Cor Veerman

Musician and producer from Volendam, the Netherlands, who playes bass, keyboard and accordion. Cor Veerman was born into a musical family that is nicknamed Dekker in Volendam. His father Thoom Veerman (1910-1974) was a singer and trumpet player in the EVO Band and had a trumpet, clarinet, three saxophones and an accordion at home. He himself played all these instruments and taught Cor, like his other twelve children, the principles on one or a few of these instruments. Cor Dekker also learned to play music at an early age and joined the fanfare at the age of twelve, alongside, for example Cees Tol, who later played in BZN. The first band Cor played in was the Beatboys. When they changed their name to Left Side, he played on their first 1968 single 5455711. He then left for Alles that released 4555550 on single in 1969. After this he was bass player in the George Baker Selection for three years and went on tours with that band in the Netherlands and other countries, including France, Germany and Turkey. He then released three singles under the alias of Alan Decker, besides Holland also released in Belgium and the UK. His single was the only single entering the Dutch Tipparade for 3 weeks with highest peak Tip 17 in 1972. Around 1979-'80, together with his brother Klaas Dekker, he took the initiative for the founding of De Dekker Band, in which two more brothers and a few other artists such as Theo van Scherpenseel played along. They were active with this band for about seven years. They have only released one single 13335455, of which both songs ended up in 2013 among the top 25 of the Volendammer Top 1000. After De Dekker Band he was the owner of the Motje café in Volendam for 25 years and also a songwriter. The songs of Alan Decker and De Dekker Band were composed by Cor. He also wrote for others, such as the 1983 adaptation of Rosie (originally by Dick Wagner) for the album by The Cats, together with Piet Veerman. In 1997 he was one of the initiators of the first 13535210 CD. This was the kick-off for the series of [l1633512] CD's, during the yearly event of the Volendammer fair. A few years later, in 1999 he started with making a couple of alternative fair CD's starting with 17316241. Cor also has a music studio behind his home C.I.M. Studio Volendam, where he also records music for other artists, such as the 2000 CD [r11540116]. In 2013 he released a CD with self-written songs, which - he says - is one of the only CDs released in the Volendam dialect. His daughter Barbara, who had not previously been active as a singer before, sang along on the CD.