Following an intro by Greg and the kids from "What's Happening!," Rick Dees performed this cheesy song on The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. Sadly, it wasn't the corniest part of the show...
the recording of the song, the editing, right down to the choreographed rehearsals...there were so many opportunities to put a stop to this yet no one did so I'm forced to assumed this was accepted at the time
I commented on Disco Duck, so I might as well comment on this. I was in intermediate school on the Big Island when this brilliant song debuted, and while it wasn't the platinum smash its predecessor was (why, I'll never know), it was good enough for someone to dance to in the cafeteria talent show. What I remember is him in a silvery long sleeve, big collar shirt and dark brown Angels Flight pants beating his chest robot-style to the opening gorilla hoots, followed by some Travolta-esque disco moves during the chorus. I think he won too. Recalling that much, and watching this video, makes me realize I've lived far too long a life...farewell.
You poor creature. I imagine that soldiers seeing the bloodiest moments of war couldn’t have the levels of PTSD you must suffer with. May god have mercy on humanity for spawning this musical atrocity.
I was never able to understand how someone could hate a music genre that much. After watching this I fully understand and honestly don’t think they went far enough tbh.
@@rommix0 Don't worry 😄 It would be "Guilty Pleasure" as time passes. But some of it was actually worthy to check as time passes. Example, Village People "Renassiance" album that people love to branded it as a bad album. Which wasn't true. It actually have a very good new wave sound, good vocal harmony, but the costume is truly killed everything.
Of course, Rick Dees did this sort of thing more for laughs than for anything else, and to this day, he's still quick to joke about his songs being used to torture inmates in Alaska (among other things). :-D Still, it's nowhere near as cringy as what Carrie Fisher (God rest her soul) had to do in The Star Wars Holiday Special if you ask me. ;-)
This was obviously a vain attempt to replicate the success he had with the previous song, "Disco Duck," which became a hit, despite its inanity. This follow up song was even more fatuous.
There's one recipe for bad songs; Re-write a silly song, change a few words and substitute a new main subject for the old one. Hey, what worked out before should work again, right?
Wow! I actually saw this when it aired. The next day at school everyone was talking about it. We thought it was cool. LMAO. Well?... compared to reality shows of today, I rather watch this. Cheers!
Yep - I saw this once before and rightfully buried it away in my tank of nightmare material. Then I saw the video about Disco Duck and it all came out again. Todd sums it up by asking what exactly is supposed to be funny about this?
This could only come from the 1970s, the music, visuals, clothes/fashions, overproduced Network TV variety show musicals, massive Network TV studio setups, everything! 🕺🕺💃💃
So Greg Brady is appearing with the characters from "What's Happening?!": Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, and I forgot the little sister's name-oh, wait, it's Dee Dee! They're introing Rick Dees-with his mustasche, this is the '70s, after all-singing his follow-up to "Disco Duck", "Did-Gorilla" which was indeed a copy of the previous No. 1 song. Performance is cheesy but still pretty enjoyable.
I love this song still as l do disco duck!!! That's what's wrong today, no fun, no humor, no empathy, just fake materialistic shit!!!! Rick Dees just tried to bring happiness into our homes!!! CellaMadea
I'd love to have seen the techs in the rafters of the studio making those big, limp King Kong hands wave back and forth like that, lol. The expensive animatronics that were probably once in them have clearly been stripped out. You can see that by the end of the song either their arms were too tired or their dignity was too exhausted, to make them wave any more than half-heartedly. I also wonder if they were recycled from the Jeff Bridges '76 King Kong or Universal Studios prop department. No way Dee's people or the producers of the show would have paid for those to be made(especially as bad as they turned out to look onstage), just for one primetime special.
Idk how I stumbled upon this.. listened to it and was totally all O_o wtf. Listened to it again and I think this hook is one of the greatest ever made..
Greg Brady, Rerun and Rick Dees TOGETHER!!!! Rick always had a sense of humour that was similar to Mike Nesmith, (of the Monkees and Elephant Parts fame,) with a dash of Ray Stevens. All I can say about his 70's career is he owes what he has today to the success of Disco Duck so he did well for himself.
The canned applause was horrible even when this originally aired. In fact all canned laugh tracks and applause throughout the history of TV was never convincing in any way.
