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Rodney Marvin McKuen (April 29, 1933 - Beverly Hills, January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the most popular and best-selling poet in America. In 1971 he suddenly became extremely popular in the Netherlands, partly due to his performance in the TV program ’Voor de vuist weg’ by Willem Duys. In the Veronica Top 40 he had two number 1 hits in a row, first with the anti-war song ’Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes’ and then with ’Without a Worry in the World’ (composed to the melody of the song ’Le Métèque’ by French chansonnier Georges Moustaki). This single reached no. 2 in the Dutch Top 40. The compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 3 was nr.1 of the LP top 50 in Holland for weeks. On October 17, 1971 he recorded the album The Amsterdam Concert, a recording of his live performance in the Concertgebouw. This single ’Amor, amor’ reached #10 in the Dutch Top 40 on 6 May 1978 This Toppop film was recorded in New York. For trips abroad the Toppop crew carries an inflatable Toppop logo to make sure that it could be featured in the recording. This video was first broadcast on 29 April 1978. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 29 April 1978 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
