Talk:Chicken Dance

message: Can we delete the part about what the song is *not* called in German? (Or maybe explain what that info is relevant to?) It's also unclear why German tradition is particularly relevant in an article about a Swiss song. —Wegesrand (talk) 10:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Information

message: I thinks this information might be more appropriate on the Islander page (if it should be included anywhere on Wikipedia at all). Otherwise, we must include every sporting event and other gathering at which the Chicken Dance is played (In the US, it's a lot of places).D-Rock 16:32, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NY Islanders

message: In England we often sing "with a little bit of this and a little bit of that and shake your bum" to the tune of this.
:That's a LOT better than the common American version which goes like "if you wanna be a chicken, if you wanna be a duck, you'd better something something quack quack quack" Cheers.
::Haha, I've heard both in the U.S. (except "butt" instead of "bum").  This conversation is cracking me up. --Galaxiaad 05:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You also add to the end when you are clapping "Just like your mum"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.114.217 (talk) 10:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

text: British people don't call the rear end a "butt" (it is a bum or arse), so I am sceptical of the article's apparent implication that those lyrics are used in the UK! 86.160.127.102 (talk) 18:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Bird Dance Lyrics in the UK

message: in the jimmy neutron movie, ther is also the chicken dance. do you know which version is it? Ragnaroknike 13:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  which version 

message: Worth mentioning that Spanish accordioniste María Jesús helped introduce the song to the españophone world via the 1982 comedy Los Pajaritos. Google video search- knoodelhed 09:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  María Jesús performance 

message: Ahem, "Funky Chicken" redirects here, but should redirect to "The Chicken". 129.107.81.12 (talk) 05:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: A version of Chicken Dance originated in Italy in 1974 as a synthesizer demonstration piece called "Tchip-Tchip", by Cash And Carry (with Bobby Setter And Co), which was released in the UK on the EMI label (Cat. No. 2125) but wasn't a hit. Ads for the disc featured a cartoon drawing of a duck. The piece is credited to writers "Thomas" (hence, Werner Thomas) plus somebody called "Rendall" who also co-wrote the b-side, titled "Who Needs Money?"  Tonythepixel (talk) 13:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meanwhile, in 1974 in Italy... 

message: 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. They wanted to demonstrate the dance in costume, but there were no duck costumes available anywhere near Tulsa. At a local television station, however, a chicken costume was available which was donated for use at the festival, giving the "Chicken Dance" its name.
* The dance and song was originally brought from Germany to the US by Eddie Duling and Larry Karhoff of Glandorf Ohio in 1974.
* Despite other claims as to the name "Chicken Dance", the name had come about because an Austrian tour guide translated "Bird Dance / Dance Little Bird" and other similar names, from German to English by calling it "The Chicken Dance"...
- Wikitiki89 (talk) - 14:58, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictions in the History Section 

message: I found another German cover of the Chicken Dance called Der Pinguin Rap. Here is a link for it.67.85.241.84 (talk) 22:01, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: German cover version

message: I'm not sure of the time line, but in 1973 the tune was a hit by Cash and Carry, called Tchip Tchip. See []
NMackay (talk) 13:35, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tchip Tchip 

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message: An interview with Werner Thomas in German can be found, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KrS49ws_3U . knoodelhed (talk) 02:54, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Werner Thomas interviewed 

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message: This page was suffering from "many hands syndrome," with duplicated, redundant, and even mildly contradictory information jubled together in a disordered manner, so i have reorganized it, placed all the material in each section chronological order, and made new sub-heads. I have not added all that much to the article itself, except that i did port over some information and citations from the Bob Kames bio page, and thus was able to remove him from the See Also section. There are still citation problems remaining from the previous versions of the article -- which always happens with popular culture articles, in my experience. Calling out each lapse for a citation is unproductive, so i have retained the previously-inserted citation-needed templates as i found them. Yours truly, catherine yronwode, not logged in, but still on the job as 75.101.104.17 (talk) 23:21, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: In turn I've cleaned up the sections that had been unsourced since at least February and tagged sections that currently have no sources. DonIago (talk) 02:53, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting entry! My thanks to all who contributed! 69.117.224.252 (talk) 03:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substantial reorganization 

message: This version of the article claims that hte origins of the dance are unknown, but the Dutch version of the article contains this paragraph:
"Mede dankzij een optreden van de Elektronica's in het TROS-muziekprogramma Op volle toeren met het liedje, nu getiteld de Vogeltjesdans, werd het nummer razend populair in Duitsland en Nederland. Zeker ook door het optreden van enkele in een geel vogelpakje verklede inwoners van St. Willebrord, die het bijbehorend dansje, van de Spaanse flamencodanser Fernando Reyes (huidige partner van Andrè van Duin) uitvoerden. Een kinderlijk eenvoudig, maar aanstekelijk dansje (handen in de zij, flapperen met ellebogen en met kleine stapjes voortbewegen); volgens Ad Visser "Gangnam Style avant la lettre". Als choreograaf van ’De Vogeltjesdans’ zorgde Fernando Reyes voor een miljoenensucces."
which explains that the dance was conceived by Spanish dancer Fernando Reyes for a performance by De Electronicas in the television programme "Op Volle Toeren" on Dutch tv channel TROS.
212.88.247.205 (talk) 17:52, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the dance