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Johnny Hoes | |
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.jpg) Johnny Hoes (1969) | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Johannes Andreas Hoes |
| Born | April 19, 1917 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | July 23, 2011 (aged 97) Weert, Netherlands |
| Genres | Levenslied, teallap |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Labels | Telstar |
Johannes Andreas (Johnny) Hoes ( Rotterdam , April 19 , 1917 – Weert , July 23, 2011 ) was a Dutch singer , producer and composer - lyricist . His album "Och, if only I had stayed at home with my mother" is considered the best-selling Dutch-language single of all time, with 450,000 copies sold.
Johnny Hoes is known as the king of the sentimental song and was the man behind thousands of sing-alongs, sentimental songs, carnival hits and life songs . Other big hits were The smuggler, That is the end and Fries with mayonnaise (1974).
Since the 1960s he was active in Weert , Limburg, with his own recording studio and record company. He lived in Knokke, Belgium, since 1983.
Biography
[edit]Hoes grew up in Katendrecht as the son of a Dutch sailor. His mother was Belgian. He attended the HBS and played covers with The Four Dutch Serenaders , which also included Joke Bruijs ' father.[1][2] During the German attack on the Netherlands in 1940, he was stationed as a mobilized sergeant near Tungelroy , where he met his future wife. He stayed there during the war years and performed there for American soldiers after the liberation in 1944.
Hoes played in the opening act of Bobbejaan Schoepen in the late 1940s . He worked at Phonogram between 1952 and 1963 , but from 1964 he produced for his own record company Telstar . Johnny Hoes released records as a soloist (sometimes as Andy Field ) as well as with others: De Twee Jantjes , Johnny & Caesarine , Johnny Hoes & Ria Roda , Johnny & Mary and Thomas Berge . Well-known artists such as De Alpenzusjes , de Zangeres Zonder Naam , De Wilmari's , Eddy Wally , de Heikrekels , Normaal , Doe Maar , the Classics , Henk Wijngaard and the Walkers were discovered by him and released records under his label. He was also the producer of the world hit De vogeltjesdans . Since 2003, his sons Adri-Jan Hoes and Johnny Hoes junior have been in charge of Telstar.
In the sixties and seventies Hoes had a radio program on the KRO and his own television show for the VARA under the name Met een lach en een traan . He remained active until a very old age; in January 2011 he recorded his last album, the song How do you do in a duet with Stef Ekkel .
In July 2011, Hoes suffered a serious heart attack, after which he was admitted to the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven. After angioplasty, he was transferred to the St. Jans Gasthuis in Weert on 22 July 2011, where he died a day later at the age of 94.[3][4][5] Hundreds of people paid their last respects to him in the Telstar studios in Weert. He was cremated in Heeze.
Trivia
[edit]- In the Nero album Het Lodderhoofd (1960), Madam Pheip runs into Mister Pheip again after he left her alone at the airport a few pages earlier. She immediately takes revenge and forces him to go with her. Mister Pheip spontaneously starts singing "Oh, if only I had stayed home with my mother..." (strip 123). The song was in the charts when the story ran in the newspaper.
- His hit Oh, if only I had stayed home with my mother , was originally a song in the Venlo dialect, Oh, if only I had stayed home with my mother , written by Frans Boermans and Thuur Luxembourg .
- The single Jelle zal wel zien from 1967 is an adaptation by Wim Kan of Yellow submarine (1966) by The Beatles . Wim Kan's Jelle was Jelle Zijlstra , with Johnny Hoes he was a bus driver.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ "THE FOUR DUTCH SERENADERSmuziekencyclopedie.nl". 2024-10-21.
- ^ "DPG Media Privacy Gate". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ "Entertainment | Het laatste nieuws uit Nederland lees je op Telegraaf.nl". www.telegraaf.nl (in Dutch). 2024-10-21. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ "DPG Media Privacy Gate". myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ P. Bakkes, Language in town and country: Venlo, Roermond and Sittard : p. 56
Source
[edit]- Johnny Hoes: A laugh and a tear , Publisher LJ Veen Amsterdam/Antwerp, 2004. ISBN 90-204-0545-4