Rick Dees is a radio personality of international stardom who grew up in North Carolina. He’s the host of the nationally syndicated Weekly Top 40 Countdown and a former late night comic. He’s also the ...

Rick Dees doesn’t have a face for radio. Turns out that’s a good thing — and pretty rare in the biz, where talent is notoriously camera-unfriendly. When KIIS-FM hired Dees to host mornings in 1982, ...

I grew up listening to Rick Dees. He arrived in Los Angeles to work at KHJ way back in early 1979 when I was 16 years old. KHJ program director Chuck Martin, in an extremely successful attempt to ...