Discography
‘Debuut’ (1979), ‘ ’n Jaar in my lewe’ (1980), ‘Vir Jou’ (1981), ‘Jy is te dierbaar’ (1983) ‘Laurika op versoek’ (1985) and ‘Encore! Laurika’ (1988):
These vinyl albums provided some of Rauch’s greatest hits. Anton Goosen still provided many of the compositions on ‘Debuut’, with songs such as ‘Neanderdalman’ and ‘Vergeet om my te vergeet/onthou om te onthou’. Kupido, who would later achieve fame as a country singer, provided ‘Jy is te dierbaar’ and ‘Lied van die natuur’ on the 1983 album ‘Jy is te dierbaar’. With ‘Encore!Laurika’ Chris Torr emerged on the scene as a songwriter with tracks such as ‘Miekie’ and ‘Die ballade van Jakob F de Beer’. It was actually ‘Op Blouberg se strand’ – his translation of the Udo Jürgens song – that was particularly popular with the public.
'Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux’ (1990), ‘Die gang’ (1992) and afterwards:
'Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux’ was her first Afrikaans album to reach platinum status, and it was the first Afrikaans album ever to appear in South Africa as a CD. Chris Torr provided the title track about the legendary rugby player Mannetjies Roux. ‘Die gang’ was the first album that Rauch released in the name of her own record company, ‘Laurika Rauch Productions’. The gripping title track of the ‘Hot Gates’ album of 1995 was also one of Torr’s compositions. It remains one of Rauch’s greatest hits. Rauch received a SAMA for this album. With ‘The Brel Album’ (1997) she returned to her roots as a great interpreter of the music of Jacques Brel.
Although there have been other successful greatest hits compilations, her ‘19 Treffers van 21 jaar’ (1999) was a collection spanning more than 20 years of her career. This compilation has obtained double platinum status with sales of more than 120 000 and remains a good seller.
Gian Groen provided the title track of ‘Vier Seisoene Kind’ (2002) and it remains one of her most popular songs. ‘My ou tante Koba’ (2004) was nominated for a SAMA. On her album ‘Tweeduisend-en-tien!’ (2010), she performs a duet with Kurt Darren (‘Slang in die gras’) and the Robbie Wessels song ‘Skouspel 2010’, about a baboon that creates chaos in a hotel room, provides comic relief with the aid of baboon sounds provided by the musician Leon Ecroignard. Her first and only full-length DVD of a performance, with Deon de Bruyn as director and Louis Brittz as musical director, appeared in 2006. The title is ‘LAURIKA RAUCH: Grootste treffers LIVE’.
Including compilations of her greatest hits, Rauch has released 22 albums.
- Debuut (1979) -
- 'n Jaar in my lewe (1980) -
- Vir jou (1981) -
- Jy is te dierbaar (1983) -
- Laurika op versoek (1985) -
- Encore! Laurika (1988) -
- Stuur Groete aan Mannetjies Roux (1990) -
- Grootste Treffers Vol. 1 (1991) -
- Die gang (1992) -
- Hot gates (1995) -
- Grootste treffers Vol.2 (1996) -
- The Brel album (1997) -
- 19 Treffers van 21 Jaar (1999) -
- Die Mense op die bus (1999) -
- Hei Mevrou Brown (dit gaan goed) (2000) -
- Vier seisoene kind (2002) -
- My ou tante Koba (2004) -
- Die nuwe trefferalbum (2004) -
- Chris se trefferliedjies (2005) -
- 'n Lekker verlang liedjie (2007) -
- Tweeduisend-en-tien! (2010) -
- Laurika Rauch sing die liedjies uit 'Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux' (2011)
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