Do What's Right

**Do What's Right** is a basketball themed song performed by Dean Ford originally in the episode Wild Undercover Celebrity, in season one. Dean later sings it again in the season three episode Wild Talent as apart of his talent show act, which goes horribly wrong. On this occasion, the song was re-recorded, due to Zachary Gordon's apparent voice change. The full version was released on the soundtrack *WildSide: Wild Trax!* on July 27, 2012.

## Trivia

* Dean performs the song's choreography with his basketball team in Wild Undercover Celebrity.
* This is the second song on WildSide: Wild Trax! to be performed entirely by Zachary Gordon. The first was Dean's Rap.
* An instrumental version of the song is heard at the beginning of Wild Talent, during Dean's talent show audition.
* Dean re-uses choreography from Wild Undercover Celebrity in his talent show act in Wild Talent.
* It was originally planned that Dean was to sing Dean's Rap in Wild Talent instead of this song. Since Zach was insecure about his voice, he chose to re-record the later instead since he found it easier to sing.
* The re-recorded version had quite a few major changes from the original:
	+ Zachary Gordon hadn't hit puberty yet when he recorded the original song. Since he did when the song was re-recorded, his voice is noticeably deeper.
	+ During the chorus, there is a prominent note change during one of the lines. The second "that's" is significantly higher in the re-recorded version.
	+ The bass in the re-recorded version appears to be more prominent than the original.
* When WildSide: Wild Trax! was released on iTunes, Do What's Right immediately became the most downloaded song apart from Jumpstart. Infact, it sold even more than the show's theme song Wild, Wild West.
* The melody of the chorus bares some resemblance to "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton.
* On December 20, 2020, Zach uploaded a "parody" version of this song to his personal TikTok account with altered lyrics to suit the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The lyrics went as follows:
	+ *You've gotta do what's right
	 And that means to wear a facemask when you're
	 Out in public, and engage in social distancing
	 You must keep three feet apart of them
	 And you should really stay inside
	 If you want to make it out on time
	 'Cause when COVID enters through your face
	 You struggle to breath and your heart starts to race
	 You've gotta, you've gotta, you've gotta do what's right!*

## Inspiration

Both performances of Do What's Right was inspired by performances from previous TV shows. His original performance in Wild Undercover Celebrity was inspired by Eddie Thomas' performance of "Eddie's Rap" from the Disney Channel series *That's So Raven*, in the show's musical episode "The Road to Audition". Both performances are performed with other team mates in the school's gymnasium and the choreography is very similar.

Dean's horrible talent show performance in Wild Talent was inspired by Teddy and Emmett's horrible talent show performance from the series *Good Luck Charlie*, in the episode "Duncan's Got Talent". In both performances, something goes wrong at the side of the stage that makes someone on stilts, a magician, and several others walk on stage in the background.

## Navigation

"Dean's Rap"
"Money, Money, Money"

"**Do What's Right**"
"Love is a Generation"
"Showtime"

"Time in Colorado"
"Good Night"
"Fantastic Wild West"