Swinging Soul Machine - Stop The Machine (1969) • TopPop

Swinging Soul Machine was a Rotterdam soul band in the sixties with singer Iwan ‘Spooky’ Groeneveld. Swinging Soul Machine was founded in 1966 by Oeni Shen and Jan de Bliek. Guitarist Hans Kuttschreuter and cousins ​​Jan and Willem Warbie were also part of the first line-up. Shen was replaced after some time by Iwan “Spooky“’ Groeneveld. In the early years the Swinging Soul Machine grew into a popular live act, not only in the nightlife of Rotterdam, but also far beyond. 1969 was the successful year for Swinging Soul Machine. Pop producer Jaap Eggermont recorded the song ’Spooky’s Day Off’ in the GTB Studio in The Hague. The 7 inch vinyl single Nobody Wants You / Spooky’s Day Off spent 14 weeks in the Top 40, highest position 2. As the title indicates, the members of the group were not active full-time professionally as musicians and the song of the original B side recorded when singer “Spooky“ Groeneveld had a day off. The A-side had the song Nobody Wants You. The song Spooky’s Day Off was written by Paul Vink in his parental home. It was in the Top 40 for fourteen weeks in 1969 and finally reached #2 in the Dutch Top 40 on March 1, 1969. Spooky’s Day Off was released on the LP Through The Eye. This album contains nine songs written by Paul Vink alone and two songs jointly by Paul Vink and Jan Warbie. In 1969 the single Stop The Machine / The Horns Of Victory was released. This song spend nine weeks the Top 40, with a highest position of no. 6. This song was also written by Paul Vink. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 1969-05-09 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.