I discovered Dr Demento when I was about 11. I point to him as being the one guy that taught me that there is a lot of music that is worth hearing. Not just the mainstream. I can never thank him enough for the pure joy I got listening to him.
+Chuck House I bet you didn't know that he still does it. It's just more of a podcast than a radio show. Also, each episode costs 2 dollars, unless you buy a fanclub membership, then you get it in high quality.
LOVE IT!! The first time we heard Dr. Demento was when Dad started the car up to go home from watching Bambi at the drive in theater in Maybe April of 1974. The song that was on, the first song we heard from the show, was The Ballad of Irving. Our dad loves Western and he was laughing so hard, I never heard him laugh that like. He was a man that always hides his feelings. He couldn't hide them that night. Those were the days! Every Sunday night we'd listen the show. About 10 years ago I was able to get 70 cassette tapes from the show to 23 CDs. I sure miss listening to the shows. The stations seemed to stopped playing the show shortly after the 9/11 incident. I recorded the show Sunday night before 9/11 and one of the songs were called, Boom Boom Boom Boom. it makes me think of if the terrorist were communicating by song request. I have my doubts about that theory but it makes me wonder. Just the same, We need to keep these songs of yesterday year alive. Thank you for so many great and happy memories Dr. Demento!
Thanks to the American Forces Network (US Forces radio) in Germany, we were able to hear him each Sunday night via cable in Switzerland throughout the 1990s. Thanks a lot, I'll never forget it!
I am a big fan of Dr. Demento, I found his show when I was a kid in the 80s, he would come on our local radio rock station FM 99-WNOR every Sunday night. I think that laughter is one of gods greatest gifts and laughter is the best medicine, my sister would say when things go wrong, is that you have to hav humor in everything or else you’ll go nuts, and she’s right.
I listen to Dr demento on kmet every Sunday and I would listen to him on kola radio for another 2 hours on Sunday he always made things happy and fun I miss hearing him every week I love Dr demento he was one of a kind he was very special in so many different ways I enjoyed this presentation
I was about 13 when I discovered Dr Demento. A shy Australian girl with a weird sense of humour. My family would watch New Faces(bland national talent show a but like UK's Opportunity Knocks) and I would disappear into my room and listen to DD on my little red transistor radio on 4IP on Sundays. The show introduced me to Monty Python, Stan Freburg etc and it had a huge influence on why I think my SOH is the way it is today. I've used humour as a coping mechanism all my life and i love so many of the artists he introduced me to.He should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I saw Dr Demento at a Weird Al concert in 2016. I really regret not going up to him and saying hi. BTW, I hope by now he's put his entire collection on a hard drive.
My buddies and I first heard the Doctor in about 81 on a Waterloo Iowa FM station (107.9) on his syndicated show. He gave us not only a laugh but a appreciation of music and a interest in music history and what was out there beside top 40. The variety was awesome. Thank you Doctor Demento, and stay demented!
I just came across this video. It's an excellent documentary about the amazing Dr. Demento. I started listening to his show on KMET back in my junior high school days in 1973. It's too bad that they made no mention of Captain Chaos and Jungle Judy.
I started listening to Dr. Demento around 1974, when his syndicated show was carried by WNBC-AM in NYC. I remember a time when he visited NYC, and he performed the show live from the WNBC studio. In those days the Dr. Demento show was sponsored by Warner Brothers Records. At the scheduled commercial break, the Doctor announced that he had left the tapes of the commercials back home in California, so he ended up ad libbing spots for new releases by Warner Brothers artists like Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, and Ry Cooder. Radio was a lot simpler and more free-form back then.
Every Sunday evening, I would be studying hard as from September 1975 until May 1977. D r. D would be playing as I was competing an Associate Dregree in Industrial Electronics. Some of the classes were homework intensive and Dr. D provided entertainment in busy time in my life.
First time I heard Doctor Demento was on KPPC FM in Southern California then his show was broadcast from KMET 94.7 FM....I heard all kinds of novelty songs thru out the 1970's...2000's!!
