# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-dees
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:37:04.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-dees"
name: "Rick Dees"
slug: "rick-dees"
description: "Rigdon Osmond Dees III, best known as Rick Dees, is an American radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song \"Disco Duck\". He is also known as the source of the audio in the 2002 \"You Are An Idiot\" trojan, which originated from a comedy sketch on his 1984 album Put It Where the Moon Don’t Shine. Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He performed the title song for the film Meatballs. He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking Channel, and has hosted Rick Dees in the Morning at KIIS-FM and KHHT in Los Angeles. Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees and the syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown. He is also the voice announcer on the network Rewind TV."
tagline: "American radio personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Dees_in_KIIS_FM_studio.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.091312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "officialrickdees"
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    handle:    "RickDees1"
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    handle:    "nm0214418"
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    url:       "https://rick.com"
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    title: "Rick Dees"
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    title: "Rick Dees"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump