Santa Esmeralda - Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood - Ballet version TopPop

Santa Esmeralda, a ballet by Penney de Jager Santa Esmeralda was a band founded by Leroy Gómez. He started his own band at the age of 14 and later joined Tavares. He went on tour with them in North America and Europe. In Paris, he was invited by Elton John to work on his album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. After this Gómez left Tavares and got to know the songwriters Nicolas Skorsky and Jean Manuel de Scarano. He founded the Santa Esmeralda band with them. The band’s first album was ’Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’ with Leroy Gómez as singer. The album was a great success in Europe, and was released worldwide by Casablanca Records. It reached #5 in the Dutch Top 40 on 17 September 1977. This is the Penney de Jager ballet version. For the original version of the song, see on our Toppop channel: This song is also featured in Quinten Tarantino’s film ’Kill Bill’ This Toppop recording was made on 20 August 1977. 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.