Dr. Demento
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.
Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ "The Obscene" Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be "demented" to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and from 1978 to 1992 was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version.
Hansen has a degree in ethnomusicology, and has written magazine articles and liner notes on recording artists outside of the novelty genre. He is credited with introducing new generations of listeners to artists of the early and middle 20th century whom they might not have otherwise discovered, such as Haywire Mac, Spike Jones, Benny Bell, Yogi Yorgesson, Stan Freberg, and Tom Lehrer, as well as with bringing parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic to national attention.
Podcasts:
Dr. Demento
ALBUMS
- Dr. Demento's Hits From Outer Space released: 2002
- The Very Best of Dr. Demento released: 2001
- Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000 released: 2000
- Dr. Demento Gooses Mother! released: 1995
- Dr. Demento's Country Corn released: 1995
- Dr. Demento: Holidays in Dementia released: 1995
- Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection released: 1995
- Dr. Demento Presents Spooky Tunes & Scary Melodies released: 1994
- Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection released: 1991
- Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time released: 1989
- Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale released:
The Very Best of Dr. Demento
Released 2001- Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
- Yoda
- The Scotsman
- Fish Heads
- Bulbous Bouffant
- Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)
- My Dead Dog Rover
- Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
- Nanook Rubs It
- Star Trekkin'
- Pencil Neck Geek
- Ti Kwan Leap - Boot to the Head
- Marvin, I Love You
- The Smoke Off
- Dead Puppies
- Shaving Cream
- They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000
Released 2000- Daffy Duck's Rhapsody
- Yoda
- The Elements
- Deteriorata
- Charlie Brown
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Eskimo
- The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
- Kill the Wabbit
- Stress
- On the Shoulders of Freaks
- Bras on 45 (Family version)
- Polka Dot Undies
- Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini
- The Thing
- (How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Or a Day at the Beach With Pedro & Man, Part 1
- The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
- My Ding-A-Ling (single version)
- It's a Gas
- I Want My Baby Back
- Last Will and Temperament
Dr. Demento Gooses Mother!
Released 1995- The Doctor Is In
- The Window
- Mother Goose Arrives
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Little Bo Peep & Co.
- (If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes
- Not Exactly Old King Cole
- Funky Bluesy ABC's
- Humpty Dumpty Gets Scrambled
- Simon Says
- Peter Piper's Problem
- Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky
- The Story Book Ball
- Little Jack Horner's Corner
- Rub-A-Dub-Dub
- Mary-Mary Is Very Contrary
- It's in the Book, Part 1
- No, but Seriously, Folks...
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Little Boy Blue Gets a Gig
- Skip to My Blues
- Mother Goose With an Attitude
- April Showers
- The Doctor Is Out
Dr. Demento's Country Corn
Released 1995- I'm a Nut
- Mississippi Squirrel Revival
- Achy Breaky Song
- Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back
- I'm My Own Grandpaw
- You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
- When You're Hot, You're Hot
- Virgil and the $300 Vacation
- Colorado Cool-Aid
- May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
- Saturday Morning Confusion
- The Credit Card Song
- I Like Beer
- Wildwood Weed
- Elvis was a Narc
- My Jeans Are Too Tight
- The Streak
- Another Puff
Dr. Demento: Holidays in Dementia
Released 1995- The 12 Pains of Christmas
- It's So Chic to Be Pregnant at Christmas
- Gridlock Christmas
- It's Christmas and I Wonder Where I Am
- Sant Claus Is Watching You
- Santa's Lament
- Rusty Chevrolet
- Christmas Is Coming Twice This Year
- Christmas Wrapping
- Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- A Terrorist Christmas
- Stop the Cavalry
- The Pretty Little Dolly
- Hanukkah Rocks
- Hanukkah Homeboy
- Happy New Year
- New Year's Resolutions
Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection
Released 1995- Smells Like Nirvana
- Heartbreak Hotel
- The Curly Shuffle
- Rubber Biscuit
- The Martian Boogie
- Fast Food
- Car Phone
- Highly Illogical
- One More Minute
- No, I Don't Wanna Do Dat
- Dance of the Hours
- My Dead Dog Rover
- There's a New Sound
- When I Was a Dinosaur
- The Old Philosopher
- Happy Boy
- Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me
- Shaving Cream (feat. Paul Wynn)
Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
Released 1991- Delicious!
- The Scotsman
- Junk Food Junkie
- Eat It
- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (on the Bedpost Overnight)
- Wet Dream
- Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!
- Wappin’
- The Purple People Eater
- Monster Mash
- Cocktails for Two
- Transfusion
- Beep Beep
- St. George and the Dragonet
- Witch Doctor
- Gitarzan
- Earache My Eye
- Dead Puppies
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time
Released 1989- The Chipmunk Song
- All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
- Jingle Bells
- The Twelve Gifts of Christmas
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
- Nuttin' for Christmas
- A Christmas Carol
- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
- I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas
- Twelve Days of Christmas
- Green Christmas
- I'm a Christmas Tree (feat. Dr. Demento)
- I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
- Santa Claus and His Old Lady
- Christmas at Ground Zero
- Christmas Dragnet
Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale
- Intro
- Punk Polka
- Three Drunk Newts
- Commentary
- Kosher Delight
- My Bologna
- Commentary
- Making Love in a Subaru
- Religion and Politics
- Commentary
- Pencil Neck Geek
- I Gotta Get a Fake I.D.
- Commentary
- Davy's Dinghy
- The Phantom Windbreaker
- Commentary
- Frosty the Dope Man
- My Name Is Larry
- Commentary
- Stardrek
- Commentary
- Shaving Cream
-
by Miranda Lambert
Dear Diamond
by: Miranda LambertDear diamond
Pretty and new
Perfectly flawless too good to be true
Dear diamond
You shine like the sun
Wrap around my finger just like he does
You cost more than he wanted to lose
And with this ring I said I do
Promised to never do what I've done
I've been lying to someone
Dear diamond
What will we do?
Lie like the devil or just face the truth
Dear diamond
Be my saving grace
What he don't know will kill him
That I can't face
You cost more than he wanted to lose
And with this ring I said I do
I promised to never do what I've done
I've been lying to someone
Dear diamond
Dear diamond
With your band of gold
Some people you have, some people you hold
Dear diamond
I promise to keep
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