Chicken Dance Hell

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:56 pm

OK, so I went to Polish Fest in Milwaukee on Saturday with my niece. (Not as much fun as Irish Fest of course, but a good time). Anyway, as part of the festivities, we participated in what was called "Wisconsin's Largest Chicken Dance". Well, I participated - my 17 year old niece would have no part of it. It was fun in a very silly way, but the problem is ever since then I have had the #$@& Chicken Dance song stuck in my head! I've tried listening to trad, country, contemporary Christian, and the Beatles and it's still there!!!!! I even caught myself walking down the hall at work starting to do the stupid little motions (fortunately no one else was in the hall at the time). I think I am slowing going insane......

HELP!!!

Beth

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:03 pm

Maybe this will help.

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:37 pm

Oh great, you evil people!!! I read this post while I was noodling on a whistle. I started playing darn song!! Now it won't stop and my daughters standing here doing the dance!!!!!

Rando7 · Post by **Rando7** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:00 pm

rebl_rn wrote:OK, so I went to Polish Fest in Milwaukee on Saturday with my niece. (Not as much fun as Irish Fest of course, but a good time). Anyway, as part of the festivities, we participated in what was called "Wisconsin's Largest Chicken Dance". Well, I participated - my 17 year old niece would have no part of it. It was fun in a very silly way, but the problem is ever since then I have had the #$@& Chicken Dance song stuck in my head! I've tried listening to trad, country, contemporary Christian, and the Beatles and it's still there!!!!! I even caught myself walking down the hall at work starting to do the stupid little motions (fortunately no one else was in the hall at the time). I think I am slowing going insane......

HELP!!!

Beth

Hey, Beth, maybe you already know this but the Chicken Dance was made popular by Bob Kames from Milwaukee. He owned a piano store on the South side for many years, probably the number one piano store in Milwaukee when I lived there back in the eighties. Rumors that the original title was "dat dere Chicken Dance hey" are untrue.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:33 pm

I'd sure never heard of any such thing as a chicken dance before this forum.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:42 pm

Walden wrote:I'd sure never heard of any such thing as a chicken dance before this forum.

Nor had I.

Resolutely NOT playing the tune given.

Rando7 · Post by **Rando7** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:51 pm

Walden wrote:I'd sure never heard of any such thing as a chicken dance before this forum.

Hey it was a big hit!

Post by **Dale** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:59 pm

I recently went to a large birthday party mostly filled up with white people between 30 and 50. There was a dance. We had the chicken dance. We had all kinds of dorky white-people-dancing dances.

I sat for awhile next to a very cool. African American guy. One of the few in the party. He and I watched the white people dance. I turned to him and said, in my dorkiest midwestern accent

"Caucasians sure know how to party. Soon they are quite likely to tear the roof off the sucker."

And he responded, with a similarly affected white-guy dork voice,

"Yes. I do believe they are proceeding to turn this mother out."

It was fine moment.

Dale

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:06 pm

Rando7 wrote:
Walden wrote:I'd sure never heard of any such thing as a chicken dance before this forum.
Hey it was a big hit!

...and the Happy Organ?

Rando7 · Post by **Rando7** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:15 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
...and the Happy Organ?

Well, he played the organ. And the music he played was well, happy.

Note to Dale: As a white midwestern dork, I am offended by your post.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:17 pm

DaleWisely wrote:I recently went to a large birthday party mostly filled up with white people between 30 and 50. There was a dance. We had the chicken dance. We had all kinds of dorky white-people-dancing dances.

I sat for awhile next to a very cool. African American guy. One of the few in the party. He and I watched the white people dance. I turned to him and said, in my dorkiest midwestern accent

"Caucasians sure know how to party. Soon they are quite likely to tear the roof off the sucker."

And he responded, with a similarly affected white-guy dork voice,

"Yes. I do believe they are proceeding to turn this mother out."

It was fine moment.

Dale

Very fine moment. Worthy of Blazing Saddles, even, I'd say.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:01 pm

DCrom wrote:
Walden wrote:I'd sure never heard of any such thing as a chicken dance before this forum.
Nor had I. Resolutely NOT playing the tune given.

See? There *was* a really good reason I never learned to read an ABC score.

chattiekathy · Post by **chattiekathy** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:02 pm

Sorry to do this to you but...

http://members.fortunecity.com/ajsmidi/ ... hicken.mid

Cheers,
Kathy

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:13 pm

Oh, that tune. It just HAD to be a polka. Blast you, Kathy!

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:33 pm

Tunes like the Chicken Dance are a cosmic joke on humans that once heard, are immediately imbedded in our brains and plague us throughout eternity.

Great

now I'm hearing the thing too

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