Wow I am respected company I also discovered Dr. Dementia back in 79 when I was 17. Stay Demented and I have since I was 17, I am 56 and still Demented
Oh I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I overlooked before", I forget the artist, if you could call it that, but it was fun times in LA on Sunday nights.
Wow, what an amazing find. My first thought was, "Sunday night, LRS 102 - The Walrus", out of Louisville (the station I would listen to The Dr. on Sunday nights). And then Mom screaming every Monday morning, "Get out of bed or you'll be late for school", then getting to school and reliving the show with classmates. Now I see there was a minor epidemic of tardiness caused by The Dr. Thanks for sharing, tis an insightful video..
Yep, Monday mornings involved a lot of yelling, "Get your ass out of bed! Don't make me tell you again!" in our house as well, back in the late 70s! But the Sunday nights were worth it, LOL! Don't Forget to STAY DEMENTED!!!
As a pre-note, "They're Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV was my favorite. It was only a few years ago, after 20+ years (enough time for the drugs to seep out of my system -haha), I was playing the song for my kids when I realized it was about a 'dog' and not a 'woman'. Ah, the power of purple microdot on a youthful brain.
I can see it all now...(dreamy harp music as scene dissolves to a hot tub with 4 naked ladies....) OOPS! Who put on Cinemax??? Hold on a sec....Ok, lets try this again (dreamy harp music as scene cuts to a TV circa 1982) Announcer (on screen): Next week marks the beginning of a new school year and this year, school administrators are determined to find out why students show up late to school on Mondays and often sleepy. Could it be school hours? We asked Vince Carter of the Mayberry School District. (scene on TV changes to a outdoor scene of a reporter, Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal, calling out to Vince Carter) Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Mr. Carter, may I ask you a.... Vince Carter: I can't heeeaar you!!!!! Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: I just wanted to ask you a question regarding school hours. Isn't it...how can I put this nicely...INSANE to have school start at 5:30 in the morning. Carter: No, not here in California. Look, we have to compete with the East Coast. Schools there start at 0900, a FULL 1/2 hour after our schools start. We just want our kids to have a fighting chance. It makes them better soldiers...I mean people. Plus, it puts hairs on their chests Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal Ick!!! Even the female students? Cater: Yes, ma'am. I have this student, Pomer Gyle. He's a little too girly. Always playing his gee-tar and singing. Now, I have this other student, Al Boondy. Great football player. I just hope he doesn't get married too early and becomes a shoe salesman. (ominous notes play and both Carter and Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal look around nervously) Carter: I just got the feeling of impending doom. Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Yeah, me too....like I'm going to be a fictional character on a sitcom, or something. Mr. Carter, I have one final question: Why are students coming in late on Mondays? Carter: No one knows. It's an ancient Chinese secret. Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Be sure to tune in tomorrow when we reveal how many licks it takes (crunching sound)...never mind. We'll think of something. Back to you, Ted Baxter (end sequence) Annoucer (off screen); The preceding was produced by KROB channel 89, where our motto is "Very funny, FCC...putting us on a channel which no TV can recieve!"
Dr. Demento was so fun. I first heard Wesley Willis on the show ("Vampire Bat" was played). The Christmas shows were the best of them all. Listening to funny X-mas songs on a dark, snowy night with no school in the morning was so relaxing. "Oh, here comes fatty with his sack of shit!"
I heard "Your Feet's Too Big" by Fats Waller on Dr. Demento's Show 40 years ago. "Fishheads" I hated, but "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover", to this day when I hear that, I LMAO!!! Dark, sick, and hilarious! 🤣
While in LA I listened to the good Doctor religiously. But then the family moved to san Diego. Because I wanted to stay in touch with the doctor, I would drive up to the top of Mt Soledad on Sunday nights to get high enough to pick up the FM signal. There I would listen and then finish the evening with HARRISONS mike and then come home around midnite
finding billy mumy is in barnes and barnes-wow--DO NOT KNOW HOW I MISSED THAT-it is like a bad episode of the twilight zone!!!..love this-thanks for posting it
Barry ; It's been forever since you abandoned us in Los Angeles, I was a regular listener on 'The Mighty Met' ~ KMET 94.7 when you were young and living (IIRC) in South Pasadena . THANK YOU for all the great music and Musical Mike's Jazz Corner too =8-) . -Nate
I remember the doctor; WOXY Oxford, OH 97.7FM Sunday nights 10-midnight in the 1980s. My crappy generic FM tuner struggled to pick this station up; it would fade in and out and what I could hear was lousy with static, but I listened anyway and never once regretted it.
