Golden Earring - Radar Love (Dutch with English subs) | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo
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- This is a Dutch interview, but we have correct English subtitles in TH-cam!
The story behind 'Radar Love' by all the members of The Golden Earring (Barry Hay, George Kooymans, Cesar Zuiderwijk & Rinus Gerritsen). A top 2000 a gogo documentary.
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I used to be a policeman. I told my fellow officers that if I ever pulled someone over for speeding, and they said, "I'm sorry Officer, Radar Love was on the Radio," I would have to just let them go. There's something about that killer beat that makes you have to push that pedal.
. . . Try Neon Knights by Black Sabbath . Greats Songs Great Driving !
Respect the men who saves your ass and your loved ones.
Period
@Last Chance As far as I can see asswipe, you're the only one calling anyone filthy pigs. Stop breathing my air shit for brains!
Oh yeah, doing 90 in a 55mph zone in upper state New York on I 80/90 to this song.
Wow, that's cool! 👍✌
These guys owe me $378..... I lost my license for speeding in 1977.Cop said he clocked me at 144mph in my '68 Firebird while listening to this song. Good times.
The Dutch have created so much great rock and pop music. Golden Earring is among the best rock bands in the world, and I am so glad to see them happy and performing their fantastic music today. You can see that they are talented musicians who love rock. Kindest regards from America !
Have all their lps such an underrated group, seriously if ever given the chance listen to any one of them and most likely say ok lets listen to another.
Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shocking Blue..
I love that intro. That's just bad ass. The whole song's awesome.
never knew they were Dutch. Awesome song, goes hand in glove with RamJam's Black Betty
Well,you're ET Good that you know Golden Earring at all ;-)
Since this song is internationally famous, I decided to give translating the interviews a shot for the non-Dutch fans:
0:45 Barry: Immediately make me drive faster, works every time
1:20 It is not the music on its own that works, it is not the lyrics on it own that works. It's the combination that is very good; it's just right, it fits. If it had been about a guy in a bathtub who accidentally electrocuted himself with an electric heater, then I doubt it would have been so successful. The thought behind the lyrics is purely that everyone can identify with it, you know? That dude drives himself to pieces. Initially I thought that was a bit sad, but I found it added drama matching the music, which is also dramatic in places. But then I kind of made up for it by adding ESP, you know? He's still connected with his lover, even in the afterlife. For me back then that added a beautiful thought.
2:16 Rinus: That was pretty daring for us, because we didn't usually just did bass and drums like that. (But it originally was just intended as a guitar...) Well, when George came with his idea for the song, he played this chord... more or less like this.
George: "I've been driving all night, my hand's wet on the wheel", and then you get the chorus "When she get's lonely and the longing get's too much". Those were all melodies that were already there.
3:06 Barry: I really like this bit.. just happens once, inbetween.. like, what is that? We still do stuff like that, intuitively.
Cesar: In the middle there was suddenly a hiatus, so then uh... added in something like this.
3:54 It's just wordplay, "Brenda Lee, Coming On Strong", you know. I like "I'm Sorry" a lot more, but I couldn't have sung "the radio is playing some forgotten song. Brenda Lee, I'm Sorry", it wouldn't have worked. (But why Brenda Lee?) Oh, she just.. she was my mother's favourite singer, I was raised with that. These songs I heard when coming home from school. My mom would be listening while smoking a cigarette on the couch, haha, and a glass of wine, and I loved this music! I just got it.
4:43 Rinus: I remember that we were inspired by Santana's style at the time, that grand "DOW-DOW-DOW" with a lot of cymbals and stuff and percussion. That was really the idea of how we started the intro, like.. , that drawn out aspect
Hartelijk dank voor het maken van de vertaling, Job! :) We hebben je vertaling toegevoegd aan de ondertiteling. Top gedaan.
Job van der Zwan GOED van je man... wat een service
Job van der Zwan Thank You
Thanks very much
Thank you!
So long of a story I have with Radar Love. We were all going to a huge state park, my family, with 4 or 5 station wagons. Radar Love comes on the radio, I'm in the front seat and cranked it up! I heard it once or twice before and my uncle (who was driving) and everyone in the back was singing that song. 1973 baby!!! All of us were dancing and moving up and down, rocking down the highway!!
Haha. They only speak English when they sing. That’s funny.
Take a guess. How many people would buy this if it was dutch? Imagine : "No more speed I'm almost there" Use google translater, get this:
"Geen snelheid meer, ik ben er bijna."
