It's that time, lock and load, the Michael Vary show is on the air.

It's all part of the other night, all the leaders were treating me red hair, moving my feet to the disco beat, how in the world could I keep my seat?

All of a sudden I began to change, I was on a dance floor acting street, flippin' my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco girl!

All of a sudden I began to change, I was on a dance floor acting street, flippin' my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco girl!

It was a month before my sixth birthday, it was October of 76, and every kid I knew and adult as well desperately wanted to master the duck sound of disco duck.

It was the number one song in the land, and you know who mastered that sound better than anyone else? Our next guest, Army Veteran Ken Pruitt, because he was the voice of the duck. Welcome, sir!

I don't know why I didn't expect you to do that, and now I want to stop the interview because it can't get any better.

The interview cannot, we cannot have a better discussion than that, I love you already!

Great, Ken Pruitt, first of all, give us a quick background on you. I know you're an Army Veteran, and by the way, listeners, I tell you all the time, our best show prep, despite an incredible team, our best show prep, not the majority of it, but little nuggets here in there are when listeners, as in the case of this, a woman in San Antonio said, hey, you were talking about rigdies and disco duck the other day, the guy who is the voice of the duck is Ken Pruitt, and I happened to tangentially know him.

He lives in San Antonio, he's an Army Veteran, and you would love him, to which I immediately responded, get his number, and tell him I want to talk to him, because what a great moment to go from a normal life to have this projected on the big screen of America, and then go back to your normal life, and be what a neat phenomenon. All right, so catch us up to the moment before you and rigdies make this big hit.

Well, I had been practicing the duck bush all my life, my father could do a little animated bush, and so I used the duck to introduce myself to the girls in high school and different things as I was entertaining, and I basically went into the military, and while in the military, I served both as a pilot and a counterintelligence agent, and was in the service role.

While I ended up having a blatant service from 1972 to 1978, and during that time period, I went back to Memphis, and was in a health spot, knew all the owners of the health spot, and it would get boring, and that's a hey, Ken, lie them it up a little bit.

So I would get on the PA system and do all my duck grounds and pick sounds and Elvis impersonations and just silly stuff in the gym, and rigdies came up and he said, I want to use you for the on the air.

So I established the relationship with Rick and started working with him doing little spots on the radio, and that led into the look at the disco duck.

Well, now you have me interested in your Elvis impersonation. Was this just something you did at cocktail parties to amuse your friends? How much time and effort did you put into learning these voices and characters?

Well, I was a pilot in the Army, and once I became a pilot, of course, we have to develop a persona. I was always, my handle was always the duck, and as most pilots, I entertained at parties, and especially the most I drank from a lying entertained, and it just developed from there.

It's something I've been working on my whole life, and primarily seeking attention or the attention of others, and just doing something unique.

I do know an awful lot of people that can make a duck voice, but I know no one that can do a duck voice and sing with the duck voice.

So that already is hard enough, but I will tell you this, there is no one alive because the Donald Duck and Daffy Duck franchise voices, was it Mel Blanc? Who did that voice? Was it Mel Blanc? Or gone?

Nobody has had more people hear them do the duck voice than you I can assure you of that.

You know, I don't know the original duck of the disco duck. I mean of the Donald Duck character. I know it's been confused that that was done by the original duck voice on the Disney character, but I just don't know that he made the individual that did that.

All right, so you meet can you meet Rick these can prove it you're can prove you meet Rick these and his cast of idiots and he says I want to have you on the show.

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