.............................., Rick Dees with his band, the Cast Of Idiots went to #1 with Disco Duck!

One hit wonder

luv4u said:

One hit wonder

One hit wonder, huh? Then why is he still around on the radio?

JabarR74 said:

I confess : I didn't know this masterpiece, I won't die ignorant now

Here he is when used to host Solid Gold

And here I was thinking you were going to mention the greatest album of the 1970s -

Songs in the Key of Life - sheer perfection,

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Although disco duck is a classic guilty pleasure, the puppets in that first video are so cheep ass I love it

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JabarR74 said:

luv4u said:

One hit wonder

One hit wonder, huh? Then why is he still around on the radio?

That's because his recording career did not take off

Someone has to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Disco Duck"

Take a quack moment to remember this unlikely No. 1 hit.

By: MeTV Staff Posted: October 7, 2016, 12:10PM

Images: RSO Records / Discogs

If you consider "Disco Duck" to be the most annoying song of all time, ponder this: It could have been much, much bigger. Forty-million-copies-sold bigger.

The novelty tune was used in a scene of Saturday Night Fever. Thus, it was slated for inclusion on the film's soundtrack. However, the manager of Rick Dees, the deejay behind the unlikely hit, nixed the idea. He believed it would cannibalize sales of Dees' album. Oops.

Still, "Disco Duck" had remarkable success for track with a tongue so deep in its cheek that, well, it talked like Donald Duck. When Billboard published its weekly Hot 100 chart on October 16, 1976, "Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots" were sitting at the top. (Just above "A Fifth of Beethoven." It was a unique time in pop music.) The waterfowl-themed dance cut spent a mere week at No. 1 before slipping down a spot for a few weeks — and then further into the public subconscious and the novelty-hit hall of fame.

But in the fall of '76, "Disco Duck" was ubiquitous. Well, everywhere but Memphis. The song had a rough time in Dees' home base. At the duck's conception, the 26-year-old radio personality was working at WMPS-AM.

The station barred Dees from playing his silly disco ditty. The other Memphis stations kept the song off the airwaves, as well, not wanting to promote the employee of a rival station. He did not remain employed for long, however. When Dees simply talked about "Disco Duck," he was axed for conflict of interest.

Urban legend had it that Clarence Nash, the original voice of Disney's Donald Duck, was the man behind the quacks. A quick read of the record's sleeves would have shown that it was in fact Ken Pruitt, a friend of Dees, providing the duck's voice.

A few months later, Dees searched the animal kingdom for another hit and released "Dis-Gorilla." Alas, the Kong-inspired follow-up only managed to climb its way to No. 56 in February 1977. We are assuming nobody will write a remembrance piece for that one.

funkyslsistah said:

I HATE that song!!! I blame it for killing disco.

I doubt it killed disco, it came out in late 1976 well before Disco was fully mainstream.

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1977 and 1978 were the biggest years of good disco and early 1979 was the peak of the gimmicky rubbish like Ethel Merman, Ottawan and Rod Stewart even discoing up. Yet there were awesome songs like Hot Stuff and Bad Girls amongst a bazillion acts with afros and silver disco flares.

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Disco never died ever, just fell out of the mainstream around 1980 when the last big disco hits like Funkytown and Xanadu happened, the movies Xanadu and Can't stop the music featuring the Village People killed the disco buzz.

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Disco was awesome - but 99% of the disco movies were utter crap. Still none were as bad as The Apple (Filmed in Eastern Germany and Yugoslavia) and finally in 1984 when the communist world allowed Disco music a Yugoslavian movie called DISKO came out and was apparently the worst ever made. 1st world places - Can't stop the music is dreck, the Village people being straight.

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Straight white people stole disco off the black and gays and them blamed them when they had moved on, while Blacks had gone to Rap and sexified r and b and the gays had gone into Menergy dance music and later handbag house.

I remember Video Soul playing this video. Miki Howard & Rockwell sing on it

I loved the Disco era!

Back in the day, drinking age in Missouri was 21, so my friends and I would cross the state line where you could drink 3/2 beer in Kansas at the age of 18. So we hit the Disco's up every Friday and Saturday night.

Brings back a lot of good memories.

funkyslsistah said:

I HATE that song!!! I blame it for killing disco.

Thank god for New Wave

JabarR74 said:

.............................., Rick Dees with his band, the Cast Of Idiots went to #1 with Disco Duck!

The funny thing is that there are TWO disco ducks. The one on the left does most of the chorus singing and adds some melodic quacking and Donald Duck style vocals, which I sing to this day.

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Meanwhile the tranny looking glued on weave thing next to Rick Dees, just dances. She does nothing and the backing vocals are done by two very sexy looking African American singers in short hot pants. This thing is so ridiculously camp, it is love able and this is not the first thread about this guilty pleasure classic.

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Stop the hate, it harmed no one, some of us like me have always found ducks hilarious, friendly birds which always seem to be talking like the Disco duck. I mean it will cheer you up when feeling blue like any nonsensical novelty tune. It is also very catchy and quackable. HYou can learn to quack like a pro by studying the quackiness of Mr Duck #1's meldoic quacking. It's not just idle quackery.

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