André Rieu en André van Duin - Het dorp (Amsterdam Arena 2009) REACTION! 

Andre van Duin is something.We say here in Netherlands if he was born in America he would have been world famous.He is multi-talented

I recently turned 60. And you know? This song makes more sense once your older. That's why it's a timeless masterpiece. Its not about a history or old postcards. It's about you, being a child not that long ago.. innocent and naive. and how fast time goes by. And seems to go faster the older you get. Its the realisation that makes you feel melancholic. Its the realisation that once things are over.... They are over.. Its the true definition of YOLO.... On a side... Beautiful performance, but the Wim Sonneveld version is the one and only for me. Nice to see at your channel, and spot on reaction... Thanks...

This is , in my opinion, one of the most beautiful songs from the Netherlands

Apologies for forgetting their name but props to the person who's doing the English subtitles. They are very good. Thanks for your reactions on the Dutch stuff, much love from the low lands!

I'm 33 so I never knew the time period this song dicusses, nor have I ever lived in a small town/village, but this song makes me emotional and melancholic as hell... it's like a memory I've never experienced but I remember it anyway ..

Andre van Duin is a real multi-talent. Besides being a good singer he is also the most succesfull comidian of the netherlands

One of my all time favorite Dutch songs about the simple life as life used to be.

2 Icons of the Netherlands, Andre Rieux is worldfamous because he made classic musik populair all over the world, his concerts are allways sold out where ever he goes and Andre van Duin the best komiek of the Netherlands he did so mutch over 40 years that you need a lot of time to see it all , if that is even possible. He sings, he is a comedian, a writer, a moviestar and on and on.

Makes my in tears to , very nise song . Love that song

Thanks for reacting to it! Andre van Duin truely is the Dutch equivalent of Betty White with a career as a comedian of over 55 years. Now he is more a singer and presenter (o.a. the Dutch Bake-off), but probably the one celeb of the Netherlands that nobody hates

This song makes me emotional every time I hear it. Andre van Duin is an underrated singer. People only see him as a comedian but when he sings he puts his heart and soul into the song. Goosebumps.

A few years ago Dutch radio stations made a poll to select 'The best Dutch song of the Century'. This song 'Het Dorp' sung by Wim Sonneveld from 1974 was chosen by the Dutch with a sky high margin between nr1 and the runner up. I like André van Duin's voice and he did well but Wim's voice, oh man, it was on another level! You really should listen to it. It had so much dept and layers.

The original Dutch version is sung by Wim Sonneveld and has become iconic. The original song was in French, La montagne by Jean Ferrat. Also beautiful but I absolutely prefer Wim Sonneveld's version. You should listen to it! Nevertheless André van Duin sings it beautiful too By the way, watch Bart de Pau's video Zijn Nederlandse meisjes anders? (Are Dutch girls different?) Nice

You are a fantastic guy!! Thank you for all the videos

It seems like a very recent video. Yes, definitely our national treasure, 74 years old! A wonderful, loving person. 🤍

In the netherland is Andre van Duin a living legend. best comedian we have ever had

It makes me cry every time i hear it. Realy a beautiful song ❤

If André Van Duin dies, he must get a state funeral. This man brought us so many great times with laughter and a tear.

This song was played at my grandmothers funeral. I have tears in my eyes now.

Yes. In tears again. I love André van Duin. What a wonderful and kind man. And still going strong after losing his husband and recovering from a very serious disease.

Every government should sing or hear before their meetings and stuff about the difficulties these days. It’s a life’s lesson. I’m pleased to have experienced these days without cellphones. Writing paper and a football. That’s all we had. We were happy.

the little village (deurne) which this song was written about, is my home town.... i can see all the places he's singing about in my head....takes me right back... :)

I still remember the home of my grand mother and grand father. And the place and home where I was born. Greetings from Roelof. This song was written by Wim Sonneveld.

This takes me back to walks with my grandfather as a small child living in a small town. I cry every time To me this is the most beautiful Dutch song ever written

A wonderful song that looks back on life in a nostalgic kind of way. You already know Andre who leads the band, who happens to be one of our biggest music exports, he's popular across the globe, from the Netherlands to Australia, South America, the USA, and Asia (basically, everywhere you go, you can find his music and shows) The other Andre, he's a national treasure, an old-school comedian/actor/singer/entertainer with a beautiful voice and who also happens to be one of the nicest people you could ever come across, a truly genuine nice and talented man. The song was originally performed by Win Sonneveld who also was an entertainer/singer/comedian who had beautiful one-man shows filled with stories, jokes and song. And this is his biggest song, a timeless evergreen for everyone in the Netherlands, it's one of those songs to wind down to, to look back on life and just relax and forget the world for a few minutes. Ty for checking out our national treasures, Andre van Duin is, to Dutch people, what Betty White is for Americans.. an icon, a living legend.

You are so right saying the magic is no longer there!

