Have you ever spent the day with the Chicken Dance in your head? I don't know how it got there and I'm having a hard time getting rid of it. I tried the Electric Avenue trick - you know, Eddy Grant, "We're gonna rock down to...Electric Avenue." Well that normally gets horrible songs out of your head. But apparently not the Chicken Dance.
I guess I ruined the record pace I was on last month. I was writing great the first two weeks of February and then I hit a wall. It comes and it goes. I have been writing quite a bit for GetSportsInfo as baseball season nears. Along with a number of team previews I now contribute Tribe Talk. It's a weekly Cleveland Indians report that will carry through the season. And in April I will resume Points to Ponder every Sunday - it's a good way to ramble on about baseball so I don't have to do it here.
I've actually been quite busy today. Along with some baseball research and of course taking care of Mo, I have done some serious spring cleaning. Hey, it's March - that's spring to me. So I've dusted and scrubbed and I think I have vacummed every room in the house. Of course with the vaccum cleaner in my right hand I can only do half of the Chicken Dance.
Next weekend Chick, Mo and I will head south for Florida to visit the grandparents. It sure will be nice to take a break from the rough life I have. The original plan was for me and Mo to spend a few weeks down there for Spring Training. But that wasn't very fair to the Dogs - and Chick. So the three of us are just staying for a week. I hope to catch at least one baseball game. I've never been to a spring training game. I wonder if it's like minor league games where they play the Chicken Dance at the seventh inning stretch?
For the record I don't really hate weddings. I mean, I try not to hate anything. But like most men I certainly don't enjoy attending wedding receptions. And one of the primary reasons for that dislike is the Chicken Dance. I am fairly sure that particular song would not be known past pre-schoolers if not for weddings. No rational, mature adult should be happy about doing the Chicken Dance. Of course that's also true about the Electric Slide but that's a topic for another day.
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BUT Hogi... what about the World's Largest Chicken Dance that Cincinnati has every September - for Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati?!?!
I LOVE the Chicken Dance when I'm swinging a BIG stein in one hand! And, in fact I went to our official site for Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati (http://www.oktoberfest-zinzinnati.com/) and learned that "Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati established a world record, as proclaimed by the Guinness Book of Records in its 1995-97 editions, with 48,000 participating in the World's Largest Chicken Dance in 1994"! Were you there?!
They also clued me in on the history of the Chicken Dance...
"Widely known as the Chicken Dance, this dance song was composed by Werner Thomas in the 1970s in Davos, Switzerland, and was originally entitled Der Ententanz, which means The Duck Dance, but became known as the Vogeltanz, Chicken Dance, and also as Dance Little Bird. There were many versions of this that became hit songs, but the song and dance have had the greatest longevity in the U.S., where it has become a popular German heritage song." Now there's some trivia for you!
Not-to-mention, I was even able to listen to the the Chicken Dance while doing a little jig sitting at my desk because the above link included it! Maybe you should go to it and listen to it over and over again, then, just maybe, it will leave your head? Otherwise, see you in September! :)
Signed - an anonymous closet chicken dancer
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