I grew up in the LA area so we had Rick Dees as a DJ in the AM. As a kid I found him entertaining, and somehow I heard Disco Duck, LONG after Disco had died. And yeah, even as a kid I thought it was terrible. But this was in contrast to the music of the time, which was new wave. So I'd be listening to Duran Duran, or Tears for Fears, and then I head Disco Duck and yikes.
Want to know something funny? And ironically I am serious about this! lol ANYWAY, I found Rick Dee's email address and emailed him a few months back asking if this song was ever on CD somewhere and if not, would he consider putting it out on CD somewhere. Never received a reply on it. I saw in an interview some time ago how he was really trying to put a distance between him and Disco Duck so I guess if he is trying to downplay his biggest and most well known song, there is probably no hope for this one unless a third party does it like KTel or something! Yes folks, KTel is still around in some form! Anyway, I think he is pissed about Disco Duck since even though the song was in Saturday Night Fever, no one put it on the soundtrack release which, of course, sold millions and millions of copies and Dees, from what I heard, was upset he was missing out on some serious cash royalties. Someone one said that Dees probably would have made somewhere in the neighborhood of like $2-3 million at least from having that one song on that soundtrack and that was 1970's dollars they were talking about! I would probably be mad to. I mean, I am sure Dee's is doing OK money wise but still.... 2-3 million in basically "found" money? Yea....
The only reason why this garbage ever gets green-lighted is because no one has the courage to tell their bosses in the entertainment industry how bad it really is. The US has a population over 300 Million and this is supposedly the best that we could come up with?
On this day in 1966 {January 9th} "Dis-Gorilla - Part One" by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #77; three weeks later on January 30th it would peak at #56 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 6 weeks... Rick and the Cast had one other Top 100 record but it was a big one; "Disco Duck - Part One" picked at #1 {for 1 week} on October 10th, 1976...
I listened and I like both of them but I like Dis-Gorilla a little bit more because it flows and it doesn't keep stopping and starting like the Funky Gibbon does. I like the idea of turning into an animal more than copying an animal at the zoo. I also thought the dancing and the swing on vines and underwater/above water was cooler than just 3 guys dancing like monkeys on stage. But I like the Funky Gibbon and I m going to listen to it now that I know it exists. So thank you for telling me about it. :)
I like it. I enjoy listening to silly songs for the fun of it. Maybe because I like comedy stuff. You can call it that weird Al's father in the 70's started a music career and that was how weird al became interested in starting career in making funny songs.
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It's hard to imagine the amount of cocaine involved in this....
jajajajajajajajajaja... thats only the crazy moment of this singer
yes, and some primo herb!
yes, and some primo herb!
Shape your mind...
TONS of Coke.
the Brady kids, the kids from What's Happening, the Disco Duck guy, and synchronized swimmers. LOL 1970s America.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
the recording of the song, the editing, right down to the choreographed rehearsals...there were so many opportunities to put a stop to this yet no one did so I'm forced to assumed this was accepted at the time
cocaine's a hell of a drug.
Is this any different than the masked singer crap that is on and everyone watches??
Yeah, what you said!
@@wanderingguys4719 THANK YOU.
The seventies did a lot of drugs.
I commented on Disco Duck, so I might as well comment on this. I was in intermediate school on the Big Island when this brilliant song debuted, and while it wasn't the platinum smash its predecessor was (why, I'll never know), it was good enough for someone to dance to in the cafeteria talent show. What I remember is him in a silvery long sleeve, big collar shirt and dark brown Angels Flight pants beating his chest robot-style to the opening gorilla hoots, followed by some Travolta-esque disco moves during the chorus. I think he won too. Recalling that much, and watching this video, makes me realize I've lived far too long a life...farewell.
You poor creature. I imagine that soldiers seeing the bloodiest moments of war couldn’t have the levels of PTSD you must suffer with. May god have mercy on humanity for spawning this musical atrocity.
"Disco Duck" is "Stairway to Heaven" compared to "Dis-Gorilla."
It’s so bad, it’s good. I actually really enjoy this.
Ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons why the Disco Demolition Night happened.
That event seems so ridiculous now.... every genre has crap.
yeah - but 3 years later ...
