Nina & Frederic - Oldies

Some of the best songs we love to hear over and over in the 1960s.

Please click on each of the web-links with your speakers on.

1. Counting colors in the rainbow:-

https://youtu.be/t57kIFOVnho

2. Jamaican farewell;-

https://youtu.be/qTJD7CVfjHs

3. Come back Lyza:-

https://youtu.be/zNBcGF54Thw

4. Listen to the ocean:-

https://youtu.be/HXeGhIJWG5I

5. Where have all the flowers gone:-
https://youtu.be/sxZxqs0vDVQ

6. Banana boat song
https://youtu.be/W0b9TVIEecA?list=PL390E2A31F6A23D8F

7. Banana boat song – Nina with Morecombe & Wise

https://youtu.be/wJNZjqkzFaI

1.    Nina & Frederik began singing together at the age of four, but since Frederik's father was the Dutch ambassador to Denmark, his family soon moved to Trinidad and Frederik eventually began to study at the university, where he formed a Calypso band. During this time he kept writing to Nina, and in 1957 they met again at her parents' home where one evening he played his guitar for her. To his surprise Nina began singing to it, and it was at that moment that they decided to sing together. Originally they sang only for their friends, and occasionally at house parties. This led to them being asked to perform at charity shows, and soon they were in demand professionally. On 1 July 1957, the duo made their professional show business debut in Copenhagen's top night club, Mon Coeur. Within a matter of months they became favourites throughout Europe, and also starred in the 1958 Danish singing-themed comedy The Richest Girl in the World. The couple married in September 1960 and, in 1961, had their own series on British Television, Nina and Frederik at Home.^[2]

Their earliest known single was "Jamaica Farewell"/"Come Back Liza", both calypso songs, issued in 1959 on Pye International 7N 25021, but showing a 1957 'recording first published' date.

Their debut album, Nina & Frederik, charted at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1960.^[3] Their second collection, also entitled Nina & Frederik but with a different selection of songs, peaked at number 11 in the UK chart in May 1961.^[1]

In 1963 they spent three weeks performing at the Savoy Hotel in London, and in December of the same year they gave a concert at the Royal Festival Hall, and made guest appearances on the panel of Juke Box Jury.^[2] Shunning the limelight, Frederik insisted the duo retire shortly thereafter, and the couple eventually divorced in 1976.^[4]

Frederik died in the Philippines from gunshot wounds on 15 May 1994.^[1][4]

2.    Frederik Jan Gustav Floris, Baron van Pallandt (4 May 1934 – 15 May 1994) was a Danish-Dutch singer best known as the male, guitar-playing half of the singing duo Nina & Frederik, which was together from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.

Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark^[1] and Dane Else Dagmar Hanina Blücher, Countess of Altona.^[2][3][4] He and his first wife, Nina van Pallandt, created a sensation first in Denmark and then throughout Europe with music rooted in folk, ethnic, and calypso styles and, at first, their plain stage attire. Their recordings were released in the United States on the Atlantic Recordssubsidiary Atco, but did not enjoy the same success as they had enjoyed in Europe; they may have been ahead of the music curve which saw folk music enjoy a revival in the US in the early 1960s.

The couple had three children: Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (10 June 1961 – 13 October 2006), Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt (born 9 August 1963), and Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt (born 30 October 1965)^[5] and continued their musical careers until they parted in 1969, eventually divorcing in 1975.^{[citation needed]} The following year, on 10 May, van Pallandt married María Jesus de Los Rios y Coello de Portugal. Together, they had one child – Daniel Tilopa, Baron van Pallandt, who was born 12 May 1977.^[5] In 1979, van Pallandt bought Burke's Peerage from The Holdway Group.

According to his first wife's memoir, van Pallandt was an avid sailor, and settled in the Philippines in the 1990s. There he joined a major Australian crime syndicate, for which he provided transportation for drug trafficking. On May 15, 1994, both he and his Filipina girlfriend Susannah were shot dead in a hut at Puerto Galera in the Philippines, supposedly in a dispute over the sale price of his yacht, which he had recently sold.^{[citation needed]} However, their murderer is believed to have been another member of the drug syndicate.^[6] He was buried near his parents' grave in IJhorst in the Netherlands.

Sources - Wikipedia