… There’s a Moon Pie, I can eat that later …
[Description by contributor Russell Wells]
Rick Dees’ first radio job was during college at WKIX/Raleigh, NC. Soon after graduation, he was transferred to WKIX’s sister station, WSGN. For about two years he pulled morning drive at The Big 610, but it was obvious Birmingham wasn’t quite ready for this kind of radio. At the time, he had a running feature called “Rev. Billy Frank Birmingham” (obviously carbon-copied from Don Imus’s “Billy Sol Hargus”), and jokes about Vulcan, Birmingham’s famous mountain-top statue.
Preacher parodies weren’t very safe to do in the South during this time, and Dees managed to offend more than a few. Early in 1975, Dees left town and went to WMPS/Memphis.
WSGN, though, let bygones be bygones – it was one of the first stations that played “Disco Duck”, Dees’ #1 hit in 1976.