PIET HEIN (EEN TRIOMFANTELYK LIED VAN DE ZILVERVLOOT)

Created on 17/06/2001
Latest update on 26/04/2023

Artist: Dirk Bos
Author: Dr. J.J. Viotta/Jan Pieter Heije
Label: Jumbo
Year: 1910

Tenor from Groningen. Amsterdammers Viotta and Heije were both doctor and poet. Viotta promoted on the human voice. They also cowrote Sint Nicolaas, better known as Zie De Maan Schijnt Door De Bomen (1843).

Covers:

1926:

Emile Van De Bosch [as Zilveren Vloot for Homocord/liliput]

1929:

Albert de Booy [for Colibri and in '33 for Puck]

1936:

Oom Bob [as De Zilvervloot]

1949:

Spelbrekers [idem]

1964:

Shepherds

1966:

Johnny Jordaan [as De Zilvervloot]

1967:

Tony Bass

1971:

Holland [as Hans Brinker Symphony with members of Golden Earring, Earth & Fire and sisters Patricia & Yvonne Paay]

1995:

Ron Brandsteder

1999:

Duo Karst

Piet Hein defeated the Spanish armada, seizing large amounts of silver and gold. When Ajax and Feyenoord started defeating Spanish top teams Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in the early seventies, Dutch football supporters had no better choice for a matching theme song.

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