Teddy Scholten

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Teddy Scholten (1978)

Teddy Scholten (born May 11, 1926 - April 8, 2010 ; actually Teddy Scholten-van Zwieteren , née Dorothea Margaretha van Zwieteren ) was a Dutch singer .

Musical career

Teddy Scholten's career as a singer dates back to the 1940s when she enjoyed success in her home country as part of the duo Scholten & Van 't Zelfde . In 1945 she got engaged to Henk Scholten, whom she married a year later.

At the Dutch preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959, in which the eight contributions were presented independently by two artists, one with a large and one with a small orchestra , she presented one version of the songs De regen and 'n Beetje . With the former she got the second and with 'n Beetje the first place. The jury preferred her as interpreter to John de Mol , who sang the second version of 'n Beetje .

She also emerged as the winner from the Eurovision Song Contest in Cannes in 1959 . With 21 points she took first place in front of the performers from the United Kingdom and France . The winning track, which was recorded in two Dutch versions, reached fourth place in the Dutch single charts. Teddy Scholten also recorded versions of the title in German ( Be Honest ), French ( Un p'tit peu ), Swedish ( Om våren ) and Italian ( Un poco ). The latter version reached 13th place in the Italian single charts.

After taking part in the competition, Teddy Scholten recorded a few more albums, primarily with cover versions of well-known children's songs.

Discography (albums, partly with Henk Scholten)

Teddy and Henk Scholten (1959)
  • 'k Heb m'n car fully loaded
  • En we zingen… en we jump… en we zijn zo blij (Alle bekende sinterklaasliedjes)
  • Peter en de wolf & children's symphony
  • Alles op één plaat (1959)
  • Klein Klein Kleutertje (1959)
  • Klein Klein Kleutertje 2 (1960)

Web links

literature

  • John Kennedy O'Connor: Eurovision Song Contest - The official book on 50 years of European pop history . Gondrome 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Zangeres Teddy Scholten overleden at nu.nl, April 12, 2010 (Dutch; accessed April 12, 2010)
  2. ↑ The Dutch Final ( Memento from February 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Netherlands. In: The Diggiloo Thrush. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholten, Teddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholten-van Swieteren, Teddy; Swieteren, Teddy van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1926
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2010