Rick Dees' sound effects on Top 40 show

[BillboardBoy]

How many sound effects that Rick Dees uses on a semi-regular basis? I've been hearing tons of them on XM:

"Hello Rick" (pig talking)
"I don't know." (black man)
"My goodness, enough is enough." (old lady)
"No!" (snooty guy)

[johnnywest]

There's the lady on the phone that says, "OK, thanks much."

The black man who laughs and says, "Can't believe it, baby."

And more recently, there's Cameron Diaz laughing.

[Michael1973]

He doesn't use these very much lately.

[shadster]

Theres the voice that sounds like he sucked on helium and says "Yes"
Theres the clanking shoes walking accross the floor. clogs maybe?
the sound a door closing.
the occasional toilet flush.
My personal fav, the 'sobbing man' which Rick sometimes refers to as Billy Ocean.
Or that old acctress that says, "Ha Ha ha, thats rediculous.........haha, hoho." Can't remember her name.

[johnnywest]

Aug 21, 2008 21:13:53 GMT -5 shadster said:

Theres the clanking shoes walking accross the floor. clogs maybe?

LOL! I remember him using that one in the summer of 1996 when Shaggy was on the countdown. Rick said, "You know who does the voice of Shaggy? Casey Kasem. Come here Casey and say somthing." Then you heard the wooden shoes and the door slam :)

[BillboardBoy]

"Not exactly, funny man," from a kid. Not sure if it's really one of the Hanson brothers, but Rick attributes it to him.

[Hervard]

How about that loud obnoxious guy that says, "OUTRAGEOUS!!"

Of course, I don't think they still use that one - it used to be for a segment Rick used to do called "Outrageous Facts". And everytime the word "outrageous" was said, they used the loud voice. However, I believe they used it a few times for other purposes.

And Rick had numerous laugh sound effects. The funniest one was kind of an almost inaudible, wheezing laugh - kind of like Ernie's trademark laugh.

[Michael1973]

Aug 25, 2008 8:42:52 GMT -5 Hervard said:

How about that loud obnoxious guy that says, "OUTRAGEOUS!!"

Of course, I don't think they still use that one - it used to be for a segment Rick used to do called "Outrageous Facts". And everytime the word "outrageous" was said, they used the loud voice.

Wasn't that Lionel Richie?

[Hervard]

Aug 27, 2008 9:17:33 GMT -5 Michael1973 said:

Aug 25, 2008 8:42:52 GMT -5 Hervard said:

How about that loud obnoxious guy that says, "OUTRAGEOUS!!"

Of course, I don't think they still use that one - it used to be for a segment Rick used to do called "Outrageous Facts". And everytime the word "outrageous" was said, they used the loud voice.

Wasn't that Lionel Richie?

I don't know about that, but I heard that the black man that said, "I don't know" was James Brown.

There was another "I don't know" sound effect that sounded like an wookie or something saying it. You couldn't really understand what he was saying, but you knew that he was saying "I don't know" based on the fact that Rick used it after a question.

[BillboardBoy]

Both of these were/are used when Rick says something that no one really cares about.

"Hey, that's great." (a man and woman saying that in unison)
"Yay." (a few people saying it)

Also, "You are so STUUUPID!" (a woman on the phone)

[unicorns]

They all give me a headache.

I'll take Casey and Shadoe over this FLOP anyday!

[chartboy]

raspy-sounding guy on the phone saying
"Pardon me, are-are you Hispanic?" - I remember him doing this after he announced Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" and went into a random Spanish voice.
"DEEEZ SLEEEZZZ HA HA HA" with the Trashcan rattling sound effects.
"I'm ready. I am READY" - some random woman.
"Ain't got no time for you!" - ? Ellen K?

Not really a sound effect, but there was that annoying agent he called named Bernie Shelly. "Hold on, I've got a bigger name on the other line. Seal - tell XXX XXX I'll be right with them" and he'd throw in random names like Maxine Nightingale etc

[Hervard]

A woman uttering a piercing scream, then saying, "Come to mama, baby! Co-ome to mama, baby, let me see what you've GOT! WOOOO!!!"

That one was used a few times, but I believe it was originally used as a part of a phone call between Rick and a Janet Jackson fan. Rick told her that he was giving her a complimentary copy of Janet's 1995 album. This was around the time that "Runaway" was growing on the chart.

[StephL]

If I remember correctly, that "OUTRAGEOUS!" was taken from the time Lionel Richie hosted the Grammy's. Everytime something good happened, he would say "OUTRAGEOUS!".


On a more somber note, I noticed that voice actor Don LaFontaine just passed away. :(

[BillboardBoy]

On the 1990 XM show today, I heard the "Outrageous" one, along with "May I offer you a moist towelette?"

There's also the woman yelling, "It's huge!"

[BillboardBoy]

"We're naked, is that OK?" (one with men and one with women).

"Ha ha!" (falsetto)

[BillboardBoy]

"I ain't got no time for you!" (black man)

[Hervard]

What about some of the songs that used to play on the show.

There was one, set to the tune of, a song from Verdi's "Rigoletto", entitled "La donna e mobile" The first lines are "Rick Dees is on the air, he is beyond compare..."

Also, "Bullfrog is sitting on a lilypad, singing his ABC's, slipped his tongue to the radio dial and turned on...Rick Dees". The tune sounds very similar to "99 Bottles Of Beer", but it has a different rhythm and I'm sure that it's from another song.

[johnnywest]

A man's voice slowed down saying "that's just awesome."

And a sexy woman saying "you look...great!"

Rick's voice sped up saying "da da da da da da da da rawhide!"

The spring sound effect when imitating a boner.

A woman over the phone says "you are so kinky."

Glass shattering when someone is singing badly.

Houndini

[johnnywest]

I think it's the same little girl who says "I wuv you!" and "You're in bad trouble, mister."

Also, "Hi, ho Silver and away."

[johnnywest]

Someone's voice being used as a buzzer. Rick asks a question and before you have time to think, you hear the sound effect.

[johnnywest]

Cher: "Oh, thank you!"