Dutch fans song on the Alpe

sonny73

Both this year and in 2008 when I went up Alpe d'Huez I often heard this song on Dutch corner, as well as other places: Schatje mag ik je foto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blzL8paIuI&feature=related
Interested to know the story behind its popularity and what's the score with lifting the chairs up whenever the chorus kicks in, if anyone knows?
Cheers

FJS

'Schatje mag ik je foto' was the title of a hit in Holland a couple of years back. It translates as 'Honey can I have your photo', a schlager-style song, a piece of musical brilliance from the country that brought you 2Unlimited and the Venga Boys
Not sure whether the lifting of chairs has any meaning apart from general beer-fuelled carnival-style partying.

sonny73

excellent, thanks for that FJS, I can't get the song out of my head!!

No_Ta_Doctor

The chair lifting seems to be de rigeur:
http://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Schatje ... 3824392629

Tusher

Bet there's a good story behind the chair lifting thing.

I mean, there must be? Surely??

FJS

No idea - I've clearly been away too long :roll:

sonny73

They clearly take Bocht 7 to other mountians and the festivities : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VlmSXjrMY

sonny73

Tusher wrote:

Bet there's a good story behind the chair lifting thing.

I mean, there must be? Surely??

Sorry to keep posting links to this 'catchy' song and please be assured it's the last related link I post , but here's evidence the chair lifting began prior to the Dutch fans getting hold of it on the Alpe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqmkdXksl94

rozzer32

Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Munxp63UakI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lypwXok5mLI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeZjs2PdzE


Does anyone if they only take over when the alpe is included in the race? Or do they do it on the queen stage of each tour?

RichN95.

rozzer32 wrote:

Does anyone if they only take over when the alpe is included in the race? Or do they do it on the queen stage of each tour?

It seems that the Dutch will find a way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBc0SfF8 ... re=related

One year, I'd like another country (preferably the Germans, but maybe the Norwegians), to get to Bocht 7 a whole week early and squeeze the Dutch out, just to see what happens.

I noticed there was a Luxembourg corner this year. Alpe d'Huez is becoming like the bloody Epcot Center.

Tusher

Odd that the Dutch flag doesn't have any orange in it.
Although I suppose that they make up for that by painting everything else orange.

It cheers me up to see so many people being happy together. Drunk, of course, but drunk and happy rather than drunk and fighting.


Anyone know what happens when the happy drunk Dutch meet up with the happy drunk Basques?

AndyRubio

Sonny73 wrote:

...I often heard this song on Dutch corner, as well as other places: Schatje mag ik je foto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blzL8paIuI&feature=related...

My favourite video, ever.

Anonymous

One year, I want to paint a Union Jack on Corner 7 a week before the Tour gets there.

No_Ta_Doctor

Choppered wrote:

One year, I want to paint a Union Jack on Corner 7 a week before the Tour gets there.

Try a Belgian flag.... :-)

FJS

No tA Doctor wrote:

Choppered wrote:

One year, I want to paint a Union Jack on Corner 7 a week before the Tour gets there.

Try a Belgian flag.... :-)

German works best with Orange

Bronzie

Fark!

Had this "song" rattling round my head during last night's TT. Wouldn't have minded too much, but halfway round the course I had to stop and lift my bike over my head. Cost me 30 seconds I tell ya.

[shakes fist in general direction of Sonny73].

prawny

No tA Doctor wrote:

Choppered wrote:

One year, I want to paint a Union Jack on Corner 7 a week before the Tour gets there.

Try a Belgian flag.... :-)

Portugese, that'll put it up em!

No_Ta_Doctor

Bronzie wrote:

Fark!

Had this "song" rattling round my head during last night's TT. Wouldn't have minded too much, but halfway round the course I had to stop and lift my bike over my head. Cost me 30 seconds I tell ya.

[shakes fist in general direction of Sonny73].

Just had to explain to my daughter what I was laughing about!

sonny73

Bronzie wrote:

Fark!

Had this "song" rattling round my head during last night's TT. Wouldn't have minded too much, but halfway round the course I had to stop and lift my bike over my head. Cost me 30 seconds I tell ya.

[shakes fist in general direction of Sonny73].

My Mrs complained when she heard it again from me chekcing the above links. We couldn't get it out of our heads when we were out there either.

sonny73

They also play this easy listening track when the riders come through Bocht 7, I'm sure I heard it on a video this year too, classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRsK26Gcew

FJS

Sonny73 wrote:

They also play this easy listening track when the riders come through Bocht 7, I'm sure I heard it on a video this year too, classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRsK26Gcew

That's the theme tune of Dutch national radio Tour de France reports, has been for decades; it's played between the live reports of the race in the finale. On the radio they play just 10, 20 seconds or so between live reports, but sounds like they've just put it on repeat there

sonny73

FJS wrote:

Sonny73 wrote:

They also play this easy listening track when the riders come through Bocht 7, I'm sure I heard it on a video this year too, classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRsK26Gcew

That's the theme tune of Dutch national radio Tour de France reports, has been for decades; it's played between the live reports of the race in the finale. On the radio they play just 10, 20 seconds or so between live reports, but sounds like they've just put it on repeat there

Cool, cheers for that FJS.

sonny73

This is the other classic you see them doing there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5116BBnlj4&feature=related

Tusher

Sonny73, you have been tried by your peers and found guilty of infiltrating our minds with the most annoyingly catchy tune in years.

