Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck TOTP ( 1976 )

This was a 70s hit for Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots

[@barryervin8536]

This may be the only song that Weird Al couldn't even do a parody of.

[@liquidalloy]

He can do a reverse parody and make it a serious song

[@The1234craig]

He didn't, but he did do a song called I Want A New Duck (I Want A New Drug).

[@DBLDoG]

Not even Weird Al could fuck that mess up

[@TheRampantLion]

Blasphemy!

[@RobKandell]

Al is a genius, not a magician.

[@Thecuregalore94]

This was simultaneously the low point and high point in music history.

[@coinraker6497]

High point was the girls, low point was the ducks.

[@TheYetzerHara]

Thecuregalore94 High as hell

[@robpalmer9051]

In the fall of 76, it went to #1 in the charts. There's your high.

[@rivotrich7]

There was a reason for the “high” point in this.

[@rivotrich7]

@Thomas Pickens and coke

[@explorer1968]

As a boy nearing adolescence, this was my delight believing that Donald Duck made the song!

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I want this played at my funeral... 🦆

[@pwc7475]

Tanks for the smile

[@haroldbadilla3224]

Mejor "simphony of Destrucción"

[@papina54]

50th like, qkwack

[@gradywilson9213]

😂

[@wesleyblanton2432]

This song might be the cause of my Funeral.

[@petermacleod9030]

Song is called Disco Duck, but a giant goose gets on stage and starts dancing. That sums up the 70s.

[@Kljukva]

It's not a goose, it's white peckin duck.

[@davidwirth2716]

Snow Goose!

[@oldlogin3383]

Giant goose and they all do a chicken dance...

[@kona702]

I wanna be in the 70's 😔

[@mlesnoski]

Duck you

[@jaksooon]

Therapist: Disco Duck's not real, he can't hurt you. Disco Duck:

[@HeartoftheDragonColo]

He can if you watch this video.

[@charlesbrowning9748]

You might try to convince the people whose careers it ruined.

[@thomasromano9321]

Who says Donald Duck ever hurt anyone? Except their sides 'cause they're laughing so hard.

[@richardlaceyfield9]

I was four years old when this came out. I loved it so much then . Now at 51 I still love it .

[@baylockbuckingham3650]

This was the turning point for disco…all down hill after this. RIP Disco

[@DiscoMatty79]

Wrong. You had goofy stuff like this, and also had some of the most beautiful records ever produced.

[@deepthoughts8393]

Speak for yoself 80’s and 90’s ruled

[@ivanmartin1457]

RIP Disco? Quite the opossite. During the last ten years, acts like Daft Punk, Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa, BTS or Lizzo have had worldwide hits with songs heavily influenced by disco.

[@AdilAli-ur8mz]

disagree disco reached it’s peak in 78

[@baylockbuckingham3650]

@@ivanmartin1457 I was talking about disco, not “what has been influenced by disco.” I was talking about an era, not just music.

[@jckrell]

Rick Dees was a disc jockey in Memphis when he did this song. He had a morning show on WMPS in Memphis. I was in high school and his show was the funniest thing around. He was extremely talented and we had never heard anything like him. He had a million different voices/characters he would do. Elvis was one. The mayor of Memphis at that time was another popular one. Can remember going to school in the mornings and listening to him and not wanting to get out of the car because we were laughing so hard. He came out with this song but it just seemed to be another one of his many hilarious things he was doing, only this one went national. The program director of the radio station told him he could not play his song on the air and he did it anyway and they fired him. He immediately got another job at a competing radio station in town but by now he was nationally famous and he ended up leaving Memphis for L.A. not long after this song came out.

[@poodlestix]

Cool, thanks for the back story!

[@miguelito6120]

Gracias por el dato. Saludos.

[@thomaskendrick6766]

Former Memphian confirms every word of this

[@frednugent2310]

As someone who never lived in Memphis I gotta give a thumbs up because he sounds similar to my growing up DJs out of Houston,Texas. I grew up listening to Stevens and Pruitt in Houston, Texas on 101 KLOL and they were even better than Rick Dees. Don't take my word for it, research it yourself.

[@gradywilson9213]

Right on the money.

[@mikebaginy8731]

Oh dear! I haven't heard this tune is YEARS! Delightful, how silly we once were.

[@andyblair8142]

I really wish I had a time machine to go back to the 70s it was the best time in my life

[@sparkym.5791]

I was 13 when this came out oh, I knew all the moves and dance like this for almost a year along with all my friends. I finally convinced my mom to buy me the album and I still have it today😋😁😂

[@philipnorris6542]

Good for you, Sparky.

[@nightfangs2910]

I was 10 man looking back now 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@randallhesse5011]

I was 11 and a half years old. It was the biggest new thing amongst the older teenie boppers in my neighborhood. The new AM radio delight. One year before the younger generation started feathering their hair.

[@davehoward22]

I was 9..

[@Ninnjette-]

If you apologize for this for your generation, then I will apologize for the Macarena from mine. Deal?

[@nicholaskocis8513]

One of the funniest disco tunes of the 70s.

[@luizhonorio9917]

SENSACIONAL

[@nirmalsuki]

Still better than 95% of today's mainstream music.

[@rozzie101]

Agreed

[@MagDiSante]

Well, please don't exaggerate 🙂 !!! I like electronic dance music, but in any case i also find 70s disco music GREAT in most cases ... but NOT in all cases, there was trashy stuff even then and this is an example, IMHO ... !

[@tomflorio3639]

I don't listen to any of today's mainstream music, yet I am still confident that this is not true. 😄

[@jasonpeters9716]

That's not saying much

[@jasonpeters9716]

This pretty embarrassing. Thank GAWD went High School fr 1991-95...

[@thinkforyourself2109]

I remember when this came out. All the kids were singing "disco duck" and trying to do that voice. Most popular song back then at recess.

[@Enjoymentboy]

I remember this so vividly when I was 4. I can still hear it in the background as I picture myself sitting on the stairs at the front door. It does show though that the 1970's clearly had a much better selection of drugs to choose from than we have today.

[@R.e.m.y.H.]

Hahaha, I just discovered this and am laughing my ass off!!!

[@SueP-D]

So, SO bummed to say this was an actual song with I was 15 😢. Never, shall we EVER, repeat the 70s 🤣🤣🤣

[@lisameyers9192]

Preschool for me when we used to listen to this in class. Crazy! Forgot about this til just mow. Wow!

[@carlh429]

Catchy and horrific in equal measure. I wish I could say I don't remember this but I do...help.

[@thedarksideoftheforce6658]

It's cool Carl we all know you secretly put on duck costume late night dancing in front of the mirror. Haha

[@carlh429]

I'd stop it but you do keep lending me the costume

[@johnholfelder6724]

Carl H it was actually playing in the background in the movie “Saturday Night Fever”during one of the scenes at the disco.

[@roxannestorm2616]

Brought to you by Aflac LMAO 😂

[@SueP-D]

🙋🏼‍♀️ I was 15 😭😭😭😭. Damn there was some sucky music then.

[@athalbereht9022]

Drugs in 70s were powerful and magnificent.

[@chrisreed3929]

And boy, did you need them to cope with this s*@%

[@ronniebentley5847]

Damn aure was. Had a blast.

[@k9laxamana]

70'S Music Had It All! 🎶🎵🎶🎵

[@TheQ-Continuum]

This would have probably done well at Eurovision !

[@thinkforyourself2109]

It was a big hit at schoolyards among elementary school kids when it came out.

[@trevorthomas553]

can't believe I actually watched 2 minutes of it! it's ok getting a check up tomorrow

[@ahinds100]

I love it!! Disco music is the best. I wish it was still around. Their dance moves are awesome.

[@HUMAN01Lofty]

It is still around. Never went away, just hit the underground. I have some disco on my channel.

[@ahinds100]

@@HUMAN01Lofty I feel like house music is disco in disguise. 😊

[@HUMAN01Lofty]

@@ahinds100 IT IS!!! Wow.. you know what time it is 😃 I also have house on my channel.. I love it!

[@ahinds100]

@@HUMAN01Lofty Nice!!

[@HUMAN01Lofty]

@@ahinds100 ❤️🙏

[@Cyan3031]

Compared to todays crap this is true art

[@tiago2189]

Both sucks

[@wintermute8315]

There is so much incredible music around today. I feel so much pity for you that you somehow have managed to avoid it all.

[@davehoward22]

Give me this over taylor swift and billy elish all day

[@compfox]

At that time we took this for parody. It was just for fun. There's no parody in actual chart music to be found.

[@lougatto4643]

I definitely remember this as a kid in 1st grade. Brings me back! I always loved that bass line......

[@williamgreene4834]

After 40 some years I was finally able to un-hear this. Now it's back.

[@HUMAN01Lofty]

LOL

[@stephengamber7000]

Rick Dees was an L.A. DJ for years!

[@LuLou-rm7nw]

The song and video is innocent fun. A glimpse of a carefree time that will never return. Those were actually better times. People got along better and weren't so butthurt and angry.