I was never able to understand how someone could hate a music genre that much. After watching this I fully understand and honestly don’t think they went far enough tbh.
He’s the reason that night happened
Steve Dahl may have been an unintentional shock jock, but at least he was realistically hilarious.
this is one song that doesn't make me miss the seventies !!!!!!!
Any music era always have a high point and low point. 🙂
@@kidwaryodproduction From "The Ballet of the Green Beret" in the 1960s to "WAP" in the 2020s. You're right to say that every decade has its stinkers.
Should've stuck to singing about ducks, Rick!
@@rommix0 Don't worry 😄 It would be "Guilty Pleasure" as time passes.
But some of it was actually worthy to check as time passes. Example, Village People "Renassiance" album that people love to branded it as a bad album. Which wasn't true. It actually have a very good new wave sound, good vocal harmony, but the costume is truly killed everything.
Not only is this the worst musical performance of all time, it may be the most wretched audio and visual experience even conceivable.
pretty much, the 70's sure created some abominations
@@MEEG0L Yup. People were high out of their minds on Cocaine.
“Dis-Gorilla....Lady Killa’ ...” 😂😂😂
"HOW IS THERE VIDEO OF THIS?!"
This really is about as awful as television ever got. Even the whole retro thing doesn't save it.
"how is there video of this?" I'm asking the same thing todd.
Of course, Rick Dees did this sort of thing more for laughs than for anything else, and to this day, he's still quick to joke about his songs being used to torture inmates in Alaska (among other things). :-D
Still, it's nowhere near as cringy as what Carrie Fisher (God rest her soul) had to do in The Star Wars Holiday Special if you ask me. ;-)
Putting someone in a cell with this video played non-stop is INHUMAN TORTURE.
I actually remember watching this back then. Even as a young kid like I was, I still thought it was stupid.
This is my first time hearing "Dis-Gorilla". Never heard it in the 70s. Should I consider myself lucky?
Yes. You should.
Rick Dees is a good sport, but even he looks embarrassed by this - so do the women dancers.
It’s Amazing what are you talking about? 🦍
This was obviously a vain attempt to replicate the success he had with the previous song, "Disco Duck," which became a hit, despite its inanity. This follow up song was even more fatuous.
There's one recipe for bad songs; Re-write a silly song, change a few words and substitute a new main subject for the old one. Hey, what worked out before should work again, right?
Correct! As had already been proved by the 1964 sequel to 1962's "The Monster Mash", "The Monster Swim".
He goes from a one hit wonder to a 2 hit terror.
My science teacher played this for us and we decided it’s the best song to ever exist
Wow! I actually saw this when it aired. The next day at school everyone was talking about it. We thought it was cool. LMAO. Well?... compared to reality shows of today, I rather watch this. Cheers!
Whose here from Todd In The Shadows? :) I'm instinctually making the same expression of disbelief he did.
You're here from Todd's video? Yeah I just saw it...
Yep - I saw this once before and rightfully buried it away in my tank of nightmare material. Then I saw the video about Disco Duck and it all came out again. Todd sums it up by asking what exactly is supposed to be funny about this?
Out of every song and video he has ever covered, this is the most irredeemable song of all time. A musical atrocity.
@@BalloonSage Then pray he doesn't cover "Disco-rilla" cause, I mean...WHAT?????
Yep
Wait... Rick Dees coined Bart Simpson's catchphrase, "Eat My Shorts" one full year before John Bender said it in The Breakfast Club?!
Rick is the omnipotent one!
Gene Simmons said you can sell a million records with a gimmick, once.
This could only come from the 1970s, the music, visuals, clothes/fashions, overproduced Network TV variety show musicals, massive Network TV studio setups, everything! 🕺🕺💃💃
Not to mention multiple “clapping tracks” inserted at odd moments and an introduction by cast members from The Brady Bunch and What’s Happening!
Rick Dees vocal remind me of Frankie Smith "Double Dutch Bus"
Todd in the shadows sent you here
I had no idea this song existed, until today. Hooray!
me neither. I listened to this song today
Wow! I thought the Disco Duck video was 70’s weird. This takes the cake!
Dee from "What's Happening!!" extorted a quarter from everyone involved in this mess.
Kid: Why did disco die, dad?
Dad: Just watch this video. It has all the answers.
