If it isn’t me humming it, my wife will spontaneously sing a line from it and bring it back. “Ever since, this tune has been stuck in my head at least a few times per week. “Immediately after recording, the tune was basically running through my head constantly for weeks,” guitarist TJ Hill says. “It will now be stuck in my head the entire flight back to L.A.” “It’s in my head as I’m answering these questions,” Stafford told me, while preparing to board a flight at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport. In the DuckTales promotional “money pit” photo op at Disney’s D23 Expo in July, the rebooted theme played on a constant loop, with many guests in the vicinity audibly humming and singing along. Search for “ DuckTales theme” on Twitter, and you’ll find Twitter users everywhere singing the same tune, literally-declaring that the tune has gotten hopelessly stuck in their heads. The music made me feel the feelings I had as a child rushing home and watching the cartoon, yet I had to act like an adult and take it seriously.”Īs a piece of music, the DuckTales theme has an extraordinary tendency, as neurologist Oliver Sacks described the phenomenon in his book Musicophilia, to “bore its way, like an earwig, into the ear or mind.” Its irresistible earworminess is so notorious that it was once the subject of an (admittedly slight) Onion joke. “I have such a nostalgic soft spot when it comes to DuckTales the cartoon, that to actually work on the theme song was a little confusing at times. “It was actually a pretty surreal experience,” says Stafford. “There was never a question as to whether we would use the original theme song in the new series,” says Jay Stutler, vice president of Disney Television Animation’s music division. The rebooted DuckTales theme was arranged by Michael “Smidi” Smith and TJ Stafford, with former American Idol contestant Felicia Barton on lead vocals. It’s more of an “oh-oh!” in Finnish the Norwegians go for “ah-ha!” the Polish offer a frisky “yoo-oo!” He’s worth billions in gold, in dollars.” Even the “woo-hoo!” gets fine-tuned from culture to culture. The French version emphasizes Scrooge’s impressive status and wealth: “He’s the greatest boss of all the city. Here, almost everybody lives.” The Spanish theme promises “many adventures … with the bad guys and also the good ones”. Scrooge, Donald, people and animals offer you excitement. Roughly translated, the opening lines of the Norwegian version are “Come along … meet an acquaintance. That unfortunateness aside, Mueller’s theme song was free to become a global phenomenon. Only in Korea, and only for a time, did the show have a completely different theme song: a nauseating little ditty, replete with irritating quacking noises and performed by children. It was the first American cartoon broadcast in the former Soviet Union after the Cold War in Hungary, those born in the early-to-mid 80s are known as “the DuckTales generation” (Kacsamesék generáció). I just couldn’t believe they recognized my voice.”ĭuckTales aired in more than 100 countries in 25 different languages. “A group of guys from England walked up and said, ‘We heard your voice and knew right away that it was the guy who sings the DuckTales theme song.’ They were so excited to meet me. “Just recently I was playing with my band at a club,” says Jeff Pescetto, the theme’s original singer. “Sometimes they won’t know my pop hits.” (For one, Mueller co-wrote Jennifer Paige’s 1998 hit “Crush.”) “But almost everywhere I’ve gone, people know DuckTales. “When people find out what I do for a living, they’ll always ask if they’d know one of my songs,” he says. Well, while we wait for the new show, why not watch this video of the DuckTales theme song with real ducks in the background.Mueller is regularly astonished by the pervasiveness of his own creation. "Life is like a hurricane.of sadness," we said in our 4.5/10 critique. The latest DuckTales game was 2013's DuckTales Remastered, which was developed by WayForward and published by Capcom. IGN reports that the DuckTales reboot "drew its inspiration from Disney legend Carl Barks' comic books," which Disney programming VP Marc Buhaj said set an "enduring standard for animated entertainment that connects with both kids and adults." They are seen here in a jeep, careening through a forest, having apparently gotten themselves into some trouble with a spear-throwing enemies.Īs the Disney Blog points out, the art style-assuming this matches what we'll see in the show-looks mostly similar to the 1980s Emmy-winning TV show The image showcases Scrooge, as well as his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie-and of course Donald. Disney has released the first image of its upcoming DuckTales revival series, providing a glimpse at the reboot of the classic animated series scheduled to come to Disney XD in 2017.
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