Disco Duck

The residency generated a lot of critical acclaim and a whole lot of press buzz, and the resulting press coverage made Time and Newsweek magazines put Bruce onto both of their magazine covers at the exact same time just a week later.

In 1976, the satirical disco novelty song Disco Duck, which was recorded by Los Angeles radio disc jockey Rick Dees and his cast of Idiots, hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Despite facing widespread radio bans from competing radio stations, The platinum-selling track spent one week at the top of the charts.

In 1986, rock pioneer Chuck Berry celebrated his 60th birthday with an all-star concert at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, featuring guest appearances by Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Etta James.

Yeah

... was Disco Duck by Rick Dees.

Yeah.

[clapping] Love it.

but I know the guys from there did that.

Yeah.

Disco Duck.

A number one song.

So, uh, my boss was Rick Dees for a while.

And it was on this day in 1976, 50 years ago, that Disco Duck went to number one.

Disco, disco duck.

Ah, check it out.

Try your luck.

Whoa.

I know.

That's a lot of Disco Duck money.

Must be nice.

Uh, and a guy who I actually was a big fan of his well because he was kinda funny, Rick Dees in 1976 and his cast of idiots hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with the novelty song Disco Duck.

You don't know that, but I grew up with Disco, Disco Duck.

That was, uh, that was the song, uh, back in the day.

I just, I just got a really great alert on, uh, season four of Tulsa King is back.

Es lo que en la radio llamábamos Novelties, que eran cosas ocasionales.

Disco Duck, de Rick Dees, el patito discotequero, Pac-Man Fever, de Buckner y Garcia, o todas las canciones de Weird Al Yankovic, o en español, El cereje de las Ketchup, etcétera, ¿cierto? Entonces, digamos que Paul McCartney sí tiene razón, pero no hay que olvidar que así comenzaron ellos, solo que al final terminaron haciendo la mejor música del mundo.

[música tranquila]

En Chile se acaba de producir una noticia relevante de carácter científico.

When she turned 25, baby Jessica got her hands on the $800,000 trust funded by strangers from around the world who just threw money at a girl who suffered two days of hardship and has no memory of the ordeal.

50 years ago, in 1976, Disco Duck by Rick Dees and his cast of idiots hit number one on the Billboard charts.

I have never heard of this song.

Yeah, I have.

And this kind of proves it.

Because Disco Duck was the number one song in the land today in 1976.

It was the last novelty song to hit the top 100.

If you were in Madison, Wisconsin today in 91 and decided to go see a concert, You saw one of the better three band sets maybe in the 90s that wasn't on a Lollapalooza tour.

In 1976, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life went to number one on the US album chart, featuring tracks such as "Sir Duke," "I Wish," "Pastime Paradise," and "Isn't She Lovely." It was Wonder's third US number one and became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Stevie Wonder's career.

In 1976, Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots hit number one on the charts with "Disco Duck." You heard Rick Dees for years here on Fun 107 with his weekly Top 40 countdown.

In 1978, Karol Wojtyla became the Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

I'm sure I butchered his last name.