The Original Disco Duck

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The Original Disco Duck
Rick Dees - The Original Disco Duck.jpg
Studio album by
Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots
Released1977 (1977)
Recorded1976
Studio
  • Shoe Productions Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, United States (overdubs)
  • Clover Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States (overdubs)
Genre Disco, novelty [1]
Length36:05
LanguageEnglish
Label RSO
Producer Bobby Manuel

The Original Disco Duck is the debut album by American DJ Rick Dees, released in 1977, and includes the hit single "Disco Duck".

Contents

Critical reception

The editorial board of AllMusic Guide gave this album four out of five stars, with reviewer JT Griffith calling it "a fun novelty record, but not a classic comedy album". [1] Rolling Stone gave the release one star out of five. [2] 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]

Track listing

  1. "Disco Duck (Part I Vocal)" (Rick Dees) – 3:10
  2. "Barely White (That'll Get It Baby)" (Dees and Bobby Manuel) – 3:45
  3. "Bionic Feet" (Dees and Manuel) – 3:12
  4. "Flick the Bick" (Dees and Manuel) – 4:54
  5. "Disco Duck (Part II Instrumental)" (Mark Blumberg, Manuel, and Lester Snell) – 3:03
  6. "Dis-Gorilla" (Shelly N. Fisher, Willie Hall, and Manuel) – 3:05
  7. "Doctor Disco" (Dees and Manuel) – 4:50
  8. "Bad Shark" (Earl Donelson, Filson Bryant Hawkes, Manuel, James McGehee, Snell, and Peter Vescovo) – 4:17
  9. "He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts" (Dees) – 3:02
  10. "The Peanut Prance" (Dees, Margaret Kerr, and Manuel) – 2:47

Personnel

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References

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