For several years, starting in 1948, Arndt Bause was made to learn the piano: by 1955 he had been captivated by music in general and Boogie-woogie in particular.

With a growing family to support, Bause's income from music proved insufficient, and he returned to his trade of glass blowing.

In 1964 the two of them came up with "He, Joe" which in 1964, sung by Gypsy, reached top place in the "Tip Parade", a hit parade-style ranking at this time organised by the national television service.

[1] Further successes followed, with songs written not just for Gypsy, but also for Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel and Andreas Holm.

[2] He was able to use some of the time saved to undertake an external course in composition and tonal structure ("Tonsatz") at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Music Academy in Leipzig between 1969 and 1974.

[9] Arndt Bause died in Berlin suddenly, but surrounded by his family, following a major pulmonary embolism.

[9] The eldest daughter of Arndt and Angret Bause, Katrin Gawenda, became the first "Miss DDR" ("Miss East Germany") when, in 1986, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany arranged a national beauty pageant[10] inside a large temporarily reassigned fire station in Berlin-Marzahn.

[11] Their youngest daughter, Inka Bause,[7] embarked on her own career as a singer in 1985, at this point performing her father's songs.