The Beat Buddies - Pins In My Heart

[Rythmn Boy]

'Pins In My Heart' by The Beat Buddies from Amsterdam (1966) is a pretty cool song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNtg644jDrA

You'd think it was pretty rare going by the prices people try to sell it for, but is it really? It was released on Philips and must have had a decent sized first run. Or not? Was it released anywhere outside the Netherlands?

Did anyone release a version of it around the same time as The Beat Buddies?

Anyone know anything?

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

What price are people trying to sell it for? I've seen it go for $120

 

[gregk25]

The challenge is to find clean copies. The Dutch seem to have loved their beat, as moody as a lot of it is, a good many copies appear to have lived through some wild teen parties. $100 - $120 for a NM-copy of the Beat Buddies sounds about right. www.nederbeat.info values it at 75 Euro, but Erik's usually a bit optimistic, or has better sources than non-dutch buyers.

 

[Rythmn Boy]

$100 +; 100 euro +. That's what I've seen. Seems like a lot to me for a major label release, but maybe not if it was only released in the Netherlands. Was it a hit at the time?

What made me ask in the first place is that the song is also on The Singers LP I talked about in another thread and I was wondering about how they even knew about it in Indonesia. Thinking about it more I think they got the song because Mesra (The Singers label) possibly had links to Philips in Singapore and they got a copy of the single there. Anyway, it's the coolest song on the record

 

[gregk25]

Comparing prices for dutch major label releases to UK ones puts them into perspective again. No idea if the Beat Buddies had a national hit with any of their two 45s at the time, I doubt it. But Mr. soundog's magazine archives might yield the answer.

Interesting about The Singers covering "Pins in my Heart". Can that be heard online somewhere?

 

[gregk25]

Just looked the Singers LP up on discogs: Does the tracklist really say "Like Pints in my heart"? Gives the song a whole new meaning. Just as "Hand of 1000 Dances".

 

[soundog III]

What a great record. Brisk w/ oodles of spirited bite. Value resonates anywhere within the three figure range...

 

[Rythmn Boy]

Just looked the Singers LP up on discogs: Does the tracklist really say "Like Pints in my heart"? Gives the song a whole new meaning. Just as "Hand of 1000 Dances".

Yes, 'Pints' and 'Hand' are printed on the label. One sees these sorts of spelling mistakes all the time on Southeast Asian records of the period. I reckon it was half to do with being unfamiliar with English and half just being slack. There are lots of spelling mistakes in Indonesian and Malay as well. It makes for a bit of fun sometimes though

 

[Rythmn Boy]

Interesting about The Singers covering "Pins in my Heart". Can that be heard online somewhere?

It's not on youtube that I can see. I've got a pretty bad mp3 of it, but don't know how to post that. It's not from my copy of the record because I don't have the facilities to do that. Maybe one day

Look here for The Singers and loads of other stuff from a Dutch collector living in Indonesia: http://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com.au/