Valice If your teenage daughter struggles with life and you can’t help her - unless she would let you in. My words are put to music by my very talented daughter Tess and recorded in 2017 with her band Valice.
For another Valice clip, Seven Days, I helped out by visualising the backgrounds.There’s more of Valice on Spotify and on YouTube. ​
My daughter Sam The first three songs are with my youngest daughter. She is a great singer with a wonderful voice. Here’s two covers and one beautiful song that she wrote herself.
Killing me softly We stayed close to Roberta Flack’s version. The third verse was left out in the hit cover of the Fugees, we gave that part an extra boost... Music: Charles Fox, lyrics: Norman Gimbel, lead & backing vocals: Sam van Hout, instruments & production: Jos van Hout
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Dreaming of the fjords A beautiful ballad about her 4 months stay in Norway, thinking of someone back home. Lyrics & music, all vocals and piano: Sam van Hout, production: Jos van Hout
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Billy Jean After a jazzy slow start, it grows to the original tempo. Sam is improvising new melodies and scatting at the end. Lyrics & music by Michael Jackson, vocals: Sam van Hout, instruments & production: Jos van Hout
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​ClickSounds In 2003 I started ClickSounds, trying to expand the communications business that I was in. With Peter Fokkema, then a band member in our cover band Johnny & the Bravo’s, we tried to make soundscapes and loops for websites and other digital productions. Commercially that wasn’t a success, to say the least ;-). But we did have a good time and a great learning experience with it - and managed to make a few songs next to the business things we tried. Peter wrote the music to my lyrics and played all instruments of these three songs:
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Like to know you Someone makes an impression - and you fantasize about what she would be like. But it doesn’t come to that. Maybe some other time.
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Choice Trying to convince a love to fight for what you have, instead of going to someone new. The same lyrics are used in another song, on album 4.
Take-off Someone gets into your life, but has to dissapear to find herself first, before she can commit to something new.
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GN Blues In 1990, copiers producer Gestetner took over Nashua. Gestetner was far bigger than Nashua worldwide, except in Holland. That was a cultural problem. With my communications agency I worked for Nashua and a song, performed by a band of employees and singers from both sides, could help the parties get closer together. So I wrote this song. Performed by the GN Gentlemen, produced by Peter Vincent at Jan Vis Studio Rosmalen.
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Hoi - by Tess - My daughter Tess, then 10 years old, wanted to participate in The Voice Kids. She wrote the music herself, I helped with the lyrics. Out of 1100 contestants, she reached the top ten in 2004. The final version of Hoi is on the NL album. Demo produced by Ernst Teule.
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