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Rita Hovink + Casey And The Pressure Group
The Fool On The Hill

Single NL 2013 on 678 Records label
Jazz, R&B/Soul and Pop (Smooth Jazz, Soul-Jazz)

Recorded in 1972. Recently discovered tape, never before released. Rita Hovink (Beverwijk, 1944) is most famous as singer in her native language, and had numerous Dutch pop hits. She also won the 1964 Knokke festival. Her first love, however, remains jazz. In 1969 she recorded her first LP, Love me or leave me (Decca 800 004 NY), the album has a heavy jazz influence and includes some pop songs in a jazzy style. On this EP, her distinctive, smoky voice and intense performance is accompanied by a combo leaded by jazz pianist and record producer Cees Schrama who plays Hammond organ and Fender piano. In his Pressure Group, we find top Dutch musicians. Rita performs four of her favorite songs; The Beatles’ 'Fool on the hill' (with a Latin touch), 'I feel the earth move', a pop song written by Carole King, 'Mr Bojangles', written by Country artist Jerry Jeff Walker and finally an intense version of 'For every man there's a woman', made famous by Peggy Lee.

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	Rita Hovink voc, 1944-1979 NL album by
	Casey And The Pressure Group , NL album by, accompanied by
	Leo van Oostrom cl, sax, NL baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
	Piet Hein Veening eb, b, NL bass guitar
	Louis Debij dr, perc, 1937-2018 NL drums
	Joop Scholten g, electric guitar
	Ferdinand Povel fl, sax, *1947 NL flute, tenor saxophone
	Cees Schrama p, org, *1936 NL piano, electric piano, organ, producer
	Fons Diercks tr, trumpet
	Cees Smal tr, fh, tb, 1927-2001 NL trumpet, trombone

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