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. Mueller is regularly astonished by the pervasiveness of his own creation.

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