DAMN! I first heard him in 1973 in LA...Sunday nights. Fun.
When I was a kid I used to listen to him every Sunday night. I heard so many unusual recordings I still can’t believe it. Very interesting. He played songs about cannibalism, racist songs, EVERYTHING.
Fish heads...
In a breaking development, Howard Dean just bought the rights to the Doctor's stage name.
Ah, that’s sad.
I spent many a Sunday listening to him on the Mighty Met, KMET.
Ed
Was never a fan, but I remember his bit about the “split level head”.
He was on an El Paso, TX station about 25 years ago.
Takes me back. I think I’m getting a case of the “Existential Blues.”
The Doctor’s show was taken off our local affiliate at least 15 years ago. No station in radio range ever carried it again.
We’re Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean
The way we’ve been treated is really obscene
To think that a bug worth hardly a shrug
Could end up by getting us tossed in the jug
We all got the gate for no reason or rhyme
You’d think we’d committed some horrible crime
Our minds may be dirty, but our hands are clean
We’re Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean
Oh, the Worm Quartet will not be happy. They (well, he) are (is) a recent band which was doing very well in the Dr. Demento ratings - and whom I was startled one day to discover I worked with. The guy was odd, but I didn’t realize he was Dr. Demento odd.
Somewhere Wild Man Fisher sheds a tear. . .
He is a legend. still, staying on the ‘net is good.
That’s moose turd pie! ... but its good! And my other favorite...Eskimos don’t wear galoshes they wear mukluks. Say it mukluks muuuukluks...good eh?
Years ago, I had just arrived in my hotel room after a grueling 14 hour flight from JFK to Tokyo and an hour on the train out to NAF Atsugi, wanting only to take a shower and crash. Out of curiosity, I turned on the radio. To my absolute amazement, the first thing I heard was Dr. Demento on the American Forces Network channel. I haven’t heard him in years, but that moment is forever seared in my memory.
Ahhhh...Dr Demento, brings back Sunday night teenage memories!!
“Shaving Cream”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAEownqddg&feature=related
Later on in college it was “Over the Edge” on KPFA for late night insomnia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Yyg4TikbE
Probably very Leftie, but “cool” when in college in the late 70’s /early 80’s!
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I’d go BERZERK?
Well.
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see I’ve gone completely out of my mind.
And
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
They’re coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time, and I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats
and they’re coming to take me away ha ha
You thought it was joke and so you laughed, YOU LAUGHED when I had said that losing you would make me flip my lid, RIGHT? You know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed, you laughed AND LAUGHED and then you LEFT, but now you know I’m utterly mad.
And they’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
They’re coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes
They’re coming to take me away ha ha...
I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you paid me back for all my kind unselfish loving deeds.
HUH?
Well you just wait they’ll find you yet, and when they do they’ll put you in the ASPCA you mangy MUTT.
AND
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
They’re coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I’ll be happy to see those nice men in their clean white coats
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle thier thumbs and toes
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha Ha
Your home the one the bank foreclosed, You cried to me Monogamy is the way we both must live or you’ll feel hurt. But, I see, I see there’s someone new, your anxious poly-pure-bred coat was even gone at our place while I paid the rent, thanks!
And They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
They’re coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
To the loony bin with all you can eat perscription drugs like torizine, and lithium, and electric shock and insulin
They’re coming to take me away Ha Ha
ping
I thought this was a Ron Paul thread.