Before you know it it will be carnival again, so carnival songs will be flying around your ears these weeks. Well-known names such as Lamme Frans and Veul Gère have launched their new songs in recent weeks, with the latter collaborating with former television star Henny Huisman. His song ‘With z’n all’ has been given a carnivalesque twist and is thus given a second life. And that is not the only carnival song that has its origins in (distant) history.
Henny Huisman
First about All together by Henny Huisman. The song was used for years as the closing act of his Mini Playback show on RTL4. In 2001, the song was used by music group The Cooldown Café for a contemporary version, this year it is the Tilburg music group Veul Gère that is working on Henny Huisman’s original. You hear Carnival together below.
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Free Dáánse!
While the previous song made it abundantly clear that it was a contemporary carnival remake, it was a no-brainer Free Dáánse!, also by Veul Gère, is not immediately available. We have to go way back in our record collection to find the original. It’s about Dans les yeux d’Émilie by Joe Dassin from 1978. You have to be a fan of French chanson if you want to know the song, because it never reached the charts in our country.
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Our Mother Zeej Nog
Not only the new carnival pictures have an older original. Also the most famous Brabant sing-along of recent years, Our Mother Zeej Nog by Jan Biggel, is musically inspired by an existing song. The original is called To Whom It Concerns by Chris Andrews from 1965.
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Ferry the Pink Flamingo
Quim Barreiros. Don’t feel like a cultural barbarian if that name doesn’t mean anything to you. Quim is an accordion player from Portugal and with his A Outra he inspired Barry Fest and Tim Schalkx for it Ferry the Pink Flamingo. Below you can hear the original from Portugal.
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Renovating the Cabin
Dirty Jack was looking for his hit Renovating the Cabin not to an unknown existing tune, but chose a worldwide number 1 hit by Bon Jovi. Because you Livin’ On A Prayer already know, below is the carnival version of Vieze Jack. Which has also been remixed into a hardstyle variant. Listen for yourself.
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Hands Hands Flower curtain
The ‘mother of all carnival remakes’ is surely Hands Hands Flower curtain by Lamme Frans. You can immediately hear that the entire text is cleverly constructed from phrases from other well-known carnival songs. But you may not have known that the associated sounds have also been borrowed. The original is called Funiculì Funiculà and dates from 1880. The best-known version is by the Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti.
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Want to hear more carnival remakes? In this playlist on Spotify you have fifteen hours of listening pleasure.