Music

Unfortunately, only some lyrics and chord progressions remain from the first songs that JGJ wrote. Something that may have been because he only played the guitar at the time and didn't need anything more.

He wrote this song in the mid-seventies, but this recording is from the beginning of this century. It is the very first song ever that he sang himself.

The song was originally written for guitar, but in this production JGJ only used keyboard instruments and a drum machine. The entire recording was done with the latest PC version of the 'Logic' program from the German company Emagic, before Emagic was bought by Apple.

In the mid-1980s, JGJ made a small trip into party music and schlagers. During this period he wrote about 50 songs, several of which were released on record or CD.

JGJ co-wrote this song with H. Winter in the summer of 1982 and it has been played ever since. The song has also been covered several times, where the cover of Mooder Hellup/Minse Kinder stood out positively because of the personal touch they gave it.

This song was written for the association 'De Wien' and was released on an EP a little later.

The song was written by JGJ together with H. Winter in the mid-80s and it was probably one of the last records, as shortly afterwards only CDs were released.

The song was written by JGJ together with Nol Peters in the mid-1980s and appeared on the Wortelepin album that year.

The song was written a year after the previous song by JGJ and H. Winter and released on record shortly afterwards.

In the second half of the 80's, synthesizer and electronic music became very popular. Something that JGJ piggybacked on, because he also switched increasingly to these types of keyboard instruments.

When it also became fashionable to sing in the Dutch language, JGJ also went along with it. He embraced this 'Nederpop' music right from the start and was more than happy to combine this with electronic music.

JGJ therefore adapted and re-recorded the arrangement of this song at the beginning of this century, playing all the instruments himself. He even did the vocals, although it took a lot of effort to get them truly in tune.

JGJ and Fer recorded the songs together with only one synthesizer/keyboard (Roland Juno 60) and a simple drum machine in the then AMR 8-track studio in Venlo-Blerick.

The vocal duo Shanou then sang the lyrics, after which JGJ made the final mix.

After this, JGJ remixed the polished parts with the old recordings. This means that this song can also be listened to here, as it was heard almost 40 years ago.

So, the song's vocals still date from the aforementioned session, but not after being polished up as much as possible. However, the song became a bit shorter, as the vocals were unusable in some places and impossible to retouch. Fortunately, this isn't audible, as it's been neatly resolved in this new recording.

It has also regained its original and first title here.

JGJ always wanted to add the vocals to it, but it has not happened in recent years, mainly because his 'Logic' software no longer worked on his later PCs.

That's why this song is only available here as an instrumental version. Hopefully, a full version (including vocals) will be released someday, which will then be available here.

Twenty years later (at the beginning of this century), JGJ wrote the piano arrangement for it, which also formed the basis for the instrumental version you can listen to here. Because the song was recorded with the music program 'Logic', which unfortunately no longer works on later PCs, it remained in this state for a very long time.

Again, twenty years later (in the mid-2020s), JGJ switched to the 'Cubase Pro' program and picked up this song again. Currently, work is underway to complete the song (including vocals and a more extensive arrangement).

For now, the song is only available here as an instrumental (basic) version, but with the promise to replace it with the final track once it's fully finished.