
  DE 27 09/21/1981 (8 weeks)
Van voor de zomer 1973-1983
  NL 25th 01/01/1983 (7 weeks)
Dag little Jongen (day, little boy)
  NL 2 
platinum
platinum
01/28/1984 (37 weeks)
Achter de Horizon (Behind the Horizon)
  NL 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
06/08/1986 (42 weeks)
Beyond the horizon
  DE 56 06/02/1986 (2 weeks)
Hartstocht (passion)
  NL 3 
gold
gold
02/06/1988 (15 weeks)
Liedjes uit de Krullentijd (Songs from the time of curls)
  NL 20th 11/25/1989 (14 weeks)
Het onherroepelijke Fantastico Album (The irrevocable Fantastico Album)
  NL 35 April 21, 1990 (8 weeks)
Voor mijn Vrienden (For my friends)
  NL 11 
gold
gold
03/21/1992 (14 weeks)
Het very best van
  NL 20th 
gold
gold
11/20/1993 (15 weeks)
Uit Liefde en Respect (For love and respect)
  NL 5 
gold
gold
04/09/1994 (27 weeks)
In the days
  NL 69 12/10/1994 (3 weeks)
Nu (now)
  NL 40 11/02/1996 (12 weeks)
Uit Liefde en Respect voor Gershwin (For love and respect for Gershwin)
  NL 13 09/20/1997 (8 weeks)
Lang genoeg jong (Long enough young)
  NL 12 03/27/1999 (12 weeks)
Fire!
  NL 28 09/21/2002 (26 weeks)
'n duivels Genoegen (a devilish pleasure)
  NL 32 05/13/2006 (20 weeks)
Best of - 3CD
  NL 45 March 31, 2012 (5 weeks)
Jij wou mij totaal - Zijn complete Nederlandstalige oeuvre 1974-2006
  NL 23 02/27/2016 (1 week)
Singles
Let us try
  NL 16 02/10/1973 (5 weeks)
Heeft een child een Toekomst (Has a child a future)
  NL 29 09/29/1984 (7 weeks)
Everybody doet't (everybody does)
  NL 9 04/05/1986 (13 weeks)
Geef ons Vrede (give us peace)
  NL 26th 11/22/1986 (7 weeks)
Ai lof joe so
  NL 35 02/27/1988 (8 weeks)
Vanmorgen vloog ze nog (with Martine Bijl, Simone Kleinsma, Robert Paul)
  NL 15th October 15, 1988 (12 weeks)

Jan Leverman trained as a window dresser after school and sang in an amateur band whose music was influenced by the beat and the early 1960s. His unit Gloria was successful with Dutch hits. However, this was too boring for him and he began to write his own lyrics. Leverman called himself from then on because of his body length of 1.92 m Robert Long and had his first successes as a singer-songwriter in the early 1970s. He released his first long-playing record in the Netherlands in 1974. His success in Germany began in 1981 with his second German-language LP Homo Sapiens . Michael Kunze translated his Dutch texts into German. In addition to the lyrics, Long also wrote the music himself and worked with the successful composer and arranger Erik van der Wurff .

Robert Long was open about his homosexuality from the start of his career . His texts are largely autobiographically inspired. He had his greatest successes in Germany at the beginning of the 1980s with songs like Feste Jungs , If you would ask me and Tolerant . Feste Jungs was also recorded by Katja Ebstein for her album He du da . He also sang the theme song for the TV series Q & Q and the Dutch theme song for the children's series Gummibärenbande .

Robert Long died of cancer in 2006 after it had been announced only a few days earlier that he would not have much longer to live .

Publications on phonograms

Albums in Dutch

  • 1974: Vroeger of later
  • 1977: Levenslang
  • 1980: Homo sapiens
  • 1982: Van voor de Zomer
  • 1984: Dag little Jongen
  • 1984: ran m'n ran
  • 1985: 10 Jaar Theater
  • 1986: Achter de Horizon
  • 1988: Hartstocht
  • 1988: Goud op Zilver (NL:goldgold)
  • 1988: Tsjechow (with Dimitri Frenkel and Frank Long, NL:goldgold)
  • 1989: Liedjes uit de Krullentijd
  • 1990: Het onherroepelijke Fantastico Album
  • 1992: Voor mijn Vrienden
  • 1993: The very best of Robert Long
  • 1994: Uit Liefde en Respect
  • 1994: In the Dagen
  • 1995: Uit Liefde en Respect… voor zoveel Moois
  • 1996: Nu
  • 1997: Uit Liefde en Respect… voor Gershwin
  • 1999: Lang enjoyed jong
  • 2000: Vanavond tussen 8 en 11 live
  • 2002: fire!
  • 2006: I enjoyed 'n Duivels

Albums in German

  • 1979: sooner or later
  • 1979/1981: songbook
  • 1981: Homo sapiens
  • 1983: Hello, little boy
  • 1984: Tomorrow we are tolerant
  • 1986: Beyond the Horizon
  • 1988: passion
  • 1995: Everything you really love
  • 2004: Long enough young (1CD, the last German-language production), Sound of the Seas Ltd / Conträr Musik
  • 2006: Robert Long - His songs , (2CD compilation), Sound of the Seas Ltd / Conträr Musik

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts NL Singles Charts NL Albums Charts DE
  2. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: NL
  3. ↑ Songwriter Robert Long is dead . queer.de, January 1, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Long, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leverman, Jan Gerrit Bob Arend (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2006
Place of death Antwerp