Rick dees and his cast of idiots

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Rick dees and his cast of idiots

He wrote and recorded " Disco Duck " in ; it sold more than six million copies. The song can be heard in Saturday Night Fever in a brief scene in which a group of older people were learning to "move their feet to the disco beat". While this platinum recording earned him a People's Choice Award for Favorite New Song, [ 7 ] and the BMI Award for record sales in one year [ 8 ] , [ citation needed ] Dees was expressly forbidden from playing the song on the air by station management rival stations refused to play it for fear of promoting their competition.

Dees was fired from WMPS when he mentioned that his song, "Disco Duck", was almost number 1, and his own radio station would not let him play it. The station manager said it was a conflict of interest. Dees did not perform the actual duck vocals on the song since he could not "talk like a duck". Chesney had done some comedic voices for Dees prior to Disco Duck.

Dees helped their ratings, but AM music radio was rapidly losing ground to FM. In a short time, he turned KIIS-FM into the 1 revenue-generating radio station in America, with an asset value approaching half a billion dollars. He began his Weekly Top 40 countdown program, still currently in syndication , on the weekend of October 8—9, on 18 stations; [ 10 ] the show was created after Dees's station KIIS dropped American Top 40 in a dispute over the playing of network commercials.

The syndicated Countdown is available in several different editions including Hit Radio for contemporary hit radio stations , Hot Adult hot adult contemporary radio stations , 80s Edition and 90s Edition on terrestrial radio stations around the world. On April 15, , Movin Dees was one of the last voices on the station before the flip, redirecting listeners of his show to RICK.

His show at KHHT lasted for a year. Dees continues distribution of his Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown globally to terrestrial radio stations and streaming in the U. In television, Dees hosted his own late-night show [ 14 ] on the ABC television network in the early s, Into the Night Starring Rick Dees , [ 15 ] which ran for one season and was canceled due to low ratings.

In addition, Dees hosted the syndicated series Solid Gold from Paramount Television, and his voice has been a part of numerous animated features, including The Flintstones , where he starred as Rock Dees, and Jetsons: The Movie , where he voiced Rocket Rick. His voice was heard as the radio DJ during the opening credits of the film Valley Girl , released in In , Dees and his record company made a request of Marvin Fisher, the owner of the copyright in the music of the song "When Sunny Gets Blue", for permission to use the song in a parody of the performance by Johnny Mathis.

Fisher refused to grant permission for the use. Dees decided to do a parody even without the permission of the copyright holder, using about 29 seconds of the song in a parody album titled Put It Where the Moon Don't Shine. Fisher sued Dees for copyright infringement. The trial court found that the parody song, titled "When Sonny Sniffs Glue," was clearly intended to "poke fun" at the style of singing for which Johnny Mathis was well known, and thus was not infringing.

The decision was upheld on appeal, in Fisher v. Dees F. The court found Dees and his business manager acted with "malice and oppression" in diverting profits from Dees's Top 40 countdown program and gave the judgment to a former business partner. Contents move to sidebar hide. Dees and other legal trouble. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.

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