Thank you for playing this. You are spot on with your reaction. Sentimental song. Its almost our second national anthem and I cant keep my eyes dry when Im listening to this song. Andre v Duin is the biggest comedian we have here in the Netherlands. But he is getting older and slowing things down, and maybe because of this we see him in other ways, playing the more serious roles or as TV show host. Love it humor since a child. I crew up with him, who not here, and he is respected highly by I think young and especialy the older people. He had his own radio show of a hour in the 70- 80's on the Saturday with lots of scetches. And on the monday everyone was talking about it. Fantastic. Great men. Im a big fan. The comedian but also the more serious men behind the comedian.

Original is a French song translated by the partner of Wim Sonneveld. Friso Wiegersma (they were also gay) . Wim was a youth friend of my Grandmother. He lived in Utrecht. Andre sings it beautifully !

I can't listen to this song without tearing up. It's such an emotional song. The trees along the garden path, how could I know it will all be gone one day.

I love it when somebody can express himself how he feels and sees the music. Andre van Duin is my living legend. The humor he brought in the 60/70/80/90 was great in that time..

I am 68 and I was always forward looking, anticipating modernity, new things and new emotions. But still, this song speaks to me I can relate.

The first person who sang this song was Wim sonneveld, in 1965. Its such an iconic song over here, that they officially renamed the path he is singing about,to "the garden path of my father"

Andre van Duin can sing beautiful but he is actualy a comedian. I love this song. Thanks for sharing xxx

What a beautiful picture of his youth and thanx for your heartfelt reaction.

This is a sentimental journey for me😢 my dad used to love this song..

I’m 19 and i remember my childhood like this, the way our village has modernised is truely heartbreaking🥲🇳🇱

I touched me when you smiled by the part everybody applauded to the first lines. Every country has a song that everybody loves..so beautiful to share😊

the one thing that must be said about this song ( either this version or the one from wim sonneveld ) , is that, the older you get the harder this song seems to hit home. and the beauty of this song is, that it does not matter how young or old you are, or whatever genre music you favor, almost everyone who hears is song will love it.

I love to sing this song in the nuseryhome i work.. Andre is our best comidian.. by the way 😉

I just shed a tear 😢 Andre sings it sooo beautifull. This song is so old, but it is just still so beautifull.

Nice to notice that you understand what this song is all about

Thankyou for the interpretation. Glad I'm off grid in the Mountains

Funfact: The village this song is about really exists! It's called Deurne and is located in the southern part of teh Nethelands, in the provence of Noord-Brabant. The butchery 'J. van der Ven' was real and it's all written from memory of the original artist (Wim Sonneveld). He grew up in Deurne.

This song always reminds me of my grandfather… it was his favourite song, and it was played at his funeral… I think you are such a nice guy, with a very inspiring energy and beautiful life visions my friend. Greetz from The Netherlands, Tim.

This song was written by Wim Sonneveld in 1974. The village is about Neunen. The same village where Vincent van Gogh was born. The time when wim was writing this song Wim was living in Amsterdam on the other site of the Netherlands. From Brabant to Noord Holland. For me, it's a pleasant tear jerker.

It was my mothers favourite!😘

Respect for doing this man, this is by far one of the most loved person in the Netherlands. i grew up with Andre . You should really react to some of his comedian side. Thanks for bringing back those memories in my life. Bless you and stay safe!!

This song gets me every time. Used to be one of my grandparents' favorites, I grew up with it and it wasn't until I moved out of my parent's home that I fully appreciated it. I love it. Big thank you to the requester.

Goosebumps. Thx for this💯👌🙏🌹🌹🍀👍

Such a beautiful song! Always get a bit emotional hearing this..! 🥺🎶💜

André van Duin... I would call him a national treasure.

A beautiful song, André has such a touchy voice.... we played this song at the funeral of my grandmother who passed in 2002 ... thanx for the heartwarming memories and this reaction 💜

I am sitting here and she my own childhood, and I know the song! And I am crying man, so beautiful! Je bent gesellig André !

He is the best comedy artist ever live till now and i think the best we ever have in the Netherlands look more of his video's

andre van duin always takes me back to a time when my uncle took me to the Revu as a little girl that's where my love for him started beautiful song pure enjoyment

Impossível deixar de seguir o maestro @andrerieu. Além das suas maravilhosas melodias e JSO ,ainda nos brinda com vozes maravilhosas. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wow Highly! Love you! This song was played at my fathers funeral! He died after the cancer operation, it failed. He was always talking about how we live now, he can’t get used how time passed.

Every time I hear this song it just brings me back to my youth……..with no cell phones………😁😁😁😁😁😁life is short before you know it will be over…….that’s why we enjoy everyday as it comes and travel wen we can ……….especially in these times with Covid……life is presious

this song always makes me so emotional

just a fun fact the arena holds 71k visitors for concerts and 55,5 seats during other type of festivals or socker/ football

That song always leaves me in tears. I had never heard it sung by André before. He is such a remarkable man, so sweet, so special, so multi-talented indeed. One of those people you want to outlive us all, really, so we can enjoy him for the rest of our days.

This song always makes me cry...it's so beautiful and sad. Thanks for sharing

I am crying.

Beautiful!

This song is about the village I live. It is in the southeast of the Netherlands..... The father of the translator of this song was a doctor in this village. The village is called Deurne....

