MENSCH, DURF TE LEVEN! (MEMENTO VIVERE)

Created on 10/09/2001
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Jean-Louis Pisuisse
Author: Dirk Witte
Label: Favorite
Year: 1917

Both author and Pisuisse died young and tragically: Witte drowned while suffering a heart attack behind the wheel in '32, Pisuisse was shot in 1927 on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam by the jealous ex lover of his third wife.

Covers:

1919:

Klaas Driehuis [as Mensch, Durf Te Sterven]

1920:

Henri Wallig [pupil of Pisuisse for Zonophone]

1941:

Alex De Haas

1958:

Max van Praag [with Sonja Oosterman as Mens, Durf Te Leven!]

1962:

Willy Alberti

1963:

Jasperina de Jong

1964:

Herman Tholen

1967:

Ramses Shaffy

1977:

Willem Nijholt

1982:

Frits Lambrechts

1988:

Amazing Stroopwafels [all as Mens Durf Te Leven]

2002:

Jenny Arean & Willeke Alberti

2005:

Wende Snijders

2013:

Tim Knol [as Mens Durf Te Leven on a Ramses Shaffy tribute]

See also: M'n Eerste.

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