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Jackie Lee singles chronology. " The Duck ". (1965) "Your P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y". (1966) " The Duck " is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Earl Nelson and performed by Jackie Lee. It was featured on his 1966 album The Duck. [1] The song was arranged by Fred Hill and produced by Fred Sledge Smith. [2]
Convoy (song) " Convoy " is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine 's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [ 1]
Performed by the United States Marine Band. file. help. " The Stars and Stripes Forever " is a patriotic American march written and composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896. By a 1987 act of the U.S. Congress, it is the official National March of the United States of America. [ 1]
The original name of the song was "Der Ententanz" (The Duck Dance), composed by the Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas in 1957. [1] He played it in restaurants and hotels from the 1950s through the 1960s. During one of Thomas' performances, the Belgian music producer Louis van Rymenant heard the song. Van Rymenant had some lyrics created and in ...
Hickety Dickety Dock, illustrated by Denslow. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in about 1744, which uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'. [ 1] The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.
Disco Duck. " Disco Duck " is a satirical disco novelty song performed by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. At the time, Dees was a Memphis disc jockey. It became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in October 1976 (and ranked #97 out of the 100 most popular songs of the year according to Billboard magazine).
The song's chorus is traditionally sung as part of the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game. Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words "home team" are replaced with the team name. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is one of the three-most recognizable songs in the US, along with "The Star-Spangled Banner ...
The melody of "Deck the Hall" is taken from "Nos Galan" ("New Year's Eve"), a traditional Welsh New Year's Eve carol published in 1794, although it is much older. [ 1 ] In 1912, Ruth Herbert Lewis made a wax cylinder recording of a Welshman named Benjamin Davies singing a song, "Can y Coach faier", which uses the old melody now associated with ...