Dr. Demento is retiring this year

[nickpc]

I still reference "Moose Turd Pie" by Utah Phillips on a regular basis.

But my favorite was Existential Blues - 6 and a half minutes of just pure hilarity. "I blink and answer 'Neon' / I thought I'd blow her mind"

 

[Beagle Bass]

Ah, stretched out on the living room floor in front of the stereo unit, with headphones on because my mother thought the songs on the Dr. Demento show weren't "nice". "Fishheads" still shows up randomly in my shuffle. And like nickpc above, my favourite was Existential Blues. Tommy 'T-Bone' Stankas!

 

[Fender_Bender]

I had no idea he was still alive. I was listening to him in the very early 80’s, so just assumed he was pushing up daisies by now. I can remember when Weird Al featured prominently on his show with his accordion only songs Where did the time go ?.

 

[RichardW]

Didn't even know he was still around, but he was a big presence for me in high school. His style of satire has been run over by social media.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Ahhhhh, yesssss. I had an Airline clock radio, then "upgraded" to an Airline "digital" clock radio, where the hours and minutes were on a spool. You could hear the little clock motor whirring away....... for like twenty years!
AND........ you (or your parents) had to have purchased it from Montgomery Ward, right? Good ol' MonkeyWards!!!

My folks were Monkey Wards army!
Growing up, you were either a Sears family or a Montgomery Wards family.
My first hi-fi, my clock radio, our TV, and my first 2 bass amps were Airlines( Valco).
And all my Bicycles were Hawthorns!! Until Junior high when I finally got a Shwinn!

 

[Johnny Fingers]

Did a TV show with him and Phil Spector many years ago in Hollywood. I remember that is the normal way his voice sounds in person and the glitter embedded in the asphalt in the alley outside of the TV studio. He is from my hometown by the way. Ala Cart beat us out for the prize. Their claim to fame was that the City of Seal Beach passed a law banning amplified music after a party uptown where they cranked up the volume.
P.S.: I grew up a Fedco Kid, and got my first real job there in 1973.

 

[d180fuzz]

"Hello Mudduh, hello Faddah, here I am at...Camp Granada. Camp is very...entertaining, and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining..."

So, so many funny tunes from his show - thanks for all of the reminders, fellow TBers. "Hey Mister, ARE YOU TAAALLLL?"

Enjoy your retirement, Dr. D!

Addendum: I think I heard this one even before I heard the Talking Heads' version:

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

That recording was created (played & sung) by the mighty Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band. I bought their album on Vanguard Records based on the album cover (text, photos, credits, etc.) and became a big fan. When I relocated to the L.A. area in the late 1970s, they had disbanded, but a couple of members had formed a sorta New Wave rock band called Roto The Wonder Dog.
And there endeth the history lesson.