[@frednugent2310]

I sure wish I was back in the 70s. I understand every generation has their decade but the 70s and 80s were the best.

[@alpharob6959]

Hands down the best decades 70s and 80s so much fun and ppl knew how to have a good time

[@itmightbe]

“Guys trust the 70s were the best time for music. Yeah we had disco duck, but at least it better that all of this mumble rap garbage!”

[@joemartin1253]

Ahh 1976 back when people didn't take life too damn seriously!

[@MissyLovesToRead]

probably because they were all on drugs

[@joemartin1253]

@@MissyLovesToRead Wrong everyone today is on drugs aka prescription drugs that shit is worse my friend!

[@MissyLovesToRead]

@@joemartin1253 I'm not on drugs or prescription drugs so your point is moot

[@codycooper2261]

i was 4 years old. the only drug I was ever on was that refrigerated pink bubblegum cough medicine mom gave me…man that shit was good!

[@wintermute8315]

This categorically sucks, mate.

[@rossmorebaz]

this is my therapy when im having a bad day .. sometimes you just gotta let your hair down and have a boogie

[@user-tb9ob6ze2s]

I would say it's better than 100 % of today's junk .

[@49erfaithful86]

Absolutely not lol

[@49erfaithful86]

@@McCurtainCounty888that’s the only artist you can think of?

[@ThouSwell-zx3fd]

​@@49erfaithful86..or lady gaga or bruno mars or adele or rhianna or 🤢🤮

[@49erfaithful86]

@@ThouSwell-zx3fd you’re naming off some people that can actually sing without auto tune 🤔

[@ThouSwell-zx3fd]

@@49erfaithful86 But the music itself is wretched

[@tjackson4708]

Good grief!!!! This video would be effective as a "SAY NO TO DRUGS" TV campaign!!! LOL

[@Perrygentry777]

takes me back to the days of 8 track. i remember this song from way back.

[@6koko3]

Even this 70's trash music is way better than today's music.

[@americawasnteverthatgreati6976]

Now that is just a ridiculous and phenomenally ignorant statement.

[@khosrow]

This is even stupid for a troll statement. That song was a major factor in killing an entire genre.

[@tcapone1734]

Today all music (noise) is trash. The 70's were the best.

[@TheRealMiamiman70]

@@americawasnteverthatgreati6976 This song is complete utter garbage, and contributed to the downfall of disco

[@toasteee252]

Seeing how disco survived for a few years after this, your statement 7 years ago wasn't true. If anything new wave and rock killed disco.

[@stevemalek2970]

The 70s is known for being possibly the greatest decade for music...and then we have this...

[@ramonjrusa]

I disagree on being greatest

[@stevemalek2970]

@@ramonjrusa No one cares

[@ramonjrusa]

Lies. I care

[@fernandoiglesias5707]

This was appropriate for me and my crew when I was 12.

[@michaelblair5566]

I was 4 when this came out.

[@DiscoMatty79]

@@michaelblair5566 do you remember this era?

[@kpimkpim349]

My toddler, for reasons that are beyond me, loves this

[@bigverybadtom]

It could be worse. He could love Barney the Dinosaur.

[@fstrgray82]

Disco Duck or Baby Shark? I’ll take the duck.

[@youdbettertube]

Your toddler has taste 💅🏻

[@KyliePanozzo-xs3ps]

I grew up with this song When I was little! I absolutely loved listening it🥰

[@melissarainchild]

Disco is all about having fun...hence...this song 🙃🙂😉

[@arthurdayne01]

Still better than anything Justin Bieber has put out.

[@tomberry5517]

Some distant day, a scholar seeking to rediscover the music of the past will find Beethoven and Mozart . . . and then this . . . and at that moment the scholar will know why society collapsed.

[@capitanfuturo594]

THE 70'S WAS AMAZING !!!

[@ressljs]

I'm just old enough to remember the 70's, but of course at the time, I didn't know anything else. But in retrospect, it just seems like this crazy mythical age, as absurd as it was magical.

[@SueP-D]

It was HORRIBLE 😫. Until New Wave hit, that is.

[@davehoward22]

Thank god for punk rock

[@BrianSmith-jx7td]

The 90s were better

[@Tomekkplk]

@@BrianSmith-jx7td the 90's are the 4-5th best decade. 60's-80's hold the top 3

[@BilboBegginz]

I remember being in 6th grade and they let us listen to records during lunch period, and this was always everyone’s favorite 😂

[@todd8414]

Great memories of 1976! I miss those days!