So Greg Brady is appearing with the characters from "What's Happening?!": Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, and I forgot the little sister's name-oh, wait, it's Dee Dee! They're introing Rick Dees-with his mustasche, this is the '70s, after all-singing his follow-up to "Disco Duck", "Did-Gorilla" which was indeed a copy of the previous No. 1 song. Performance is cheesy but still pretty enjoyable.
pretty groovy follow up to Disco Duck :) I'm digging it. :)
I love this song still as l do disco duck!!! That's what's wrong today, no fun, no humor, no empathy, just fake materialistic shit!!!! Rick Dees just tried to bring happiness into our homes!!! CellaMadea
I'd love to have seen the techs in the rafters of the studio making those big, limp King Kong hands wave back and forth like that, lol. The expensive animatronics that were probably once in them have clearly been stripped out. You can see that by the end of the song either their arms were too tired or their dignity was too exhausted, to make them wave any more than half-heartedly. I also wonder if they were recycled from the Jeff Bridges '76 King Kong or Universal Studios prop department. No way Dee's people or the producers of the show would have paid for those to be made(especially as bad as they turned out to look onstage), just for one primetime special.
RIP HARAMBE
Eff Harambe. May that murderer rest in gorilla hell.
The chorus is catchy as fuck!! Thanks rebel media!
LOL IM HERE CAUSE OF THEM TOO Hahahahahaha
I'm here because of them too . °\(ö)/° = /
Yup :(
could have been a good groove had they have cut out all the comedy and slap stick
The guitar and bass lines on verse also very good.
.. and if you were wondering what hammered the last nail into disco's coffin lol
Dis Go rilla, baby killa! 🎵🎵 Amazing lyrics
...and now Mid-South, a little riddle: Who eats cheese, crazy about trees and shoots the breeze--- Rick Dees six o'clock this morning... on HBQ-radio
Who else is waiting for the digital remaster of this tune?
Idk how I stumbled upon this.. listened to it and was totally all O_o wtf. Listened to it again and I think this hook is one of the greatest ever made..
This is hilarious
Todd sent me, and this is truly horrible.
the funkiest thing about this: rerun
Thanks, Todd in the Shadows, I hate it. Spike Jones--->Rick Dees--->Ylvis
Rick Dees found his place on the airwaves though - his Weekly Top 40 started in 1983 and has kept going for decades…
70s Television at its finest .......
This is what greed and cocaine abuse does to self restraint and personal pride
Cousin had it on a 45 in the late 70s used to listen when I would visit..... good memories
Rick Dees, took DJ'ing to whole different level.;
He rejected his humanity and returned to monke
the funke monke
Rick Dees on L.A. radio FM KOST 103 or KROQ 106.7 or KISS FM today
Put this one at the top of the Gitmo torture playlist.
If they will be another Yoyager spacecraft sent into the Universe they should include this song and Disco Duck to confuse the Aliens that find it.
Greg Brady, Rerun and Rick Dees TOGETHER!!!!
Rick always had a sense of humour that was similar to Mike Nesmith, (of the Monkees and Elephant Parts fame,) with a dash of Ray Stevens. All I can say about his 70's career is he owes what he has today to the success of Disco Duck so he did well for himself.
Rick Dee’s follow up to Disc Duck was Disc o rilla ? Even had the same chorus……wow!
This makes Disco Duck seem good!!
1978? I used to enjoy watching the Brady Bunch Variety Hour. I believe it was a Sid & Marty Kroft Production🤔
What i don't understand is why they add the audience clapping only when they show the girls swimming in the water below. LOL!
VIdeo Masterpiece! Take note of the subacquarian dancers, just that is unparalleled!
The canned applause was horrible even when this originally aired. In fact all canned laugh tracks and applause throughout the history of TV was never convincing in any way.
Women are dancing underwater. Everybody clap!
I dont recall this song, like Disco Duck...just as well.
Disco is the natural progression to hip hop.
Disco gorilla. Now we have Glorilla.
The worst.
Even it's a comedy disco songs. I found the bass and guitar sound very good. Very adventurous 🙂
Rock and Roll hall of fame. 😊
Second greatest disco song in history after disco duck of course.
Very original song 11/10
The 1970s didn't last long enough for me.
