Posted on 06/05/2025 3:33:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Barret ‘Dr. Demento‘ Hansen will retire from his program when it reaches its 55th anniversary in October.
On this week’s show, Demento announced that it was his final regular show with a series of retrospective episodes regarding the history of the show to air weekly until a final episode in October that will feature the top 40 songs in the show’s history. Hansen recently turned 84 years old.
Hansen debuted his ‘Dr. Demento’ persona on Freeform Rock 106.7 KPPC Pasadena CA (now KROQ-FM) in October 1970 quickly converting to to focusing on comedy and novelty music. His show would be heard across multiple Los Angeles stations over the subsequent decades including a long run on 94.7 KMET from 1972 until its demise in 1987. A syndicated version of the show debuted in 1974 and continued until the show moved to a subscription internet platform in 2010.
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He also did a season on M.A.S.H. as the singing surgeon.
Oh, Tokyo
They got some saki and sashimi
And some clean sheets
Oh Kimono, Kimono
I haz a sad.
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
KROQ... Pah-sah-de-nah
“Even on the range, he used 2 sets of dishes”.
During his countdown he’d play snippets from a musical piece, but he never said where they came from. One day I was listening to KFAC Classical, and they played the entire piece, “Inscriptions From Eight Hitchhikers on a Highway Railing Outside Barstow,” and it contained the f-bomb. I wrote a letter to Dr. D informing him of that, and asking him to play it. He read my letter on the air and then played it, after warning about the f-bomb. It was a huge moment for me.
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