{"id":241,"date":"2025-12-09T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:52:21","slug":"the-birdie-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/the-birdie-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birdie Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Birdie Song\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6cSgJlAYaEWOGROvNztEQL?si=eXQcly-9QU2U17AEnt8hKA&#038;utm_source=oembed\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Officially voted \u201c\u2026the most annoying song of all time\u2026\u201d, Valentine Music proudly publish the iconic Birdie Song. Starting life in the 50s as a Swiss accordion \u201coom-pah\u201d song, the Birdie Song has a place in all our hearts\u2026not to mention on every wedding disco dance floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as the \u201cChicken Dance\u201d in the States, it is a truly worldwide phenomenon \u2013 you\u2019d be dancing to \u201cFugladansinn\u201d in Iceland, \u201cOkashi Tori\u201d in Japan and \u201cLa danse des canards\u201d in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s how\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get together in a large circle, everyone facing inwards. Shape a chicken beak with your hands, opening and closing it four times. Now make a chicken beak with your arms and flap away four times. Make some tail feathers with your arms and hands \u2013 wiggle downwards for four beats. Repeat four times. Then spin to the right with your partner for eight counts, and to the left and you\u2019re away\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially voted \u201c\u2026the most annoying song of all time\u2026\u201d, Valentine Music proudly publish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}