Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III
(born March 14, 1950) is an American radio personality, stand-up 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."
Dees 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 , California
The success of Dees at theirMemphis 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 Dees helped their ratings, but AM
music radio was rapidly losing ground to FM. When KHJ switched to country
music, Rick 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. Dees garnered many
accolades, including Billboard Radio Personality of the Year for ten years in a
row.
The success of Dees at their
He began his Weekly
Top 40 countdown program, still currently in syndication, in September 1983;
the show was created after Dees ' station KIIS
lost American Top 40 to a rival
station over the playing of network commercials. The Weekly Top 40 has
been heard each weekend in over 200 cities worldwide and the Armed Forces Radio
Network. It is distributed domestically by Dial Global 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
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