André Brasseur, is a Belgian keyboard player and organist

Organist

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Brasseur has released many albums and singles in his own country, but internationally is best known for his double A sided single The Kid/Holiday, which was released on the CBS

CBS

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 label in the UK. Though it never reached the UK charts, The Kid became popular in the famous Northern Soul

Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound...

 venue The Twisted Wheel, based in Manchester

Manchester

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, and DJ Noel Edmonds

Noel Edmonds

Noel Ernest Edmonds, is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show, Telly Addicts, Noel's Saturday...

 used Holiday as the theme tune to his Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 programme in the 1970s. In the same period at Radio Veronica

Radio Veronica

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, a Dutch pirate radio

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, DJ Lex Harding used The Kid as the opening sequence to his daily afternoon broadcast program.

Brasseur is also famous for his 1965 instrumental single 'Early Bird

Early Bird

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', which sold over 6 million copies worldwide. His 1967 single Waiting For You was used as the signature tune to the 1970s Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 series Indoor League

Indoor League

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