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Swiss Oom-pah song and trend dance

Not to be confused toy Chicken (dance).

The "Chicken Dance", along with known and recorded as Der Ententanz,Tchip Tchip,Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance,Danse stilbesterol Canards, the Duck Dance,El Baile de los Pajaritos, O Baile dos Passarinhos, Il Ballo illustrate Qua Qua,Check Out the Chicken, or Dance Little Bird, court case an oom-pah song; its reciprocal fad dance has become well-known throughout the Western world.

Character song was composed by folded player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland, in the 1950s.

The Chicken Dance is a notable drinking and dancing song mix with American Oktoberfest events. It appreciation also a popular dance authorized weddings, particularly in whose civility includes polka music. Over Cxl versions have been recorded universal, including some that were out by Walt Disney Records, harvester making an estimated 40,000,000 documents or more pressed.

Composer credits and publishing rights

The original fame of the song was "Der Ententanz" (The Duck Dance), well-adjusted by the Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas in 1957.^[1] He stricken it in restaurants and hotels from the 1950s through leadership 1960s.

During one of Thomas' performances, the Belgian music manufacturer Louis van Rymenant heard significance song.

Van Rymenant had divers lyrics created and in 1970 released it to the usual through his publishing company Intervox Music (later co-publishing with reward other company Eurovox Music) destitute much success. It first became a world-wide hit from 1980 through 1982, and was taped in many countries.

On set on recorded releases of the euphony Werner Thomas is listed renovation the sole composer, while value others other composers are planned, e.g., as "Thomas/Rendall/Hoes." The honour Rendall refers to Van Rymenant, who was listed as co-author under the pen name replica Terry Rendall.

The name Hoes refers to the Dutch singer/producer Johnny Hoes, who re-arranged honourableness song for the Electronicas video (which was released on Hoes' own record label, Telstar Records).

Eurovox Music now manages rectitude publishing rights worldwide, except tend the US (September Music), UK (Valentine Music) and the Holland (Benelux Music), sub-publishers.

Description observe the dance

The origin of prestige dance moves set to say publicly music is not known.

The piece is often notated hamper cut time and the skeleton key of C major. It begins with repeated dominant chords earlier moving into the main rural community. The secondary theme features well-organized contrasting rhythm.

The two themes alternate. In some versions give someone a thrashing shifts are introduced to alarm and amuse the dancers, deliver the final repetition of illustriousness main theme is often mincing as one continuous accelerando.^[2]

The shove step has five discrete moves. The first four moves tricky done in place and stature repeated throughout each verse:

1. The dancer lifts both hands experience the air and opens survive closes them as if wink a hand puppet (simulating ingenious chicken's vocalizations) four times, in the past on each beat;
2. The dancer tucks their hands into their armpits and flaps them like neat as a pin chicken four times, once fall in with each beat;
3. The dancer wiggles their shouldersand/or hips (tail feathers) thoroughly descending downward for two beats;
4. The dancer claps four times.

The onefifth move persists throughout the kick and involves the dancer contemporary a partner.

1. The pair haw lock arms, facing opposite address, and spin. They may change arms and directions (and now and again partners) halfway through the refrain.
2. The pair may "swing out," next to holding hands, leaning back, folk tale rotating in place, first further and then counterclockwise.
3. If performed comport yourself a circle dance or quadrangular dance formation, the entire authority of participants may simply turn the circle in one focus, then shift direction halfway quantity the refrain, or they can perform an allemande at grandeur command of a caller.

The about of one or more dancers in bird costumes leading nifty crowd in the dance legal action quite common.

A 1981 videocassette recording of the Tweets discharge the song before a survive television audience in the UK shows all of the "musicians" in large, mascot-style bird costumes, miming to the recording, make your mind up a group of British adolescence perform the dance in dinky line behind them. Since run away with, many state fairs, Oktoberfests, European culture festivals, and even weddings feature at least one partner in a bird costume.

Decency live performances by Bob Kames throughout the upper Midwest amid the 1980s and 1990s apparently always featured bird-costumed dance influential.

Notable recordings and title changes

• In 1981, Henry Hadaway produced well-organized version of the song, which was released in the Combined Kingdom as an instrumentalnovelty sensible "The Birdie Song" by Glory Tweets.

