Maywood (duo)
Maywood was a Dutch singing duo consisting of sisters Aaltje ("Alie") and Doetje ("Edith") de Vries. They each took on a stage name for the project: Alie, a blonde, (songwriting, background and harmony vocals, keyboards) became "Alice May" and the dark-haired Edith (lead vocals) became "Caren Wood". While incorporating a range of styles, the group's sound (featuring two female vocalists working in a European dance/pop idiom) often resembled that of ABBA.
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The duo were active as recording artists between 1978 and 1992, and their best known songs are "Late At Night" (a #1 hit in the Netherlands, and a significant chart hit in several other nations), "Give Me Back My Love", and "Rio". All but one of their singles were written solely by Alice May, the exception being "Kom In Mijn Armen", a #33 hit from 1989 co-written by May and Aad Klaris. Through 1986, their material was produced and arranged by Pim Koopman; later records were produced by Koopman, Klaris or Ton Scherpenzeel. They represented the Netherlands in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest (Zagreb) with the song "Ik wil alles met je delen" (I Want to Share Everything With You), which finished in fifteenth place. The group split up in 1995,[1] but re-formed for a series of concerts in October 2013.[2]
Discography
Albums
| 1980 - Maywood |
| 1981 - Different Worlds |
| 1982 - Colour My Rainbow |
| 1982 - Cantado En Español |
| 1983 - Het beste van Maywood (compilation) |
| 1987 - Beside You |
| 1990 - Achter De Horizon |
| 1991 - 6 Of The Thirties |
| 1991 - Walking Back To Happiness |
| 1992 - De Hits Van Maywood (compilation) |
| 1994 - More Maywood |
| 1996 - Good For Gold (compilation) |
| 2006 - Alle 40 Goed (Box Set 4 CD Collection) (compilation, Netherlands) |
| 2008 - Hollandse Sterren Collectie (compilation) |
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |||||
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| NL[3] | AUS | GER | SA | SWED | |||
| 1978 | Since I Met You | — | |||||
| 1979 | You Treated Me Wrong | 35 | — | ||||
| Mother How Are You Today | 10 | — | |||||
| 1980 | Late At Night | 1 | 72 | 18 | 11 | 7 | |
| Give Me Back My Love | 7 | — | 27 | 2 | |||
| 1981 | Pasadena | Distant Love | 14 | — | — | 16 | |
| Rio | 3 | — | — | — | |||
| Mano | 10 | ||||||
| 1982 | Get Away | 17 | — | ||||
| Star | 17 | ||||||
| I Believe in Love | — | — | |||||
| 1983 | Ask for Tina | — | |||||
| Show Me the Way To Paradise | 43 | ||||||
| 1984 | Standing In The Twilight | 23 | |||||
| 1985 | It Takes A Lifetime | — | |||||
| Lonely Nights | — | ||||||
| 1986 | When I Look Into Your Eyes | — | |||||
| 1987 | Help The Children Of Brazil | — | |||||
| If You Need A Friend | 86 | ||||||
| Break Away | — | ||||||
| 1989 | Kom In Mijn Armen | 33 | |||||
| Hey Hey Hey | — | ||||||
| 1990 | Ik Wil Alles Met Je Delen | 42 | — | ||||
| Ik Blijf Naar Jou Verlangen | — | ||||||
References
- Maywood - Answers.com
- Verzoening Maywood voor concerten Gerard Joling, nu.nl, 6 August 2013
- "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl".
External links
- Biografie van Maywood op het Popinstituut (in Dutch)
- www.maywood-online.de (with permission of Alice Maywood)
- Biography
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| Preceded by Justine Pelmelay with "Blijf zoals je bent" |
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 |
Succeeded by Humphrey Campbell with "Wijs me de weg" No representation in 1991 |
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