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Rick Dees is one of the richest DJ from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Dees's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His countdown show was first broadcast by KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. Soon after, it was heard in 40 cities.
After a long and successful career, he was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters as well as the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees III in Jacksonville, Florida, on March 14, 1950. He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dees graduated from Greensboro’s Grimsley High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in motion pictures, TV, and radio.
In 1984, 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 go ahead and 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.
Dees has garnered many accolades, including the Marconi Award, induction into both the National Radio Hall of Fame, and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall Of Fame. In 1984, he received a Grammy Award nomination for his comedy album Hurt Me Baby – Make Me Write Bad Checks and has since received the Grammy Governor’s Award. His other comedy albums – I’m Not Crazy, Rick Dees Greatest Hit (The White Album), and Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine have also enjoyed worldwide success. He is an inductee in the North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame, the Tennessee Radio Hall Of Fame, has received the Billboard Radio Personality Of The Year award for 10 consecutive years, received a People’s Choice Award, and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
