[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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