Five days before his song "Disco Duck" hit #1, Rick Dees was fired. At the time, Dees was working as a DJ on the Memphis AM station WMPS. He'd recorded "Disco Duck" as a sort of side-hustle goof, but ...

Rick Dees is a radio personality of international stardom who grew up in North Carolina. He’s the host of the nationally syndicated Weekly Top 40 Countdown and a former late night comic. He’s also the ...

Rick Dees, shown here ahead of the 2001 Radio Music Awards. Twenty years later, he's now a Rewind TV station voice. From Disco Duck and ruling Memphis’ morning show ratings in the mid-1970s to his ...

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One of my best friends in college was Rigdon Osmond Dees III of Greensboro. You know him as Rick Dees of radio and music fame. I first heard Rig on the radio in Greensboro while traveling from ...

Rick Dees doesn’t have a face for radio. Turns out that’s a good thing — and pretty rare in the biz, where talent is notoriously camera-unfriendly. When KIIS-FM hired Dees to host mornings in 1982, ...

One of my best friends in college was Rigdon Osmond Dees III of Greensboro. You know him as Rick Dees of radio and music fame. I first heard Rig on the radio in Greensboro while traveling from ...