Bonnie St. Claire, pseudonym van Bonje Cornelia Swart (Rozenburg, 18 november 1949) is a Dutch singer.
In the first half of the 1970's she scored a few solo hits, initially still in English for instance with the ballad "I won't stand between them ". She also participated in a German schlager festival. In 1972 she teamed up with the group Unit Gloria, with which she scored several hits in the Netherlands and abroad. In 1975, after the single "Rocco don't go", the collaboration ended. Later that year she joined the Philips label with an ensemble of artists that sang the Christmas hit "A Very Happy Christmas" into the top ten. In the summer of 1976 she released the single "Dokter Bernhard", on which Ron Brandsteder can be heard as Dr. Bernhard. In the same year she scored her only number 1 hit together with Don Mercedes with whom she released the single "Rocky". The single achieved the highest position in both the Dutch Top 40 and the National Hit Parade for two weeks. The record was also highly rated in the TROS Europarade at Hilversum 3.
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Broadcast date: 1980-01-01
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AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.
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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
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