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It also made the top 20 on the Billboard chart, peaking at number 15.

", saying "I've got to have me a mama! As it stands, Dees could have made an even more substantial amount of money from the song.

Origin and storyline [ ] Written by Dees, "Disco Duck" was inspired by a 1960s novelty dance song called "", recorded by Jackie Lee in 1965.

The voice of the duck was performed by Ken Pruitt, an acquaintance of Dees, as stated on the label of the RSO release.

March 2015 A misconception about "Disco Duck" is that the voice of the duck was provided by , the original voice of in many cartoons, but on several occasions the Disney Company maintained that Nash never contributed to the record.

"Disco Duck" made an appearance in the film , in a dance club scene in which a group of senior citizens were learning to dance disco-style.

When the music stops, he sits down, but when he decides to get up and dance again, he finds that everyone in the room is now doing his dance.

This appearance was never seen in the Memphis area due to then-ABC affiliate pre-empting Bandstand for wrestling [ ] at the time and for the aforementioned Memphis radio avoidance reasons.

According to Dees, his manager at the time made the extremely unwise decision to deny use of the song on the film's soundtrack album because of fears that it would compete with sales of Dees's own record.

It became a number-one hit on the for one week in October 1976 and ranked 97 out of the 100 most popular songs of the year according to magazine.

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