THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,971) Greenfield & Cook — “A Day Begins”
Not the Dutch Beatles — the Dutch Simon & Garfunkel! Hey, where’s the Afro?! Anyway, simply ravishing pop rock. “Beautiful! . . . I thought it was beautiful back in 1971, as a teenager, and I still do.” (reneebluejay (courtesy of Google Translate), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxJAoj2zkj8)
LastFM tells us of Greenfield & Cook:
Greenfield & Cook was a singer-songwriter duo from The Hague, The Netherlands, active between 1969 and 1974. Because of their vocal harmonies they were referred to by many as “the Dutch Simon & Garfunkel”, but their sound was, in truth, much more inspired by the breezy sound of The Byrds [see #1,430, 1,605, 1,965] and other American west coast groups of the era. Former members of The Hague beat band The Hurricanes, Rink Groenveld and Peter Kok formed their duo in 1967, initially under the moniker Popshop. In 1969 they renamed themselves Greenfield & Cook: half-serious, literal translations of their Dutch family names into English. Greenfield & Cook had a string of six Top 20 hits in The Netherlands, including “Only Lies” (#4 in 1971), “Don’t Turn Me Loose” (#6 in 1972) and “Easy Boy” (#8 in 1973). They released two full-length LPs: Greenfield & Cook (1972) and Second Album (1973). They enjoyed some minor success abroad, in Germany and Spain primarily (they recorded Spanish-language versions of some of their singles), and wrote film scores for two Italian movies, La Signora è Stata Violentata and Quattro dell’Apocalisse. Both Groenveld and Kok embarked on solo careers in 1974, holding on to their “English” second names: Rink Greenfield and Peter Cook. Their solo activities marked the end of Greenfield & Cook as a duo.
Here’s the instrumental version:
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