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Don't be a cluck, disco duck
A piece of nostalgia...
Last Saturday night I went to Hoi! at Kōenji Enban, and Fukuta Takeshi (8-bits) played Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots' "Disco Duck", a single I used to listen to a lot when I was little, from my parents' collection. It must had been about 20 years since the last time I heard this song.
On Sunday, coincidentally, I was at the Meiji kōen flea market with Swedish friend Per, organizer of Malmö's elepop/pico-pico/Shibuya-kei club event oo-e, and I found a copy of this single I had just heard and seen the previous night! Of course I couldn't resist picking it up.
♪ Disco, disco duck
Disco, disco duck
Try your luck
Don't be a cluck
Disco, disco, disco, disco ♫
The often very instructive Japanese liner notes tell that Rick Dees, who sings this song, was a DJ in Memphis at the time. At first the song was only released and spinned in Memphis until RSO bought it and sold it nation-wide, making it a big hit. "'Disco Duck' is a unique number not unlike recent Japanese disco hits 'Soul Dracula' and 'Soul Frankenstein'."
The next song Fukuta-san spinned was Kagurazaka Kaoru's "Disco Geisha", which I think I'll need to also need to look out for.
Oh, and why not also "Soul Frankenstein" and "Soul Dracula". I could swear I also saw this latter one yesterday at the same place, but I hadn't read the liner notes yet.
Posted on March 21, 2005 at 15:08 | Tweet
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I have been looking for a tape or disc
or vinyl record of "Disco Geisha"
which I believe was by Kagurazaka Kaoru. It was briefly quite popular in New York during 1979-1980.
Could you give any advice on how to find a copy?
Posted by bill on March 24, 2006 at 06:32