An interesting music video from 1976

Here is an interesting music video from 1976 and the song should have been in Equestria Girls 2: Rainbow Rocks but it should be called Disco Pony. And yes this song was very popular back in 1976

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[Orudios]

wow.....

[Brony God]

2886095 Well this song was popular back in 1976. Just imagine a ponified version of this song called Disco Pony

[Orudios]

again.....wow

[Jesse Coffey]

2886223 I see you have brought up a song called "Disco Duck." Actually, I thought of a song that was even more popular in 1976, "Disco Lady", which was the first platinum single ever. I actually thought of the latter as being a song for which the "Disco Pony" ponification would be quite a bit more suitable. Ah, well...to quote the highly regarded discography website Both Sides Now Publications, "who could forget the #1 novelty "Disco Duck" in 1976 from Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots?"

Anyways, this is how "Disco Duck"'s story goes:

"Disco Duck", the song in the video, was written and recorded, of course, by Rick Dees, who, at that time was working as a DJ in Memphis. It was inspired by a 1960s novelty dance song called "The Duck," recorded by Jackie Lee in 1965. According to Rick Dees, it took one day to write the song, but three months to convince even himself to perform it. Hear that duck? It was rumoured that this duck was voiced by Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck in many Walt Disney cartoons (although the Disney company itself has consistently denied the claim's validity.) Actually, the Disco Duck's voice was contributed to by Ken Pruitt, an acquaintance of Dees. (Another Dees acquaintance, Michael Chesney, provided his voice on stage.) He recorded it with his Cast of Idiots (Pruitt among them), and originally released it on the local Memphis label FreTone Records (then gave it to RSO, which distributed it globally.) The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1976 for one week, then spent the next four weeks at #2; it spent 10 weeks in the Top 10 overall (get it?) and also peaked at #15 on Billboard's R&B charts. However, all that chart-topping power that song had achieved failed to convince stations in Dees' hometown of Memphis to even think about playing the song.

WIKIPEDIA: "Disco Duck" was shunned by radio stations where Dees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees worked for at the time. Station management forbade Dees from playing the song on his own show and rival stations in the city refused to play it for fear of promoting the competition. When Dees talked about (but did not play) the song on his show one morning, his boss fired him citing conflict of interest. After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired by station WHBQ-AM, WMPS's primary competition in Memphis. By the time "Disco Duck" had become a hit, Dees and his "Idiots" started making the rounds of the popular TV music shows to promote the song. On American Bandstand (and similar shows), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made. Ironically, this appearance was never seen in the Memphis area due to then-ABC affiliate WHBQ-TV pre-empting Bandstand for Wrestling at the time and for the aforementioned Memphis radio avoidance reasons. But when Dees appeared on The Midnight Special and a live tour up the East Coast he gathered together a band, backing singers and a commercial artist, Michael Chesney, to perform the duck vocals and did everything live.

[Brony God]

2904495 Yes I know about the story of Disco Duck. Just imagine the Disco Pony music video with people dressing up as ponies dancing in it