Shpritsz

Shpritsz (the name derives from a colloquial German word for "syringe") is the second studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. The album produced two singles. The first, "Rock & Roll Junkie," did not chart. The second, "Saturday Night," charted in Europe and the United States. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached No. 8 on 3 June 1978, and stayed on the chart for 28 weeks.^[1] It was certified gold in 1978,^[2] and platinum in 1980.^[3]

Shpritsz
Studio album by Herman Brood & His Wild Romance
Released	1978-05-19 (1978-05-19)
Recorded	1977–1978
Studio	Relight Studio, Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Genre	Rock and roll, blues
Length	37:25
Label	Ariola
Producer	Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, Robin Freeman
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance chronology
Street (1977) Shpritsz (2025) Cha Cha (1978)
Singles from Shpritsz
"Rock & Roll Junkie" Released: 1977 "Saturday Night" Released: 1978

Shpritsz was re-released on CD in 2000 by RCA/Ariola. In a 2008 poll by Muziekkrant OOR, the leading Dutch music magazine, Shpritsz was voted the fourth-best Dutch album of all time.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Saturday Night"	Brood, Dany Lademacher	3:42
2.	"Dope Sucks"	Brood, Dany Lademacher	2:06
3.	"One"	Brood, Pé Hawinkels	1:54
4.	"Doin' It"	Brood	2:39
5.	"Champagne (& Wine)"	Roy Johnson, Otis Redding, Alan Walder	3:31
6.	"Back (In Y'r Love)"	Brood, Pé Hawinkels	1:48
7.	"Hit"	Brood, Pé Hawinkels, Dany Lademacher	2:47
8.	"R & Roll Junkie"	Brood	2:46
9.	"Never Enough"	Rommert Boonstra, Brood, Hugo Sinzheimer, Erik Strack	2:31
10.	"Pain"	Rommert Boonstra, Brood	1:52
11.	"Get Lost"	Brood	3:12
12.	"Hot-Talk"	Hugo Sinzheimer, Erik Strack	1:44
13.	"Prisoners"	Brood, Pé Hawinkels	1:40
14.	"Doreen"	Brood, Dany Lademacher, Langenbach	2:32
15.	"Skid Row"	Brood, Pé Hawinkels, Gerrit Veen	2:35

Singles

"Rock & Roll Junkie" was released (with "Street" on the B-side), but never charted. "Saturday Night" was released as a single (with "Phony" and "Pop" on the B-side); it peaked at No. 17 in the Dutch Top 50 on 16 September 1978, and was on the charts for eleven weeks.^[5]

In the United States, "Saturday Night" was released as a single in 1979, and rose to No. 35 in the Billboard Hot 100; the single is referred to in the Billboard charts as "Saturdaynight."^[6]

Personnel

Herman Brood and his Wild Romance

• Herman Brood – piano, keyboards, vocals
• Dany Lademacher – guitar
• Freddy Cavalli – bass
• Cees "Ani" Meerman – drums
• Bertus Borgers – saxophone

with:

• Dee Dee Dekkers, Josee van Iersel – vocals
• Robert Jan Stips – "synthetic panic" synthesizer on "Saturday Night"
• Floor Van Zutphen, Monica Tjen A Kwoei – female vocals
• Bert Jansen – blues harp on "Hit" and "Pain"

Technical

• Robin Freeman – sound engineer
• Pierre Geoffroy Chateau – co-engineer
• Dick van der Meyden, Sylvia Wiggers – cover design
• Anton Corbijn – photography