The 1970s were the heyday of pop music. Clemens van Bracht thinks so, who forms the Deurzakkers together with Willem van Schijndel. The duo had their debut in the decade themselves, and also scored their biggest hit with that debut.
In 1975, the Deurzakkers stormed the charts with ‘Bag once nice’. Van Bracht tells in the radio program Brabants Bont: “Willem discovered the melody for the song in 1974. We recorded it in December of that year.” They released the song a few months later.
“And what happened in 1975?” exclaims Van Bracht happily. “I remember it like it was yesterday. We entered at number 27 on Veronica’s Top 40. Unbelieveable.” They were listed as Queen, Status Quo, Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
‘Take it easy’ became the carnival hit of 1975 and that still makes Clemens happy to this day. “It has brought us a lot. We owe everything to it.”
“We are inundated with the most beautiful music in pop history.”
In the 1970s, Van Bracht was really only involved with music. In addition to being a Deurzakker, he was also a DJ in the bars in Waalwijk and he also owned a record store in Den Bosch. He loves the music of that time. “We were inundated with the most beautiful music in pop history at the time.”
The music that is being made nowadays can bear his approval. But: “Back then music was made with a different emotion than now. When you listen to it, you experience it very differently.” Van Bracht is still DJing in Waalwijk and Ibiza. “I now play the same music as then. My children and many other youth have also started to rediscover this music, they love it.”
Van Bracht happily talks about the decade. “The music of that time is no longer made. Think The Doors, The Dire Straits, James Brown. Queen started in the 1970s, Michael Jackson came on. It has all brought about so much in the music scene.”
This weekend you can hear the 70’s Weekend on the radio at Omroep Brabant. Until Sunday you can hear the coolest and best music from that wonderful decade, framed with news and games from that time. Listen in via omroepbrabant.nl/radio