[@SueP-D]

Noooooooooo! 😱. We can NEVER, EVER repeat the 70s 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@bigverybadtom]

@@SueP-D Actually we are, since Biden was put into the White House.

[@SueP-D]

@@bigverybadtom Oof 😅

[@williamtaylor8020]

Todd miss those days

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1984 {September 7th} Los Angeles Rick Dees replaced singer Marilyn McCoo at the host of the syndicated TV music program 'Solid Gold"*... Exactly eight years earlier on September 7th, 1976 "Disco Duck (Part 1)" by Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots was at #26 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, a little over three weeks later on October 10th it would peak at #1 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for almost a half-year {25 weeks}... Rick and the Cast had one other Top 100 record, "Dis-Gorilla (Part 1)", it entered the chart on January 9th, 1977 at position #77, and it remained on the chart for six weeks, peaking at #56... * 'Solid Gold' aired from 1980 to 1988 with 332 original episodes...

[@Themanyfacesofego]

That was quite a quick costume change the dancers did ( from 1.30 to about 1.55) to suddenly appear as baby ducks. Very professional.

[@white-dragon4424]

I can't believe this was filmed in England. How things have changed since the 70's.

[@manchild3479]

even this is better than what they call todays best......................

[@TrexxSFV]

Ok boomer

[@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom]

Fuck no. Today's best isn't on the radio by the way.

[@mkl62]

A #1 hit for Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots in October 1976. It went to #1 on the Cash Box charts and to #15 on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It charted in a lot of places outside of the US. The highest at #1 in Canada and #7 in New Zealand and in West Germany.

[@planner812]

This was my favorite song when I was 12 because anybody can Disco

[@hawkeyepierce7035]

Damn, they got some moves! Wish I could move as smooth as that!

[@steveng8727]

Quite possibly the best song of all time..!!

[@MajorSeventh]

You might enjoy _My Pal Foot Foot_ by The Shaggs then.

[@darylkanofski9327]

@@MajorSeventh is that a favourite song of yours

[@MrJohnlennon007]

@@MajorSeventh that is probably the most complex song ever musically

[@stevenpollard5171]

Don.t forget about ”The Bird is the Word” and “Transfusion” and “GiTarzan!”

[@TheInkPitOx]

When my sister and I were kids the DJ at our pool would play Disco Duck sometimes and hold up a coordinating puppet.

[@arosenthal2011]

I love ❤ disco. Bringing back the. 70s

[@adriancalin8688]

Ariel i met 1 like What cn i say Ady ovidiu

[@juscelinoliberatodeaquino9059]

I love it.

[@rivotrich7]

That moment when you wake up from that wild party, and your friend shows you the video they took of you that night 😱

[@kylebourne6217]

They must've played this song on repeat in Guantanimo bay .😂😂

[@thomasromano9321]

Probably. And the worst religious Muslim fanatics all converted to another religion real quick. They were all caught dancing.

[@aestheticallypleasing3147]

remember this so vividly on the car radio when i was younger back in 2010s

[@NauticaSea217]

OMG! The memories - So hilarious. And there's nothing wrong with Donald Duck singing in it. LOL

[@ChucklesMcbastard]

Hot pants, if worn by the right girlies, couldn't beat 'em

[@jamesflannery-serle3489]

dancing skeletons!

[@Voex1966]

@@jamesflannery-serle3489 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qX2qoaN3d8RpY5Y

[@veganath]

@M exactly!!

[@Frodojack]

I was 13 when this song came out, but never listened to it until today.

[@stevenpollard5171]

I can’t believe I am watching this and more than once!

[@zeitatur]

DISCO PATO DISCO PATO HAN PASADO COMO 40 AÑOS Y ME SIGUE GUSTANDO Y AHORTA A MI HIJO DE 12 AÑOS QUE LINDA MUSICA

[@themusicaljunkie37]

Even some of the audience members look confused AF by all the geese costumes

[@dw8840]

This was #1 on the American Top 40 at one point in 1976

[@mustardegg2]

This song completely won me over.

[@jdhrap]

Rick Dees - no autotune on this one brother!!

[@DeplorableJaredBrodersen]

Love the disco duck! I show all my friends.

[@user-fn2nq3wb8t]

Wowww got a funk sound!!!!!i..i like It👍👏👏👏👏

[@theswig2339]

Althought I was born in the very early 2000’s, I remember this song…. Idk how but I use to have a CD full of kids songs and this was featured in it.

[@enotar56]

I remember this song very well, at the time I was twenty years old.

