#Rick dees disco duck record tv

#Rick dees disco duck record tv

Д«y the time 'Disco Duck' become a hit, Dees and his 'Idiots' started making the rounds of the popular TV music shows to promote the song. After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired by station WHBQ-AM, WMPS's primary competition in Memphis. When Dees talked about (but did not play) the song on his show one morning, his boss fired him citing conflict of interest. Station management forbade Dees from playing the song on his own show and rival stations in the city refused to play it for fear of promoting the competition. ДЇor all its success, 'Disco Duck' was shunned by radio stations where Dees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees worked for at the time. 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 ten weeks. 'Disco Duck' became a nationwide hit in the United States by September 1976. 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. When the music stops, he sits down, but when he decides to get up and dance again, he finds that everyone in the room is now doing his dance.ДЄ misconception about 'Disco Duck' is that the voice of the duck itself 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 song.

Д¬ombining orchestral disco styles with a Donald Duck-esque voice as the main plot point, the story within 'Disco Duck' centers around a man at a dance party who is overcome by the urge to get up and 'get down' in a duck-like manner. According to Dees, it took one day to write the song, but three months to convince anyone to perform it. Written by Dees, 'Disco Duck' was inspired by a 1960s novelty dance song called 'The Duck', recorded by Jackie Lee in 1965.