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SAINT PATRICK'S DAY: Cheney's Got a Gun,Shove a Shillelagh, The Hunting Song Mar 12, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 28, 2009) |
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EASTER AND FERTILITY SONGS: Chocolate Is fine, In The Mood, Kiss This (Hey IRS), (These Eggs Were) Born To Run Apr 16, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 28, 2009) |
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FAST FOOD: (and a large orange drink - SAY IT! DRINK!) We explore the deeper meanings of burgers, hot dogs and tacos. Also: more new Tiny Songs by Logan Whitehurst, plus Hot Jewish Chicks, Boobs A Lot, and a Fungus Among Us. Jul 16, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 27, 2009) |
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BACK TO SCHOOL: It's back to school on this week's Dr Demento show...with scholastic comedy classics by Cheech & Chong, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Tom Lehrer, Frank Zappa, Adam Sandler and more. We also stick it to Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and other naughty celebrities, and we'll also discover the surprising inspiration for Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." Aug 27, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 27, 2009) |
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SPECIAL TOPIC 1986: Blow Me Down, Paranoimia, Ukrainian Uranium Bread, Christmas at Ground Zero, Life Sucks, Then You Die, Big Butt Aug 6, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 12, 2009) |
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MARRIAGE:It's June, and marriage is the theme. Shel Silverstein, Carla ulbrich, Jackie Gleason and Worm Quartet contribute Jun 11, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 28, 2008) |
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CARTOONS: Puddy Tat,Believe in Bugs,Popeye, Betty Boop Mar 26, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 15, 2008) |
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Interview with Allan Sherman's Son - Robert Sherman Jan 15, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 25, 2008) |
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CARTOONS (Part2): My Bed Is A Boat, Kill The Wabbit, Daffy Duck's Rhapsody, See an Elephant Fly Apr 2, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 23, 2008) |
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HIPPIES: The Byrds, The Beatles, The Mothers Of Invention May 21, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 9, 2008) |
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FUNNY 25 2006: Here's the show you've all been waiting for - the most requested demented discs of 2006, counted down from #25 to #1. All your favorites together in one show! Call it the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Dementia, for this year anyway! All songs played in their entirety.
Dec 31, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Dec 31, 2006) |
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CHRISTMAS 06 #4: It's our final Christmas show of 2006, and I think you'll agree we saved the best for last! Brand new demented discs mix with some of our most cherished Christmas oldies. "How Did This Thing Get In Me" by Mary & The Magi is the most imaginative and colorful (and, likely, accurate) new version of the original Christmas story I've heard in years. "Santa's EMail From Nigeria" by Dr. Elmo is another dandy new wrinkle. You'll chuckle at two (almost) forgotten 1950s knockoffs of the Chipmunk Song, not to mention Canned Heat's rare 1968 collaboration with the legendary rodents themselves. Actor Dave Coulier's 1980s "Cartoons Christmas" is a rare find.
Stan Freberg's "Christmas Dragnet," Cheech & Chong's "Santa Claus and his Old Lady" and Basil Rathbone's radiant reading of "The Night Before Christmas" help to make the season right. Dec 24, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Dec 25, 2006) |
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CHRISTMAS, 06 #3:Our seasonal festivities roll on with a hilarious mix of Christmas and Hanukkah songs. Tom Lehrer, Adam Sandler and Gefilte Joe and the Fish light Menorah candles, while "Weird Al" Yankovic, Albert Brooks and Chuck Pickleshimer help Dr. D trim the tree. Holiday spirit and holiday spirits are celebrated and satirized in songs like "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (the extra gory version), "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire" and "I'm Spending Hanukkah In Santa Monica."
Dec 17, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Dec 17, 2006) |
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CHRISTMAS#2 06: It's Week Two of our four week Christmas-Hanukkah blast here at the Dr Demento show...and this week the Christmas legends get twisted every which way but loose...with such crazed carols as "Christmas In The Nude," "Merry Christmas You Suckers," "Kill A Tree For Christ" and "Christmas On Acid" along with such old chestnuts as "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth," "Christmas Balls" and that eternal favorite, the extra gory version of "The Night Santa Went Crazy" by Weird Al. Plus, as a special treat, the demented ditty from 1998 that may well have inspired the new movie "Deck the Halls."
