Happy Dance Like a Chicken Day!

Today is National Dance Like a Chicken Day!!!!!!!   By the way, this will be going down at the wedding (Sorry, Shane).  Wisconsin represent!!!!! 

Here's some quick factoids about the Chicken Dance that you'll be sure to enjoy:

1.  It was written by Swiss accordion player Werner Thomas in the late 1950s (which is weird because I always thought it was a German heritage song).

2.  It was originally entitled Der Ententanz, which means The Duck Dance, but became known as the Vogeltanz, Chicken Dance, and also as Dance Little Bird.

3. It arrived in America in the 1981, via the Tulsa, Oklahoma Oktoberfest.  By that time it had acquired set choreography with repetitive beak, wing, and tail motions.

4.  There are over 140 recorded versions of this epic song - making over 40,000,000 records!!

5. The version entitled "The Birdie Song" by The Tweets was voted "the most annoying song of all time" in 2000.

(This post is dedicated to Jim Krasin)