Rick Dees
American radio personality · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1950 · age 76
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".
Rick Dees is read about 259 times a day, in 17 languages.
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Scooby-Doo's Spookiest TalesFilm1999
Family GuySeries, Peter as Rick Dees (voice)1997
KCAL Halloween ScreamFilm1996Cigars!: The New Rage!Film, Director, Writer1994
Burke's LawSeries, Charlie Harden1993
Diagnosis: MurderSeries, Rick Dees1991
Voices That CareFilm1990
Jetsons: The MovieFilm, Rocket Rick Ragnarok (voice)1987
Married... with ChildrenSeries, Rick Dees (voice)
La BambaFilm, 1987Ted Quillin1986
The GladiatorFilm, Garth Masters1984
Best DefenseFilm, Rick Dees1982
Stanley, the Ugly DucklingFilm, D.J. (voice)1980
Solid GoldSeries1978
Record CityFilm, Gordon Kong1977
The Brady Bunch HourSeries
The Love BoatSeries, 1977Melvin1950Born14 March 1950People around Rick
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La Bamba 1987
Jetsons: The Movie 1990
Best Defense 1984
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 10
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Television 7
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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.