Simple it is a Dutch program.
@@eddysgaming9868 some
Ikr
Lived in the UK for a while; i'm American. Most bands from Europe have to do their songs in American english, just to hit the big market.
The things we take for granted. God bless the Golden Earring. What a gut punch today.
It’s sad to hear yesterday’s announcement that the band stops due to the fact that George Kooymans has ALS.
A while back this song was on the car radio. While "And it's half past four and I'm shifting gear" was being sung, I down shifted before turning into the driveway. I looked at the clock in the dashboard, and it said 4.31. Cool.
Dude, your life is complete!
These backstories are fun. I'm learning a lot more than I thought I would.
In junior high school (1973), all the kids from my school would go to the new indoor mall across the street and hang out after school. There was a pinball (and very early video game) arcade at the mall, that had a back room, lined with benches. The walls were painted purple and they were lit up with blacklights with multicolored blacklight posters all over the walls. There was a nice, new, booming juke box with good sound, in the corner of the room. It was a large open booth with no doors or windows, but the corners of the room offered some degree of privacy. Basically, it was the make out room and only couples hung out in there. The jukebox was always nice and loud and it filled the entire arcade with constant music. Radar Love was one of the top choices on the jukebox. It was played several times per day. You couldn't go to that arcade for an hour, without hearing Radar Love. I never got tired of hearing the great selections on that jukebox. It was mostly late 60s and early 70s Hard Rock, mixed with early 70s Pop hits and a bit of Funk and Soul. We also paid for some of the slower song selections with our quarters, so that we could make out to the music with the hot chicks from our school. They were young, tanned, pretty little Southern California "foxes" with sun bleached, feathered hairstyles. They wore tight fitting tube tops, skin tight, white, low-rise Ditto jeans and white Puka shell necklaces that glowed against their suntanned skin. They smelled of bubblegum flavored lipstick, cocoa butter tanning lotion and Strawberry Herbal Essence shampoo. Damn! No wonder I always liked this song.
Hahahahaha what a vivid memory :-)
I bet you can smell all that to this day and brings back so many memories!!!
thank you ..there were places like that during disco clubs oh the young ladys were so fine smelled so good & looked so tite. no fat slobs then, what a time for all.
Ditto's....... feel the fit! I had the poster. NorCal babes; halter tops, lip gloss and cigarettes. we grooved too man!
Your very descript memory just made my day. Love the details like Ditto jeans and puka shell necklace, etc.
At 16, just started to drive myself and buddies back and forth to work and different highs schools. 1973, in my beat '55 Bel Air. FM Converter and new speakers. Radar Love, Life, at its best.
Joe Ciliberto 🤘
Oh NTR... wat voor schatten aan opnames heeft de NPO allemaal liggen van deze pracht band.
Verras de liefhebbers en post ze op TH-cam.
Verstoffen is zonde zeg ik altijd.
One of the most underrated bands, one of the best driving songs! And, after all these years, they still have the same original members. Do one on Twilight Zone.
All the members reached the age of 70! But still rocking with great dynamics!
I think they’re appropriately rated.
@@Burps___ Agreed. Two awesome songs and a bunch of mediocre to bad ones.
Agreed the chorus always makes me want to down shift and punch it.
@@georgechristiansen6785 What was the other awesome song?
George is one heck of a guitarist. Check put the live versions of Twilight Zone. he rocks
This song caused me $1800.00 worth of tickets on Christmas morning... 68 Road runner and a one beanie cop... cant outrun a radio.
you don't need music when you've got a MOPAR !........... '68 Roadrunner..........yum.
They deserved more with songs like when the lady smiles, another 45 miles, back home, just a little bit of peace in my heart, going on the run, twilight zone.....
If you havn't heard the Album "Moontan" from which this song is off, you should, it's absolutley amazing, the Band sounds like it's in the room with you as well.
Now available as an expanded version!
Awesome to see these guys still rocking! This song is timeless.
Radar Love and Red Barchetta - the two best driving songs.
I love Rush!!
That’s cool you know Kimberly
I watched it even though I had no idea what they were saying but because music is a universal language I think I got the gist of it.
If you turn on the Close Captions, it has the english translations.
The road has got me hypnotized
Its amazing how everything fits in that song to serve the energy of that song. intentions properly executed
1 of my all time favourites.