Hmm, i seem to recall there was a lot of acid going around in those days!
I grew up in the LA area so we had Rick Dees as a DJ in the AM. As a kid I found him entertaining, and somehow I heard Disco Duck, LONG after Disco had died. And yeah, even as a kid I thought it was terrible. But this was in contrast to the music of the time, which was new wave. So I'd be listening to Duran Duran, or Tears for Fears, and then I head Disco Duck and yikes.
Rick Dees Nuts
I love bad shit, but this somehow is too much for even myself.
I love this song, I wish the album would get a CD release!
RazSux better yet it's on 8track tape
Want to know something funny? And ironically I am serious about this! lol ANYWAY, I found Rick Dee's email address and emailed him a few months back asking if this song was ever on CD somewhere and if not, would he consider putting it out on CD somewhere. Never received a reply on it. I saw in an interview some time ago how he was really trying to put a distance between him and Disco Duck so I guess if he is trying to downplay his biggest and most well known song, there is probably no hope for this one unless a third party does it like KTel or something! Yes folks, KTel is still around in some form! Anyway, I think he is pissed about Disco Duck since even though the song was in Saturday Night Fever, no one put it on the soundtrack release which, of course, sold millions and millions of copies and Dees, from what I heard, was upset he was missing out on some serious cash royalties. Someone one said that Dees probably would have made somewhere in the neighborhood of like $2-3 million at least from having that one song on that soundtrack and that was 1970's dollars they were talking about! I would probably be mad to. I mean, I am sure Dee's is doing OK money wise but still.... 2-3 million in basically "found" money? Yea....
Jesuswept. As if COVID isn't bad enough.
What's a CD?
Why there was an hand clapping track between 1:20 till 1:25 & at the 2:14 till 2:20 mark???
dis-respect
If Rick Dees had any self respect he would have committed Seppuku around 1978 at the very latest.
I will never not hear “Rick dees nuts”
Nice clear quality video!
Dees sang this one when he was inducted as the first member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio by Dave Marsh and Jann Wenner.
thanks for this👏🏼my childhood💛
I like it.
"These kids nowadays with their TikToks and their CZcamss. Back in my day we had QUALITY entertainment!"
the best thing about this is greg brady x whats happening.
I actually like this. 😂🔥
The only reason why this garbage ever gets green-lighted is because no one has the courage to tell their bosses in the entertainment industry how bad it really is. The US has a population over 300 Million and this is supposedly the best that we could come up with?
On this day in 1966 {January 9th} "Dis-Gorilla - Part One" by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #77; three weeks later on January 30th it would peak at #56 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 6 weeks...
Rick and the Cast had one other Top 100 record but it was a big one; "Disco Duck - Part One" picked at #1 {for 1 week} on October 10th, 1976...
Disco Duck is at least pretty good but this one is just utterly stupid.
What may have worked for the duck with Dees certainly didn't work for a gorilla.
Disco Rilla X 5,,, io non sono piu'tranquilla se non canto, ballo e danzo tutto il tempo il disco Rilla...
😂😁👍 This song makes me so happy😀 on this time we need so many guys of the world. He lives that song on the stage. So positiv vibes
Which is better? This or "The Funky Gibbon"?
let me give it a listen and then I'll tell you
I listened and I like both of them but I like Dis-Gorilla a little bit more because it flows and it doesn't keep stopping and starting like the Funky Gibbon does. I like the idea of turning into an animal more than copying an animal at the zoo. I also thought the dancing and the swing on vines and underwater/above water was cooler than just 3 guys dancing like monkeys on stage. But I like the Funky Gibbon and I m going to listen to it now that I know it exists. So thank you for telling me about it. :)
Disco...rilla????
The background singers... theyre doing something
this criminally has way too few views on CZcams to be going on 12 years old
8 people upset if miss Brady Bunch hour what happened to Alice?
I like it. I enjoy listening to silly songs for the fun of it. Maybe because I like comedy stuff. You can call it that weird Al's father in the 70's started a music career and that was how weird al became interested in starting career in making funny songs.
And holy "clap track"
Traumatized
Dumb song but am glad it got airtime. Love you anyway Rick.
Rick Dees. Pure musical genius!
Really?
Um, no
This video is much better on mute. The dancing is nicely done.