Werner Thomas (born 1928/1929
) is an
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
ist born in
Davos
Davos (, ; or ; ; Old ) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of (). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian ...
, Switzerland, credited with composing the German language tune in 1957 known as "Der Ententanz" (literally The Duck Dance) later known as the "
Chicken Dance
The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance, Danse des Canards, the Duck Dance, El Baile de los Pajaritos, O Baile dos Passarinhos, Il B ...
" or the "Birdie Song" while working as a restaurant musician during the 1950s.
References
External links
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HitParade.CH: Werner Thomas
Deutsches Musikarchiv: Werner Thomas
Living people
Swiss accordionists
Swiss composers
Swiss male composers
21st-century accordionists
21st-century Swiss male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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