As someone who started listening in 1976, the wannabes with the guy in the garbage bag simply need to give it up. The magic of the Dr Demento show was the music was organic. Not created by millennial hipsters wanting to be famous. How did they even end up in this documentary?
I listened to Dr. D for all of my teens (I was 13 in 1981) on KMET until KMET switched formats and turned into KTWV in 1987. I recorded most of his shows on cassette tape and still have them. :P Then Dr. D was on KLSX in the early 90s. Taped most of those too. Then I didn't listen to him anymore for whatever reason, I think because he was syndicated to everywhere else in the world except southern California.
I can't recall ever hearing "The Dr. Demento Show" on ANY local radio station, AM or FM. (did KPOI FM "Underground" or KTUH FM, University of Hawaii play the Doctor?) I kept reading about him from time to time in "culture" magazines. It was Bob Rivers' "twisted repertoire" found at Jelly's, where there were Dr. Demento CD music collections. Speaking of Jelly's, Norm Winter and "Radio Free Hawaii." the very eclectic, listener-programmed "playlist" was the closest thing to Dr. Demento.
Demento is a truly classic one of a kind! He is a legendary gifted man! I hope he lives to age 80 and beyond! Hey Doctor!...when are you coming up to Humboldt County? I would like to meet you dear doctor! ( Like to have my picture taken with you..and my ole lady Liz)....
where were Julie Brown and Judy Tenuda? I have Stan's box se, a must have. All my DrD C120 cassette tapes mysteriously disappeared? I did not know that he had a connection with the Wrecking Crew. Great vid, a must share! Don
I would listen to his show under the covers in the dark at night. There was nothing like it and still isn't. I love that man for all of the musical knowledge he dropped on me over the many years.
roadie for Spirit and Canned Heat , , Man , thats so cool Two of the Greatest and Biggest bands of the Pyschedelic , 60s , Sprit is like the american Moody Blues or Pink Floyd , And Canned Heat best white boy Blues in the U.S.
Yes I go back to Dr.D.back in November of 1980 when I had 1st heard him on the radio 1 Sunday night on WCOZ Then later WROR then Later WZLX but since 1993 he still hasn't come back to Boston & Vicinity but almost did to WEGQ a.k.a.Eagle 93.7 but then it had got taken over by Star 93.7 with a rather annoying publicity stunt 15 hrs.of nothing but Prince's "1999." then a few years later Mike 93.7 took it over & I also found out a few years ago Dr.Demento left the radio to go fully online via Pay Pal but I just can't seem to access his show but should I be able to it costs $3.00 each time around to access a show but I just can't seem to access it if anyone out there has or can? Then do please let me know also?I've been heard on his show like 4 times or so & even once acknowledge via a snail mail request as Listener Ste of Framingham,Ma. back in 1992 for Dickie Goodman's Super Duperman after Dr.d. saiod "It's a bird,it's a plane it's Dead Superman of which i'd also acknowledged with this request But Dr.D. should've added/included "it's an Angel."Years ago here on You Tube My They Drive Ste Brady Request also from 1992 was heard but got removed do to copyright infringement.Time Time 124 was the party that accesed this & it was part of that whole 7/4/92 weekend show of Dr.Demento that had gotten removed from RUclips.I hope someone can reaccess it on youtube because no sooner had I found & found I was being made famous on RUclips than it got removed for the reason mentioned above. As Sadly as Truly Ste P.S. And don't forget to stay Demented!
