Golden Earring - Radar Love (Dutch with English subs) | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- This is a Dutch interview, but we have correct English subtitles in UA-cam!
The story behind 'Radar Love' by all the members of The Golden Earring (Barry Hay, George Kooymans, Cesar Zuiderwijk & Rinus Gerritsen). A top 2000 a gogo documentary.
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I used to be a policeman. I told my fellow officers that if I ever pulled someone over for speeding, and they said, "I'm sorry Officer, Radar Love was on the Radio," I would have to just let them go. There's something about that killer beat that makes you have to push that pedal.
. . . Try Neon Knights by Black Sabbath . Greats Songs Great Driving !
Respect the men who saves your ass and your loved ones.
Period
@Last Chance As far as I can see asswipe, you're the only one calling anyone filthy pigs. Stop breathing my air shit for brains!
Oh yeah, doing 90 in a 55mph zone in upper state New York on I 80/90 to this song.
Wow, that's cool! 👍✌
The Dutch have created so much great rock and pop music. Golden Earring is among the best rock bands in the world, and I am so glad to see them happy and performing their fantastic music today. You can see that they are talented musicians who love rock. Kindest regards from America !
Have all their lps such an underrated group, seriously if ever given the chance listen to any one of them and most likely say ok lets listen to another.
Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shocking Blue..
I love that intro. That's just bad ass. The whole song's awesome.
So long of a story I have with Radar Love. We were all going to a huge state park, my family, with 4 or 5 station wagons. Radar Love comes on the radio, I'm in the front seat and cranked it up! I heard it once or twice before and my uncle (who was driving) and everyone in the back was singing that song. 1973 baby!!! All of us were dancing and moving up and down, rocking down the highway!!
The things we take for granted. God bless the Golden Earring. What a gut punch today.
De mooiste beelden blijven toch wel die uit 1973, waar Cesar over het drumspel sprong. Heb de eer gehad om Cesar te ontmoeten: wat een fantastische vent is het toch. Groot Earring(s) fan, meer dan 10x gezien. Maakt niet uit wie of waar ik het vraag: iedereen kent dit fantastische nummer! Vooral in Amerika nog altijd ontzettend populair. Ja, dit is wat mij betreft de beste Nederlandse band ooit
These backstories are fun. I'm learning a lot more than I thought I would.
They deserved more with songs like when the lady smiles, another 45 miles, back home, just a little bit of peace in my heart, going on the run, twilight zone.....
Since this song is internationally famous, I decided to give translating the interviews a shot for the non-Dutch fans:
0:45 Barry: Immediately make me drive faster, works every time
1:20 It is not the music on its own that works, it is not the lyrics on it own that works. It's the combination that is very good; it's just right, it fits. If it had been about a guy in a bathtub who accidentally electrocuted himself with an electric heater, then I doubt it would have been so successful. The thought behind the lyrics is purely that everyone can identify with it, you know? That dude drives himself to pieces. Initially I thought that was a bit sad, but I found it added drama matching the music, which is also dramatic in places. But then I kind of made up for it by adding ESP, you know? He's still connected with his lover, even in the afterlife. For me back then that added a beautiful thought.
2:16 Rinus: That was pretty daring for us, because we didn't usually just did bass and drums like that. (But it originally was just intended as a guitar...) Well, when George came with his idea for the song, he played this chord... more or less like this.
George: "I've been driving all night, my hand's wet on the wheel", and then you get the chorus "When she get's lonely and the longing get's too much". Those were all melodies that were already there.
3:06 Barry: I really like this bit.. just happens once, inbetween.. like, what is that? We still do stuff like that, intuitively.
Cesar: In the middle there was suddenly a hiatus, so then uh... added in something like this.
3:54 It's just wordplay, "Brenda Lee, Coming On Strong", you know. I like "I'm Sorry" a lot more, but I couldn't have sung "the radio is playing some forgotten song. Brenda Lee, I'm Sorry", it wouldn't have worked. (But why Brenda Lee?) Oh, she just.. she was my mother's favourite singer, I was raised with that. These songs I heard when coming home from school. My mom would be listening while smoking a cigarette on the couch, haha, and a glass of wine, and I loved this music! I just got it.
4:43 Rinus: I remember that we were inspired by Santana's style at the time, that grand "DOW-DOW-DOW" with a lot of cymbals and stuff and percussion. That was really the idea of how we started the intro, like.. , that drawn out aspect
Hartelijk dank voor het maken van de vertaling, Job! :) We hebben je vertaling toegevoegd aan de ondertiteling. Top gedaan.
Job van der Zwan GOED van je man... wat een service
Job van der Zwan Thank You
Thanks very much
Thank you!
