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The original title track from the band’s debut album was “Little Greenback”. Bouwens named the band after a character from a detective novel. The band recorded their first album in September 1969, after which, considering this was no soul music, they changed their name to The George Baker Selection.
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Visser and Bouwens wrote the song “Little Greenback” (sic) in the summer of 1969. Soul Invention played covers of songs by Otis Redding and Sam and Dave. The band consisted of Job Netten (guitar), Henk Kramer and Eric Bardoen (saxophone), Jacques Greuter (keyboard and flute), Theo Vermast and later Jan Visser (bass), and Ton Vredenburg (drums). This was a soul band that had been founded the previous year by Henk Kramer in Assendelft. In 1968, Hans Bouwen joined the band, Soul Invention. He sang and played guitar in a schoolband ( The Jokers) with Bob Ketzers, but at the age of 14 he left school and took jobs unloading ships on the Zaan and eventually as a factory worker at a lemonade factory. In 1961, he took the stage name “Body” and formed the band Body and the Wild Cats, with Bob Ketzers and his brother Ruud as well as Gerrit Bruyn on bass, all from Wormerveer. Bouwens was raised by his mother and his grandparents. Months before Bouwens was born, his father, Peppino Caruso, a former Italian soldier from Calabria put to labor by the Germans in nearby Grosthuizen, had been killed while attempting to escape when he was to be transferred to Germany. Hans Bouwens was born in December 1944 in Hoorn, North Holland, the Netherlands. #162: Paloma Blanca by the George Baker Selection