The whole thing took around 45 minutes to write. Mueller presented the resulting demo to the Disney music execs in person—"Mark's really stood out," remembers one of them, Chris Montan.
Mueller was paid "a whopping $1,250" for the song, he says. "And that was only if Disney used the song on the show and it actually aired. Which, fortunately, it did."
The arrival of the chorus is an ecstatic event. Writing it, Mueller realized he'd left a couple of gaps just after the rousing cry of "DuckTales!"—six beats each of valuable potential melodic real estate. Perhaps tapping into his own feelings that day, he instinctively threw in an exhilarated "A-woo-hoo!"
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