Klein Orkest (Little Orchestra) is a Dutch group, founded in 1978. The members of the band were Harrie Jekkers, Niek Nieuwenhuysen, Chris Prins and Leon Smith. The band was born out of a failed cabaret programme "Groot Orkest" (Big Orchestra). Apart from producing albums about "serious" matters (the popular song "Over de muur", across the wall, is an example of this: it concerns the differences between eastern and western Berlin during the times of the Wall), the band also produced albums with children's songs which were sometimes performed in Sesamstraat, the dutch version of Sesame Street. Harrie Jekkers is also well known because of the song "O, o, Den Haag" which was written in 1982, but did not fit well with the repertoire of Klein Orkest.
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