Every time I think I’ve seen all the UA-cam channels I can stand, around comes another amazing site like Top 2000. Thanks for the great stories and music
These guys owe me $378..... I lost my license for speeding in 1977.Cop said he clocked me at 144mph in my '68 Firebird while listening to this song. Good times.
Awesome to see these guys still rocking! This song is timeless.
In junior high school (1973), all the kids from my school would go to the new indoor mall across the street and hang out after school. There was a pinball (and very early video game) arcade at the mall, that had a back room, lined with benches. The walls were painted purple and they were lit up with blacklights with multicolored blacklight posters all over the walls. There was a nice, new, booming juke box with good sound, in the corner of the room. It was a large open booth with no doors or windows, but the corners of the room offered some degree of privacy. Basically, it was the make out room and only couples hung out in there. The jukebox was always nice and loud and it filled the entire arcade with constant music. Radar Love was one of the top choices on the jukebox. It was played several times per day. You couldn't go to that arcade for an hour, without hearing Radar Love. I never got tired of hearing the great selections on that jukebox. It was mostly late 60s and early 70s Hard Rock, mixed with early 70s Pop hits and a bit of Funk and Soul. We also paid for some of the slower song selections with our quarters, so that we could make out to the music with the hot chicks from our school. They were young, tanned, pretty little Southern California "foxes" with sun bleached, feathered hairstyles. They wore tight fitting tube tops, skin tight, white, low-rise Ditto jeans and white Puka shell necklaces that glowed against their suntanned skin. They smelled of bubblegum flavored lipstick, cocoa butter tanning lotion and Strawberry Herbal Essence shampoo. Damn! No wonder I always liked this song.
Hahahahaha what a vivid memory :-)
I bet you can smell all that to this day and brings back so many memories!!!
thank you ..there were places like that during disco clubs oh the young ladys were so fine smelled so good & looked so tite. no fat slobs then, what a time for all.
Ditto's....... feel the fit! I had the poster. NorCal babes; halter tops, lip gloss and cigarettes. we grooved too man!
Your very descript memory just made my day. Love the details like Ditto jeans and puka shell necklace, etc.
never knew they were Dutch. Awesome song, goes hand in glove with RamJam's Black Betty
Well,you're ET Good that you know Golden Earring at all ;-)
One of the most underrated bands, one of the best driving songs! And, after all these years, they still have the same original members. Do one on Twilight Zone.
All the members reached the age of 70! But still rocking with great dynamics!
I think they’re appropriately rated.
@@Burps___ Agreed. Two awesome songs and a bunch of mediocre to bad ones.
Agreed the chorus always makes me want to down shift and punch it.
@@georgechristiansen6785 What was the other awesome song?
1 of my all time favourites.
Het nummer gaat over telepathie en hoe dat mogelijk is tussen twee mensen die zo ontzettend diep van elkaar houden dat ze ervoor open staan. Ik heb het zelf meegemaakt. En 3 x raden wat er op nummer 1 stond toen ik geboren was? September 1973...? Dit nummer... Wow ❤️
Augustus 1973
I have had Golden Earring move to top of my list of favorite groups since their song was playing during a crappy root canal years ago. They helped me through it.
A while back this song was on the car radio. While "And it's half past four and I'm shifting gear" was being sung, I down shifted before turning into the driveway. I looked at the clock in the dashboard, and it said 4.31. Cool.
Dude, your life is complete!
Heb ze mogen aanschouwen bij ons in Deventer, heb ervan genoten!!!!
That’s the coolest driving song you know
At 16, just started to drive myself and buddies back and forth to work and different highs schools. 1973, in my beat '55 Bel Air. FM Converter and new speakers. Radar Love, Life, at its best.
Joe Ciliberto 🤘
One of the songs of my youth. I remember them playing the town hall Birmingham uk. We saw them and then helped the roadies load afterwards so we could get to meet the band then. Great.
One of the Top Songs of all time very classic. Everybody who has heard anything rock knows this song. These guys are truly rock pioneers
Thank you
Radar Love and Red Barchetta - the two best driving songs.
I love Rush!!
That’s cool you know Kimberly
The lyrics are so clever. He say's, "It's half past 4 and I'm shifting gear." Not shifting gear(s), so it has two meanings. Very clever. It's little things like that make a song great. Love this song!
Its amazing how everything fits in that song to serve the energy of that song. intentions properly executed
Amazing!
One of my favorite late night driving songs racing across the back roads of NM and TX. 4 barrel wide open, 390 howling under the hood of my 67 Mustang, good times!
Back in the mid 70's I was a DJ for a small underground rock station where we played pretty much what we felt like at the moment. Radar Love was on my personal "A" list. Talk about high octane radio!
Grew up listening to this! later it was fav driving song on a cassette in the car on long road trips LOL!
