Rick Dees
Radio personality, Broadcast Artist
1950 –
Who is Rick Dees?
Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III is an American comedic performer, entertainer, and radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 novelty song "Disco Duck". He is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He wrote two songs that appear in the film Saturday Night Fever, plus performed the title song for the film Meatballs. Dees is also co-founder of the E. W. Scripps television network, Fine Living Network, and has been the host of the Rick Dees in the Morning show at Hot 92.3 in Los Angeles, CA as well as his own syndicated daily radio show The Daily Dees.
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- Born
- Mar 14, 1950
Jacksonville - Also known as
- Rigdon Osmond Dees III
- Rigdon Osmond Dees
- Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots
- Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III
- Rick Dees III
- Rick
- Spouses
- Julie McWhirter
(1977 - ) - Nancy Carmody
(1970/12/25 - 1976)
- Julie McWhirter
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Grimsley High School
- Employment
- Cumulus Media Networks
- Lived in
- Jacksonville
- Greensboro
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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