Dedicated in Memory of Jef van den Akker a.k.a. Big jeff († January 10, 2012)
"Be-Bop-A-Lula" arrangement from Cliff Richard & The Drifters (1959). The version from Big Jeff and The Hurricane Rollers was recorded live in December 1975
Line-up: Jef van den Akker a.k.a,. Big Jeff (voc., sax.), Bart Strik (lead gt.), Jan v.d. Boom (rhythm gt.), Johan Damen (bass gt.) and Tim Schouten (drums).
Bart Strik a.k.a." The Jazzmaster King" was born on December 17, 1945, in Vught (Netherlands) and he sadly passed away on July 26, 1993 in 's-Hertogenbosch. At age 14 he already played in his first rock 'n' roll band "The Jet Black Robbers". Bart was an admirer of Indo-Rock guitarist Robbie Boekholt, who played a lot around Vught en 's-Hertogenbosch with his band "The Hap-Cats". Robbie was also the composer of the famous Indo-Rock hit "Once", released by "The Hurricane Rollers" on Philips in 1959.
Bart was one of the first guitarists who learned to play "Once", and he also mastered Robbie's Hap-Cats arrangements "Dardanella" and "Raindrops". It didn't take long before Robbie noticed that young Bart was playing his songs pretty darn well, and when they met in 1962, Robbie gave Bart permission to use the name "Hurricane Rollers" for his own band. The original Rollers had split up by then and the members were playing in "Oety & The Real Rockers", "The Crazy Strangers" and "The Strangers". Robbie himself was playing with his own Hap-Cats again.
In 1975 Bart started again with a new guitarband still using the name "The Hurricane Rollers". Jef van de Akker a.k.a. Big Jeff († 2012) became their singer and Bart was active in the group till the end of 1977 when he started a new guitarband Savage Kalman & The Explosion Rockets.
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