I watched it even though I had no idea what they were saying but because music is a universal language I think I got the gist of it.
If you turn on the Close Captions, it has the english translations.
The road has got me hypnotized
When I heard it, I was 13 it's has always been my #1 rock song. I've had on record,8 track, tape,CD and now on my phone.
Great song. Always been big hit here in Australia :)
Speechless.
🤘
One of the few Dutch bands that truly had (has) worldwide appeal. Nice to see short-time member Eelco Gelling in the background at 0:55
THE most underrated rock band of all time....The album Moontan is right up there with Dark side of the Moon when discussing progressive rock groups........A Classic imho
I was 4 when this came out??!! 😳 man Great music back then!
Best driving song ever!
It's not like, The Race by Yello is
After Bennie and the Jets, maybe.
After Highway star
That drummer is fantastic
When I fist heard this song I thought: Man, Cheap Trick is a talented band, that guitar riff kicks ass. I didn't know the original was written by some Dutch guys, excellent song I hope they made millions of dollars.
It did go number 1 in the U.S....the second time a Dutch band went number 1...the first time it was Venus by Shocking Blue.
Great drums on this song....probably the best breaks and drum solo of all time! Maybe!!
Cesar is so underrated... His Live at Ahoy 2005 solo is epic!!!
Maybe you'll like this ua-cam.com/video/QwvzeyI65xA/v-deo.html
Great video and nice car Barry Hay is driving probably Cadillac STS model year 2005 - 2009, the same car another famous dutch singer Lee Towers drives.
If you havn't heard the Album "Moontan" from which this song is off, you should, it's absolutley amazing, the Band sounds like it's in the room with you as well.
Now available as an expanded version!
Great tune
Unforgettable composition and performance. Deserved to do even better on the single charts than it did. Talent in droves.
Heard this song a million bajillion times... never ever knew the band members were German. The singer sings in such perfect English with no detectable accent whatsoever. And they are singing about things like an obscure American singer Brenda Lee. Like what?? Mind blown.
It becomes even better now you know that the band is Dutch 😊
Great song! I must admit I also love the cover of this song from White Lion.
By far the greatest rock band from Holland!
@Jipke Ja, leuk hoor. Hoeveel hits heeft focus gehad? Trekt focus nog volle zalen? Worden de nummers van focus nog veel gedraaid in het buitenland?
Hoe je het wendt of keert, dit is de grootste band. Dat staat natuurlijk los van de kwaliteiten van Jan Akkerman of van de complexiteit of technische moeilijkheidsgraad van de muziek.
@Jipke Heb ik inderdaad niet gezegd. Ik ken Focus overigens niet, althans, ik zou geen nummer van ze kunnen noemen, dus ik kan ze niet vergelijken.
Dont understimate uds..
@@ronaldjanhenny
Zeer vet. Voorloper en voorbeeld voor RATM. Ondergewaardeerd kwaliteitsproduct uit Nederland.
My first concert Golden Earring and Gentle Giant in the early 70’s.
Awesome!
Still sound amazing
Greatest swing song ever!
I never noticed the Santana influence in the intro. Fascinating.
This song caused me $1800.00 worth of tickets on Christmas morning... 68 Road runner and a one beanie cop... cant outrun a radio.
you don't need music when you've got a MOPAR !........... '68 Roadrunner..........yum.
Genius song! The ultimate driving song 🚗
Since first heard in my personal Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.
Cut was another album without a bad song on it..........loved it so much I bought it as an import before being released here in the states.
Golden Earring for ever, be strong!!
Greatest. Driving. Song. Ever! It stands alone - there's no competition that can even be seen in the rear view mirror. Few songs so perfectly define a category, but in this case its Radar Love, and the next best is simply unknown because its so far distant.
"Call Me The Breeze" and "Highway Star" are right up there IMO. Those 3, the best driving songs.
@@autocrow Also, "Can't Stop Now" by New Grass Revival, and "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar... 🙂
Saw them live in Pittsburgh, PA as the opening act for Robin Trower 1974.
Saw them at the village fair in rural Netherlands late 1990's a time there was not mutch interest in a old man's band. Stil a good show.
Great song, love it if they would do one of these on American Woman, Bachman and Cummings are still here
This song gives Adrelaninnnnnn.....In Mayour....Love Golden Earring.....
Brenda Lee comin' on strong! Friggin' awesome.
It’s sad to hear yesterday’s announcement that the band stops due to the fact that George Kooymans has ALS.
....... and....... When the bullet hits the bone..... GREAT band.
What a lot of people might not know: Radar Love wasn't the original song title, it was "when the bullet hit's the bone" but they later changed it
Are you thinking of TWILIGHT ZONE ?
