Pi Vèriss, born Piet Visser, was a Dutch songwriter and composer probably best known for writing the Johnny Jordaan hit "Geef mij maar Amsterdam", an immensely popular Jordaanlied.[1] He was awarded the Golden Harp in 1986 for his entire body of work.[2]

Vèriss was the regular songwriter for Johnny Jordaan in the 1950s (apparently he wrote "Geef mij maar Amsterdam" in ten minutes[3]), and wrote and produced a number of other Dutch hit songs, some of which he recorded in the home studio in his attic. In the early 1970s, he owned a building in Baambrugge, in which the Beach Boys recorded Holland (all other studio space in the Netherlands being booked).[4] The studio inside that building was heavily modified from the four-track home studio Vèriss had built[5] in a former chicken coop; the Beach Boys flew the studio equipment in from the United States.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Amsterdams Lijflied: Stadsbewoners leven als oude wolven". Het Parool (in Dutch). 12 October 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pi Vèriss". Buma Harpen Gala (in Dutch). Buma Cultuur. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Amsterdams lijflied: de finale". Het Parool (in Dutch). 5 October 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 Oving, Rens (19 February 2009). "Beach Boys in de polder" (in Dutch). Geschiedenis 24. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Badman, Keith (2004). The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band, on Stage and in the Studio. Backbeat Books. p. 317. ISBN 9780879308186.
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