'Disco Duck' hit number 1 on the Billboard charts in 1976.

That Was A Hit?!?: 'Disco Duck'

Soundcheck | Dec 9, 2013

Our series That Was a Hit?!? is all about songs that have unexpectedly made their way to the top of the charts. Recently we spoke with Memphis music historian Robert Gordon about his book Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion. But there’s one postscript to the Stax Records history we just had to follow up on. And it involves a disco-dancing duck. Gordon tells Soundcheck host John Schaefer how Stax co-founder Estelle Axton went on to produce one of the most successful records ever to come out of Memphis: "Disco Duck," by local radio DJ Rick Dees.

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