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That’s just the truth of the matter.Īnyway, Rick Dees was a DJ and Disco Duck was a novelty record. Apparently, it also won the 1977 People’s Choice Award for Best New Song and again, everyone knows that the People’s Choice Awards were determined by people who spent most of their spare time with a credit card, a mirror, and rolled-up twenty. However, I am arguing that a lot of people probably first heard the song while they were high and perhaps trying to talk to a duck and that explains why Disco Duck became a hit. Now, I’m not making the argument that the song Disco Duck was necessarily written while anyone was high, though it probably was. If you doubt me, then I dare you to explain this to me: search and seizure.nanny state.I have long been of the opinion that everything that happened in the world of entertainment during the 70s was the result of cocaine.Then-ABC affiliate WHBQ-TV pre-empting Bandstand for wrestlin at the time and for the aforementioned Ironically, this appearance was never seen in the Memphis area due to With puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made.
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(and similar shows), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage
RICK DEES DISCO DUCK VIDEO TV
Started making the rounds of the popular TV music shows to promote the After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired by station WHBQ-AM, WMPS's primary competition in Memphis.īy the time "Disco Duck" had become a hit, Dees and his "Idiots" Play) the song on his show one morning, his boss fired him citing conflict of interest. On his own show and rival stations in the city refused to play it forįear of promoting the competition. Station management forbade Dees from playing the song Remained in the Top 10 for a total of 10 weeks.įor all its success, "Disco Duck" was shunned by radio stations whereĭees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees workedįor at the time. One week, held the number-two spot for the following four weeks and Hot 100 singles chart, it peaked at number one on October 16, 1976, for "Disco Duck" became a nationwide hit in the United States by September 1976. This video is a tongue in cheek humor of the Disco era, it is campy but a fun song and video