During a 1980 guest appearance on the show, the artist debuted a new song, "Another One Bites the Dust," live on The Dr. Demento Show. Now, for those of you who don't know, Dr. Demento is the alter ego of Barry Hansen, who created the persona in 1970 when he was working at KPPC-FM in Pasadena. In the mid-1970s the show was heard from coast to coast through a syndication deal. Though his show went off the radio in 2010, Dr. Demento now has a weekly podcast in which he plays classic funny music hits as well as new submissions. Recalls Mark "Barry, Henry Vestine, and Bob Hite had extensive blues record collections and we played very traditional arrangements. Hansen, a reserved, bearded man in his mid-40s, is better known as the title character and host of "The Dr. Demento Show," a nationally syndicated radio program of "mad music and crazy comedy . Dr. Demento is the Mad Magazine of the radio, corrupting young and old since 1970. Welcome to the official online archive of The Dr. Demento Show! Barry Hansen, best known as radio's Dr. Demento, is a respected musicologist and blues specialist. The show is best known for bringing music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic into pop culture fame. Hansen says that apart from "Weird Al" Yankovic, Lehrer remains the artist most requested by his listeners. www.drdemento.com Sep 11, 2021 [From interview with Barry Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, c. 1990s]: I never had the temperament of a performer. radio host Dr. Demento, told The Times on Friday. Hansen assembled 35 vintage blues, gospel and rock 'n' roll albums for Specialty Records, and annotated a Blues Masters Sampler for Rhino Records. Broadcast since 1970, the show's focus is on novelty songs and comedy recordings. Though the school was 99 percent white I considered it my mission to play as many R&B records as I could get away with. At the end of 1971, he moved to KMET in Los Angeles. Dr. Demento discography and songs: Music profile for Dr. Demento, born 2 April 1941. Once posed by the AV Club with the question regarding the future of novelty music, referring to earwormy (for some, irritating) songs like "Purple People Eater," the good Doctor did not trash the term. He played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio . Sonny Stitt (as,ts), Barry Harris (p), Reggie Workman (b),Tony Williams (ds) Album： Sonny Stitt & Barry Harris / Complete Late Quartets- Moonlight In Vermont Recorded：New York City, 1977 For example, I do not require anonymous affection, such as that manifested by the applause of large groups of strangers. Most of the albums were compiled by Barry (Dr. Demento) Hansen who also wrote the copious annotations. Yankovic would record parody songs in his bedroom and send them to Dr. Demento. Barry Hansen, best known as radio's Dr. Demento, is a respected musicologist and blues specialist. The original BBC television series ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on BBC 2, with 67 half-hour episodes, and two forty-five-minute Christmas specials.The series was created by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and originally co-written by all three, with Oddie providing the music for the show. Barry Hansen, Actor: UHF. Barry & the Bookbinders - She Grabbed My Coconuts 10. Answer (1 of 5): June 22, 2010 For 40 years, Barret Hansen, known on the airwaves as "Dr. Demento," has broadcast everything weird in the music world. After 40 years of weekly musical mayhem, former Minnesotan Barret "Barry" Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, takes his massive collection of novelty records and moves from radio to online-only shows. Greatest Novelty Songs by Various Artists Audio CD $11.35. by howmuchbanana in MovieDetails Hansen?) Dr. Demento Presents Holidays In Dementia - strange and obscure Christmas songs compiled by Barry Hansen: 1995: image: buy: review: Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time - classic and/or popular comedy hits 1948-1986; shorter, slightly different version released on LP as the sixth volume of Rhino series 'The . Barret Eugene Barry Hansen born April 2, 1941 better known as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. I suspect Barry Hansen, best known as Los Angeles-based DJ Dr. Demento, would agree. With new liner notes form Barry Hansen (better known to most as Dr. Demento), the package also features the piece he wrote for the album's original issue. For more than 30 years, Barry Hansen has hosted The Dr. Demento Show, an internationally syndicated weekly radio broadcast highlighting the best and most popular novelty songs of the past and present. As he tells me, the group was a show band that played at Holiday Inns along the West Coast and wrote some comedy songs to spice up their act. "He made up songs that were beautiful and interesting," Barry Hansen, a.k.a. