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Comedic performer and renowned radio personality, Rick Dees, has made an indelible mark in the entertainment world with his captivating enthusiasm and quickwitted style. His #1 internationally syndicated radio show “Rick Dees Weekly Top 40” is heard each weekend by more than 70 million people around the world, including virtually every city in the United States, 125 countries, 27 massive ships at sea, and on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Dees’ familiar voice and multitude of characters
have become a mainstay of the American psyche and have even extended into Beijing, China, becoming the first English speaking radio show to entertain Chinese listeners on weekends.
In addition to his internationally acclaimed countdown show, Dees became a staple of Southern California radio when he began hosting the top rated morning show on KIISFM in July of 1981. During his years at the station, he turned KIIS-FM into the #1 revenue generating radio station in America with an asset value approaching a half a billion dollars. With unprecedented arbitrons and many accolades to his name including ten Billboard “Radio Personality of the Year” and the much coveted Marconi Award, Dees set the standard for success in morning radio. The show went into syndication in April 2000 with Premiere Radio Networks. Parodying the 70’s disco craze, Dees wrote and recorded Disco Duck; the award winning runaway hit that sold more than six million copies. This platinum recording earned him a People’s Choice Award.
In 1984, Dees received a Grammy Award nomination for Hurt MeBaby, Make Me Write Bad Checks and has since been awarded the Grammy Governor’s Award. His other albums – I’m not Crazy, Rick Dees’ Greatest Hit (The White Album) and Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine, have proved auspicious successors.
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