- In 1953 Bobbejaan released the song "Dat is Zwarte Piet". The very popular traditional character Zwarte Piet is part of the Saint Nicholas holiday celebration in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- Died one day after his eighty-fifth birthday.
- In July 2008 he was inducted as the first European into the "Whistler's Hall of Fame", by the US International Whistlers Convention.
- In 1958 Bobbejaan Schoepen bought Zorro's horse from the old television series from revolver-acrobat Casey Tibbs, but the horse stepped on an exposed electricity cable and passed away.
- In 1948, the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt accompanied the first musical productions of Bobbejaan Schoepen.
- In 1945, Schoepen chose Bobbejaan as his artist's name (it means baboon in Afrikaans), after the song "Bobbejaan klim die berg!" ("Bobbejaan Climb That Mountain!").
- Schoepen toured in at least twenty different countries, together with artists such as Josephine Baker, Caterina Valente, (once) Gilbert Bécaud, and Toots Thielemans (who was a guitarist in his band in 1951). He was one of the first Europeans (not including Great Britain) to have appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, one of the most important centers of country music in the US. In 1953 he played there three times with Roy Acuff (1903-1992). There's also knowledge of one performance with the country singer Red Foley (1910-1968) in Springfield, Missouri. The American country singer, Tex Williams, founder of swing country, would later release a cover of his "Fire and Blisters" in the US (1974).
- He worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium.
- His musical career flourished from 1948 to the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of nearly 600 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music.
- He was a singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, a former actor and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park, Bobbejaanland.
- He was sent to prison twice during wartime. He was forced to go work in Germany. As an alternative he chose to sing for the Flemish workers doing compulsory labor. For this he was locked up for three months in the Dossin barracks in Mechelen from October, 1944, without a hearing or a trial.
- He lost his virtuoso whistling ability due to a surgical intervention, and in 1986 he underwent a serious heart operation.
- Bobbejaan could be characterized as a "total performer" and entrepreneur: he was a singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, a former actor and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park, Bobbejaanland.
- He was asked to meet The Rolling Stones at the airport in Zaventem for their first tour of Belgium, but he refused because he had received word of their 'unbearable behavior'.
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