Anita Meyer & Rainbow Train - The Alternative Way • TopPop

Anita Meyer is momenteel veel te horen in een radioreclame van Libelle met het nummer ’The Alternative Way’. Daarom vandaag deze unieke Toppop clip nog eens prominent op het Toppop kanaal! Anita Meyer (Rotterdam, 29 oktober 1954), officiële naam: Annita Meijer, is een Nederlandse zangeres. Ze begon midden jaren zeventig als een veelgevraagde achtergrondzangeres. De doorbraak als soloartieste was in 1976 met ’The Alternative Way’, een samenwerking met Hans Vermeulen en zijn groep Rainbow Train. Dit nummer werd in Nederland een nummer 1-hit (in de Top 40 van 27 maart 1976), gevolgd door nog talloze hits in de jaren zeventig en tachtig. In 2011 en 2017 werkte Meyer mee aan het AVROTROS tv-programma ’De beste zangers van Nederland’, waarin ze diverse nummers van andere zangers vertolkte. In navolging daarvan verscheen haar nummer 1-hit uit 1981, ’Why tell me why’, opnieuw in de hitlijst met DJ Guilliano. English: Anita Meyer (Rotterdam, October 29, 1954) is a Dutch singer. She started out as a much sought-after backing singer in the mid-1970s. The breakthrough as a solo artist was in 1976 with ’The Alternative Way’, a collaboration with Hans Vermeulen and his group Rainbow Train. This song became a number 1 hit in the Netherlands, followed by numerous hits in the seventies and eighties. In 2011 and 2017, Meyer participated in the AVROTROS TV program ’The best singers in the Netherlands’, in which she performed various songs by other singers. Following that, her 1981 No. 1 hit, “Why tell me why,“ re-entered the charts with DJ Guilliano. This Toppop recording was first broadcast on 27 February 1976 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ 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, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.