To rescue your reputation, please furnish me with more information as to why on earth the Dutch chose this corner.

To start you on your study, I've copied this from the always-known-to-be-reliable source of Wikipedia.

"The Alpe has chaotic crowds of spectators. In 1999, Giuseppe Guerini won despite being knocked off by a spectator who stepped into his path to take a photograph. The 2004 individual time trial became chaotic when fans pushed riders toward the top. Attendance figures on the mountain have to be treated with caution. A million spectators were claimed for 1997. Eric Muller, the mayor of Alpe d'Huez, however, said there were 350,000 in 2001, four years later despite acceptance that the number rises every year. "We expect more than 400,000 for the centenary race in 2003," he said.[7] The author Tim Moore wrote:

As a variant on a sporting theme, Alpe d'Huez annoys the purists but enthrals the broader public, like 20/20 cricket or nude volleyball. Last year, a full-blown tent-stamping riot had required heavy police intervention. During this year's clean-up operation, down in a ravine with the bottle shards and dented emulsion tins, a body turned up. He'd fallen off the mountain and no one had noticed. When the Tour goes up Alpe d'Huez, it's a squalid, manic and sometimes lethal shambles, and that's just the way they like it. It's the Glastonbury Festival for cycling fans.[8]

Alpe d'Huez is the "Dutch Mountain", a Dutchman having won eight of the first 14 finishes. The writer Geoffrey Nicholson said:

The attraction of opposites draws them [Dutch spectators] from the Low Countries to the Alps each summer in any case. But all winter in the Netherlands coach companies offer two or three nights at Alpe d'Huez as a special feature of their alpine tours. And those Dutch families who don't come by coach, park their campers and pitch their tents along the narrow ledges beside the road like sea-birds nesting at St Kilda. The Dutch haven't adopted the Alpe d'Huez simply because it is sunny and agreeable, or even because the modern, funnel-shaped church, Notre Dame des Neiges, has a Dutch priest, Father Reuten (until a few years ago, it was used as a press room and was probably the only church in France where, for one day at least, there were ashtrays in the nave and a bar in the vestry, or where an organist was once asked to leave because he was disturbing the writers' concentration). No, what draws the Dutch to Alpe d'Huez is the remarkable run of success their riders have had there."[9]

The Dutch have won none of the last 13 stages, however; six have been won by Italians, three by Americans, twice by Spaniards, one by Fränk Schleck of Luxembourg, and the most recent by French cyclist Pierre Rolland. [10]"


Blimey, they didn't notice a body in a ravine? Although I love the 'Glastonbury of cycle fans'.

Tusher

Additionally, you owe me 79pence.

I had to download it from i-tunes. It was as if my brain had been taken over by an alien, and I could resist no more.

Just for information, i-tunes classify Schatje, mag ik je foto? under 'children's genre'.

Tusher

And this is what the technological revolution has brought us-

http://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Schatje ... 3824392629

sonny73

Tusher wrote:

Sonny73, you have been tried by your peers and found guilty of infiltrating our minds with the most annoyingly catchy tune in years.

To rescue your reputation, please furnish me with more information as to why on earth the Dutch chose this corner

I can only apologise and also admit to downloading it, it is clearly some sort of audible virus.
The only thing I can add to your Wiki is that the priest in residence many years ago (not sure if that's the current one) to my knowledge encouraged Dutch fans to gather on that corner and the rest is history.
I hope this morsel of information is satisfactory for forgiveness

sonny73

Tusher wrote:

Additionally, you owe me 79pence.

I had to download it from i-tunes. It was as if my brain had been taken over by an alien, and I could resist no more.

Just for information, i-tunes classify Schatje, mag ik je foto? under 'children's genre'.

I found it searching Rogier & Co, the act which I believe did the version they play on Dutch corner, it has chatting in it towards the end. What a saddo I am :?. I'll close the door on my way out.

Anonymous

Mont Ventoux, 09:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VlmSXjrMY&NR=1

At the end, chairs are in the air for the second time & a Tour sales van is driving past. The van ends up with an extra chair!!!

Tusher

Brilliant!

greasedscotsman

Choppered wrote:

Mont Ventoux, 09:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VlmSXjrMY&NR=1

At the end, chairs are in the air for the second time & a Tour sales van is driving past. The van ends up with an extra chair!!!

It appears the Tour sales van has nicked the chair from a giant chicken!