We went into the studio three months later - that's how long it took me to convince people to do the song.'Дees recorded his tune for Fretone Records, a local Memphis label owned by Estelle Axton, one of the founders of Stax Records. 'I had mice in my apartment at the time, and I went home and put my feet up on the chair, because nobody likes to have their feet dangling down if there might be a mouse nearby, and I wrote that song. Today, 'Disco Duck' can be found on such '70s compilations as #1 Disco Hits. In February 1977, five months after 'Disco Duck (Part 1)' became a nationwide #1 single, RSO Records released the album The Complete Disco Duck (above), which peaked at #157 on the Billboard Hot 200. One of the guys who worked out in the gym did a great duck voice, and I remembered a song called 'The Duck' (by Jackie Lee) back in the '60s, so I said, how about 'Disco Duck'? 'The more I played the songs, the more I knew it might be time for a disco parody. 'I was working out in a gym in Memphis when disco was coming out, and I also worked in a club called Chesterfield's telling jokes and spinning records,' says Dees.

Back in the days of 'Disco Duck,' he was the morning man at WMPS in Memphis. By 1988, he was handling the morning drive on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, at the time the number one station in the market and the second most-listened to radio station in the United States. Any artists with number one songs to their credit have been employed in radio, but Rick Dees managed to top the Hot 100 while he was a full-time working disc jockey.

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