Lou Bandy

Louis Ferdinand Dieben ( The Hague , 19 April 1890 - Zandvoort , June 24, 1959 ), better known by his pseudonym Lou Bandy was a Dutch singer and lecturer in the period between the two world wars was one of the most popular artists in the Netherlands. Among his best known songs include: Who has done in the sugar pea soup, search the sun, Delight yourself in life and Louise isn't biting your nails?.



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 ==[Life  edit ] == ===[Roots  edit ] === Bandy, from a Hague laborer, was working as a bellhop, house servants, street singer and as a conscript in the Navy before he in 1915 began a serious career in vaudeville. Initially, he joined with his brother Willy under the name The Brothers Bandy (Bandy is an Americanised reversing the syllables Die-am).Soon, the characters of the brothers appeared however to collide too strong to cooperate meaningful; unlike Willy Lou was known as a difficult person.
 * 1 Life
 * 1.1 Roots
 * 1.2 Bandy as vedette
 * 1.3 World War II
 * 1.4 aftermath
 * 1.5   Death

Lou continued under the name Lou Bandy. On 21 June 1921 he married the pianist Eugenie cough, a German officer daughter would have a great influence on his career: she brought him neater manners in, made ​​him realize the importance of speaking in polite Dutch and earned him his first lucrative contracts. By supporting young people knew the Hague in the years up to the top of the establishment of artists, impresarios work and theater owners. In1927 their daughter Louise was born. ===Bandy as vedette [  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bandy was known to the public as a singer of sad lyrics, mostly written by Ferry van Delden or Philip Pinkhof (aka Rido). In subjects from his immediate surroundings, he had a less cheerful image. The anecdotes which Bandy his colleagues with contempt a sour note are numerous, as are the stories in which he texts of alcohol drinkers in the Hague Malieveld bought up against minor fee.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">From 1931 Bandy was the crowd puller for the revue The National Revue that in 1939 traded for Young Netherlands. All this time are his trademark straw hat. He was also known for the goocheme witticisms he made in between the songs. He improvised and often did - as a stand-up comedian avant la lettre - often get the laughter of many. Grove texts he never shied away from. A lady who came in late, he greeted with the following words: "Hey Marie, nice that you come, I should not so easily detected with clothes."

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">As an artist was Lou Bandy versatile. He took over as vocalist on records, starred in a couple of Dutch films. In the first, The Girl with the Blue Hat in 1934, he even played a double role. Fien de la Mar and Cees Laseur played a role in his second film, life is not so bad in 1935 . But above all Bandy was a revue-artiest. In 1939 he had a hit with the song Rats, cough and beans . The song Hortensia is known in the elderly. ===World War II <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1940 he bought a villa in Doorn. He tarried love and founded the house in including a collection of paintings by Dutch masters.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">What arrangement has been in the war years remains unclear. In early 1941, Bandy was a member of an advisory board for the Department of Cabaret, which was to advise on an institution set up by the Germans, the Kultuurkamer . This action was Bandy resented. Probably he had in his ignorance allowed in this, because during his performances, he prove his anti-German feelings by singing patriotic songs.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1942 Bandy was arrested for anti-German provocation. He had a performance during the lame mockery of Seyss-Inquart imitated. Among the audience present NSB reported the incident to the occupier. He spent a night in the Scheveningen prison and later transferred and interned in a hostage camp in Haaren . By simulating a heart ailment he was released. He also wrote a submissive letter to the occupier asking to be allowed to occur again.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A short time later he was arrested again and taken to a hostage camp. He attempted suicide. After nursing he came around Christmas 1942 back home. He was placed under house arrest and was inDoorn remain. Because of this, he performed not during the remaining war years.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1944 he was again to handle setbacks. His wife Eugenie died in February and his brother Willy Derby in April. At the funeral of his brother Bandy admitted in his farewell speech some vulgarities, referring to the fact that Derby while making love had died. Those present were shocked.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The letter to the occupier and his involvement in the Kultuurkamer led up to it after the war Bandy by some as a "mistake" was seen. During his comeback appearance on 23 June 1945 at theConcertgebouw in Amsterdam even appeared a delegation of the Interior Forces on stage to arrest Bandy. "If I have done anything wrong, stone me!" Cried the bandy hall. Several participants interfered with it. The result was that one, pending further investigation of renounced arrest. Bandy was eventually forgiven the offending letter, because this was probably written under great pressure.The cooperation of the majority of the Dutch artists of the Chamber of Culture after the war years with the cloak of charity covered. ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Aftermath  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After the war, Bandy for years one of most popular Dutch artists but in the fifties proved its heyday had passed. The great revues in which he had always shone were no longer wanted and Bandy had to be content with smaller performances at the gig circuit. He has also performed regularly at the popular radio program The colorful train Tuesday night .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bandy's need to strike the hook young girls forced itself more emphatically to the fore. That during his marriage in this area had a strong amorous conquest ago was an open secret, but after his wife in1944 was deceased led his escapades even in two short-lived marriages: from 27 July 1948 to 9 March 1949 with Sinia Franke ( 1925 - 1,975th ) and with the 18-year-old Carla van den Hurk ( 1933 -1976 ), from August 15 1952 until April 16 1958 . Both partners vain Bandy however, were not uncritical admirers that he was looking for and he was not adored by the public. His uncertainty hit into outright stage fright. After the divorce from Carla he ended some time in a psychiatric clinic. ===Death <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The last months of his life he lived alone in an apartment in Zandvoort, where he in 1959 suicide committed. He was buried in the Old General Cemetery in Doorn (S37) next to his first wife. His biographer HP den Aardweg wrote in 1950: "Later, over centuries, when Lou Bandy has long since turned to history and appreciative posterity undertake pilgrimages to his tomb..." In reality Bandy rest in a simple grave in a cemetery no longer in use.