dEFROG ON 45 #56: THERE’S NO STOPPING A DUCK AND HIS BEAT

[defrog]

If you grew up in the 70s, liked disco and were under 13 years of age, odds are you had a copy of this song. 

I know I did.

This one came with a bit of local history (well, at state level), since Rick Dees was actually a radio DJ in Memphis at the time, which meant that no radio station in Memphis would play the song, including Dees’ own station. Dees wasn’t even allowed to mention the song on-air, and finally got sacked after he did anyway.

I grew up in Nashville, not Memphis, but a lot of Nashville DJs made references to all this, and I was both surprised and knocked out by the idea that a DJ could make a hit record.

Well, I was 11 when it came out.

Anyway, it’s considered to be one of the worst hit songs of the 1970s. So naturally I’m proud that I still have my copy.

Flapping my arms,

This is dF