I have this on a VHS tape, but I have no vcr, so I'm glad this is here. Question - Who all is in the hot tub at 33:42 besides Weird Al and Dr. Demento? 2 other guys look a lot like Bermuda and Steve Jay. Can anyone verify?
Hi all. I hate to toot my own horn, but I just sent the Good Doctor an email, and I think it's pretty damn good! Let me know what you all think about it "I don't knowthe name of the song or the artist...I'll explain below. I think it was 1985 or so, you had played a track that through various songs, it used the same words as Stairway To Heaven. I SO bADLY want to hear this again. How badly you asK? Well, I told my friends about it and apparently they didn't believe because those nice young men with the clean white coats came and took me away to yhe funny farm (HA HA!) where I spent my days with a pencil neck geek who had fish heads in his pockets. I heard rumors he had dead puppies in his room, but I wasn't about to find out!!!! Every night we ate Weird Al's bologna. Ever eat bologna 6128 nights in a row? It'll turn you int a junk food junkie and drive you Brady I sent The Good Doctor an email, I wanted to show him my wit. But when he read it over the air, it just turned into a pile of shaving cream. "
Dr. Demento is,by far,the best thing that has happened to the world of radio.The man is a true legend!!!
True
I'm a long time devotee of the good Doctor-By the way,today's his 80th birthday-He still sounds great.
Love this! We listened Sunday nights on KMET! Just another thing that made the 70's great!
From the depth of the LA suburbs. Punk reigned supreme
I discovered Dr Demento when I was about 11. I point to him as being the one guy that taught me that there is a lot of music that is worth hearing. Not just the mainstream. I can never thank him enough for the pure joy I got listening to him.
+Chuck House I bet you didn't know that he still does it. It's just more of a podcast than a radio show. Also, each episode costs 2 dollars, unless you buy a fanclub membership, then you get it in high quality.
I knew that a few years ago. Didn't know he was still at it. Good to know the Doc is still kicking around.
@@daniexists6 I didn't that! That's great! This just prove that you can't keep a good man down.
LOVE IT!! The first time we heard Dr. Demento was when Dad started the car up to go home from watching Bambi at the drive in theater in Maybe April of 1974. The song that was on, the first song we heard from the show, was The Ballad of Irving. Our dad loves Western and he was laughing so hard, I never heard him laugh that like. He was a man that always hides his feelings. He couldn't hide them that night. Those were the days! Every Sunday night we'd listen the show. About 10 years ago I was able to get 70 cassette tapes from the show to 23 CDs. I sure miss listening to the shows. The stations seemed to stopped playing the show shortly after the 9/11 incident.
I recorded the show Sunday night before 9/11 and one of the songs were called, Boom Boom Boom Boom. it makes me think of if the terrorist were communicating by song request. I have my doubts about that theory but it makes me wonder. Just the same, We need to keep these songs of yesterday year alive. Thank you for so many great and happy memories Dr. Demento!
From the smog berry trees! I remember him well from 1974 when I was 18. Sunday nights I never missed a show.
Snowberry trees... oh yeah that takes me back
The Doctor is quite possibly the most important influence in my life. Always, he's amazing.
In 1979, when I was 17, he sent me a PERSONAL reply to a letter I wrote him!!!!
Lucky!
My brother and I used to stay up and record and his shows when we were little then listen to them later. a great childhood memory.
Thanks to the American Forces Network (US Forces radio) in Germany, we were able to hear him each Sunday night via cable in Switzerland throughout the 1990s. Thanks a lot, I'll never forget it!
OMG I LOVE YOU DOCTOR!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR MY EARLY TEEN YEARS AND I WILL ALWAYS BE DEMENTED!!!!
Grew up with Dr. Demento on Sunday nights in the late 70s early 80s on WTOS, the top of Sugarloaf in Maine.
I am a big fan of Dr. Demento, I found his show when I was a kid in the 80s, he would come on our local radio rock station FM 99-WNOR every Sunday night. I think that laughter is one of gods greatest gifts and laughter is the best medicine, my sister would say when things go wrong, is that you have to hav humor in everything or else you’ll go nuts, and she’s right.
