Vader Abraham - Geven Voor Leven • TopPop

Dutch singer, composer and producer Petrus Antonius Laurentius alias Pierre Kartner was born in Elst, near Nijmegen. He is mainly known as Father Abraham and besides being a singer he is also a composer and producer of many Dutch-language entertainment songs. He is also the man behind the success of countless artists such as Corry (Konings) & De Rekels., Hanny, Jacques Herb, De Makkers, Mieke and many others. Pierre had solo hits as Vader Abraham, including ’In ’t kleine café aan de haven’ and’ t Smurfenlied’. Both songs were internationally successful, he sold more than 25 million records of the Smurf song worldwide and more than 250 artists covered his hit ’In ’t kleine café aan de have’n. The latter issue is now considered an international evergreen under the title The Red Rose Café. In 1977 ’t Smurfenlied’ was the best-selling single in the Netherlands (a total of 400,000 singles in 1977 and 1978). Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 1974-12-07 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, Chic, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.