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. In recent years he has scored the films: A Matter of Principal, Real Time; Siege at Lucas Street Market, Caveman-VT Hamlin and Alley Oop, and Mike Hammers' Mickey Spillaine . He instead answered by referring to the music that made . Weird Al Yankovic added New York Times bestselling writer to his resumé in 2011 with the discharge of his youngsters's e-book, When I Grow Up . "He didn't always finish them — a lot of his work is fragments, but . The Meep Morp Studio people (Scott and Christie McKenzie) formed a partnership in early 2013 with director Devin Lucas, explained Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen). Genres: Novelty, Comedy, Musical Comedy. About Dr. Demento. The latest in a series of celebratory collections from Dr. Demento (the alter ego of musicologist Barry Hansen) serves as a reminder of this fact for me. The Dr. Demento radio show Hansen created the persona of Dr. Demento in 1970 while working at Pasadena station KPPC-FM. Barry was a friend of mine. Demento!!) Dr. Demento's TOP 100 (or so) DEMENTED HITS (from Funny 25's) - 1974 to 2008 Rank Title Artist 1st Yr Points 1 Dead Puppies The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band 1977 497 2 Fish Heads Barnes & Barnes 1978 475 3 They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! The good doctor posted this heartbreaking update on his Facebook page, which read, in part, "Sad times in the Land of Dementia -- Sue Hansen, my wife, love and helpmate for 34 . He sang them in a high tenor voice alive with ache and attitude. Demento, whose real name is Barry Hansen, is a life-long music fan with an advanced degree in folklore and ethnomusicology from UCLA and a taste for the absurd and the different. Albums include 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All-Time, Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time, and 25th Anniversary Collection. From novelty and comedy songs to songs that seem to have just been written as an early form of musical trolling, they're brought together and presented by your requisite carnival barker and odd music enthusiast, Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen, aka "Dr. Demento". Although Weird Al Yankovic had despatched tapes to Dr. Demento up to now, at Cal Poly, he recorded his very first revealed piece, a parody of the favored My Sharona by The Knack, known as My Bologna. while simultaneously carving out a niche with recordings featured on the Dr. Demento show. With help from Demento, Al launched his highly successful music career. (I love it when they buy the records, however.) Click to expand. Most of the '70s albums were compiled and annotated by Barry Hansen, aka Dr. Demento." (Wikipedia) "Warner advertised the Loss Leaders albums by inserting special illustrated inner sleeves in all of its regular album releases, listing all of the currently available Loss Leaders and including an order form. John Pankake in between banjoist Clarence Ashley (L) and guitarist Tex Isley (R). While Dr. Demento is some kind of mad genius about the oddities of recorded music , Barry Hansen has his Master's Degree from UCLA in Folk Music Studies, and wrote a Bachelor's thesis on . Barry Hansen, the musicologist whose radio name is Dr. Demento, remembers the power of the song, 'I was appointed as the DJ for most of the school's sock hops. A new episode is added each Saturday morning, and older items are added to the archives each Sunday evening. MILITARY 2137: On this 20th anniversary of the infamous 9/11 attacks, here's a Dr. Demento salute to the defenders of America, the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. It became a sensation when Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen) played it on his nationally syndicated radio show devoted to novelty songs. The FuMP community acts as a sort of farm team for Dr. Demento, who hears all the new songs released on the site and will play the best ones on his own show. In the 1970's . The positive listener response to the offbeat novelties that Hansen included in his rock oldies show led to his eventually turning it into an all-novelty show. The Dr. Demento Show featured novelty songs from generations of artists and genres, ranging from the 1940s to present day, along with comedy clips from George Carlin and many other famous stand-up comics. Only 16 years old at the time, soon "Weird . There are a handful of scholars who have done more in-depth analysis of music perceived to be bad, including Irwin Chusid, Barry Hansen (better known by the stage name Dr. Demento) and Darryl W Bullock, author of the 2013 book The World's Worst Records. Arthur Alexander's 12 tracks were produced by Muscle Shoals bassist Tommy Gogbill, and include a version of "Burning Love"—covered by Elvis Presley shortly after the album's release. We are currently negotiating things with many of the Dr. Demento Show legends for their involvement in the film, and have built a tremendous list of people kind enough to let us announce their involvement here. Barry interviewed Frank Zappa multiple times, as well as Mel Brooks and all three members of Spinal Tap in costume and Moreover, I always considered myself a writer rather than a performer. showed up in the long and winding LL album by album thread,using his real name of Barret Hansen answered a couple of . Hansen is the subject of such warped attentions because, when mild-mannered musicologist Barry Hansen sits in front of a radio microphone, he transforms into Dr. Demento.