Gruppo Sportivo
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Gruppo Sportivo was a Dutch new wave band, active between 1976 and 2013. They wrote humorous pop songs. In 2018, they reformed.
Zappa references
Gruppo Sportivo covered Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance from Lumpy Gravy note for note on the track "Superman" on their album "10 Mistakes" (1978)
Hans Vandenburg, one of the groups' members, later went solo and started a new group, "Dierenpark". In 2002 he released the album "Slip Tong" (2002), where the track "Hoe je psychiater speld" contains a sample of Peaches En Regalia. Vandenburg also played in a Zappa cover band named The Rubbers of Prevention.
Frank Zappa and Gruppo Sportivo
On 22 November 1979, as guest DJ on WPIX, New York, Frank Zappa played Gruppo Sportivo's song Real Teeth Are Out.
