Rick dees disco duck record
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#RICK DEES DISCO DUCK RECORD TV#
He hosted a late night TV show on ABC, “In the Night Starring Rick Dees,” and appeared on a number of TV shows, including “Roseanne,” “Married.with Children,” and Cheers. Rick left KMVN when the station changed formats but still hosted “The Weekly Top 40” countdown show as well as “The Daily Dees,” a four-hour midday show that’s syndicated. In 2004 Rick left KIIS-FM but went back on the air in Los Angeles on KMVN Movin’ 93.9 he hosted that show with Patti “Long Legs” Lopez and Mark Wong. This show became the first English-speaking radio show to hit the airwaves in China. In September, 1983 Rick began his “Weekly Top 40” countdown, which reached over 200 cities worldwide during its peak and was heard on the Armed Forces Radio Network. With Rick in his morning show, the station was worth half a billion dollars and Rick was named Billboard Radio Personality of the Year for ten consecutive years. From KHJ Rick went to KIIS-FM and led that station to become the number one station in the nation for revenues. That was just a minor bump in the road for Dees, who landed a job on WHBQ in Memphis, then went on to host a popular morning radio show on 93KHJ AM in Los Angeles. In fact, Rick was fired by station management when he mentioned on the air that “Disco Duck” was headed to being number one in the nation but he was not allowed to play it! Dees won a “People’s Choice Award” from this hit but, ironically, was not allowed to play it on the air at the radio station where he worked. It was featured in the iconic disco movie, Saturday Night Fever. After WGBG, Rick worked at WXYC in Chapel Hill, WSGN in Birmingham, Alabama and WKIX in Raleigh.ĭuring the time he worked as a DJ in Memphis at WMPS-AM he wrote “Disco Duck,” which was a number one record in 1976 and sold six million singles. He began his radio career in Greensboro on WGBG while he was in high school. Rick Dees grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reverend Faircloth Barnes (Bishop F.C.