- In 1928 he released his first gramophone record, which was recorded in Berlin.
- Scholte was discovered by Jules Monasch, who introduced him to Bram Godschalk.
- His tombstone reads the title of his biggest hit Goedenacht en welterusten (Good Night and Good Night behind) a treble clef.
- After primary school, it was decided that Scholte would become a cantor in a synagogue. For this reason he took lessons at the Jewish Seminary for some time, but he never became a cantor.
- After the war, Scholte resumed his career with mainly Jewish songs.
- In 1945 he made a comeback in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. However, it was too hard for him to continue living in the Netherlands and after the war Scholte moved to Antwerp, where he had lived for five years as a child. He then continued his singing career in Belgium where he was very successful.
- After his debut, Scholte was nicknamed 'De Kleine Caruso'. (The little Caruso). At the age of 15/16 he performed under this name in the Tip Top theater - a Jewish family theater.
- Scholte died in the night of 2 to 3 November 1983 and was 82 years old. Bob Scholte was buried on November 8, 1983 at the Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam. Dozens of admirers and colleagues from the world of theater and broadcasting walked along in the funeral procession.
- One of the many awards that Bob Scholte received was the Golden Harp (1966). The Golden Harp is awarded annually to Dutch musicians for their entire oeuvre.
- Bob Scholte was a Jewish-Dutch singer.
- His artist career started when he was offered a child role in the operetta "De Marskramer" by Nap de la Mar in 1916.
- After his death, the few surviving relatives created the 'Bob Scholte ring', a prize to honor Dutch-speaking singers.
- He was a 'knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau' and 'Order of the Crown of Belgium'.
- On June 3, 2015, the Jewish Broadcasting Service broadcast a tribute in which Karin Bloemen, Antje Monteiro, Brigitte Nijman, Thomas Berge, Job Bovelander and Ben Cramer brought Scholte's songs back to life.
- As a small child he did many performances in the Tip Top Theater in the Jodenbreestraat.
- He was a regular employee of de Bonte Dinsdagavondtrein ( a Dutch radio program broadcast by AVRO from 1936 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1957).
- In 1931 Scholte joined the AVRO. With the orchestra of Kovacs Lajos (Louis Schmidt) he gained national fame with the songs 'Oh Monah', ' Goedenacht en welterusten' (Good night and good rest), 'Een huis met een tuintje' (A house with a garden) and 'We gaan naar Rome' (We are going to Rome!.
- Scholte no longer reached the higher notes when his voice broke and therefore stopped singing. After this he started working in a raincoat factory, but he missed the music world. Jazz emerged at this time, which led to Scholte taking up his singing studies again and buying a drum kit. He was one of the first chorus singers to also play the drums while singing.
- During the Second World War, he was the only one of his family and other relatives to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- For his 50th anniversary as an artist, a big party was given for Bob Scholte in Carré where his career had once started. He received a lot of gifts, flowers and appreciative words. At this party, 120 artists performed to celebrate his career. He also sang some Jewish songs himself, accompanied by the choir of Hans Krieg.
- Scholte broke a world record at the age of 57. He was the only singer in the world who, since 1928 - with a short interruption during the war years - had recorded 'hits' on the gramophone record year after year until 1960.
- In 1958, Scholte moved from Antwerp back to Amsterdam with his second wife - with whom he had gone into hiding during the war and it was not until 1963 that he performed in the Netherlands again.
- On February 21, 1941, Bob's birthday, his son Ab was arrested in one of the first raids and Ab ended up in Mauthausen. In October 1941 Ab was dead. His daughter Greetje was also arrested and murdered in September 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Bob and Martha were in hiding but they too were arrested. Bob was put to work as a forced labourer in camp Vught and later came to later ended up in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He had to go there with his singing talent, which was difficult for him.
- On November 20, 1970, Scholte received the honorary medal of merit in Belgium from SABAM, the Belgian association of actors and composers. The medal was awarded to him for bringing the Dutch song to Belgium, making him the first Dutch artist to receive this award.
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