Dec 10, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Dec 11, 2006) |
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CHRISTMAS, 06: Let the celebrations begin! This week Dr Demento presents Show #1 of our Christmas & Hanukkah party which will run right through Christmas Eve. It's a mixture of weird & wild new demented carols (including one about Christmas on an asteroid, and another in which Christmas gets mixed up with Halloween) and riotous perennials like "Holy S***, It's Christmas" and "Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass." Trim your tree with Dr. D!
Dec 3, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Dec 4, 2006) |
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WINTER 06:
Our (more or less) annual salute to Winter is a (yellow) snowball in the face of propriety. From Frank Zappa's colorful twist on the legend of Nanook of the North to Krypton's "Let's Blow Up The Tow Truck," the fun increases as the temperature decreases. First-hour highlights include "No Anchovies Please," "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota," "He's His Own Grandpa" and the original recording of "Battle of New Orleans" with the verses that were left off the #1 hit version. Also - the last "normal" (?) Funny Five of 2006 before we begin our Christmas specials. Nov 26, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Nov 20, 2006) |
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THANKSGIVING 06: Eat, darling, Eat! Once again it's Thanksgiving time on the Dr Demento show, with a half hour of songs for our most over-nutritious holiday. Adam Sandler, Benny Bell and Stan Freberg are among those presenting comedic toasts this time around. Other highlights include "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" by Groucho Marx, a rare Mel Blanc track, and Eric Schwartz's trenchant tribute to our past and present Presidents, "Clinton Got a B***job". Nov 19, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Nov 20, 2006) |
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WHERE I LIVE: Some songwriters write about love. Others write about food, war, trains, or how miserable they are. And then there are those who write about the places they live in. On this show we'll hear songs about cities big and small, from singers like Tom Lehrer, Emo Philips and "Weird Al" Yankovic (on his very first record release, a song about San Luis Obispo, CA.) Other highlights include songs about food (why not), sexual abstinence, blogging and human taxidermy. Nov 12, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Nov 7, 2006) |
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HUNTING SEASON: Now that Halloween is over, something even scarier: hunting season! Men running through the woods with guns! Giant deer! Amorous moose! Always one of our most popular topics, featuring "The Second Week of Deer Camp," "Morris the Moose" and "Da Turdy Point Buck." We'll also have a demented salute to the election (with "The One That Doesn't Suck So Bad" and "The Liar Sleeps Tonight"), an Australian salute to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and "Monster Hash" as it might (not) be sung by Bush and Chaney. Nov 5, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Nov 7, 2006) |
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HALLOWEEN 06 Part 2: Part Two of our two-part Halloween special features an all-new interview with Mr. Monster Mash himself, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, along with lots more
spooky tunes, scary melodies and haunted hits like "I'm Gonna Dig Up Howlin' Wolf," "Cemetery Girls," and "I Want My Baby Back." Oct 29, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Oct 16, 2006) |
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HALLOWEEN 06: Be scary and merry! You are now in the presence of the first of Dr.
Demento's two Halloween specials for 2006. Our Spooky Tunes and Scary Melodies this week include some rarities from deep in the catacombs ("The Man With The Weird Beard," for instance, and Elvira's very hard-to-find
singing debut, "Trick Or Treat") along with a Frightful Five countdown of this year's most requested haunted hits. Bonus: "Mr. Ghost Goes To Town" by the Jon Schwartz Project, which was Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz's band before he joined Weird Al. Oct 22, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Oct 16, 2006) |
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TOTAL NONSENSE: This week a half hour of absolute nonsense. Total nonsense. Hardcore nonsense. Some might say our show is always that way, but with "The Ying Tong Song," "Ugga Ugga Boo Ugga Boo Boo Ugga," "Mairzy Doats" and "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)," we definitely achieve nonsense nirvana this week. We'll also salute the 1960s novelty songwriter
who recently got to read his own obituary in the papers, and hear the best of Backus back to back. Oct 15, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Oct 16, 2006) |
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POLICE: Today's special topic is Police -- not Sting & Co. but real cops -- good cops, bad cops and funny cops. Artists include Stan Freberg, Harry Shearer, Lord Buckley and Steve Allen (on a rare early novelty single). Other
highlights include Weird Al'a latest polka medley, "She Left Me For A Destitute Quadriplegic Because Of The Good Sex" and "The Intergalactic
Laxative."
