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Rick Derringer
Solo artist Celina United States
Rick Derringer is an artist from Celina. Rick Derringer has 53 chart appearances on 51 radio countdowns from 23 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo”, which appears on 45 lists with a best position of #21. The station that charted Rick Derringer most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 6 appearances.
Rick Derringer was born Richard Dean Zehringer in Celina in 1947, and he was still a teenager when his band the McCoys hit number one in 1965 with "Hang On Sloopy", a garage-rock rave-up that nobody has managed to forget since. The McCoys put 7 songs into the top 100, covers of "Fever" and "Come On, Let's Go" among them, and then Derringer struck out on his own with All American Boy.
In 1973 he hit with "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo", a greasy, strutting boogie built on a riff you could hear from the parking lot, and it has never really left rock radio. But his real genius was as a hired hand and a producer. He played lead and rhythm guitar in Edgar Winter's White Trash and the Edgar Winter Group, worked hand in glove with Edgar and his brother Johnny, and was the producer behind every one of their gold and platinum records, Edgar's "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride" included.
Later he went somewhere else entirely. He worked with Steely Dan and Cyndi Lauper, produced "Weird Al" Yankovic's Grammy-winning "Eat It" and "Fat", produced The Wrestling Album and its sequel for the World Wrestling Federation, home of Hulk Hogan's entrance theme "Real American", and produced 3 songs for the soundtrack of Bachelor Party. He died in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Rick Derringer on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo | 45 | #21 | – | – | |
| 2 | Rock and Roll Hootchie | 2 | #251 | – | – | |
| 3 | Don't Ever Say Goodbye | 3 | #69 | – | – | |
| 4 | Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo | 1 | #349 | – | – | |
| 5 | Rock n' Roll Hoochie Coo | 2 | #396 | – | – |
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