Pebbles, Volume 15 is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 among the LP's in the Pebbles series

Pebbles series

Pebbles is an extensive series of compilation albums in both LP and CD formats that have been issued on several record labels, though mostly by AIP...

. It is the first of 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled The Netherlands 1965-1968. Pebbles, Volume 23

Pebbles, Volume 23

Pebbles, Volume 23 is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series. It is one of 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled Holland, Part 2. Pebbles, Volume 15 and Pebbles, Volume 25 also feature Dutch bands...

and Pebbles, Volume 25

Pebbles, Volume 25

Pebbles, Volume 25 is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series. It is one of the 10 albums in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back and is sub-titled Holland, Part 3. Pebbles, Volume 15 and Pebbles, Volume 23 also feature Dutch bands...

also feature music by Dutch bands. (There is apparently no intention to distinguish between The Netherlands and Holland in the subtitle of this album — technically, North Holland and South Holland are 2 of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands — although the other two albums in the series reference "Holland" instead.)

Release data

This album was released by AIP Records

AIP Records

AIP Records is a record label that was started by Greg Shaw's Bomp! Records, being launched in 1983 to continue the Pebbles series. The abbreviation AIP stands for "Archive International Productions". The first 10 volumes in the Pebbles series had been released by BFD Records of Kookaburra,...

 (as #AIP-10018) in 1984 and was kept in print for many years.

Nature of the Music

The Dutch music scene in the 1960s and 1970s was among the most fertile in the world and is often referred to as Nederpop

Nederpop

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the Dutch pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus....

, a play on the name of the country in the Dutch language, Nederland. Two 1970's hit songs by Dutch bands, "Venus" by Shocking Blue

Shocking Blue

Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 1967. Their biggest hit, "Venus", went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13.5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.-Members:...

 and "Radar Love

Radar Love

"Radar Love" is a song by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. Music critic Bill Lamb rates this among his "top 10 driving songs" due to its lyrics about driving all night and its pulse-quickening, up-tempo beat. The single version of "Radar Love" reached #13 in the US...

" by Golden Earring

Golden Earring

Golden Earring are a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings . They had international chart success with the songs "Radar Love" in 1973, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. In their home country, they had over 40 hits and made over 30 gold and...

 have immense popularity to the present day. In the 1960s, most Nederpop

Nederpop

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the Dutch pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus....

 bands were more heavily influenced by the British Invasion

British Invasion

The British Invasion is a term used to describe the large number of rock and roll, beat, rock, and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States during the time period from 1964 through 1966.- Background :...

 than was the case even with American bands, and these bands had less success in America. Most of the Dutch bands of this period had English-language songs or played only instrumentals; bands that performed exclusively in the Dutch language are represented in the Biet Het series.

Track listing

Side 1:

1. Rob Hoeke Rhythm & Blues Group: "When People Talk" – Rel. 1966
2. The Outsiders
   The Outsiders (Dutch band)
   The Outsiders were a Dutch band from Amsterdam. Their period of greatest popularity in the Netherlands was from 1965–67, but they released records until 1969...
   
   : "You Mistreat Me"
3. The Motions: "Everything (that's Mine)" – Rel. 1966
4. Q65: "It Came to Me" – Rel. 1967
5. The Jay/Jays: "Cruncher" – Rel. 1966
6. The Dream: "The Doting King" – Rel. 1968
7. Dragonfly: "Celestial Empire" – Rel. 1968
8. Groep 1850: "Misty Night" – Rel. 1966

Side 2:

1. Les Baroques: "Summerbeach" – Rel. 1966
2. Cuby & the Blizzards
   Cuby & the Blizzards
   Cuby + Blizzards – also known as Cuby & the Blizzards – are a Dutch blues group that formed in 1964 around Harry Muskee and Eelco Gelling...
   
   : "Stumble and Fall" – Rel. 1965
3. The Phantoms: "I'll Go Crazy" – Rel. 1966
4. Peter & the Blizzards: "Sittin' in My Room" – Rel. 1966
5. Mack: "All My Hope Is Gone" – Rel. 1966
6. The Bintangs: "I’m a Man
   I'm A Man (Bo Diddley song)
   "I'm a Man" is a song written and recorded by Bo Diddley in 1955. A moderately slow blues with a stop-time figure, it was inspired by an earlier blues song and became a #1 R&B chart hit. "I'm a Man" has been acknowledged by Rolling Stone magazine and has been recorded by a variety of artists,...
   
   " (Elias B. McDaniel) – Rel. 1965
7. The Skope: "Be Mine Again"
8. Johnny Kendall, & the Heralds: "St. James Infirmary" – Rel. 1964