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In het begin van Toppop kon je per briefkaart je keuze maken voor je favoriete singles. Je maakte dan ook kans geselecteerd te worden voor een Toppop t-shirt. Dit is het overzicht van 12 maart 1973.

RIP Mary Wilson of the Supremes Singer Mary Wilson, known from vocal group The Supremes, has passed away. The American singer died at the age of 76 at her home in Las Vegas.

Dutch singer, composer and producer Petrus Antonius Laurentius alias Pierre Kartner was born in Elst, near Nijmegen.

Otha Leon Haywood (February 11, 1942 – April 5, 2016) was an American funk and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Yesterday, February 4, 2021, it was exactly 50 years ago this performance of Dusty Springfield was first broadcast by TROS television. Today we celebrate this 50th anniversary.

In 1983, the Scottish band The Chaps released a parody of the 60's T.V series 'Rawhide'. "Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958.

Peter Godwin is an English new wave musician. He was a member of the band Metro, as well as a solo artist and songwriter.

Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English rock musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and the Herd.

The Three Degrees is an American female vocal group, which was originally formed in 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The original members were Fayette Pinkney, Shirley Porter and Linda Turner.

Sommerset is a country group from Driebergen, the Netherlands, formed around the three Sommer brothers, Hans, André and Ronald Sommer, who scored a few hits in the mid-seventies.

We could not think of a more appropriate song for times like these when there is a street curfew at 21.00 hrs in the Netherlands this week.

Dutch Popgroup from Vlaardingen with with Robert Kempe (Robby Valentine) before he went solo.

"Papaoutai" (Papa, où t'es ?, French for "Dad, where are you?") is a song written and performed by Belgian musician Stromae.

Are 'Friends' Electric?" is a 1979 song by the English band Tubeway Army.

To celebrate today, 20 January, 2021, the inauguration of the new USA President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris we publish this video of the legendary American singer Elvis Presley with

Doenja Dewi is the pseudonym of Dutch singer Anita Overklift Vaupelkleyn (Haarlem, 1947).

Dit is een video-clip uit de tv special rond de Nederlandstalige popgroep Doe Maar (Hennie Vrienten, Ernst Jansz, Jan Pijnenburg en Jan Hendriks), vormgegeven door Jaap Drupsteen en uitgezonden door

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the

This very rare recording of The Swedish Hootenanny singers, featuring Björn Ualvaeus of ABBA was recently found in our vaults.

Willem (Wim) Sonneveld (Utrecht, 28 juni 1917 – Amsterdam, 8 maart 1974) was een Nederlands cabaretier, zanger en acteur.

The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s British female vocal trio, from Northampton, comprising lead vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall.

Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980) is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician.

The Supremes were an American all female singing group and the first act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

The Novo Band was originally the Novo Cabaret, a cabaret group from the Herman Jordan Lyceum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which consists of the brothers Bas and Ernst Teule and Johannes Blanksma.

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B female vocal group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s.

"2000 Light Years from Home" is a song from the Rolling Stones' 1967 psychedelic rock album 'Their Satanic Majesties Request'.

Tom Browne's 'Happy New Wish' after he reached the #3 spot on the Dutch Top 40 in February 1981 with 'Funkin' For Jamaica'.

We wish all Toppop subscribers a good and healthy 2022!

'Oliebollen bakken' (baking deep-fried raisin buns) at New Years Eve is a Dutch tradition. In this video former Toppop presenter Ad Visser is trying his best to perform this skills at baking.

The Edison is one of the oldest music prizes in the world and the oldest music prize in the Netherlands, having been presented since 1960.