I grew up with the comedy of Andre van Duin, he was a huge star, think MrBean soft of famous here. Every kid and adult knew him and his sketch shows but he indeed also has a lovely warm voice suitable to this song.

unironically the best selling dutch artist world wide, Rieu i mean.

Listen to the original sang in 1974 by Wim Sonneveld.

the original song was written in 1965

i can't listen to this song without crying. I've heard this on the funerals from my grandparents 😢 many people are crying because this song is one you heard a lot on funerals.

I remember. Very touching.

Try Andre van Duin with the song Heidezangers , he plays all the persons, by himself

We played this song at my grandfathers funeral, he passed in September 2021. For the last decade of his life, he longed more and more for the times this song sings about. He longed for the simple village he grew up in, the life in that small town and most of all he longed to see my grandmother again (she passed in 2014).

So beautiful 🤩

Andre van Duin made us laugh but he can also make you cry. Last may he did the speech on ww2 rememberday (dodenherdenking). It was so beautiful. I don't know if you can find it on RU-vid🤷🏻‍♀️. It's worth listening to.

A beautiful legendary song very well interpreted by André. Sometimes i want this old times to come back like in this song.

I love André van Duin, such a kind and talented guy..

when i was about 6 i saw this version of this song, sung by Wim Sonneveld (check out how similar their voices are) im from Amsterdam so nothing of this song was known to me in the netherlands but my mom was from a small village in austria so from there i did understand. my mother found me in front of the tv crying big tears and i never can listen to this song without crying ever since, highly thanks for sharing so much of my country

André van Duin is the best comedian of the Netherlands, everyone knows him, young (i'm 16 but a lot of people my age don't) and old, he stopped with doing it but he still presents some shows on tv, he is a great comedian, but when he sings songs like these, he is very serious. More people my age should know him for what he achieved.

Tears to see this my father has left earth a year ago but beautiful to hear 🤗

Obrigada,HXC. Fantástico. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The village my parents grew up in was a village like this. And we stayed there in summer for 6 weeks every year when I was young, staying with a grandma or or an aunt, playing with my cousins, cycling to the seaside. When I hear rthis song, it al comes back to me. At the funeral of my cousin this was played. He was only 50 y.o.

If you are Dutch you know the National Anthem and this song Het Dorp. Its such a old song from Wim Zonneveld.. Just like i sayd when you are dutch you need to know this song. 😍😍 🇳🇱 🇳🇱

Thank you for this beautifull moment and your reaction.... !!

He is actually a dutch comedian. Made many shows with a lot of scetches that make you laugh. He is a bit more serious now these days. :)

In the first years of André's success as a comedian many people thought that kind of entertainment was vulgar, he wasn't seen as the talent and the wonderful person that he is. But nowadays I guess he has a warm place in about everyone's heart in the Netherlands.

Wim Sonneveld wrote this song already in 1974! Now we are 47 years further in time and it is not getting better in anyway how the world is changed...

Andre Rieu is world-famous! Andre van Duin "world-famous" in the Netherlands

Beautyful! You should watch a concert of André Rieu. He makes classics music easy tot listen to ,all over the world.

Thanks, HXC, for taking us back in time. Truly love ❤️your channel 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇳🇱

This is a well know, old song. It’s not originally by Andre but by Wim Sonneveld. Just like Flappie, every Dutchman knows this song by heart. Goosebumps every time I heart it.

I lived in this vilage Deurne the house is stil there

Partly because of this song I am so very proud of my country, the netherlands

The original song is from Wim Sonneveld, also a very nice perfomance, I think the best. He lived truly in those old times and alsk in modern times. André Kivon(van Duin) didn't but he can imagine and perform it. The best song Sonneveld did was, my meaning, Tearoom Tango. It's somewhere out of the forties/fifties.

Tears start rolling each 'n every time I hear the first notes of this masterpiece. And eventhough it's actually a cover of a French chanson (La Montagne by Jean Farret) , it now belongs to the unsurpassed Wim Sonneveld and the Dutch people in general, not my words but those of Farret. Edit: Thanks for reacting to this and thanks to whoever 'Anonymous' may be for requesting this, the fact even Highly get's semi-emotional by this makes me feel a lil' less of a wuss.

Ow yes!!!! I love this one!!!! 🥰 I love this song but this version is sooooo beautiful. Nice you watched this one! 🥳

It was a French song originally and then covered in Dutch by Wim Sonneveld,

DAAAAMN! I already was hoping you would cover a SIMPLER version of this one!!! Have you realised this is the same guy as with that pastor and his church bells "BIM BAM!!!" ?

That Arena is now called "Johan Cruijff Arena". If you love Snollebollekes, you would have loved André van Duin in his younger years. He used to make a huge carneval hit song every year. With titles like "There's a horse in the hallway", "I have huge cauliflours" and "Pizza! Pizza! Oooo pizza! Wait a minute.....wait another minute...PIZZA!!"

I love this song reminder me of my father he died .when he was 42 .and i was 15 years oké. Thanks fore this video and reaction