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This is the closest thing to a scary story I can offer up today... but, the thing about mine is that it is ALL TRUE!
I was in Wisconsin last week and had a great time roadtripping around. Of course, all this time in the car resulted in a lot of time cruising their radio dial. I found myself singing along to some songs I haven't heard in a while (can anyone deny that singing along to "Come On Eileen" isn't a HOOT?!), but one of my finds completely caught me off guard: Rick Dees' "Disco Duck."
It was right there -- square in the Adult Contemporary section of the dial -- amongst the Billy Joel ("Only the Good Dye Young"), Green Day ("When September Ends") and Madonna ("Borderline")! Moreover, when the DJ back announced it, there were no apologies or sarcastic nods.
It was certainly a blast from childhood (a time when it didn't seem so odd to have this on vinyl)... and I had to share. This YouTube version isn't the most Disney-ish (which is how I always envision it)-- but it's weird enough to make you nervously giggle and perhaps scar your day a bit.
My best friend Laura had that too! I remember we made a dance routine to some of those album tracks at a birthday party. It was wickedly cool at the time. But really, the above adults dancing to it in the above video took the cool out of it for me. : )
I had this on a record too, a compilation that was probably by good ol' K-Tel Records. It was funny when I was 10, now it's just kinda goofy and bad. Hmm, I've just remembered the version I had was slightly longer, too - I remember it ends with Rick Dees saying "thank you, thank you very much" and the duck responding with a hearty "you're welcome!" I do like that the full band name is "Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots".
"Disco Mickey Mouse" IS a lost classic! My favorite track from that album was "Macho Duck," which featured Donald Duck channelling the Village People. This song, in my humble opinion, is far superior to Rick Dees' feeble attempt at duckiness.
O my! I forgot all about "Macho Duck" -- we didn't put together a dance routine to that, but in hind sight, we totally should have. I just did a search on YouTube for it and all I could find was dance remixes or foreign language versions. Crazy!
What's really, really, really freakish, though, is those people in the outlandish duck costumes could probably appear in a Sugar Ros or Bjork video and it'd get top billing at pitchfork.
1 imaginary stella said on October 31, 2007
When I got a new record player, one of the first albums I sought to re-add to my collection was "Disco Mickey Mouse." It's a lost classic!
2 imaginary liz said on October 31, 2007
My best friend Laura had that too! I remember we made a dance routine to some of those album tracks at a birthday party. It was wickedly cool at the time. But really, the above adults dancing to it in the above video took the cool out of it for me. : )
3 Phil said on October 31, 2007
I had this on a record too, a compilation that was probably by good ol' K-Tel Records. It was funny when I was 10, now it's just kinda goofy and bad. Hmm, I've just remembered the version I had was slightly longer, too - I remember it ends with Rick Dees saying "thank you, thank you very much" and the duck responding with a hearty "you're welcome!" I do like that the full band name is "Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots".
4 Lincolnish said on October 31, 2007
"Disco Mickey Mouse" IS a lost classic! My favorite track from that album was "Macho Duck," which featured Donald Duck channelling the Village People. This song, in my humble opinion, is far superior to Rick Dees' feeble attempt at duckiness.
5 imaginary liz said on October 31, 2007
O my! I forgot all about "Macho Duck" -- we didn't put together a dance routine to that, but in hind sight, we totally should have. I just did a search on YouTube for it and all I could find was dance remixes or foreign language versions. Crazy!
6 The Grim said on October 31, 2007
Wow. Nice horrifying find, Liz.
What's really, really, really freakish, though, is those people in the outlandish duck costumes could probably appear in a Sugar Ros or Bjork video and it'd get top billing at pitchfork.
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