Let’s vote: Voting week Drentse 1000 has started

“Yes,” was Wim Boer’s answer. “It was my dream to one day present a hit parade. Now it’s a thousand songs. So yes, I’m a happy person”. René Steenbergen is also enthusiastic: “Bring it on, I’m ready.” Presenter Judith Regendorp can even reminisce about the year before. “Last year was the Drenthe 1000 for the first time. And that it went so fantastic and that so many people contributed ideas and sent in their tips, that’s really cool.”

Still, there is also some tension when noting down the favorite numbers. Anouk Middel finds the question of what the most beautiful Drenthe record is ‘so incredibly difficult’. There are just so many beautiful Drenthe songs to choose from, she says.

We call them guilty pleasures, but the four radio presenters talk shamelessly about their favorite bad records. Regendorp, for example, says that as a child she sang along loudly with Crying is too late for you from Corry and the Rekels. But ABBA is also reviewed, but with the comment that it is so wrong that it is actually just delicious. Voulez vous is mentioned as Farmer’s guilty pleasure. “Really the ultimate disco song. Great to go wild.” Another bad song that is secretly just ‘a really good song’? “Well, that is Especially for you from Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan,” says Steenbergen.

At Middel, it can’t stay with just one guilty pleasure: “I have a lot of those,” she exclaims enthusiastically. “I really like bad music.” And which wrong records can be played completely gray as far as she is concerned? André Hazes is immediately discussed, but if the presenter can really only choose one, it will be Love me just a little bit more from the Dolly Dots.

According to the presenters, the most beautiful songs are the following: God only knows from The Beach Boys; At Last from Etta James; Unforgettable fire from U2; and finally For her by Frans Halsema. Whether these numbers also end up in the top of the Drenthe 1000 is still the question. But one thing is certain: you can make a difference. So hurry to the digital ballot box and pass your judgment on the greatest music of all time.

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