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Dr. Demento Ends His 40 Year Old Radio Show
Chicagoland Radio and Media ^ | 6/5/10 | Larz

Posted on 06/07/2010 11:56:20 PM PDT by raccoonradio

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To: tlb
We’re Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean

Found it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK8Iowe83-A

81 posted on 06/08/2010 1:01:01 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: raccoonradio
And no who's heard it can forget:

New York, New York

It was played backwards, then that recording was played backwards. So it came out ......forwards.........sorta.......I guess....

82 posted on 06/08/2010 1:02:14 PM PDT by uglybiker (BACON!!)
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To: OB1kNOb

DO THE CRUSHER

Raid!
Do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Raid! Do the hammer lock, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Everybody’s doing it
Raid!

Do the eye gouge! Yeah, do the eye gouge!
Raid! Do the eye gouge, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the eye gouge! a-Do the eye gouge!
Everybody’s doing it
Raid!

Okay, you turkey necks, gather ‘round!
Raid! Let me show you how to do the Crusher
If you don’t learn it now, I’m gonna get you in the ring
Raid!
Okay, you take your fist and put it on your waist
And if you don’t, you’re gonna be a disgrace
And then you squeeze your partner’s head just below the face
Raid!

Do the Crusher! Do the Crusher!
Raid! Do the Crusher, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the Crusher! a-Do the Crusher!
Everybody do it now!
Raid!


83 posted on 06/08/2010 1:02:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: OB1kNOb

Cow Patty

From the badlands came the killer
He lived by the knife and the gun
He’d cut ya just for standin’
Shoot ya if ya tried to run
He was as big as a tree and did as he pleased
And everthing he did was bad
They said if ya was to kill him
You’d only make him mad
From the goodlands come the cowgirl
Patty was her name
She was hot on the trail of that killer
On a moped she called Flame
Cause the killer had killed her daddy
For spittin’ in the road
And you only had to kill her daddy once
To get that gal PO’d

(Chorus)
Yippee yay a Cow Patty
Yippee yay a Cow Patty
She rode in to town to find the man who killed her daddy
Yippee yay a Cow Patty

Killer hit town at day break
Ate the door off the local saloon
He started to drink
You could tell ne was thinkin’ they’ll be a showdown soon
Patty hit town in a cloud of dust
Old Flame was buzzin’ like a saw
And the whole town got as quiet as a church
When the killer stepped out for the draw
Forty shots rang out forty people fell
Patty and the killer missed each other
But they shot that town to hell

(Chorus)

Killer took a step toward Patty
Said it’s time I gunned you down
But he slipped in somethin’ that was layin in the street
And was shot fore he hit the ground
Yes the killer slipped
And it cost him his life
And Patty said as she roared out of town
You gotta watch your step
When you know the chips are down

(Chorus)


84 posted on 06/08/2010 1:02:40 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: uglybiker

LOL!

And

“She’s got freckles on her
but she is nice...”


85 posted on 06/08/2010 1:02:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: dfwgator

Irving ROFL!!


86 posted on 06/08/2010 1:08:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: fredhead

I remember that song, even though I didn’t quite know what gay meant!


87 posted on 06/08/2010 1:09:09 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I found the song about cannibalism. It was banned on every station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ

Um, YUCK.


88 posted on 06/08/2010 1:10:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: raccoonradio

No more Screamin’ Jay Hawkins?

End of an era.


89 posted on 06/08/2010 1:15:33 PM PDT by Poser (Enjoying tasty animals for 58 years)
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To: Yaelle
And possibly the most politically incorrect song ever made:

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Paralyzed!

90 posted on 06/08/2010 1:15:44 PM PDT by uglybiker (BACON!!)
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To: raccoonradio
Little Nash Rambler
91 posted on 06/08/2010 1:23:22 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Yaelle
Do you remember trying to stay up for the top 10, but not making it?? So many nights I'd fall asleep to something weird like "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha..." and have crazy dreams!

Yep. There were many times I could not stay awake. Good times.

92 posted on 06/08/2010 1:25:33 PM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: LeftiesBinWhinin
Ballad of Irving
93 posted on 06/08/2010 1:26:42 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: uglybiker

Man, that is weird. They did a wonderful, intricate job with that one. Of course, you could probably get the same effect by licking a recreational postage stamp and listening to the original. :-)


94 posted on 06/08/2010 1:35:10 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (70 mph shouldn't be a speed limit; it shoud be a mandate!)
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To: Yaelle

I also have fond memories of Machine Gun Kelly, Dave Hull-The Hullabalooer, the Round Brown Mound of Sound on the great Jazz station KBCA, and so many other LA radio stations.

Ed


95 posted on 06/08/2010 2:06:12 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: raccoonradio

JUNK FOOD JUNKIE - LARRY GROCE

You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr. Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don’t touch my lips
And my friends is always
Begging me to take them
On macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are

Oh, but at night I take out my strongbox
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth

Yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good Lord, have pity on me

Well, at lunchtime
You can always find me
At the Whole Earth Vitamin Bar
Just sucking on my plain white yogurt
From my hand thrown pottery jar
And sippin’ a little hand pressed cider
With a carrot stick for dessert
And wiping my face
In a natural way
On the sleeve of my peasant shirt
Oh, yeah

Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
And I’m all by myself
I work that combination
On my secret hideaway shelf
And I pull out some Fritos corn chips
Dr. Pepper and an Ole Moon Pie
Then I sit back in glorious expectation
Of a genuine junk food high

Oh yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good Lord, have pity on me

My friends down at the commune
They think I’m pretty neat
Oh, I don’t know nothing about arts and crafts
But I give ‘em all something to eat
I’m a friend to old Euell Gibbons
And I only eat homegrown spice
I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn
Filled up with my brown rice
Yes, I do

Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I’m afraid someday they’ll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head

In the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good Lord, have pity on me


96 posted on 06/08/2010 2:08:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yaelle
Tasty pick, yes. And let us not forget the immortal Nervous Norvus' Transfusion.

"Transfusion, transfusion
My red corpsuckles are in mass confusion
I'm never, never, never gonna speed again.
Pass the crimson to me Jimson!
"

97 posted on 06/08/2010 2:54:59 PM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (BORDERS, LAWS and LANGUAGE)
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To: raccoonradio

If you wanted weird, whacky obscure, Dr. Demento was one of the few places to find it. I discovered Saturday Night Live about the same time as Dr. Demento, both by accident and was immediately hooked because nobody was doing anything like that. It was on at about 1:00 a.m. in our market which made it even that more strange and wonderful

Now weird, whacky and obscure are only a mouse click away, which in a way makes it much more mundane. The good doctor was killed by the internet.

They’ve come and taken him away, oh no.


98 posted on 06/08/2010 5:34:34 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Yaelle
"OK, now THAT one should be played at Gitmo. Sheesh!!! If that is going to go through my head all day, I’m a comin’ after you!!!"

Let me put it this way. It's been going through my head since I first heard it on Dr. Demento ..... in 1975!!!
99 posted on 06/08/2010 7:22:17 PM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: raccoonradio; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; ...

Somehow I missed this article, I found it while searching to see if this one had been posted yet:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gF1F_pO4aSoN0amGMLl-Um9QNkLwD9GLLHT80
Dr. Demento leaving radio for the Internet
By JOHN ROGERS (AP) – 1 day ago


100 posted on 07/01/2010 12:21:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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