Danny Darko of The Microphone Doctors and Cory Cullinan (a.k.a. Doctor Noize) are back, with another remedy for those bad moods! Imbued with the pure goofiness of childhood, “Chicken (Don’t Cross the Road),” the second music video from the duo’s recently released album, Mood Food, is out today, with an accompanying single.
Watch the “Chicken! (Don’t Cross the Road)” video HERE.
“Chicken! (Don’t Cross the Road)” is unadulterated fun and an homage to some of Danny’s and Cory’s favorite dance maestros like James Brown. This ridiculously silly number started as a Doctor Noize workshop song that Cory wrote with a group of elementary school kids. When Danny’s creativity was added to the mix, he and Cory couldn’t resist the idea of making a video of the number, showing them dancing around like a couple of crazy chickens.“Our second and worse video, ‘Chicken (Don’t Cross the Road),’ launches us into space on rooster rockets, eschews the lemonheads of our last video for more mainstream rock/pop chicken suits, and features poorly synchronized moves we stole without permission from Shaun T’s Dig Deeper workout videos,” says Cory Cullinan. “We also stole some of the lyrics from kids, but who’s counting? We wrote this ‘cause Beethoven died before he could.”
Cory adds, “It’s amazeballs that the ‘Chicken! (Don’t Cross the Road)’ video was almost entirely scripted and filmed in my Colorado-based production house, Reach Studios, which is available to all my production clients. I say almost because we did film a bit in space, jump-roping in and out of a black hole, which incidentally was a first for humankind. But mostly Danny and I just wanted to get dressed up in chicken suits and rock out like anyone would really.”
ABOUT THE MICROPHONE DOCTORS & DOCTOR NOIZE:
Danny Darko of The Microphone Doctors dedicates his life to inspiring others through musical entertainment that instills hope, happiness, and imagination. As a recovered addict and ex-con, he is privileged to have the honor of speaking publicly about the experiences that miraculously led to where he is today.
Danny grew up in an abusive household. When times were difficult, and his father went to prison, Danny took solace in music, going to shows at a very young age and dancing a lot! He later wrote most of his first album and first children’s book in a prison alternative work camp. An avid reader, he loves poetry and cites the works of Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Bukowski, and Henry Miller, as life changing. A visual artist as well as a musician, Danny admires the works of Salvador Dali, Van Gogh, and Rodin. He is an avid traveler and has visited more than 40 countries.
Chart-topping children’s recording and performing artist Doctor Noize (a.k.a. Cory Cullinan) is many things: Stanford music grad, professor of recording arts, entrepreneur, author, app creator, studio owner, speaker, commissioned composer for stage and screen, and goofball.
Like Danny Darko, Cory Cullinan ultimately decided that his life was not going to be defined by the misfortunes that had occurred in his youth. (When he was a kid, Cory’s only sibling died of cancer, and that same year, in desperation, his father died by suicide.) After much reading, reflection, and planning, Cory very purposefully and proactively took a road that led in a very different direction
With chart hits in three decades, the Doc’s catalog of recordings is a unique combination of exuberant joy, high-quality production, revered collaborators, and narrative musical structure. Each album is an adventure balancing inspirational learning with positive storytelling and songwriting all ages can explore. His work teaches instruments, music fundamentals, language, leadership, sustainability, equity, diversity, and inclusion — all through the eyes of characters so engaging listeners don’t even know they’re learning.