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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]
Chicken scratch (also known as waila music) is a kind of dance music developed by the Tohono O'odham people. The genre evolved out of acoustic fiddle bands in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. These bands began playing European and Mexican tunes, in styles that include the polka, schottisch and mazurka. [1]
Werner Thomas is an accordionist born in Davos, Switzerland, credited with composing the German language tune in 1957 known as "Der Ententanz" (literally The Duck Dance) later known as the "Chicken Dance" or the "Birdie Song" while working as a restaurant musician during the 1950s.
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.
The East German skater liked to push boundaries with her costumes. This sparkly outfit (and tiara!) helped her secure a top spot during the Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia — the first time ...
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Harold Loeffelmacher, circa 1957. The Six Fat Dutchmen was an American polka band, formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States.The band was known mostly for playing the German-American (sometimes called "oom-pah") style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia.