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Jacques Ysaye, who wrote the catchiest jingle in hockey and possibly all of sports, died last week in Brussels, according to a post on his Facebook page. He was 94.




Ysaye, who also used the pseudonym Jack Say, wrote the well-known and infectious “Brass Bonanza” in the mid-70s—a 2010 Hartford Courant article states Ysaye originally named it “Electric Beat”—and it has since been stuck in the heads of anyone who happens to remember the Hartford Whalers, the now-defunct hockey team which adopted it as their theme song. It might have popped into your head as soon as you saw this headline.

Despite the popularity of “Brass Bonanza,” Ysaye said he never received royalties. From Jeff Jacobs’s article:

