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Sylvain Poons en Oetze Verschoor - Ballad of the Southern Sea
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Sylvain Poons en Oetze Verschoor - Ballad of the Southern Sea
Lyrics: Willy van Hemert / Music: Joop de Leur
(1959)
Sylvain Poons en Oetze Verschoor - Zuiderzeeballade
Tekst: Willy van Hemert / Muziek: Joop de Leur
(1959)
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Dutch song Sylvain Poons - Zuiderzeeballade
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Sylvain Poons (1896-1985) was an Amsterdam actor and singer. His father was a singer and his mother an actress, so Sylvain Poons played his first role in a theatre when he was only 16 years old (1912). Later he played and sang in revues and operettas and after the Second World War also in television series, like The small truth/De kleine waarheid (1970-1973).
As a singer Sylvain Poons recorded several duets with the famous singer Heintje Davids, like 'Because I love you really much'/'Omdat ik zoveel van je hou' (1934). Furthermore he recorded mainly yiddish songs and well-known film songs. But his biggest hit was above song, with fourteen-year-old Oetze Verschoor (1944), the 'Ballad of the Southern Sea' (1959). It reached the status of Golden Record.
The Southern Sea/Zuiderzee was a small inland sea in the north of the Netherlands, in between the provinces North-Holland (left), Utrecht and Gelderland (below) and Friesland (right) -picture Netherlands with Zuiderzee in the middle-. It was called 'southern', because the Frisians high in the north named it that way.
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However, in 1932 the Dutchmen built the 20 miles/32 kilometres long Enclosure Dam/Afsluitdijk (from North-Holland to Friesland), to prevent floodings. The former sea became a fresh water lake and was now called: the IJssel Lake/IJsselmeer. Moreover, a big part of the former sea was drained and impoldered, so new reclaimed land was created. This became the new, 12th province Flevoland (a polder about 2500 km2 big) - picture nowadays 12 provinces; and picture Enclosure Dam, IJssel Lake and Flevoland-.
These South Sea Works/Zuiderzeewerken took from 1891 until 1975 and are (with the Dutch Delta Works) one of the largest hydraulic engineering projects ever accomplished. However, over a hundred harbours lost their access to sea (including Amsterdam, Volendam, Enkhuizen, Harderwijk, Stavoren and Urk) and seamen spoke with melancholy of those good old days - as expressed in above song.
The province of Flevoland nowadays has two cities, Lelystad and Almere, and many villages, like Dronten, Emmeloord and Zeewolde. It also has a national park, but most of the province is farmland.
Willy van Hemert (1912-1993) was a film and theatre director, actor, comedian and lyricist. He adapted several books for tv. Well-known songs he wrote (besides above song) are: 'Like those days' (1957); 'A little' (1959); 'Sun in Scheveningen' (1959); and 'It's such a luck' (1960).
 More translated Dutch songs in the genre 'songs for a radio programme' and more with the theme 'songs about former days', 'songs with a historic subject' or 'Dutch historic maritime shipping'. See also the list of Dutch singers with all their songs on this website.
 Lyrics 'Zuiderzeeballade' on Dutch website: Nederlandse songteksten.
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