The "Chicken Dance" is an oom-pah song composed by a Swiss accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland in the 1950s and the corresponding fad dance.This is not the same dance as "The Chicken" popular in American rhythm and blues in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken.

By Robert Benfer2007

Conversational Hypnosis: A Mean To Get What You Want?We have all seen or heard about people who get hypnotized and end up doing the funky chicken, for example on a TV show. It's actually quite a comical vision, but not at all possible...

Phil Farrell showcases the most famous Rubber Chicken in Beer and Brewing History!

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