Pi Vèriss, born Piet Visser, was a Dutch songwriter and composer probably best known for writing the

Johnny Jordaan Johnny Jordaan was the pseudonym for Johannes Hendricus van Musscher (7 February 1924 – 8 January 1989), a Dutch singer of popular music, in particular the genre known as ''levenslied'', a Dutch variety of the French ''chanson''. He was well kn ...

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Geef mij maar Amsterdam "Geef mij maar Amsterdam" ("I prefer Amsterdam") is a 1955 List of songs about Amsterdam, song about Amsterdam by Dutch singer Johnny Jordaan. The text is by Pi Veriss, and the music is written by Harry de Groot. A hit song when it was first releas ...

", an immensely popular '' Jordaanlied''. He was awarded the

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in 1986 for his entire body of work. Vèriss was the regular songwriter for Johnny Jordaan in the 1950s (apparently he wrote "Geef mij maar Amsterdam" in ten minutes), and wrote and produced a number of other Dutch hit songs, some of which he recorded in the home studio in his attic. In the early 1970s, he owned a building in Baambrugge, in which the

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'' (all other studio space in the Netherlands being booked). The studio inside that building was heavily modified from the four-track home studio Vèriss had built in a former chicken coop; the Beach Boys flew the studio equipment in from the United States.

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