More than ten years after her death in 1998, Zangeres Zonder Naam was suddenly in the news again. The book Sterven Zonder Naam by biographer Ben Holthuis contained shocking facts about the last days of life of the 'queen of the song of life', from whom the last pennies were taken off on her deathbed. It even led to indignant parliamentary questions. This CD is a lot more cheerful, with the fifteen
… last songs that Mary Servaes-Beij recorded with Johnny Hoes, but which remained on the shelf after the break with her discoverer. This includes songs that can still become classics in the genre. How about the tragic De Schoentjes, in which Servaes sings about a certain Jantje who walks under the tram with his dearly desired new shoes, after which his feet have to be amputated. Or She Was A Girl, the compassionately sung account of a junkie's suicide. Everything sung with an 'almost metal voice with unparalleled gasp', says Holthuis in the accompanying cough text. (MS)more
