Dees ' legal actions against racial nationalist groups have made him a target of criticism from many of these organizations.

Dees previously made a brief appearance in King's novel The Dead Zone.

On American Bandstand ( and similar shows ), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made.

As it stands, Dees could have made an even more substantial amount of money from the song.

According to Dees, his manager at the time made the unwise decision to deny use of the song on the film's soundtrack because of fears that it would compete with sales of Dees's own album.

Dees ' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated

All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated

For all its success, " Disco Duck " was shunned by radio stations where Dees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees worked for at the time.

* Bill Dees, original songwriter of Roy Orbison's " Oh!

#"( Oh ) Pretty Woman " ( William Dees, Roy Orbison ) – 2: 53 ( from Diver Down )

# " Oh, Pretty Woman " ( Bill Dees, Roy Orbison ) – 2: 54

William " Bill " Dees ( born January 24, 1939 ) is an American musician most famous for his song writing collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.

* Music: Roy Orbison, Bill Dees, Fred Karger

All songs written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees

#" Heartache " ( Roy Orbison, Bill Dees )

# " You're the One "-( Roy Orbison, Bill Dees )

" It's Over " is an American song composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees and sung by Orbison.

In 2004, The decade long General Manager of KIIS FM, Roy Laughlin elected not to renew the contract of legendary DJ Rick Dees and replaced Rick Dees In The Morning with Ryan Seacrest's On Air show and retained Co Host, Ellen K to team with Seacrest.

Orbison also began collaborating with Bill Dees, whom he had known in Texas.

A grieving Orbison threw himself into his work, collaborating with Bill Dees to write music for The Fastest Guitar Alive, a film that MGM had scheduled for him to star in as well.

#" It's Over " ( Orbison, Bill Dees )

#" Oh, Pretty Woman " ( Orbison, Bill Dees )

In 1967, Dees co-wrote all the songs for the Orbison album and MGM motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive.

Beyond his work with Orbison, Bill Dees wrote hundreds of songs, a number of which were recorded by performers such as Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Skeeter Davis, Glen Campbell, Billy Joe Royal, Frank Ifield, Mark Dinning and Gene Pitney.

In 2000, he recorded his own album titled " Saturday Night At The Movies ," a compilation of songs previously sung by Orbison that had been written with Dees and some that Dees had written alone.

#" It's Over " ( Orbison, Bill Dees )

#" Indian Wedding " ( Orbison, Bill Dees )

#" Borne on the Wind " ( Orbison, Bill Dees )

#" Walk On " ( Orbison, Dees )

#" Yesterday's Child " ( Orbison, Dees )

The countdown show, ranking the top songs of the previous week, has been a staple of weekend radio programming since 1970 ; current hosts of countdown shows in various formats include Rick Dees, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Foxworthy, Kix Brooks, Bob Kingsley, Crook & Chase, Randy Jackson, Walt Love, Al Gross, Dick Bartley, and ( via reruns ) Casey Kasem.

Dees now resides near Branson, Missouri, and continues to write songs with collaborator Jack Pribek.

Category: Rick Dees songs

With Dees, he wrote " It's Over ", a number 1 in the UK, and a song that would be one of his signature pieces for the rest of his career.

In 1984 Dees became an assassination target of The Order, a revolutionary white supremacist group, for his work with the SPLC.

In 1987 five members of a Klan offshoot, the White Patriot Party, were indicted for stealing military weaponry and plotting to kill Dees.

In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.

" Years later, the executive director of the Montgomery YMCA thanked Dees for the case because without it, the center would not have been able to desegregate.

A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees.

( Contrary to popular belief, however, Nash did not perform the duck voice for Rick Dees ' " Disco Duck ")

Music for the film was composed and conducted by Michel Legrand, the song lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, sung by Michael Dees and Bill Eaton.

Morris Seligman Dees, Jr. ( born December 16, 1936 ) is the co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ), and a former direct mail marketeer for book publishing.

In his 1991 autobiography Dees wrote that in 1962 he represented Ku Klux Klan member Claude Henley who faced Federal charges for attacking Freedom Riders in an incident documented by a Life magazine photographer.

When Dees learned that another lawyer had asked for $ 15, 000 to represent Henley, Dees offered to do the job for $ 5, 000, roughly the median household salary in America at the time.

Dees was one of the principal architects of an innovative strategy of using civil lawsuits to secure a court judgment for money damages against an organization for a wrongful act and then use the courts to seize its assets ( money, land, buildings, other property ) to pay the judgment.

In 1981, Dees successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan and won a $ 7 million judgment for the mother of Michael Donald, a black lynching victim in Alabama.

After the non-compete agreement expired, Axton formed Fretone Records whose biggest hit, " Disco Duck " by Rick Dees was licensed for distribution to RSO Records.

The movie adaptation follows the original plot fairly closely ( and maintains Dees ' deeply unsympathetic nature ), except for adding a rival in the form of up-and-coming female reporter, and changing Dees ' ultimate fate.

The mill was then leased to Mr Geoff Dees for some years, until the lease was sold in January 2010 to the current lease holder, Mr Ian Shepherd.