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 only lasted one season and was canceled because of low ratings.Groupe, Kasan. Rick and Julie have a son, Kevin (who is also the segment co-host of the Weekly Top 40 show). Dees is also a participant in the Boy Scouts of America, having earned the rank of Eagle Scout himself at age 15.ĭees currently resides in Los Angeles with his comedienne/impressionist wife, Julie McWhirter. Rick is also an ardent pastry chef, who loves to bake anything with chocolate.ĭees is active in Young Life, a Christian organization serving areas that have limited or no Christian influence. He even caddied at the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, for Mark O’Meara. He is also the founder of DDN – The Dees Digital Network.ĭees is a farmer, raising both crops and cattle in central Kentucky. He is the co-founder of the now defunct Fine Living Network, the lifestyle cable and television satellite network in partnership with E.
Outside of his radio career Dees has become a businessman and entrepreneur.
1983 – Hurt Me Baby, Make Me Write Bad Checks.He graduated from Greensboro’s Grimsley High School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Early lifeīorn in Jacksonville, Florida, Dees was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. 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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He wrote two songs that appear in the film Saturday Night Fever, plus performed the title song for the film Meatballs. He is a People’s Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III (born March 14, 1950) 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".
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