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’Someone Loves You Honey’ by June Lodge & Prince Mohammed was a number one record in the Dutch Top 40 in the summer of 1982, six weeks long. This Toppop recording, first broadcast on July 15, 1982, was very special. This is the story as published in the book ’50 Years Toppop’: ’The record company was unpleasantly surprised when only June Lodge got off the plane, alone. Prince Mohammed was untraceable. For a moment it looked bad for June Lodge’s Toppop debut. But the Toppop team found a way around the problem: they found out that AVRO’s tv-presenter Humberto Tan knew someone who could perfectly play the role of the rapping Prince Mohammed: Humberto’s older brother Patrice. The good looking Patrice Tan played the role with the greatest ease. At the start of the song, while June Lodge sang her solo part, he was just sitting on the floor as one of the stand-ins. But the moment he had to perform his parlando, he got up and stood loosely next to June. She was visibly amused by the nice, relaxed, hip-swaying young man next to her, who then sang along to his part, full of bravado. Together they danced and sang the song to a successful conclusion as if they had done it like this for years. This is the actual video with Patrice Tan standing in for Prince Mohammed. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 17 July 1982 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.
