Rick Dees

The couple have a son, Kevin. Singles. Dees is married to Julie Dees, a voice actress. Compilations. Dees served as host of two television shows, Solid Gold and Into The Night With Rick Dees. Albums. 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. Bruno chose not to perform since their deal to use the name required the members to not promote their own music while doing so.

Though he currently does not have host a morning show, Dees is under contract with Clear Channel until January 1, 2005. However, no further appearances have been scheduled. Seacrest also serves as host of American Idol and replaced Casey Kasem on American Top 40. Currently, Curless, Jurado, and Moneymaker paid for permission to use the name. Rick Dees in the Morning was replaced by Clear Channel Communications in 2004 with Ryan Seacrest's On Air with Ryan Seacrest. During the summer of 2003, the lineup of Curless, Jurado, and Moneymaker reunited briefly for a reunion concert. 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. Her first album, Expose This, was released in the Spring of 2004.

Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 is currently heard on over 350 radio stations in the United States, as well as in 125 other countries. After a small stint with the band Wet, she worked on a solo career focused mostly on dance oriented material. Dees began his weekly Top 40 show, still currently in syndication, in 1983. In 1995, Bruno fully recovered from her throat tumor and began singing again. 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. Jurado ended up doing work with Jazz artists; Kelly Moneymaker has released a few albums (Like a Blackbird and Through these Basement Walls); while Curless has done a few low-key projects. The single sold over six million copies and reached number 1 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart on October 16, 1976. At the beginning of 1996, Arista dropped the group, and the members disbanded to pursue their own projects.

Dees recorded "'Disco Duck'" in 1976 while working at WMPS, a station in Memphis, Tennesse. In 1995, they recorded the Diane Warren-penned song "I'll Say Good-Bye for the Two of Us" for the soundtrack of the film Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home; that same year, the song was issued on Greatest Hits. Dees worked in various radio stations through out the southeastern US. Despite the disappointment, they managed to have two US Top 40 hits from the album: "I Wish the Phone Would Ring" and the #1 adult-contemporary smash "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me". Dees graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. The album was not as commercially successful as their previous albums, and two singles from the album failed to make the US Top 40. Dees began his radio career in 1966 at the age of 17 at WGBG, a Greensboro radio station. That same year, the group released their self-explanatory third album, which leaned more to an adult-contemporary style.

Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees on March 14, 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. But her health only worsened, and she was finally replaced by Kelly Moneymaker in 1992. Dees is best known for his syndicated radio show Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and for the song "Disco Duck". The group took a little bit of time off from their schedule in hopes that she would recover. Rick Dees is a radio disc jockey who currently lives in the San Fernando Valley area, near Los Angeles, California, USA. In the middle of 1990, Bruno began having throat problems which soon turned out to be a benign tumor in her vocal cords. Their second album, What You Don't Know (1989), went gold and proved to be almost as much of a success as their debut.

In 1987, a rerecorded version of "Point of No Return" was released; while the first few thousand copies of Exposure contained the original version of that song, the rest of the copies contained the new version. This album proved to be one of the most successful dance albums ever released, going multi-platinum. Toward the end of 1986, the group released their debut album Exposure (which still consisted of background vocals done by the original members). Before the album's completion, Miller left the group due to personal and business problems and began a solo career; she was replaced by Ann Curless.

But shortly thereafter, Casanas was fired, and Lorenzo quit to pursue other ambitions; they were replaced by Jeanette Jurado and Gioia Bruno. This led to their signing with Arista Records. The next year, they recorded and released another dance single entitled "Exposed to Love". That same year, they recorded "Point of No Return" which became a dance hit.

Record producer and songwriter Lewis Martineé formed an all-female vocal trio called Exposé in 1985; he hired Sandra Casanas ("Sandeé"), Aléjandra Lorenzo ("Alé"), and Laurie Miller to be in the group's lineup. Exposé is a Latin freestyle pop-dance trio of the 1980s. 1994: "In Walked Love" (US #84; lead vocals by Ann Curless, from the album Exposé). 1993: "As Long as I Can Dream" (US #56; lead vocals by Ann Curless, from the album Exposé).

1993: "I'll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)" (US #8; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album Exposé). 1992: "I Wish the Phone Would Ring" (US #28; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album Exposé). 1990: "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue" (US #17; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album What You Don't Know). 1989: "Tell Me Why" (US #9; lead vocals by Gioia Bruno, from the album What You Don't Know).

1989: "When I Looked at Him" (US #10; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album What You Don't Know). 1989: "What You Don't Know" (US #8; lead vocals by Gioia Bruno, from the album What You Don't Know). 1987: "Seasons Change" (US #1; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album Exposure). 1987: "Let Me Be the One" (US #7; lead vocals by Gioia Bruno, from the album Exposure).

1987: "Point of No Return" (US #5; rerecording of their 1985 hit; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album Exposure). 1987: "Come Go With Me" (US #5; lead vocals by Jeanette Jurado, from the album Exposure). 1986: "Exposed to Love" (lead vocals by Aléjandra Lorenzo, from the album Exposure). 1985: "Point of No Return" (lead vocals by Aléjandra Lorenzo).

2002: Exposé's Greatest Dance Mixes. 2001: The Encore Collection: Seasons Change. 1999: Master Hits. 1995: Greatest Hits.

1992: Exposé. 1989: What You Don't Know. 1987: Exposure.