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"Disco Duck" is a satirical disco novelty song performed by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. At the time, Dees was a Memphis disc jockey. 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).
Billboard declared the album an "utterly inane disk that does not lack charm and merit". [3] Record World said that the second single "Dis-Gorilla" was "every bit as outrageous [as 'Disco Duck'] and could be every bit the hit." [4] "Dis-Gorilla" did not repeat the success of "Disco Duck", only reaching #56 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5]
Irwin the Disco Duck, a.k.a. Irwin the Dynamic Duck, is a fictional character who was featured on a series of children's records from Peter Pan Records. [1] He's depicted as an anthropomorphic white duck with a head of brown hair, usually dressed in 1970s-style clothes ( platform shoes , bell-bottoms , et cetera).
Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song "Disco Duck".
During this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record World chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975, and August 21, 1976, into Billboards club play history.
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Kid Stuff Records, also known originally as The Kid Stuff Repertory Company, was a record label founded in 1975 by Bob McAllister, Artie Kaplin, and Dick Mullen, as a children's music label. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was headquartered and located in Hollywood, Florida , United States , in the Washington Federal Building across from the Hollywood Mall.