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highplainsdem

(49,041 posts)
Sat Oct 1, 2022, 12:17 PM Oct 2022

Golden Earring - Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac (live, 2013 + a short film using the song)

This was a hit single for them in the Netherlands in 2012, but I like this 2013 performance, which includes saxophonist Bertus Borgers, a star in his own right who'd also toured with them in the '70s (you can see him in the 1975 Winterland concert video, for instance).

And below that video is a 15-minute film that I honestly can't explain because I don't know exactly why it was made. The video title is "Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac The Making of The Young Earring" and it turned up when I was searching YouTube for the song. I haven't seen an explanation of the film on any fan site, or I skimmed past it. It uses the song over and over, behind video of kids pretending to be Golden Earring in their teens, with crazed fans, and the members of Golden Earring were involved with this. The 15-minute film was uploaded to YouTube on December 6, 2012, to a YouTube channel for The YoungEarring that had joined YouTube the day it was posted, and posted only one video. The YouTube description lists the names of several of the cast, the young band and a couple of fans, followed by the names of the real Earring.

And the description concludes, "Met Vriendelijke Dank aan Sint nikolaas" - which Google translates to "With kind thanks to Saint Nicholas." ????????

It's fun to watch, though, at least for Earring fans. Though the kids playing the band members don't look anything like the real Earring in the Sixties. They also look no older than mid-teens, and Barry didn't join the band till 1966 when the other members were 18-20, and Cesar didn't join till four years after that. They did have fans who chased after them, though.

This was apparently some sort of promo film for the single, but when and where it was broadcast is a mystery to me.





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