Le Banana Split

"Le Banana Split" is the debut single by Belgian pop singer Lio. It was a very big hit when it was first released in 1979, selling 700,000 copies.[1] It is considered today Lio's signature song.

"Le Banana Split"
Single by Lio
from the album Lio
Released1979
GenreBubblegum pop, pop punk, new wave
Length2:35 (album/single version)
6:29 (maxi version)
LabelAriola
Songwriter(s)Jacques Duvall, Jay Alanski
Producer(s)Marc Moulin
Lio singles chronology
"Le Banana Split"
(1979)		 "Amoureux solitaires"
(1980)
Music video
"Le Banana Split" on YouTube

Background

"Le Banana Split" has double entendre lyrics about oral sex. In a 2012 Belgian radio interview in which Lio talked about her debut album, Jay Alanski, one of the co-writers of this song, said that Lio, who was sixteen by the time the single was released, was totally aware of the sexual theme of the song when she recorded it.[2]
"Le Banana Split" was remixed in 1995 and re-released to promote Lio's greatest hits album Peste Of!.

Live performances

In 1996, Lio performed a punk version of "Le Banana Split" on the French TV show "Taratata".[3]

In 2009, Lio performed a mostly acoustic version of "Le Banana Split" on the French TV show TV5 Acoustic.[4]

In 2012, Lio performed "Le Banana Split" during the "RFM Party 80" Tour backed by the original instrumental track.[5] She also performed it live with Phantom, the Belgian punk band she was recording and touring with at the time.[6]

Release formats

The single was released on both regular 7" vinyl single backed with the track "Teenager", and 12" maxi vinyl in an extended disco version.

It is available on CD on various Lio compilations such as Les Pop Songs and Je garde quelques images... pour mes vies postérieures, as well as on the 2005 re-issue of her debut album by Ze Records (along with the extended disco version and the b-side "Teenager").

Charts
Chart (1979) Peak
position
French Top 50 1[1]

Cover versions

See also

References
  1. "Lio Est De Retour [1979-2015] - Les Chiffres de ventes - Pure Charts". chartsinfrance.net. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. "YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  3. "Taratata". mytaratata.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  4. "YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  5. "LIO banana banana split amiens rfm party 80 live 19 04 2012 - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  6. "Lio feat Phantom - Banana Splitt (live à Marseille au Poste à Galène) - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
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