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world ... people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch ... "
Nigel Powers (2002)
One of the few Dutch bands that truly had (has) worldwide appeal. Nice to see short-time member Eelco Gelling in the background at 0:55
THE most underrated rock band of all time....The album Moontan is right up there with Dark side of the Moon when discussing progressive rock groups........A Classic imho
The lyrics are so clever. He say's, "It's half past 4 and I'm shifting gear." Not shifting gear(s), so it has two meanings. Very clever. It's little things like that make a song great. Love this song!
One of my favorite late night driving songs racing across the back roads of NM and TX. 4 barrel wide open, 390 howling under the hood of my 67 Mustang, good times!
One of the songs of my youth. I remember them playing the town hall Birmingham uk. We saw them and then helped the roadies load afterwards so we could get to meet the band then. Great.
Best driving song ever!
It's not like, The Race by Yello is
After Bennie and the Jets, maybe.
After Highway star
I think this must be the strongest southern US accent I've ever heard- can't understand a word!
Dutch is a language spoken in the Netherlands. Thuis band is from Den Haag (The Hague) Not at all a US accent.
Awk-ward! How do you complain about no English subtitles when it's a show made for another country?
It has subtitles now
@@robertdegroot8302 Great! Just watched it with subtitles. Thanks!
When I fist heard this song I thought: Man, Cheap Trick is a talented band, that guitar riff kicks ass. I didn't know the original was written by some Dutch guys, excellent song I hope they made millions of dollars.
It did go number 1 in the U.S....the second time a Dutch band went number 1...the first time it was Venus by Shocking Blue.
De mooiste beelden blijven toch wel die uit 1973, waar Cesar over het drumspel sprong. Heb de eer gehad om Cesar te ontmoeten: wat een fantastische vent is het toch. Groot Earring(s) fan, meer dan 10x gezien. Maakt niet uit wie of waar ik het vraag: iedereen kent dit fantastische nummer! Vooral in Amerika nog altijd ontzettend populair. Ja, dit is wat mij betreft de beste Nederlandse band ooit
Greatest. Driving. Song. Ever! It stands alone - there's no competition that can even be seen in the rear view mirror. Few songs so perfectly define a category, but in this case its Radar Love, and the next best is simply unknown because its so far distant.
"Call Me The Breeze" and "Highway Star" are right up there IMO. Those 3, the best driving songs.
@@autocrow Also, "Can't Stop Now" by New Grass Revival, and "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar... 🙂
Nice vid. Nope they are from The Netherlands.
So many great great studio albums,especially Grab it for a second,Bloody Buccaneers,Cut,Paradise in Distress,etc, and the 77 live album,this song is great ,but so much better stuff from them,and aside from U2 and Z.Z. Top.all original members(sort of)for 53 + years,current line up since 1969 or 70,NO band in history can say that
Longest active band in the world
Grew up listening to this! later it was fav driving song on a cassette in the car on long road trips LOL!
I have had Golden Earring move to top of my list of favorite groups since their song was playing during a crappy root canal years ago. They helped me through it.
Fastest I remember going was 105 plus.
Brenda Lee comin' on strong! Friggin' awesome.
Back in the mid 70's I was a DJ for a small underground rock station where we played pretty much what we felt like at the moment. Radar Love was on my personal "A" list. Talk about high octane radio!
Great drums on this song....probably the best breaks and drum solo of all time! Maybe!!
Cesar is so underrated... His Live at Ahoy 2005 solo is epic!!!
Maybe you'll like this th-cam.com/video/QwvzeyI65xA/w-d-xo.html
Dig that Hagstrom double neck bass
The Netherlands, where almost everyone rides aa bike...a song about driving
Cut was another album without a bad song on it..........loved it so much I bought it as an import before being released here in the states.
I never noticed the Santana influence in the intro. Fascinating.
Het nummer gaat over telepathie en hoe dat mogelijk is tussen twee mensen die zo ontzettend diep van elkaar houden dat ze ervoor open staan. Ik heb het zelf meegemaakt. En 3 x raden wat er op nummer 1 stond toen ik geboren was? September 1973...? Dit nummer... Wow ❤️
Augustus 1973
Great song, love it if they would do one of these on American Woman, Bachman and Cummings are still here
Another song that has that driving effect is Let It Roll by Little Feat
Great song! I must admit I also love the cover of this song from White Lion.
Unforgettable composition and performance. Deserved to do even better on the single charts than it did. Talent in droves.
That drummer is fantastic
Since first heard in my personal Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.
I seen these guys in the 70's. They looked like they were having fun... I seen the same thing when Nazareth was an opening act playing, Hair of the Dog..
Komt op 2, na Twilight Zone :)
....... and....... When the bullet hits the bone..... GREAT band.
What a lot of people might not know: Radar Love wasn't the original song title, it was "when the bullet hit's the bone" but they later changed it
Are you thinking of TWILIGHT ZONE ?
I never realized Comin' on Strong was a Brenda Lee song, I just thought it meant she was coming thorough loud and clear on the radio.
x-crisis: He’s singing about the Brenda Lee song “I’m Sorry.”
@@lizasilomar8545 No, about 'Coming on strong'
Thank you
3:32 this is what swing drums sound like
Sounds like Rinus has forgotten how to play the bass pattern leading into the verses. Listen...
Got to make things interesting? Drugs? The guitar player didn't have time to tune his bass for him?
My first concert Golden Earring and Gentle Giant in the early 70’s.
Awesome!
they are Dutch??? lol my Mother is Dutch but I don't understand it ... can't get it without the subtitles
I always thought these guys was from the states.
Debbie Cooper -- No doubt! -- I, in my youthful foolishness, also thought the song was created 10 years after it apparently was! I was a teen in the 1980s and never knew the origin of this tune. :-) -- I, being a kid, thought I knew everything! :-D
Holland's greatest rock band. Ever.
Lol you guys are funny you know
Amazing!
Nice
goed!
Subtitles, please. You put your own on all other English speaking videos
You have to turn the captions on manually but they're there.
We are a TV show from The Netherlands, that's why we don't subtitle Dutch. But we have just added English subtitles here in TH-cam!
Oh, dat is geweldig nieuws. Dank je 👍
wat hoor ik deze mannen ook graag praten.....
This song and I can't drive 55 will get you a ticket every time.
Every time I think I’ve seen all the TH-cam channels I can stand, around comes another amazing site like Top 2000. Thanks for the great stories and music
One of the Top Songs of all time very classic. Everybody who has heard anything rock knows this song. These guys are truly rock pioneers
en George nog eens met zijn BC Rich ...
That middle section kinda reminded me of The Doors...
first album i ever bought was moontan, the one with the girl on the cover with the feather boa, also the first 8-track i bought for driving in my 67 chevell ss.
Saw them live in Pittsburgh, PA as the opening act for Robin Trower 1974.
Saw them at the village fair in rural Netherlands late 1990's a time there was not mutch interest in a old man's band. Stil a good show.
This song gives Adrelaninnnnnn.....In Mayour....Love Golden Earring.....
I was 4 when this came out??!! 😳 man Great music back then!
When I heard it, I was 13 it's has always been my #1 rock song. I've had on record,8 track, tape,CD and now on my phone.
Great tune
There was a very pretty girl at my brother's school who had ears that stuck out. When she walked pasted the guys would sing out the riff for radar love.
This song had a revival in ‘83. I thought it was new then.
Genius song! The ultimate driving song 🚗
Ik vindt twilight zone nkg mooier.
The version by White Lion is very cool plus tasty guitar work
Yeah, the animation from the guitar on how it brings the story to life, Brenda Lee is coming on strong, and the Guitar is saying, "hello-hello-hello" or "call me-call me-call me"....what is also trippy, when the second course ends and it goes to the Guitar solo, White lion creates the sound of "Suspended Animation " this is in reference to the line, "And the line of cars go down real slow"......."Ahhh, one more radar lover gone!"-And one left behind to tell the story.......To be continued.......
Happy birthday George! ❤️
BARRY HAY KING ROCK
“You immediately drive faster”. Guess this is what BMW drivers listen to all the time then.
The bass player looks just like Mik Jagger!
Golden Earring for ever, be strong!!
When l was a little girl and didn't need a razor this song was played at the local school disco. The deeper context of having to inform your boyfriend about how DIY abortion was cheaper and more popular in some countries was a mystery.
Radar stove.. Mom didn't have a microwave then
"It works every time!" LOL
Still sound amazing
I didn't know they were dutch. Mild surprise. Until at 3:05 I thought I was looking at Rutger Hauer(rip).
Carlos Gonzalez
That’s Barry Hay, the singer of Golden Earring.
Greatest swing song ever!
Heb ze mogen aanschouwen bij ons in Deventer, heb ervan genoten!!!!
That’s the coolest driving song you know
an early rock classic !