Oct 8, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Oct 8, 2006) |
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BAD BOYS & GIRLS: Our special topic today is bad boys (and girls) - songs about criminals and
other evil people, from Jesse James to John Wayne Gacy, Jr. and including
one of the rare demo recordings made by would-be rock star and murder
mastermind Charles Manson. Other topics include viruses, germs, the Last
Saskatchewan Pirate and the legendary L. S. Bumblebee (a collector's item
by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore). Oct 1, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Oct 2, 2006) |
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"WEIRD AL" INTERVIEW:Our in-studio guest this week is the man himself, the most popular artist in the entire history of the Dr Demento Show, the king of modern-day funnymusic, Mr. "Weird Al" Yankovic! Al will be premiering his latest CD,
"Straight Outta Lynwood" and telling us all about how it was made. We'll also have a nasty new song about the film industry, a pirate song or two,and a fine set of songs by the amazing Logan Whitehurst. Sep 24, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 18, 2006) |
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RANDOM SELECTIONS dPOD:Have you ever wished you had an mp3 player with the entire Dr Demento library? Well, here's the next best thing...Once again we entered all the
song titles into a database and asked our computer to select a bunch of songs at random. This show is the result of all that! There are songs here we haven't played in decades, and some familiar Demented hits as well. Sep 17, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 18, 2006) |
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FOOTBALL: The Dr. Demento Show salutes football this week! In addition to all-time
comedy classics from George Carlin, Bill Cosby and Tom Lehrer we'll dig out
some long-forgotten pop and novelty songs about the game, including Randy
Newman's very first record. Of course we'll hear Andy Griffith's famous
football routine...but we'll also hear a much earlier Jewish version of the
same tall tale! Sep 10, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 11, 2006) |
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STAR TREK:
Happy 40th Birthday, Star Trek! We celebrate the anniversary of the
original series debut with an hour of Star Trek-inspired demented discs,
including a special all-time all-Star Trek funny five. We'll also
celebrate Labor Day with the famous "Bricklayer's Story" and other fun
songs about working, and we'll welcome another song from "Weird Al"
Yankovic's forthcoming CD "Straight Outta Lynwood." Sep 3, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Sep 3, 2006) |
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MEEEEOW!: Cats take over the show this week, with a half hour of klassik
kitty ditties like "The Robot Cat," "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat"
and "My Cat
Is Afraid Of The Vacuum Cleaner." Mel Gibson gets a Dr. Demento salute with
two new songs about his Malibu malaprops. We'll also celebrate Nothingness
Day with The Fugs, and bring back funny favorites by Stan Freberg and the
"Park Avenue Hillbillie" Dorothy Shay. Aug 20, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Aug 20, 2006) |
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ARF! It's our annual Dr Demento dog show: In honor of the Dog Days of summer, Frank Zappa, Ray Stevens, Davy Jones (of the Monkees, not the
Caribbean), Soupy Sales, Homer & Jethro and many more join our Demented
salute to Man's Best Friend. Other highlights include a new English version
of that scandalous French heavy-breathing song, "Je t'aime, moi non plus",
and new songs entitled "Taxidermal Therapy," "Jewish Is Trendy" and "Tom
Cruise." Aug 13, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Aug 7, 2006) |
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COWS AND COWBOYS: are our special topic, with "Werecow," "A Cowboy Needs A Horse" and lots more beef on the hoof. Also Worm Quartet's new "I'm Not A Girl" and other songs of gender confusion, and an amazing early song by
Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire. Jul 30, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jul 29, 2006) |
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AIRPLANES: are our topic this week, featuring "PMS Airlines," "Heavin' On A
Jet Plane" and other songs and comedy you won't hear on any airline's headsets. Also "A Pervert's Life," "Party In My Pants" and the 40th anniversary of "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"
Jul 23, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jul 22, 2006) |
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TELEVISION: Schweepies, Penguin On The T.V., Vanna, Pick Me A Letter, Tele-Vee-Shun, Frank's 2000" TV, We Love Barney Fife, Hey Captain Jack! Jul 9, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jul 10, 2006) |
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4TH JULY 06: To celebrate the Fourth of July, here's Dr. Demento's annual All-American
Show. We'll celebrate outdoor barbecues, beer, mosquitoes, fire ants,Elvis, and Captain Jack in this free-wheeling funny music extravaganza.
