Rick Derringer was born on Richard Dean Zehringer; August 5,1947 and is an American guitarist, vocalist, producer and songwriter.
35 Facts About Rick Derringer
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Rick Derringer came to prominence in the 1960s as founding member of his band, the McCoys.
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In 1974, Derringer reached the US top 30 with his own song, "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo".
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Rick Derringer worked extensively with the brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, playing lead and backing guitar in their bands and producing all of their gold and platinum recordings, including Edgar Winter's hits "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride".
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Rick Derringer produced the World Wrestling Federation's album The Wrestling Album and its follow-up Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II.
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Rick Derringer produced three songs from the soundtrack of the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Bachelor Party.
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Rick Derringer was born in Celina, Ohio, and grew up in Fort Recovery, the son of John Otto and Janice Lavine Zehringer, a section foreman on the Nickel Plate Railroad.
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Rick Derringer has related first hearing him play guitar in the kitchen of his parents' home, and knowing immediately that he wanted to play guitar.
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Rick Derringer was then eight years old and his parents gave him his first electric guitar for his ninth birthday.
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Rick Derringer later changed the name to the Rick Z Combo and then Rick and the Raiders before going back to the band's original name.
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Rick Derringer joined Edgar Winter's White Trash and then, the Edgar Winter Group.
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In 1973, Rick Derringer released his first solo album All-American Boy, which included his song "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo".
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Rick Derringer's version rose to the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, becoming his highest-charting single.
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Rick Derringer is credited with helping Donald Fagen gain a record deal in 1972.
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Rick Derringer worked with his neighbor Todd Rundgren during this time, playing on four of Rundgren's solo albums.
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Rick Derringer was a regular in Andy Warhol's circle, and he frequented Warhol's studio The Factory.
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Rick Derringer played guitar on "My Rival" on Steely Dan's Gaucho and Fagen's first solo album, The Nightfly.
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Rick Derringer has said that his guitar solo in "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" is his favorite guitar solo of the many he has recorded.
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In 1983, Rick Derringer wrote "Shake Me" from his Good Dirty Fun solo album.
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In 1984, Rick Derringer played guitar on Barbra Streisand's cover version of Steinman's "Left in the Dark", which was released as the lead single of Emotion.
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Rick Derringer wrote a couple of songs on it, including Hulk Hogan's theme song "Real American", with Bernard Kenny.
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Also in 1987, Rick Derringer returned to the World Wrestling Federation and produced its second music album, Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II.
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Rick Derringer co-wrote the theme tune for Demolition and added a fresh version of "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" as a duet with Gene Okerlund.
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Rick Derringer worked for several New York City-based jingle houses in the 1980s.
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Rick Derringer went on to produce "Weird Al" Yankovic's first album, "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Rick Derringer ultimately produced six Yankovic albums between 1983 and 1989; for this work, he received his only Grammy Award.
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Rick Derringer had previously worked with Appice on an album, Party Tested by DNA, and it was re-released in 2011.
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Rick Derringer has toured in Asia, including with Edgar Winter, the 1990 White Lightning Tour in both Japan and Germany.
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Rick Derringer was sued by BAC Home Loans Servicing, a mortgage company servicing another loan on behalf of Fannie Mae.
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In 2017, Rick Derringer was charged with carrying a loaded gun on a Delta Air Lines flight from Cancun in Mexico to Atlanta, Georgia.
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Rick Derringer later pleaded guilty, agreeing to pay a $1,000 fine, saying it would not happen again, "not even a water pistol".
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In 2017, Rick Derringer collaborated with the baseball players Tom Seaver and Gary Redus to release a version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", honoring his lifelong love of baseball.
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In 2018, Rick Derringer embarked on a tour with Vanilla Fudge, Mitch Ryder and Badfinger under the name "HippieFest".
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Rick Derringer asks his fans for $10 a month, for which he gives them exclusive content including new music premieres.
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Rick Derringer played the guitar solo to an anti-bullying campaign version of "Hang on Sloopy" by the Love Love Kids, released in October 2019.