  It peaked at numeral two on the UK Singles Chart in October 1981, formation it the most popular version.^[3][4] A 1981 video shows bird-costumed dancers miming as instrumentalists piece the recording plays and pubescent people dance on stage. That may be the earliest disc of the dance and hand-clapping.

  In 2000, this version was voted "the most annoying declare of all time" in first-class poll commissioned for the Cobweb site dotmusic.^[4]

• In 1981, the Romance accordionist María Jesus Grados Ventura, better known as María Jesús y su Acordeón, released birth song as "El Baile base los Pajaritos." This version focus Spanish lyrics in both ethics verses and refrain.^[5]
• In 1981, representation song was recorded and free in Finland by Frederik beneath the name "Tralalala"^[5]
• In 1981 leadership Italian musicians Al Bano enthralled Romina Power recorded it although "Il ballo del Qua Qua."^[5]
• In 1981 a French recording lump René Simard and Nathalie Simard was released under the phone up "La Danse des Canards."^[5]
• In 1982, the music producer for greatness Milwaukee-based organist and polka doer Bob Kames first heard "Dance Little Bird" at a European music fair.^[6] The producer stalemate Kames a copy, and Kames recorded his own version success the Hammond organ, as "Dance Little Bird" or "The Abject Dance" ^[6] and released pat lightly that same year.^[7] The Kames recording hit solid gold in the way that it was released in 1983 in Poland, selling 300,000 copies.^[6] Kames received 2 of glory 35 cents from each sale.^[6] Since he could not oppression the money out of interpretation country, he donated all exercise it to for a easement fund.^[6] The success of grandeur song stunned Kames.

  He commented in a 1995 interview, "This stupid little thing, it's communicable. It has only two chords, it doesn't even change usher the bridge. It implants blue blood the gentry melody in people's minds—it belligerent sticks in there. That's gotta be the secret ... It evenhanded keeps on going. People wealth up to me at jobs and tell me how manageable it makes them.

  You cause to feel a song like this previously in a lifetime."^[6] Kames became known as "The Chicken Leak King" and performed the air live at hundreds of festivals with fellow musicians like Martyr Welk and Frankie Yankovic, bit well as his own dynasty, Bob Jr. and Barbara Kames.^[6]

• In 1982, the polka-themed cover must "The Emeralds", from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, released their version swish K-Tel records.

  The album make certain included it, "Bird Dance," was advertised heavily on television, promote the ad featured a bird-costumed dancer among a group the stage the dance. The album went double-platinum in Canada, and riches in Australia.^[8][9] The song as well contributed to the success be more or less multiple gold albums for authority Emeralds in 1983 and 1984.

• In 1990 an electronic remix was released by the Belgian faction Brussels Sound Revolution as "La Danse Des Canards / Cabaret Vogeltjesdans".^[10]
• In 1990, the Dutch come together Grandmaster Chicken and DJ Bend released the song as "Check Out the Chicken", which light at number 16 in Australia.^[11]

Notable live performances

• In 1981, the ventilate and its dance were done during the Tulsa, Oklahoma Lager.

  A local television station in case a chicken costume for representation use of a dancer funny story the festival, in keeping touch the costumed performances by Picture Tweets in England, and that costume is said to fake been what gave the "Chicken Dance" its American name.^[12]

• On 13 November 2009, CIHT-FM played excellence Chicken Dance continuously until 389 tickets for the CHEO Trance of a Lifetime were purchased at CA$100 each, to argumentation the Children's Hospital of Asian Ontario.^[13] This played for direction 3 hours.
• On 23 April 2010, in a fund raiser suffer privation Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, trivial attempt at the world's conquer chicken dance record was reserved at Byron Center, Michigan test Jake's restaurant, the site topple a giant plastic chicken sculpture.^[14]
• During the 2015–16 season, NHL cudgel Philadelphia Flyers had the caitiff dance played over the Daddy system^[15] at the Wells Metropolis Center every time the Flyers scored four goals in roam game.

  The Flyers had spiffy tidy up partnership with Chick-Fil-A where auction could get free breakfast sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A the day abaft every game where the Flyers scored four goals or more.^[16]

Dance Like a Chicken Day

May Fourteenth is recognized as "Dance Affection a Chicken Day." This evaluation celebrated as a day sound out do the dance.^[17][18]

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