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gruppo sportivo
dutch band gruppo sportivo incorporated frank zappa's 'take your clothes off when you dance' in their 'superman' song.
discography
concerts
random notes
1977, gruppo
sportivo - "take your clothes off when you dance"
(from "10
mistakes", bellaphone, bbs2548 and sire, srk 6066)
from: unknown
gruppo sportivo
-ten mistakes
has one cover on it and the damn ripper didn't even give credits to fz but just
signed his own name. the cover is take your clothes off when you dance. the band
leader was hans vanden burg, who later on did a small zappa tribute tour in
holland
from: theo alers (th.alersremove@inter.nl.net)
this one i have to dig up myself, it is a great cover. band does not exist
anymore i believe they used to have these backup vocal girls could the
gruppetes,.. but i might be wrong there,..anyway i saw them several times
performing this stuff,...nice album, but a band that was all about performing
live and have a ball.
from: marc de bruyn (emdebe@village.uunet.be)
gruppo sportivo's first album - "10 mistakes" (1977, lp, sire 6066 or
ariola benelux 25464xot) - contains a track called "superman": the
intro of that song, say 2.5 minutes, is an instrumental cover of "take your
clothes of when you dance". there's no mention of fz: "all songs by
vandefuits" (which is actually hans vandenburg). this situation is not
corrected on "back to 19 mistakes" (1988, cd, ariola 258.848) gathers
highlights from "10 mistakes", "back to '78" (1978, lp, epic
83263 or ariola benelux 26.472 xot) + 3 other songs. talking of mistakes...
steve huey
(all-music guide): "affectionate parodies of pop music and occasional
humorous cultural commentary gave the dutch new wave band gruppo sportivo a cult
following in the early 1980s, although much of their material was available only
through import sources."
from: charles ulrich (ulrich@sfu.ca)
to be fair, on the label of 10 mistakes (1977 ariola benelux lp), in regard to
"superman", it says "intro by frank zappa".
track list
"back to 19 mistakes"
musicians "10
mistakes"
meike touw -
vocals
peter calicher - piano, organ, vocals
max
mollinger - drums
hans vandenburg - guitar, vocals
josée van iersel - vocals
eric wehrmeyer
- bass
mark boon - lead guitar ("rubber gun")
jan tans - sax ("lasting forever", "henri")
other
credits "10 mistakes"
hans
vandenburg - producer
jan schuurman - engineer
robert jan
stips - producer
robin freeman - engineer
aad link - engineer
young and ugly - art direction
dorien
van der valk - design and photography
track list
"10 mistakes"
hans vandenburg -
guitar, lead vocals
max 'climax' mollinger - drums
eric wehrmeyer - bass
peter calicher - farfisa organ, piano
meike touw - vocals
josée
van iersel - vocals
rob kruisman - horns
maarten van norden - horns
jan kees tans
- saxophone ("i said no")
rein
van den broek - trumpet ("hey girl")
the aloysius
college choir ("bottom of the class")
other credits
"back to '78"
hans vandenburg -
producer
robert jan stips - producer
track list
"back to '78"
from: computeruser (roycobb1@juno.com)
some one mentioned missing persons as being a good new wave group. sorry but
gruppo sportivo kicks their ass all over town. for those uninformed gruppo
sportivo is a new wave group they covered zappa [the lumpy gravy arrangment of
*take your clothes of when you dance* appears as an introduction to a song
superman]
and fz played *real teeth are out* on wpix in 1979. i love it when frank was a
bogus temporary dj!!!!
do what you can to get some gruppo they are great. cdnow has the cd hey girl
which is a best of, of sorts and it includes superman and real teeth are out.
they are a fun group with funny sometimes satirical lyrics.
computeruser
some gruppo
sportivo web sites:
http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~daniel/gstp.htm
http://www.bryk.com/gruppo/discs.html
from:
marcel burgstad (mburgstad@cistron.nl)
gruppo sportivo are from holland. they're not around as a band anymore, but hans
vandenburg (the lead singer) did a zappa tribute a few years ago. this was part
of the marlboro flashbacks, where famous dutch artists cover songs of their
favorite artists. oh well. at least frank smoked a lot, so the idea of being
sponsored by a cigarette brand isn't that bad ;-)
gruppo sportivo we're very zappa oriented, lyricwise. songs like "disco
really made it" were great.
from: marc de bruyn (emdebe@village.uunet.be)
gruppo sportivo - "hey girl" (1999, disky communications dc 854242) a
"best of", which includes "superman".
anyone seen/heard "hans vandenburg's commercial break" (1994, dutch
van cd 74321 239342)? it contains a track called "san ber'dino"
(4:09)... and what about the song "zapp away" (3:13)?
from:
peter van laarhoven (peter.vanlaarhoven@solvay.com)
disky
communications. didn't they publish
a cheap beefheart sampler as well? well,
here's a 'best of gruppo sportivo'. it
includes 'superman', you know the one with the 'take your clothes off'-zappa
intro, and lots of other classics. it's
a fine collection, but it does not present anything new.
does anyone know what happened to gruppo sportivo?
i've seen singer hans vandenburg on tv a couple of months ago, taking
part in a quiz. if i remember it
right, he can't use the name 'gruppo sportivo' anymore.
there has been some sort of dispute between him and other
ex-gruppo-members. this true?
i do know that some of the gruppos performed in eindhoven quite some
years ago as the 'rubbers of prevention' during a zappa-festival, but that was the last i heard of
them.
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