I listen to Dr demento on kmet every Sunday and I would listen to him on kola radio for another 2 hours on Sunday he always made things happy and fun I miss hearing him every week I love Dr demento he was one of a kind he was very special in so many different ways I enjoyed this presentation
I was about 13 when I discovered Dr Demento. A shy Australian girl with a weird sense of humour. My family would watch New Faces(bland national talent show a but like UK's Opportunity Knocks) and I would disappear into my room and listen to DD on my little red transistor radio on 4IP on Sundays. The show introduced me to Monty Python, Stan Freburg etc and it had a huge influence on why I think my SOH is the way it is today. I've used humour as a coping mechanism all my life and i love so many of the artists he introduced me to.He should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I really loved his show and I loved the back ground information he would provide
I saw Dr Demento at a Weird Al concert in 2016. I really regret not going up to him and saying hi. BTW, I hope by now he's put his entire collection on a hard drive.
"Dr. Demento gave me my start and my car runs great now." Emo Phillips. :)
Emo Phillips is good at quick and funny comedyy.
My buddies and I first heard the Doctor in about 81 on a Waterloo Iowa FM station (107.9) on his syndicated show. He gave us not only a laugh but a appreciation of music and a interest in music history and what was out there beside top 40. The variety was awesome. Thank you Doctor Demento, and stay demented!
Thanks to my dad he got me hooked on Doctor Demento in the 1980's when I was a kid via WLUP in Chicago LOL! :D =^.^=
I just came across this video. It's an excellent documentary about the amazing Dr. Demento. I started listening to his show on KMET back in my junior high school days in 1973. It's too bad that they made no mention of Captain Chaos and Jungle Judy.
Grew up listening to dr. Demento on KYYS, Kansas City is ky-102!!
I started listening to Dr. Demento around 1974, when his syndicated show was carried by WNBC-AM in NYC. I remember a time when he visited NYC, and he performed the show live from the WNBC studio. In those days the Dr. Demento show was sponsored by Warner Brothers Records. At the scheduled commercial break, the Doctor announced that he had left the tapes of the commercials back home in California, so he ended up ad libbing spots for new releases by Warner Brothers artists like Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, and Ry Cooder. Radio was a lot simpler and more free-form back then.
Heard the Dr before he went nationwide,back in '78,from a family friend who lived in LA.Sent us Sunday night shows on KMET.
Every Sunday evening, I would be studying hard as from September 1975 until May 1977. D r. D would be playing as I was competing an Associate Dregree in Industrial Electronics. Some of the classes were homework intensive and Dr. D provided entertainment in busy time in my life.
First time I heard Doctor Demento was on KPPC FM in Southern California then his show was broadcast from KMET 94.7 FM....I heard all kinds of novelty songs thru out the 1970's...2000's!!
Used to love listening to The Doctor Demento show.
Wow I am respected company I also discovered Dr. Dementia back in 79 when I was 17.
Stay Demented and I have since I was 17, I am 56 and still Demented
I am 47, and loved when me and my dad would listen to Dr. Demento every Sunday night.
Dammit i wish Under the Smogberry trees was finished :( I could watch this Documentary everyday. I need moreee 😭😭😭😭
Used to listen to Dr Demento on WSPT in the 80's
I miss the Sunday nights of the 80's
Thanks very much for posting this. Barry Hansen has been one of the greatest teachers in my life.
He's like the uncle who has TONS of cool stories, and you don't want to miss any of them.
I went to Alcon 2000 and sat not too far from Dr. Demento when this was played. I got a copy of the VHS still.
The was awesome. I live in Reno, Nevada and one of my local radio stations used to carry this show and I used to listen to it every week.
Oh I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I overlooked before", I forget the artist, if you could call it that, but it was fun times in LA on Sunday nights.
Wow, what an amazing find. My first thought was, "Sunday night, LRS 102 - The Walrus", out of Louisville (the station I would listen to The Dr. on Sunday nights). And then Mom screaming every Monday morning, "Get out of bed or you'll be late for school", then getting to school and reliving the show with classmates. Now I see there was a minor epidemic of tardiness caused by The Dr. Thanks for sharing, tis an insightful video..
