BURIED TOGETHER
Partner Jaap de Jong, Barrie Stevens, Ernest Bailey
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Amsterdam Begraafplaats Zorgvlied
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Municipality, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Ludovicus Wilhelmus Hubertus Dusee (aka Louis Dusée)
was born on Sunday, February 9, 1930 in Tilburg. Dusée came from a Catholic family. He was the fourth child of five, and his eldest brother and sister both entered the convent. Louis was an altar boy and very creative at school, could draw well, wrote stories and participated in school evenings. After high school, Louis went to the music lyceum and sang in various bands. After graduating, he got an engagement as a singer with the orchestra conducted by Piet Bakker and he performed for the radio. In 1952 he applied to
Wim Sonneveld, and was allowed to participate in The Girl with the Big Feet.
Louis began writing lyrics for the radio play core, including Wigwam and Jodocus the bull. He formed a duo with Mitzy Tieland and they performed a lot in programs of Benny Vreden.
Dusee worked in some shows of De TikTak (the coffee brand) and with Leo Kok. Here he met his first partner, swimming athlete Jaap de Jong. They went to live in De Rapenburgstraat.
Louis performed with Jack and Jill Larcks in 1960, where he worked in English and Dutch programs in Amsterdam with, among others,
Eartha Kitt.
In January 1960 Louis released the single Aan de Amsterdamse grachten, the song that Hans Boskamp had already recorded in 1959. Louis had a nice success with it, but when Wim Sonneveld brought it to the radio in April 1960, no more records by Louis were sold. In 1962 he joined The Snip and Snap Revue, where he soon mastered many facets of the revue: singing, acting and co-writing the lyrics. Louis also started writing lyrics for other artists, such as Corry Brokken, Tonny Huurdeman and De Mounties.
Producer Sleeswijk commissioned Louis to translate the songs from The Sound of Music for the musical that premiered in 1964, with Mieke Bos as Maria and Johannes Heesters as Mr. von Trapp.
During the revue he met the young dancer
Barrie Stevens
and they had a brief relationship. Louis spread his wings and made guest appearances at Der Rudi Carrell Show in Germany, where he participated in a few show blocks.
After De Snip and Snap Revue ended in 1978, he became a radio producer at the Tros for, among other things, the programs Coulissen and Raad een lied or niet, of which Louis sang the title song and also came up with the lyrics of the quiz questions.
Willy Walden and Aase Rasmussen enticed the listeners to sing a song, and who knows, there might have been a word in between.
For more than 25 years they have brought the successful radio program. After Willy Walden indicated that he wanted to quit, Louis continued to produce programs until he suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1988. His partner, Ernest Bailey, whom he had met at the revue, was working at
Jos Brink's play Old New Friends at the time and was given leave to take care of Louis.
Louis never really became the old one again and ended up in 1996 in the Amstelhof nursing home, where Ernest visited him every day, until Louis died in 1999, at the age of 69. Ernest had not listened carefully to his own body because of the care of Louis, and he began to struggle with his own health. Ernest Bailey died in 2001 at the age of 62.
Louis Dusée and Ernest Bailey are buried in Amsterdam, Zorgvlied
Cemetery, Graf N-II-1452.
Ernest's sister Ellen, ensured that all the theater material that was abundantly present in the house of Louis and Ernest came to Theaterarchief
foundation. Exactly one year after the founding of the foundation in 2000 (Ernest was a board member of
the foundation), when he passed away. In addition to the theater material, Louis' private photos have also ended up in the foundation's archives.
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