If I remember it correctly this is the first recording by Johnny Bode (1912-1983). Done in Lindstöm studio 1 Berlin April 9th 1929. with legendaric Dajos Béla. Bode was just seventeen.
The melody You should beware yourself from the woman (Du skall akta dig för kvinnan) was written by Georg Enders (1898-1954) for the Cirkusrevue the same year.
Johnny Bode (1912 - 1983 ) was a Swedish singer, composer and enfant terrible.
The life of Johnny Bode is one of the most amazing in the history of Swedish music. Over and over again, when his career was demolished, he was able to rise and build a new career, only to ruin it himself shortly after.
For the most part, Bode lived far more extravagantly than he was able to afford. But even the fact that he was often broke didn't stop him. He was a master of sneaking out the back door and letting others pay his debts. Another distinguishing characteristic of Bode was his unmatched mythomania. Over and over again he lied to others, a personality flaw that blackened his career. Bode skipped out on countless hotel bills, and was blacklisted by several of Stockholm's finest restaurants. He was also involved in the theft of expensive carpets, and embezzlement through false checks.
After many cases of fraud, he was declared incapable, and put into psychiatric care in the mental hospital.
Before WW II, Bode became fascinated by Nazism. Apparently, it was the combination of uniforms, marches, and pompous culture that enticed the childish Johnny. He was able to get permission from the mental hospital to travel to Finland, where he enlisted with the Nazis. However, Bode soon became impossible and was sent home with an under-officer degree from the Nazi army.
No sooner was Bode back on Swedish soil than he started to ruin his career once again.When the famous Swedish actor Karl Gerhard played his strongly Nazi-critical cabaret \"Tingel-Tangel\", Bode showed up in his Nazi uniform. As a result, the only friends he had ignored him.
Shortly after that, Bode travelled to Norway, where he put up a cabaret for the Norwegian Quisling-regime.This blacklisted him from the Swedish entertinment industry for the rest of his life.
But once again, Bode was making himself unwelcome. He drank too much, was stealing and skipping out on bills again. Bode was even taken in by the Gestapo and was imprisoned in a concentration camp on the island of Grini He was labelled a suspicious person due to his own claims to be a spy for the Swedish government, but by then his mythomania was so widely known that nobody believed him, and he was finally sent back to Sweden.
Later Bode did career as operette composer in Wienna as Juan Delgada until his rumor was known. He was sent back to Sweden for prison.
In the late '60s and early '70s, Bode recorded several pornographic comedy albums.He also released a gay-themed single in Swedish and German, with the songs \"Vi är inte som andra, vi\" (\"We, we're not like the others\"). Still Johnny Bode was a great performer and today famous again, with a lot of Swedish collectors of his recordings.
Beware that a lot of the material at YT with Bode singing from later years are deeply pornographic in the lyrics (if you don't understand Swedish) but they are funny if you have that kind of humour.
