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 ...
In the mid-Seventies, Memphis DJ Rick Dees composed a novelty tune called “Disco Duck.” That song turned out to be a massive hit and transformed Dees into a Top 40 radio celebrity. Thirty years on, ...
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 ...
The voice of “Rick Dees in the Morning!” has spoken to a generation of Southern Californians during their drive to work. After putting himself on the musical map by selling 6 million copies of the ...
In late 1981, KIIS was becoming the hottest station on the planet. Led by General Manager Wally Clark and Program Director ...
This was posted on May 7, 2012 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog I am here to cement my reputation as the ultimate radio/chart geek. On Long Island in the 1980s, I grew up not ...
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 ...
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