Happy birthday George! ❤️
Super !!!
George is one heck of a guitarist. Check put the live versions of Twilight Zone. he rocks
My favourite song to listen to while driving late at night. This gets a 10 out of 10.
I seen these guys in the 70's. They looked like they were having fun... I seen the same thing when Nazareth was an opening act playing, Hair of the Dog..
Love the band
BARRY HAY KING ROCK
an early rock classic !
Brilliance stands the test of time. Radar Love and Twilight Zone are freakin Brilliant.
One of the best bands ever coming out of Holland. The Hague to be more precise. Such a great song!
This song had a revival in ‘83. I thought it was new then.
Neerlands beste rocksong
Love!
That’s true
goed!
I think this must be the strongest southern US accent I've ever heard- can't understand a word!
Dutch is a language spoken in the Netherlands. Thuis band is from Den Haag (The Hague) Not at all a US accent.
So many great great studio albums,especially Grab it for a second,Bloody Buccaneers,Cut,Paradise in Distress,etc, and the 77 live album,this song is great ,but so much better stuff from them,and aside from U2 and Z.Z. Top.all original members(sort of)for 53 + years,current line up since 1969 or 70,NO band in history can say that
This song and I can't drive 55 will get you a ticket every time.
Fastest I remember going was 105 plus.
first album i ever bought was moontan, the one with the girl on the cover with the feather boa, also the first 8-track i bought for driving in my 67 chevell ss.
Longest active band in the world
Best dam band Holland ever produced.....ah wait that's kinda a "left" handed compliment : ) Fantastic band no matter where they're from...
What about Shocking Blue, Focus and Ekseption? Better bands in my opinion!
Don't forget focus , arguably groep 1850 but they're pretty obscure
Brainbox, Earth and Fire, Soulution, Cuby and the Blizzards. Herman Brood and Wild Romance Outsiders. Q65, Cats, Kane, Direct, Raccoon, Kensington, Sandy Coast, Kayak, Alquin Bintangs, New Adventures, Ro-dys, Dragonfly, Fox the Fox, Tielman Brothers, Time Bandits, Livin' Blues, Tee Set, and many others.....
Pragtig..
I remember driving all night in winter in my 69 Spitfire- no heat. This song and a couple of black beauties kept me going.
Dig that Hagstrom double neck bass
3:32 this is what swing drums sound like
okay. 2019. i alway thougt he sang. brandon lee!! like the brother of bruce. now i learn he sings brenda! good thing to listen to legendary stuff some times
Uhm, Brandon Lee wasn't the brother of Bruce: it was his son! Both died way too young, R.I.P.. :(
@@WhiteHatSharky Yea I knew that. No clue why I typed brother. Must be a brain fart :)
I never realized Comin' on Strong was a Brenda Lee song, I just thought it meant she was coming thorough loud and clear on the radio.
x-crisis: He’s singing about the Brenda Lee song “I’m Sorry.”
@@lizasilomar8545 No, about 'Coming on strong'
Another song that has that driving effect is Let It Roll by Little Feat
The version by White Lion is very cool plus tasty guitar work
Yeah, the animation from the guitar on how it brings the story to life, Brenda Lee is coming on strong, and the Guitar is saying, "hello-hello-hello" or "call me-call me-call me"....what is also trippy, when the second course ends and it goes to the Guitar solo, White lion creates the sound of "Suspended Animation " this is in reference to the line, "And the line of cars go down real slow"......."Ahhh, one more radar lover gone!"-And one left behind to tell the story.......To be continued.......
Awk-ward! How do you complain about no English subtitles when it's a show made for another country?
It has subtitles now
@@robertdegroot8302 Great! Just watched it with subtitles. Thanks!
This and Bullet to the Bone, great songs!
Makes one wonder what happened to the rest of they're music. Back in the day (80's) I bought one of they're albums thinking surely they have other good music. I was sadly disappointed, the rest of the album was beyond not very good.
Capt. Rich Twilight Zone ✌
@@chillinwithdylan636
My mistake; thank you, greatly appreciated.
Haha. They only speak English when they sing. That’s funny.
Take a guess. How many people would buy this if it was dutch? Imagine : "No more speed I'm almost there" Use google translater, get this:
"Geen snelheid meer, ik ben er bijna."
Simple it is a Dutch program.
@@echopeakbicycling85 some
Ikr
Lived in the UK for a while; i'm American. Most bands from Europe have to do their songs in American english, just to hit the big market.
And the news man, sing his same 🎵song....Eddie Money-I think I'm in love! May 18, 1989, just after the break of dawn.....like the soundtrack says, "To be continued ".......
Simply... a Bad Ass song. 👍
Great energy. We all have radar love.