Yep, Monday mornings involved a lot of yelling, "Get your ass out of bed! Don't make me tell you again!" in our house as well, back in the late 70s! But the Sunday nights were worth it, LOL!
Don't Forget to STAY DEMENTED!!!
As a pre-note, "They're Coming To Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV was my favorite. It was only a few years ago, after 20+ years (enough time for the drugs to seep out of my system -haha), I was playing the song for my kids when I realized it was about a 'dog' and not a 'woman'. Ah, the power of purple microdot on a youthful brain.
I can see it all now...(dreamy harp music as scene dissolves to a hot tub with 4 naked ladies....)
OOPS! Who put on Cinemax??? Hold on a sec....Ok, lets try this again
(dreamy harp music as scene cuts to a TV circa 1982)
Announcer (on screen): Next week marks the beginning of a new school year and this year, school administrators are determined to find out why students show up late to school on Mondays and often sleepy. Could it be school hours? We asked Vince Carter of the Mayberry School District.
(scene on TV changes to a outdoor scene of a reporter, Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal, calling out to Vince Carter)
Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Mr. Carter, may I ask you a....
Vince Carter: I can't heeeaar you!!!!!
Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: I just wanted to ask you a question regarding school hours. Isn't it...how can I put this nicely...INSANE to have school start at 5:30 in the morning.
Carter: No, not here in California. Look, we have to compete with the East Coast. Schools there start at 0900, a FULL 1/2 hour after our schools start. We just want our kids to have a fighting chance. It makes them better soldiers...I mean people. Plus, it puts hairs on their chests
Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal Ick!!! Even the female students?
Cater: Yes, ma'am. I have this student, Pomer Gyle. He's a little too girly. Always playing his gee-tar and singing. Now, I have this other student, Al Boondy. Great football player. I just hope he doesn't get married too early and becomes a shoe salesman.
(ominous notes play and both Carter and Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal look around nervously)
Carter: I just got the feeling of impending doom.
Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Yeah, me too....like I'm going to be a fictional character on a sitcom, or something. Mr. Carter, I have one final question: Why are students coming in late on Mondays?
Carter: No one knows. It's an ancient Chinese secret.
Veracruz de la Jolla Cardenal: Be sure to tune in tomorrow when we reveal how many licks it takes (crunching sound)...never mind. We'll think of something. Back to you, Ted Baxter
(end sequence)
Annoucer (off screen); The preceding was produced by KROB channel 89, where our motto is "Very funny, FCC...putting us on a channel which no TV can recieve!"
Dr. Demento was so fun. I first heard Wesley Willis on the show ("Vampire Bat" was played). The Christmas shows were the best of them all. Listening to funny X-mas songs on a dark, snowy night with no school in the morning was so relaxing. "Oh, here comes fatty with his sack of shit!"
Roll On you Rolly Polly Fish Heads...Roll On...
Thanks for sharing this...Good Times, Good memories :)
eat them up yum
Hello Muddy hello fadder how is mah darling baby bruddah.
NO NO NO! WEIRD AL CAN'T HAVE A NORMAL JOB!!! THANK YOU DR.DEMENTO!!!
And today -- ok, maybe it's yesterday now -- is the Doc *80th birthday*!
browsing youtube found this. so glad i did
I heard "Your Feet's Too Big" by Fats Waller on Dr. Demento's Show 40 years ago. "Fishheads" I hated, but "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover", to this day when I hear that, I LMAO!!! Dark, sick, and hilarious! 🤣
While in LA I listened to the good Doctor religiously. But then the family moved to san Diego. Because I wanted to stay in touch with the doctor, I would drive up to the top of Mt Soledad on Sunday nights to get high enough to pick up the FM signal. There I would listen and then finish the evening with HARRISONS mike and then come home around midnite
finding billy mumy is in barnes and barnes-wow--DO NOT KNOW HOW I MISSED THAT-it is like a bad episode of the twilight zone!!!..love this-thanks for posting it
Or a lost episode of "Lost In Space"
His show is in a class by itself & that's what makes it great.
