As a sign of fate, he died on our national holiday. JJ Lionel, the creator of La Danse des canards, song queen of the balls of the firemen and all the popular balls of France and Navarre, died on the night of July 13th to 14th, carried away by a brain tumor at the age 72 years old.
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In 1981 his favorite song, inspired by Vogeltdans, a Swiss tune, written by Hector Delfosse, Georges Delfosse and Éric Genty, went around the world and sold some 3.5 million records. This huge figure will allow him to appear in the Book of Records two years later.
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Jean-Jacques Lionel was born on August 9, 1947 in Binche in Belgium. Inspired by a mother pianist, he was passionate about music from his earliest childhood. Like Obélix, he would later recognize "that he had fallen into the pot". Graduated from the first price of double bass from the conservatory of the city of Mons, his qualities of instrumentalist allow him very early to become professional.
Stir her butt by corner-corner
In 1967, he created a group The Raylisters, which repeatedly played the songs of Fats Domino, the idol of their singer Marc Wasterlain. It was with his first accomplices that he tried his hand at what would become his favorite instrument, the bass guitar.
Then from 1971 to 1973, he returned to his first love, rock, with the group Wallace Collection. Together, he created a world hit , Daydream . In 1981, his destiny changed when in a ball he was asked to play Volgeltchesdans , an Austro-Swiss air purely instrumental. Suddenly, the bodies jiggle, the atmosphere becomes electric. Three weeks later, a version sung in French is released on the air. Carried away by unpretentious words and a catchy air, the whole world was going to be able to finally voluptuously stir his ass by cornering.
By a curious paradox, this gay refrain, which as if by magic forty years after its release always lights up the trendy evenings and the most sleepy village festivals, has not made its creator rich. JJ Julien, unfortunately, had only been the best interpreter ...
The Duck Dance sung in 1981 by JJ Lionel
