I was 22 and used to watch the Dutch top 40 countdown on rtl 4 each week here in the UK. this song started, I didn't have a clue what it was but when the shouting started me and my brother both collapsed into hysterical laughter. such language at 5pm on a weekday evening
@@LiaGarciaNu1 read again. the X. who the "X" is Alice. Yes it is a Smokie cover, but Peter Koelewijn's version has the "X" version. Gompie refers to the café's name where the Smokie version got played. And after "Alice" the volume went down the crowd chanted "who the X is Alice". A friend of Peter Koelewijn was on a night in the same café and heard this, a day after Peter recorded the X version and became a hit. After that some others copied that.
THIS is the only way this song should be sung. Too bad so many people are so easily butt hurt these days. I'm 60+ yrs old & I still laugh when I hear it...and I'm not offended. 😀
Hoe Peter K. (weer) een bijdrage levert aan de internationale popmuziek. Wie kan het nummer van Smokey horen zonder er de tussenroep erbij te bedenken?
De naam Gompie verwijst naar het voormalig Nijmeegse café waarin de "who the X" versie gezongen werd, en kreeg daardoor naamsbekendheid en extra klandizie. Voor zowel het café als voor Peter was dit een win-win situatie.
I was 22 and used to watch the Dutch top 40 countdown on rtl 4 each week here in the UK. this song started, I didn't have a clue what it was but when the shouting started me and my brother both collapsed into hysterical laughter. such language at 5pm on a weekday evening
AMAZING, REMEMBER THAT!!!
1999, I was drunker than Cooter’s goat at Irish Kevin’s in Key West, Florida singing this with a few hundred great friends 😊😅😂
This is the original alice x. My compliments. The anthem of karaoke
@@LiaGarciaNu1 you didnt understand my comment. I didnt mean the original song. I meant the original alice x
@@LiaGarciaNu1 read again. the X. who the "X" is Alice. Yes it is a Smokie cover, but Peter Koelewijn's version has the "X" version. Gompie refers to the café's name where the Smokie version got played. And after "Alice" the volume went down the crowd chanted "who the X is Alice". A friend of Peter Koelewijn was on a night in the same café and heard this, a day after Peter recorded the X version and became a hit. After that some others copied that.
THIS is the only way this song should be sung. Too bad so many people are so easily butt hurt these days. I'm 60+ yrs old & I still laugh when I hear it...and I'm not offended. 😀
Yes, for sure! 😁.
I would be to if there n boogie at my six.
So many happy memories🤣😂😍🤩
WhyI I know this version and I didn't know any of the previous ones, let alone the original, is beyond my understanding.😄😄😄
Love it love it love it beautiful
Perfect ❤
Love it🙏🙏
Beautiful
Hoe Peter K. (weer) een bijdrage levert aan de internationale popmuziek. Wie kan het nummer van Smokey horen zonder er de tussenroep erbij te bedenken?
New World is the original from 1972. Smokie did there own rendition in 1976
Door een DJ geintje in een kroeg te jatten? Meh..
De naam Gompie verwijst naar het voormalig Nijmeegse café waarin de "who the X" versie gezongen werd, en kreeg daardoor naamsbekendheid en extra klandizie. Voor zowel het café als voor Peter was dit een win-win situatie.
@@chris1978nl Zo trots op Nijmegen, Hertogstraat, Café Gompie en de mensen die dit allemaal mogelijk maakt - iconisch creatie !
That I didn't know but who is Alice?! @@LCHH
een mooie nummer en zo heet mijn dochter na het nummer van Peter Koelewijn
Gompie?
Johhny Bravo at the very end with a Guitar lmfao.
And whatever he's playing, that first note is the same as how the title theme of the Monk series starts. :D
WOW
Mein Studium
Stern
Alex?
Fehlt ja die Hälfte.
Rhyme or reason?
Got neither, or girls might disagree
This song miss alot of original text.
There's some cuts made in this particular clip but the true recording of "who the X is Alice" has all the lyrics intact.