Barry ;
It's been forever since you abandoned us in Los Angeles, I was a regular listener on 'The Mighty Met' ~ KMET 94.7 when you were young and living (IIRC) in South Pasadena .
THANK YOU for all the great music and Musical Mike's Jazz Corner too =8-) .
-Nate
Thanks for posting this up!
Thanks for posting this! I was at ALCON 2000 when this was first played. This has been a wonderful trip down memory lane.
That was great! Thanks for putting it up.
I remember the doctor; WOXY Oxford, OH 97.7FM Sunday nights 10-midnight in the 1980s. My crappy generic FM tuner struggled to pick this station up; it would fade in and out and what I could hear was lousy with static, but I listened anyway and never once regretted it.
I remember him playing Cab Calloway during the 1990s swing revival period.
of all to 60's 70's radio shows, the Dr was one i will never forget KMET was my station.
they had the best, i can still remember the DJ names.
The nostalgia ❤😊
this video totally inspired me to plug in my keyboard and take a nap😊
i realy love record collectors who share their stuff to the world
We may not have Under the Smogberry Trees yet, but this certainly whetted my appetite for dementia.
I believe I am going to use this baritone and impressions to its fullest. Doc Demento is my type of crowd.
Happy Birthday Doctor
Canned Heat with Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson was and is awesome!!
time was on the road again going up the country
A band of record collectors
l am 41 and i grew up with him dr demento long live the doc
I'm 35 and I remember him before the internet :)
seriously? i thought it was only on in the late 70s
What a amazing man
As someone who started listening in 1976, the wannabes with the guy in the garbage bag simply need to give it up.
The magic of the Dr Demento show was the music was organic. Not created by millennial hipsters wanting to be famous. How did they even end up in this documentary?
I listened to Dr. D for all of my teens (I was 13 in 1981) on KMET until KMET switched formats and turned into KTWV in 1987. I recorded most of his shows on cassette tape and still have them. :P Then Dr. D was on KLSX in the early 90s. Taped most of those too. Then I didn't listen to him anymore for whatever reason, I think because he was syndicated to everywhere else in the world except southern California.
Barret did great liner notes for the Atco "Greatest Recordings" LPs from the early 1970s
I can't recall ever hearing "The Dr. Demento Show" on ANY local radio station, AM or FM. (did KPOI FM "Underground" or KTUH FM, University of Hawaii play the Doctor?) I kept reading about him from time to time in "culture" magazines. It was Bob Rivers' "twisted repertoire" found at Jelly's, where there were Dr. Demento CD music collections. Speaking of Jelly's, Norm Winter and "Radio Free Hawaii." the very eclectic, listener-programmed "playlist" was the closest thing to Dr. Demento.
Weird Al was just like "Very handsome...... ummmm..."
No, he said "Barry Hansen?" That's Dr. D's name. :)
Nevermind.
do you smell that?
heard him in the early 80s whilst living in glendora ca :)
Demento is a truly classic one of a kind! He is a legendary gifted man! I hope he lives to age 80 and beyond! Hey Doctor!...when are you coming up to Humboldt County? I would like to meet you dear doctor! ( Like to have my picture taken with you..and my ole lady Liz)....
I do Miss Him being on the radio in Phila Pa
I spoke to Dr Demento online back with it was in the BETA, we spoke for all of 5 min while his engineer was running some tests
dr demento was born in the city i am living in now.
where were Julie Brown and Judy Tenuda? I have Stan's box se, a must have. All my DrD C120 cassette tapes mysteriously disappeared? I did not know that he had a connection with the Wrecking Crew. Great vid, a must share! Don
I was there!
Comedy music is still underground
Maybe add this one to the DVD also!!!!!
Pico and Sepulveda!
Very cool
The Dr is a American treasure as his all his close friends ...