[@1988SHAREBEAR]

THE DISCO DUCK IS A SILLY REALLY FUN NUMBER 1 HIT FROM 1976, A GREAT UNIQUE SONG. THOSE WHO DIS THE DISCO DUCK NEED TO GET A SENSE OF HUMOR, LEARN TO HAVE FUN AND STOP BEING SO SERIOUS. THOSE OF US WITH A BIG SENSE OF HUMOR LOVE COMEDY AND THINGS THAT ARE SILLY, FUNNY AND MAKE US LAUGH. BECAUSE THE LARGELY VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR. SILLY FUN SONGS BECOME NUMBER 1 HITS.

[@wmreckentin4129]

It seems about every other year or so, in the 70s, there was a novelty song. '74 Kung Fu Fighting, '76 Disco Duck and '78 King Tut. Right! Steve Martin was totally serious when he recorded King Tut. It reminds me of an episode of Glee. The assignment was to "pick a song with a bad reputation or, I should say, a song with a reputation of being bad." I do admit that there are songs that, IMHO, are just idiotic but, I like them anyway.Ummmmm, I guess that's the long way of saying I agree.

[@williambaylis1875]

The girl that turns her head at the 2-minute Mark😅😅😅 with the expression like she's thinking "I can't believe I'm here"

[@elenak547]

I don't remember dancing lije this back in tge day😅😂😂 but I remember this song❤

[@theresabennett915]

Love it! Fun times. God is great.

[@tominrochester]

Whenever someone wants to tell you that "music back then was so much better than music today", you can just bring up this golden nugget!!! Haha- EVERY generation has bad music

[@paddyc9653]

Who's here after listening to TESD 500th episode.

[@terrygracy8345]

This is hypnotic. I want to stop watching but I cannot

[@Mysaviorlives-bh9or]

Ikr

[@daisymay129]

This is fun especially if you had toddlers at home

[@tonymoreno1416]

As stupid as this looks, everyone looks like they're having so much fun, so who cares. Long live the DISCO DUCK!

[@toorop111]

I would of totally enjoyed that era of music.

[@charlesbrowning9748]

This was hilarious, although I don't know which was funnier the duck or the women dancing in their underwear.

[@LuLou-rm7nw]

They were part of Ruby Flipper at this time. Sue, Patti and Lulu the Blonde. They formed Legs and Co several months later. Danced on TOTP UK for several years. They're actually very good dancers.

[@ironmanduck]

As a duck I approve of this song i😊 we'll always boogie to the disco duck 🎉 😂

[@silvereagle2061]

Oh God, how I miss those days

[@___HH___]

. . . . . . the best the disco era ever had to offer.

[@designchik]

My God, I’d completely forgotten about this musical travesty. Guess the trauma of living through it helped me forget. 😂😂😂

[@josephscovitch2701]

Quite a freaky novelty at the time 1976. Very early disco effort. This video was NOT for Dance Fever. The song was unique. The dancing here (?) was amateur and clunky, but not too bad. The end was jumping jack chaos. The gist of this disco duckish song was music can lead to shape-shifting and other magic, etc. on the dance floor. Mini rap effort also by Rick Dees. Thanks, Rick. Vive les disco freaks....

[@LuLou-rm7nw]

The dance act was called Ruby Flipper. They were actually pretty good. They have other dances on KZbin.

[@jeremiahmarkusmedia6915]

This is my favorite music video

[@estebandiaz7880]

These people having a great time (apparently) must be in their 70s and 80s if they could only see themselves now. You had a good time that’s what counts.

[@paolodema100]

Che ricordi. Mitica disco degli anni 70. ❤

[@Dermacrosis]

This is when Disco was dying. People complain about commercialisation now but we had it back then too.

[@ALANT4T]

Bring the Superstar back The Duck Rules totally A GEM

[@SuperBC10]

I remember watching this back in the day. 8 years old and thinking then WTF? My mrs, born in 1976 has thankfully zero knowledge of this song. Until today that is.

[@Mkelly300]

This was still an amazing part of my childhood and now I torture my 11 year old and her friends with it. Thank you Rick Dees

[@deborahmagana5039]

You can laugh, if you want to but I'm over 60 & I don't need help walking! Talk about miracles!

[@kendallevans4079]

This song was the genesis of the phrase: "Could clear out a room faster than a hard boiled egg fart"

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Don’t remember this song at all and disco danced my butt off. Talk about stupid song, Omg 😆

[@charthistorian1690]

Imagine being one of these dancers omg

[@pancrasio08]

This deserve to go viral