Just Earrings

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Just Earrings is the 1965 début album of Dutch beat group The Golden Earrings (from The Hague), who would (in 1969) slightly change their name to become Golden Earring. Personnel: Frans Krassenburg - vocals George Kooymans - lead guitar, vocals Rinus Gerritsen - bass Peter de Ronde - rhythm guitar Jaap Eggermont - drums Produced by Arie Merkt and the band's manager, Fred Haayen, and released in The Netherlands on Polydor in November 1965, the album features only one cover song: the Titus Turn...

Just Earrings is the 1965 début album of Dutch beat group The Golden Earrings (from The Hague), who would (in 1969) slightly change their name to become Golden Earring. Personnel: Frans Krassenburg - vocals George Kooymans - lead guitar, vocals Rinus Gerritsen - bass Peter de Ronde - rhythm guitar Jaap Eggermont - drums Produced by Arie Merkt and the band's manager, Fred Haayen, and released in The Netherlands on Polydor in November 1965, the album features only one cover song: the Titus Turner-penned Sticks and Stones. All other songs were original compositions by guitarist George Kooymans (3), bassist Rinus Gerritsen (2) or the two of them together (6), a remarkably high number of self-penned songs for a band of teenagers in those days. Just Earrings was preceded by the Golden Earrings' début single, Please Go, which peaked at #10 in the Dutch charts in September 1965. A fully fledged album was quickly recorded and put out thereafter, with - of course - the hit single on it. The second single from the album, Lonely Everyday, was set for release in November, but the release was called off by the band (with the records already pressed) due to their discovery that the title of the B-side, Not To Find was grammatically incorrect. With their highschool knowledge of English (the band members were teenagers at the time) they thought that 'not to find' meant 'impossible to find' or 'not to be found' (as in: untraceable). Deeply embarrassed, they withdrew the single. Not To Find was never officially released and therefore, for a long time, 'not to find' indeed. Today, a copy of the Lonely Everyday unreleased 7-inch single is the ultimate collectors' item for Golden Earring fans. Expect to pay a few hundred euros or dollars for a copy. RPM International (a Universal Music Group label) released a collectors' edition of Just Earrings in 2009, which contains the original album (twelve songs) plus five bonus tracks: Chunk Of Steel (B-side of the Please Go single) plus four non-album 7-inch sides recorded in London and released in early 1966: That Day (#2 in the Dutch charts) and its B-side The Words I Need, plus If You Leave Me (#9 in the Dutch charts) and its B-side Waiting For You. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.