Earth & Fire - Weekend • TopPop

Earth & Fire was a Dutch progressive rockband from the 1960’s. The group started with twin brothers Chris (guitar) and Gerard (keyboards) Koerts. They were the main composers of the band. Lead singer was Jerney Kaagman who later also came to prominence as head of the jury of TV program ’Idols’. Earth & Fire had a string of hits in the early 1970’s starting with “Seasons“, “Ruby Is the One“, and “Wild and Exciting“, Later came “Invitation“, “Storm and Thunder“ and “Memories“ between 1970 and 1973. “Weekend’ was their biggest hit ever, and reached no 1. in the Dutch Top 40 in November 1979 and stayed at no. 1 for three weeks. Especially this performance on TopPop made Jerney Kaagman a true Dutch icon. Unfortunately Gerard Koerts deceased on 20 February 2019 in Pergignan, France. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 1979-11-10 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.