Rick Dees

The couple have a son, Kevin. Dorsey. Dees is married to Julie Dees, a voice actress. Trombonist and band leader Tommy Dorsey should not be confused with pianist and jazz and gospel composer Thomas A. Dees served as host of two television shows, Solid Gold and Into The Night With Rick Dees. Tommy Dorsey died suddenly at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Dees has appeared in several movies and has made many guest appearances on television shows such as Married With Children, The Love Boat, and Diagnosis Murder. Dorsey said his trombone style was heavily influenced by that of Jack Teagarden.

Though he currently does not have host a morning show, Dees is under contract with Clear Channel until January 1, 2005. Pan American World Airways's president Juan Trippe was a member of his band in 1940. Seacrest also serves as host of American Idol and replaced Casey Kasem on American Top 40. Sinatra achieved his first great success as a vocalist in the Dorsey band and claimed he learned breath control from watching Dorsey play trombone. Rick Dees in the Morning was replaced by Clear Channel Communications in 2004 with Ryan Seacrest's On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The band featured trumpeters Bunny Berigan and Charlie Shavers, arranger Sy Oliver, and singers Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra. Dees was inducted into the Radio Hall Of Fame in 1999 and has also received the People's Choice Award and has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Tommy Dorsey formed his own band, which was very successful.

Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 is currently heard on over 350 radio stations in the United States, as well as in 125 other countries. The brothers also appeared as session musicians on many jazz recordings. Dees began his weekly Top 40 show, still currently in syndication, in 1983. With brother Jimmy, he led the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra until they split up in 1935. In 1982, Rick Dees moved to KIIS, a radio station in Los Angeles, where he served as host of Rick Dees in the Morning until 2004. He worked with many bands in the New York City area starting in the 1920s, including the bands of Rudy Vallee, Vincent Lopez, and Paul Whiteman. The single sold over six million copies and reached number 1 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart on October 16, 1976. Thomas Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania and is the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey.

Dees recorded "'Disco Duck'" in 1976 while working at WMPS, a station in Memphis, Tennesse. Tommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956) was a jazz trombonist in the Big Band era. Dees worked in various radio stations through out the southeastern US. Dees graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. Dees began his radio career in 1966 at the age of 17 at WGBG, a Greensboro radio station.

Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees on March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and for the song "Disco Duck". Rick Dees is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley area, near Los Angeles, California, USA.