SwingDJs

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Dinah Washington's "Duck Before You Drown" .

Yakov wrote:We are calling it Ducky Swing.

Why? Something regional?

Joe Penner can be your poster boy.

My wife and I just like ducks.

Yakov wrote:My wife and I just like ducks.

Duck Trot - Cab Calloway

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

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

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

Here's a very scratchy old blues:

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

The Cab song is from 1949 btw.