Other highlights include "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" (the show's #1 song of 2006 thus far), "Pukin' In The Parkin' Lot" and "Hot
Jewish Chicks." Jul 2, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jul 2, 2006) |
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This is a special show for "Weird Al" Yankovic fans...along with his latest
song "You're Pitiful" (which had to be dropped from his forthcoming album
for legal reasons) we'll hear, in its entirety as he recorded it in 1976 at
age 16, the first Alfred Yankovic song ever played on the air, "Belvedere
Cruisin'." The latter is part of a full hour of songs that were big on the
Dr Demento show in the year 1976, including "Stardrek," "Disco Tech" and
"Junk Food Junkie." Jun 25, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jun 27, 2006) |
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FATHER'S DAY:Happy Father's Day from Dr. Demento! Father's Day humor tends to be
somewhat less respectful than what you might hear on Mother's Day..."When The Mush Begins To Rush Down Father's Vest," for instance, or Brian
Wilson's ode to his father Murry, "I'm Bugged At My Old Man." We'll also hear Shel Silverstein's "Father Of A Boy Named Sue," and a song that gets right down to the heart of fatherhood, "I'm Gonna Procreate" by Worm Quartet. We'll also hear, among many others, Stan Freberg's very first hit record, "John and Marsha," and that Odd Couple Tony Randall and Jack Klugman singing "When Banana Skins Are Falling, I'll Come Sliding Back To You." Jun 18, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jun 16, 2006) |
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TRAINS:Dr Demento has been a train buff since boyhood, with some special favorite funny train tunes, "The Railroad Comes Through The Middle Of The House", "Down By The Station", Tiny Tim's long-lost cover of the Doors' "People Are Strange," songs about potatoes, and (by popular demand) "Spliceway
to Heaven," where dozens of classic rockers substitute their own vocals for Robert Plant's, one word at a time. Jun 4, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jun 4, 2006) |
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SUMMER: Smut, The White Stuff, Nincompoop's Have All The Fun, Nude, Tie Me Surfer Board Down Sport, Rock Lobster May 28, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added May 29, 2006) |
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MOTHERHOOD-Uncensored: Puking In A Naked Girl's Bed, I Am Not A Terrorist, It's Still Billy Joel To Me, New Frantics CD, Three Satires of George w. Bush May 14, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added May 14, 2006) |
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WB02 - UNCENSORED WEB ONLY SHOW: They Wouldn't Lick Bush, Stickball, Childhood, Crepitation Contest, May 9, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added May 9, 2006) |
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RANDOM D-Pod: Eat it, Wreck the Malls, One Hen, The Ballad of Gumby, Reinstalling Windows May 7, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added May 8, 2006) |
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FAVORITE DRUG: Gentry's Gin, Chug-A-Lug,I Like Beer, Hangover
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ALCOHOL: Star Wars Cantina, Beer, It was a Very Good Beer Apr 23, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Apr 24, 2006) |
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ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES: Teeth Clenched, Alien Jam, Everybody's Queer, Lesbians on TV Apr 9, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Apr 10, 2006) |
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DR. DEMENTO WEB SHOW UNCENSORED:
Specifically created for web use only. Sit On My Face, Party In My Pants, Big, Bad Johnson Apr 10, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Apr 10, 2006) |
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SALUTE TO SPRINGTIME: Springtime for Hitler, Poisoning Pigeons, Tennessee Bird Walk Mar 19, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 20, 2006) |
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COMPUTERS: Dungeons and Dragons, Soft Wars,Engineers' Rap Mar 5, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 6, 2006) |
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A DRUG: Caffeine, The Coffee Song, Too Much Coffee, Proper Cup of Coffee Feb 26, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 27, 2006) |
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PRESIDENTS - Brokeback Mountain, The Liar Sleeps tonight, My Daddy is President Feb 19, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 20, 2006) |
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Valentine 06 - Love You Ti-Vo, Love in a Suburu, Valentine's Day Song Feb 12, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 13, 2006) |
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Random Songs from Y to B - 1974 to Now Feb 5, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 6, 2006) |
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Happy Chinese New Year! 2006 Jan 29, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 30, 2006) |
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DIETING: Pencil Neck Geek, Diet Song, Grapefruit Diet, Eat Too Much, The Jedi Drinking Song Jan 22, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 22, 2006) |
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Top 25 of 2005 Uncensored Jan 1, 2006 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 1, 2006) |
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