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Rick Dees Biography

Rick Dees is one of the most popular and richest DJ who was born on March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. In the 1980s and ’90s, he was the host of the syndicated Weekly Top 40 Countdown radio program. His comedy album Hurt Me Baby-Make Me Write Bad Checks earned him a Grammy nomination in 1984.

Dees resigned from KIIS due to a contract dispute and was replaced by After Dees left KIIS in a contract dispute, the young Ryan Seacrest was recruited to replace him. , a young .

Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 novelty song “Disco Duck”. In 2007 he sang the theme song for the TV show Rick and Steve.

His introduction to the international entertainment arena began while working at WMPS AM 680 (“The Great 68”) in Memphis, Tennessee, during the disco craze of the mid- to late-1970s, when he wrote and recorded “Disco Duck” in 1976, that sold more than 6 million copies. The song can be heard in Saturday Night Fever, in a brief scene in which a group of older people were learning to “move their feet to the disco beat”. While this platinum recording earned him a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New Song, and the BMI Award for record sales in one year, Dees was expressly forbidden from playing the song on the air by station management (rival stations refused to play it for fear of promoting their competition). Dees was fired from WMPS when he mentioned that his song, “Disco Duck”, was almost #1, and his own radio station would not let him play it. The station manager said it was a conflict of interest. Dees did not perform the actual duck vocals on the song since he could not “talk like a duck.” The duck vocals were recorded at Shoestring Productions in Memphis, Tennessee by Ken Pruitt, who moved away before the song became popular, and the vocals for the duck were done by Michael Chesney of Memphis for the concert tour. Chesney had done some comedic voices for Dees prior to Disco Duck. The tour went from Disney World to New York, NY, billed as Rick Dees and The Cast of Idiots. After a 45-day non-compete clause in his contract was satisfied, Dees was hired by RKO Radio to do the morning show at WHBQ AM 560 in Memphis.

He was married to He married Julie McWhirter, a popular comedienne in her own right, who helped him compose the unique sound effects to his countdown show. who is a well-known comedienne, and helped him create the unique sound effects for his countdown show.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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He began his Weekly Top 40 countdown program, still currently in syndication, in September 1983; the show was created after Dees’s station KIIS dropped American Top 40 in a dispute over the playing of network commercials. The Weekly Top 40 has been heard each weekend in over 200 countries worldwide and the Armed Forces Radio Network. It is distributed domestically by Compass Media Networks and internationally by Dees Entertainment International (through Radio Express). In December 2008, the Weekly Top 40 became the first English-speaking radio show to air in China. The syndicated Countdown is available in several different editions including Hit Radio (for contemporary hit radio stations), Hot Adult (hot adult contemporary radio stations), 80s Edition and 90s Edition on terrestrial radio stations around the world.

Rick Dees Net Worth

Rick Dees is one of the richest DJ from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Dees's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His countdown show was first broadcast by KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. Soon after, it was heard in 40 cities.

After a long and successful career, he was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters as well as the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees III in Jacksonville, Florida, on March 14, 1950. He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dees graduated from Greensboro’s Grimsley High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in motion pictures, TV, and radio.

In 1984, Dees (and his record company) made a request of Marvin Fisher, the owner of the copyright in the music of the song “When Sunny Gets Blue”, for permission to use the song in a parody of the performance by Johnny Mathis. Fisher refused to grant permission for the use. Dees decided to go ahead and do a parody even without the permission of the copyright holder, using about 29 seconds of the song in a parody album titled Put It Where the Moon Don’t Shine.

Dees has garnered many accolades, including the Marconi Award, induction into both the National Radio Hall of Fame, and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall Of Fame. In 1984, he received a Grammy Award nomination for his comedy album Hurt Me Baby – Make Me Write Bad Checks and has since received the Grammy Governor’s Award. His other comedy albums – I’m Not Crazy, Rick Dees Greatest Hit (The White Album), and Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine have also enjoyed worldwide success. He is an inductee in the North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame, the Tennessee Radio Hall Of Fame, has received the Billboard Radio Personality Of The Year award for 10 consecutive years, received a People’s Choice Award, and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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The success of Dees at their Memphis radio station, combined with his TV appearances and hit music, motivated station owner RKO General to offer Rick the morning radio show in Los Angeles at 93KHJ AM. Dees helped their ratings, but AM music radio was rapidly losing ground to FM. When KHJ switched to country music, Dees left KHJ, taking a morning position at KIIS-FM in July 1981. In a short time, he turned KIIS-FM into the #1 revenue-generating radio station in America, with an asset value approaching half a billion dollars.

In television, Dees hosted his own late-night show on the ABC television network in the early 1990s, Into the Night Starring Rick Dees, which ran for one season and was canceled due to low ratings. He has guest-starred on Roseanne, Married… with Children, Cheers, Diagnosis: Murder and many other hit shows. In addition, Dees hosted the syndicated series Solid Gold from Paramount Television, and his voice has been enjoyed on numerous animated features, including The Flintstones, where he starred as Rock Dees, and Jetsons: The Movie, where he played Rocket Rick.

Who is Rick Dees Dating?

According to our records, Rick Dees married to Julie McWhirter , Nancy Carmody . As of December 1, 2023, Rick Dees’s is not dating anyone.

Fisher sued Dees for copyright infringement. The trial court found that the parody song, titled “When Sonny Sniffs Glue,” was clearly intended to “poke fun” at the style of singing for which Johnny Mathis was well known, and thus was not infringing. The decision was upheld on appeal, in Fisher v. Dees 794 F.2d 432 (9th Cir. 1986)

Facts & Trivia

Rick Ranked on the list of most popular DJ. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rick Dees celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.

In an unrelated 1991 case, Dees was successfully sued for $10 million in damages. The court found Dees and his business manager acted with “malice and oppression” in diverting profits from Dees’s Top 40 countdown program, and gave the judgment to a former business partner.

What happen to Rick Dees?

Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees and the syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown.

Why did Rick Dees leave Kiss FM?

Changing times and changing attitudes caused Dees to leave the station after 23 years back in 2004. He continued to (and to this day still does) host the Rick Dees Weekly Top-40, and even came back to mornings on Movin’ 93.9 in 2006, but it wasn’t the same.

Who is Rick Dees wife?

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Where can I hear Rick Dees?

Rick Dees – Daily Dees Now streaming on RICK.COM and on Apple Podcasts around the world with a hot new edition daily!

Is Rick Dees married?

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