Songs about duckies

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Yakov · #1 Post by **Yakov** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:33 pm

Hey folks. Getting back into the swing dj world after being out for years.

Starting a new dance with my wife (which I didn't have last time I posted here!). We are calling it Ducky Swing. We want a theme song.

I know about Rubber Ducky and Put Down The Ducky. They are both swinging songs. But I want to look beyond Sesame Street.

I wonder if someone can name any other swing songs that talk about ducks?

Thanks!

trev · #2 Post by **trev** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:58 am

How can it be anything other than Duke Ellington's Ducky Wucky (1932)!

Yakov · #3 Post by **Yakov** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:43 am

That's an instrumental! Only hardcore Ellington fans would get the joke, and we are looking to attract an audience not entirely comprised of Ellingtonians :-P

straycat · #4 Post by **straycat** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:22 am

http://www.musicme.com/#/Eric-Gemsa/tit ... 3469-01_21

Haydn · #5 Post by **Haydn** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:36 am

Yakov wrote:That's an instrumental! Only hardcore Ellington fans would get the joke, and we are looking to attract an audience not entirely comprised of Ellingtonians

Not sure if these fit the 'bill' but ...

Dance Of The Lame Duck, Casa Loma Orchestra

Huckleberry Duck, Raymond Scott

Jonas · #6 Post by **Jonas** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:50 pm

How about a [very unrelated] verb instead of the noun?

Dinah Washington's "Duck Before You Drown" .

Eyeball · #7 Post by **Eyeball** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:01 pm

Yakov wrote:We are calling it Ducky Swing.

Why? Something regional?

Joe Penner can be your poster boy.

Yakov · #8 Post by **Yakov** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:08 pm

My wife and I just like ducks.

Eyeball · #9 Post by **Eyeball** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:16 pm

Yakov wrote:My wife and I just like ducks.

Surreal · #10 Post by **Surreal** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:38 pm

Duck Trot - Cab Calloway

and maybe... Shake a Tail Feather - Ray Charles

Yakov · #11 Post by **Yakov** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:39 pm

Duck Trot is an interesting track. I found it here
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GKJK7Y/
It is a much boppier Cab than I'm used to hearing. The album "That Old Black Magic" that it appears on doesn't seem to come with any kind of extended information available anywhere on the internet... anyone with some insight into this recording session / era of Cab's development?

Thanks

Platypus · #12 Post by **Platypus** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:47 pm

Surry with a fringe on top
mentions ducks in the lyrics.

anton · #13 Post by **anton** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:57 am

Here's a very scratchy old blues:

Leola B. Wilson - Ducks [1928]
spotify:track:42roSOowWEWWMgWgngZzNe

anton · #14 Post by **anton** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:07 am

The Cab song is from 1949 btw.

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