Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends

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Name = Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends


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Origin = New Jersey, United States
Genre = Country rock Pop rock
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Label = Warner Bros. Records
Associated_acts = The Alpha Band
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Past_members = D'Andrea (Danny) Bennett Daegal (Dae) Bennett Curtis Fried Gordon Javna Jon Yaffee David Mansfield

Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends was an American country rock band of the early 1970s.

It was founded by D'Andrea (Danny) Bennett and Daegal (Dae) Bennett, both sons of legendary singer Tony Bennett; they comprised the rhythm section. Other members included Curtis Fried, Gordon Javna, Jon Yaffee, and guitarist/violinist David Mansfield. The band had a modest local following in northern New Jersey and was the opening act for Gram Parsons at Max's Kansas City in New York. Their music was oriented towards light-hearted, catchy songs.

The band was signed by Warner Bros. Records and released the album "Media Push" in 1974. The single "The Barnyard Song" received a smattering of airplay on WNEW-FM and the band had a national television appearance on "The Mike Douglas Show". Nevertheless they failed to gain a substantial audience and were dropped by Warner Bros.

The "Media Push" title song from the album boasts what are surely the most politically-incorrect lyrics ever released by a major label. The complete obscurity of the Quacky Duck project has relegated this milestone to the cultural shadows.

Post-breakup

Mansfield went on to a very successful career with Bob Dylan, The Alpha Band, and as a session musician and composer. The failure of Quacky Duck helped convince Danny Bennett that his talents lay more in business than in being a musician; as a result he later became Tony Bennett's manager and played a key role in resurrecting his father's commercial career in the 1980s and early 1990s. Dae Bennett went on to become a recording engineer. Gordon Javna became a writer and editor and currently oversees the popular "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series of trivia books.

Members

*D'Andrea (Danny) Bennett
*Daegal (Dae) Bennett
*Curtis Fried
*Gordon Javna
*Jon Yaffee
*David Mansfield - guitar/violin

References

* [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20064236,00.html People Magazine - Quacky Duck—a Hot New Group from the Suburbs]