THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,219) Sandy Coast — “I See Your Face Again”
This soaring ballad, a ‘68 A-side from Voorburg’s own Sandy Coast Skiffle Group, no make that Sandy Coast Five, no make that Sandy Coast Rockers, jeez, just call them the Sandy Coast (see #236), was the band’s first big hit in the Netherlands, reaching #12.
LastFM tells us that:
Sandy Coast was a beat/rock/pop band from Voorburg, The Netherlands, fronted by Hans Vermeulen. . . . [who] formed The Sandy Coast Skiffle Group in Voorburg in 1961, aged 14. With the name abbreviated to Sandy Coast the group got a recording contract . . . in 1965. Their début single, 1965’s “Subject Of My Thoughts”, failed to chart but is now regarded as an early ‘Nederbeat’ gem. Début album, And Their Name Is . . . Sandy Coast (1967), featured a melodic brand of sixties beat, 1968’s From the Workshop was a bluesy, psychedelic album, whereas Shipwreck (1969) was an ambitious concept album about a shipwreck in 1739. The biggest Sandy Coast chart hits of the 1960s were “I See Your Face Again” (1968) and “Capital Punishment” (1969), both of which hit #12 in the Dutch Top 40. Sandy Coast’s greatest chart success came in the 1970s, when the group had developed a more radio-friendly sound, akin to the the “west coast sound” of California. 1971’s ‘True Love That’s A Wonder’ became their biggest Dutch hit (#3) and the self-titled Sandy Coast album a big seller.
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