Frans de Kok
In the 1940s and 1950s, he played and arranged music for the Joe Andy Orchestra, which toured the Netherlands, West Germany and Switzerland with considerable success.In 1962, he was asked by TV host and singer Rudi Carrell to accompany his shows with a big orchestra.In the years after, de Kok wrote the arrangements for Carrell's shows and many more TV programmes.Moreover, he worked with a couple of famous Dutch artists in the recording studio, amongst others Boudewijn de Groot.In 1969, he stepped in for Dolf van der Linden who refused to travel to Francoist Spain (saying it would remind him too much of his experiences during World War II) to conduct the orchestra for the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.