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Vader Abraham - The little cafe at the harbour
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Father Abraham - The little cafe at the harbour
Lyrics and music: Pierre Kartner
(1976)
Vader Abraham - Het kleine café aan de haven
Tekst en muziek: Pierre Kartner
(1976)
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Vader Abraham ('Father Abraham') (1935), stage name of Pierre Kartner, is a Dutch singer, composer and producer (of especially 'life songs', 'levensliederen'). His big breakthrough as songwriter and producer, was the song 'It's too late for you to cry' (1970), sung by Corry en de Rekels. For over forty years, this was the most successful song in the National Hit Parade Top 40.
For the carnival song 'Father Abraham had seven sons'/'Vader Abraham had zeven zonen' (1971) he came up with the character of Vader Abraham. His two (internationally) most successful songs are 'The Smurfs's song'/'Het smurfenlied' (1977) and the above 'The Red Rose Café'/'Het kleine café' (1976). The first sold over 25 million copies world wide and the latter was covered by over 250 artist world wide, in many different languages. It is considered an evergreen, a classic.
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Pierre Kartner wrote the above song 'Het kleine café' in 1975 in café Het Schippershuis ('the sailor's house') in Hoorn (province North-Holland). It is a very nostalgic song, a 'life song' ('levenslied'), that was only in the Top 40 for eight weeks, but was loved by the common man in the street. The song has been voted into the Top 2000 (traditionally broadcasted on the radio the last week of the year) fifteen times, as high as place 564/2000.
It became famous in Germany as 'Die kleine Kneipe'; in France and Canada as 'Le café de la Rue d'Amerique' or as 'Le café des Trois Colombes' and in English as 'My favourite cafe on the harbour', or 'The little cafe by the harbour', or 'The Red Rose Café'. It was also successful in countries like Finland, Sweden, Ireland and Cuba.
Pierre Kartner was awarded with an Edison Music Award (1974), a Golden Harp (1978) and a Buma Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).
 More translated Dutch songs in the genre 'life song' ('levenslied') and more with the theme 'descriptive songs'. See also the list of Dutch artists with all their songs on this website.
 Lyrics 'Het kleine café aan de haven' on Dutch website: Nederlandse songteksten.
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