Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The "Chicken Dance", also known and recorded as Der Ententanz, Tchip Tchip, Vogerltanz, the Bird Song, the Chicken Song, the Birdie Song, the Bird Dance, Danse des Canards, the Duck Dance, El Baile de los Pajaritos, O Baile dos Passarinhos, Il Ballo del Qua Qua, Check Out the Chicken, or Dance Little Bird, is an oom-pah song; its associated fad dance has become familiar throughout the Western ...
Bob Kames (April 21, 1925 – April 9, 2008) was an American musician who specialized in genres such as polka.Kames is credited with developing and popularizing the modern-day version of the song "Dance Little Bird," which is much better known by its more common name, The Chicken Dance. [1]
The Chicken is a popular rhythm and blues dance that started in America in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken. The dance featured lateral body movements. It was used primarily as a change of pace step while doing the twist.
The World’s Largest Chicken Dance is one of several beloved Oktoberfest traditions and was renamed two years ago to honor Cincinnati media legend Rich Walburg, who died in 2022.
The "Ländler", as performed in the film The Sound of Music, is not a traditional Ländler, but a choreographed derivative of this Austrian form of folk dance. The "Chicken Dance" is not an Austrian folk dance, nor is it from Austria. The song "Edelweiss" is not an Austrian folk song, and it is not the national anthem of Austria.
Language links are at the top of the page. Search. Search
The History section of the article contradicts itself by giving two accounts of the "first" introduction of the dance into the United States. And two "only" reasons for the name Chicken Dance. The dance was introduced in the United States in 1981 during the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oktoberfest by the Heilbronn Band from Germany.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us