But when Dees appeared on The Midnight Special and went on a live tour along the East Coast, he hired a band, backing singers and a commercial artist, Michael Chesney, to perform the duck vocals, and they did everything live. This appearance was never seen in the Memphis area due to then-ABC affiliate WHBQ-TV pre-empting Bandstand for wrestling at the time and for the aforementioned Memphis radio avoidance reasons. On American Bandstand (and similar shows), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made.
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īy the time "Disco Duck" had become a hit, Dees and his "Idiots" started making the rounds of the popular TV music shows to promote the record.
After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired on at WMPS' primary competition, WHBQ, who gave him permission to play his song. When Dees merely mentioned the song on his show one morning, WMPS management fired him citing conflict of interest. įor all its success, "Disco Duck" got very little airplay in Memphis, including at WMPS, the station Dees worked for at the time Dees was forbidden by station management to play the record on his own show, and rival stations refused to play it for fear of promoting the competition. On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, it peaked at number one on October 16, 1976, for one week, held the number-two spot for the following four weeks and remained in the Top 10 for a total of 10 weeks. "Disco Duck" became a nationwide hit in the United States by September 1976. He even parodies Yakky's signature phrase, "Are you my mama?", saying "I've got to have me a mama!" Response and impact In fact, the voice emulates that of Yakky Doodle, a Hanna-Barbera animated duck who appeared on TV in 19 and was still seen regularly on afternoon TV cartoon shows in the late 1970s. For the live tour, the duck vocals were handled by Michael Chesney, another acquaintance of Dees. The voice of the duck was performed by Ken Pruitt, an acquaintance of Dees, as stated on the label of the RSO release. ( March 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī misconception about "Disco Duck" is that the voice of the duck was provided by Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck in many Walt Disney cartoons, but on several occasions the Disney Company maintained that Nash never contributed to the record. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The song earned a 1977 People's Choice Award for Favorite New Song. "Disco Duck" was initially released in the south by Estelle Axton's Fretone label, but it was later released by RSO Records for national and international distribution. It also made the top 20 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, peaking at number 15. It became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in October 1976 (and ranked #97 out of the 100 most popular songs of the year according to Billboard magazine). At the time, Dees was a Memphis disc jockey. " Disco Duck" is a satirical disco novelty song performed by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots singles chronology Disco Disco Duck.1976 single by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots "Disco Duck" Quack quack! Quack quack! Wanna more! Go go. AII right! Disco Disco Duck oh get it off Mama! Oh Mama shake your tail feathers ha ha ha ha ha! Ah ! The music stopped I returned to my seat But there's no stoppin' a duck in his beat Quack quack! Quack quack! So I got back up to try my luck Disco Disco Disco Disco Disco Discoĭisco Disco Duck. Ah Rick Dees - Disco Duck - let's go Mama! Try your luck don't be a cluck. Send me a plumber!" Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Disco Disco Duck. Quack quack! Flappin' my arms I began to cluck go do! Quack! Look at me I'm the Disco Duck! Ah! Let's go Mama! I said
Go go go go go go go go go go Quack quack! Go go! Quack quack! Quack quack! Go go! Quack quack! Go go! I went to a party the other nightĪll the ladies were treatin' me right Movin' my feet to the disco beat how in the world could I keep my feet? Go go! Go go! Go go! Go go! All of a sudden I began to change I was on the dance floor actin' strange.
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