[Dixielandjazz] Chicken Walk (was Flirting With The Audience, now "museum music")
Bill Haesler
bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
Sun Jul 7 14:13:43 PDT 2013
Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> ...a young-ish man of about 35 stepped up between sets with a very peculiar request: he wondered if we knew "Chicken Walk" and sang a few bars... looked it up just now and find it was 1916 Irving Berlin!
> Now *that* doesn't happen every day!
Dear Gary,
I suggest that you may have looked up and found the wrong "Chicken Walk"
I think your young man meant this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROX7BYpF3got
Or a similar craze song that was around a few years ago.
DJMLers (younger than me) from the US should be able to provide details.
8>)
Very kind regards,
Bill.
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