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Rick Dees on iHeart

DMK said:
I've seen complete AT 40 shows from the 70s and 80s on EBAY from time to time. Complete shows on a flash drive. Growing up I was more Team Casey than Team Rick. That said I will need to check out his old shows for my dose of vitamin N (nostalgia).
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lol The funny thing is in my area, Rick Dees came on at 9AM on Sunday and by the time I either got home from Church or when I was an older kid I would sleep in till noon on Sundays and would always miss the first half but then Casey would still be on and I would catch that. Casey's entire catalog is available on ebay. I think it's like $500. At some point I plan on pulling the trigger. I have never seen Rick Dee collections and I am always buying Rick Dees vinyls off ebay. Just got an '84 last week that I have to rip.
 
I purchased the Casey harddrive many years ago and it has provided hours of delight. Make sure you get it through CharisMusicGroup, which is headed by Shannon Lynn. Shannon worked with then Clear Channel and Premiere as well as former staffers and the Kasem family as he remastered/restored the entire catalog for the 70s and 80s syndication package.
 
vw86 said:
I purchased the Casey harddrive many years ago and it has provided hours of delight. Make sure you get it through CharisMusicGroup, which is headed by Shannon Lynn. Shannon worked with then Clear Channel and Premiere as well as former staffers and the Kasem family as he remastered/restored the entire catalog for the 70s and 80s syndication package.
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Was this available for purchase before or after his death?
 
Both. I believe I got mine in 2012, but not every show had been fully remastered at that point. Some of the 70s shows in particular are very rough LP transfers on what I have. Since then he has finished the library, and with the exception of the missing third hour of the second show and a few missing weeks of some of the AC/Hot AC spinoffs, the collection is 100% complete and remastered.
 
Shannon is active on Facebook and on the AT40 group. Maybe the easiest way to reach him, though he may have a website too. I've seen him run specials at times.
 
It's a pretty specific one I'm after, but I'd love to listen again to Rick Dees' countdown from Nov 15, 1997.

Anyone got any tips for finding that particular week's show?
 
Shannon Lynn is in my professional contact list. He is not as active on the AT40 discussion board as he was years ago, but he does still have a Facebook page.

I don't believe he still sells old shows. There's no longer a mention of that on the Charis Music Group site.
 
ted chittenden said:
What bothered me about the Rick Dees shows, especially those between 1993 and 1995, was that he wouldn't play many rap songs, even if they had radio friendly versions (with the profanity removed) on his countdown shows. He would note the songs and their current positions and move on to the next song.

This was different from Casey Kasem, who, at that time, was using the same source (Radio & Records) for his shows. He would play the rap songs that Rick Dees wouldn't play.

I think it was in 1996 that Rick Dees finally began playing some of the harder edged rap songs that charted. What he did, and it is still done today, was to record two different versions of his shows, one for top-40 stations and one for hot AC stations.

Regarding his voice, very few disc jockeys have managed to retain their voices into old age. Steve Goddard's voice is still (relatively) unscathed and so is the voice of Wink Martindale who is now in his 90s. At the time of his passing, Charlie Tuna still sounded pretty much how he sounded like in the early 1970s when he was on KHJ--but they were the exceptions, not the rule.
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Handel and John and Ken sounded like age 90 in the 1990s. Their voices haven’t changed much 30 years later.
 


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