Rick Derringer Biography

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Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer, 5 August, 1947, in Fort Recovery, Ohio) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for the song Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo.

Life and career

When he was just 17, his band The McCoys recorded "Hang on Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, which became the number one song in America before "Yesterday" by The Beatles knocked it out of the top spot.

Derringer also recorded and played with the Johnny Winter Band and The Edgar Winter Group. Derringer also had a successful solo career, and his solo version of "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo" was a hit single. He also recorded extensively with Steely Dan, playing lead guitar on songs such as "Show Biz Kids".

Derringer also performed a track for the World Wrestling Federation on its The Wrestling Album. "Real American" would later be used as Hulk Hogan's entrance music. "Real American" is one of Derringer's most remembered songs, owing completely to the fact that it is still used today for Hogan. Originally dedicated to Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham, the song was given to Hulk Hogan early in 1986, and was synonymous with Hogan from through the rest of his first WWF run. During Hogan's hiatus from the WWF/E, "American" was used by Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco.

Hogan returned to the WWE in 2002, but "American" would not come back until 2003, and only then as Hulk's alter-ego Mr. America. Hogan would finally return, in his main alter-ego, to "American" during his 2005 stint with WWE. Derringer also performed the song "Pain And Destruction", the entrance theme for WWF Tag Team Demolition.

In the 1980s, Derringer expanded his producing skills, discovering "Weird Al" Yankovic as well as Mason Ruffner.

He has played for Weird Al on many of his albums, playing guitar and mandolin.

Recent releases include Tend The Fire (1997), DBA-Derringer, Bogert & Appice (2001) and Free Ride Smooth Jazz (2002). He also guested on the Tom Guerra project Mambo Sons CD (1999) and Damon Fowler's Riverview Drive (2000).

Rick continues to perform and record, with varying musical line-ups, in the Rock and Roll, Smooth Jazz and Christian rock genres. Recently, he is appearing on a Fidelity Investments TV commercial, frequently aired on CNBC.

Discography

Rick Derringer

• 1973 All American Boy
  
• 1975 Spring Fever
  
• 1979 Guitars And Women
  
• 1980 Face To Face
  
• 1983 Good Dirty Fun
  
• 1993 Back To The Blues
  
• 1994 Electra Blues
  
• 1996 Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo, The Best of Rick Derringer
  
• 1997 Tend The Fire (Released in Europe only)
  
• 1998 Blues Deluxe
  
• 1998 Guitars And Women - CD release with bonus tracks
  
• 1998 Rick Derringer & Friends - Live with Edgar Winter, Ian Hunter, Dr. John, Lorna Luft, Hall and Oates
  
• 2000 Jackhammer Blues
  
• 2001 DBA-Derringer, Bogert & Appice- doin' business as...
  
• 2002 Free Ride Smooth Jazz
  
• 2006 Live at Cheney Hall
  

Derringer

• 1976 Derringer
  
• 1976 Live In Cleveland
  
• 1977 Sweet Evil
  
• 1977 Derringer Live
  
• 1978 If I Weren't So Romantic I'd Shoot You
  
• 1996 Required Rocking - Sony Music compilation
  

External link

• Official Rick Derringer site
  

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