Did you ever hear of Indorock? The Tielman Brothers? [View all]

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I hadn't, till I ran across posts about them the other day on Steve Hoffman's music forum.

The Tielman Brothers, all actually brothers, were born in Indonesia in the 1930s and moved to the Netherlands, to The Hague, in the 1950s. They became very popular all over Europe, influencing other artists. The Beatles went to see them when they were playing in Germany, and their fans included Dutch artists, especially Jan Akkerman (Focus) and Golden Earring.

The Tielman Brothers were brilliant. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tielman_Brothers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Tielman and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indorock .

Four videos below. This first one is what may be their most famous TV appearance, in 1960.

This second video is their song that's generally considered the first Dutch rock and roll hit.

And two videos showing how great Andy Tielman continued to be as he got older. Don't have a date for that performance of "Blue Bayou." The second video below shows him talking about their first Dutch hit on the TV show DWDD (De Wereld Draait Door), and performing it live. Not sure of the date of the show, but it didn't start airing till 2005, so the 2008 date that video was uploaded to YouTube might be the date it was broadcast. Andy Tielman died in 2011.