The single sold over one million copies globally, and received a gold disc. The success came as a surprise for Baker, who remembers hearing it on the radio while he was working in a lemonade factory. 21 on the Billboard Top 100 in the United States. 16 on the Cash Box magazine chart and No. This first album, Little Green Bag (1970), produced an immediate worldwide hit: their debut single, " Little Green Bag," reached No. The band recorded their first album in September 1969, after which, considering this was no soul music, they changed their name to "The George Baker Selection," Bouwens naming himself for a character from a detective novel. Visser and Bouwens wrote the song "Little Greenback" (sic) in the summer of 1969. The band consisted of Job Netten (guitar), Henk Kramer and Eric Bardoen (saxophone), Jacques Greuter (keyboard and flute), Theo Vermast and later Jan Visser (bass), and Ton Vredenburg (drums). In 1968, Bouwens joined the band Soul Invention, a soul band which was founded the previous year by Henk Kramer in Assendelft and played covers of songs by Otis Redding and Sam and Dave. In 1961, he took the stage name "Body" and formed the band Body and the Wild Cats, with Bob Ketzers and his brother Ruud as well as Gerrit Bruyn on bass, all from Wormerveer. There, he sang and played guitar in a schoolband ( The Jokers) with Bob Ketzers, but at the age of 14 he left school and took jobs unloading ships on the Zaan and eventually as a factory worker at a lemonade factory. Bouwens was raised by his mother and his grandparents, Willemke Woudstra and Johannes Bouwens (1886–1952), first in Hoorn and from 1957 on the Wandelweg in Wormerveer. Months before Bouwens was born, his father, Peppino Caruso, a former Italian soldier from Calabria put to labor by the Germans in nearby Grosthuizen, had been killed while attempting to escape when he was to be transferred to Germany. You can check these links to see them perform together at 3fm (Giel) and poppodium 013, Tilburg.Bouwens was born near the end of World War II on 8 December 1944 as the son of a single mother on the Gravenstraat in Hoorn, at or near the location where Jan Pieterszoon Coen was born in 1587. Together the Reservoir Dogs Band and George Baker did a successful ‘Hateful Eight tour’ with exciting performances at venue’s like ‘tPaard, Paradiso, 013 and various festivals. As it turned out, it proved to be a golden match. Think Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin and Steppenwolf. Perfectly integrated in this wild ‘Tarantino extravaganza’ is a part where the Reservoir Dogs Band and George Baker are taking the stage together to bring you a piece of Classic Rock & Roll and even a sniff of Jazz from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. All songs are reworked in their own authentic style to give you the ultimate ‘Tarantino’ experience. They’re praised for their theatrical and thrilling live show which brings you classic songs like ‘Son of a Preacher’, ‘Stuck in the middle’, ‘Misirlou’ and many others. This band is bringing you all the sounds of the movies from Quentin Tarantino from the movies to the stage. ‘Little Green Bag’ is the point where George Baker and the Reservoir Dogs Band meet. Both the single and the original album were re-released and ‘Little Green Bag’ could be heard on the radio or seen in commercials in Japan, France, Scandinavia, Italy and … The Netherlands. As a result, after being a huge hit in the sixties ‘Little Green Bag’ regained popularity and became a gigantic hit all over the world for the second time.
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Short answer: ‘ Hell yeah’! As it turned out it would be the first of a series of very popular and classic movies written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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‘is it ok if we use your tune ‘Little Green Bag’ in the soundtrack of a new movie we’re making? It’s called ‘Reservoir Dogs’. In the early 90’s the publisher of George Baker got a telephone call from Hollywood.