Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends

Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends
Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends
Origin	Warner Bros. Records
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 lighthearted, catchy songs. The group's name evoked, as People magazine commented, "a line of bathtub toys".^[1]

The band was signed by

Warner Bros. Records for $75,000 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.

Mansfield went on to a very successful career with

recording engineer. Gordon Javna became a writer and editor and oversees the popular Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

series of trivia books. Fried plays bass in the Austin, Texas rock band, Cole Fried Fish.