The Motions were a Dutch band from The Hague founded in 1964 and active until 1970.

The lead singer was Rudy Bennett, with Robbie van Leeuwen on guitar, Henk Smitskamp on bass guitar, and Sieb Warner on drums.

[1] Their single "Wasted Words" was their first major hit in the Netherlands in 1965.

[1] Guitar player Robbie van Leeuwen went on to achieve international success as a founder of Shocking Blue, with their song "Venus" in particular.

He had solo hit with in 1967 with "How Can We Hang On to a Dream",[3] another charted song with Galaxy-Lin in the mid-1970s,[4] and then further success as the duo Bennet & Bee later in the early 1980s.