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Some songs go to the top of the charts because they’re good. Other songs become hits because…well, nobody really knows why. “Disco Duck,” which spent a week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Oct. 1976, falls into the latter category. The novelty track, once voted the “Worst Song of the 1970s” by Rolling Stone readers, was written and performed by Memphis DJ Rick Dees. It’s possible that the song got super popular because listeners thought they were listening to a song about Donald Duck at the disco. After all, the lyrics are about a duck who just can’t help but disco…

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