I would listen to his show under the covers in the dark at night. There was nothing like it and still isn't. I love that man for all of the musical knowledge he dropped on me over the many years.
What was AT "Pico and Sepulveda" when that song was created? because for the past 25 years its been a crappy corner :p.
KMET 94.7. Los Angeles
roadie for Spirit and Canned Heat , , Man , thats so cool Two of the Greatest and Biggest bands of the
Pyschedelic , 60s , Sprit is like the american Moody Blues or Pink Floyd , And Canned Heat best white boy Blues in the U.S.
Dr. Demento is Lord Sheogorath.
If Barnes and Barnes and Barry Bookbinder had never existed, we might never have heard of Barnes and Noble.
I wonder if he ever played Tuvan throat singers
32:52 "Weird" Al has a bachelor's degree in architecture...
Yes I go back to Dr.D.back in November of 1980 when I had 1st heard him on the radio 1 Sunday night on WCOZ Then later WROR then Later WZLX but since 1993 he still hasn't come back to Boston & Vicinity but almost did to WEGQ a.k.a.Eagle 93.7 but then it had got taken over by Star 93.7 with a rather annoying publicity stunt 15 hrs.of nothing but Prince's "1999." then a few years later Mike 93.7 took it over & I also found out a few years ago Dr.Demento left the radio to go fully online via Pay Pal but I just can't seem to access his show but should I be able to it costs $3.00 each time around to access a show but I just can't seem to access it if anyone out there has or can? Then do please let me know also?I've been heard on his show like 4 times or so & even once acknowledge via a snail mail request as Listener Ste of Framingham,Ma. back in 1992 for Dickie Goodman's Super Duperman after Dr.d. saiod "It's a bird,it's a plane it's Dead Superman of which i'd also acknowledged with this request But Dr.D. should've added/included "it's an Angel."Years ago here on You Tube My They Drive Ste Brady Request also from 1992 was heard but got removed do to copyright infringement.Time Time 124 was the party that accesed this & it was part of that whole 7/4/92 weekend show of Dr.Demento that had gotten removed from RUclips.I hope someone can reaccess it on youtube because no sooner had I found & found I was being made famous on RUclips than it got removed for the reason mentioned above.
As Sadly as Truly Ste
P.S. And don't forget to stay Demented!
"Dr demento is the yin to Britney Spears yang"... Lol
I have this on a VHS tape, but I have no vcr, so I'm glad this is here. Question - Who all is in the hot tub at 33:42 besides Weird Al and Dr. Demento? 2 other guys look a lot like Bermuda and Steve Jay. Can anyone verify?
am I the only one who is still thrown off by weird al without glasses and a mustache?
EMO PHILLIPS!
i think DR.D would really be into skratching and turntabilism.
I'm trying to find the radio show on RUclips its 50/50 sometimes its good on RUclips but other time its nots
What happened to Damaskas?
Chris Farley at 27:00?
Would John Morris be John Tepper Morris in Captain Beefheart's band?
I need the sound clip at 1:28
Hi all. I hate to toot my own horn, but I just sent the Good Doctor an email, and I think it's pretty damn good! Let me know what you all think about it
"I don't knowthe name of the song or the artist...I'll explain below.
I think it was 1985 or so, you had played a track that through various songs, it used the same words as Stairway To Heaven. I SO bADLY want to hear this again. How badly you asK? Well, I told my friends about it and apparently they didn't believe because those nice young men with the clean white coats came and took me away to yhe funny farm (HA HA!) where I spent my days with a pencil neck geek who had fish heads in his pockets. I heard rumors he had dead puppies in his room, but I wasn't about to find out!!!! Every night we ate Weird Al's bologna. Ever eat bologna 6128 nights in a row? It'll turn you int a junk food junkie and drive you Brady
I sent The Good Doctor an email,
I wanted to show him my wit.
But when he read it over the air,
it just turned into a pile of shaving cream.
"
@0:48 WARNING! WARNING! DANGER! DANGER! WISH THEM INTO THE CORNFIELD, MR. LENNIER!
Hehehe ,: -D