# Fond Dr. Demento Memories **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 1999, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957 "1999-12-09T09:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/21 "1999-12-09T22:26:00Z")
“The Elements” was indeed on Tom Lehrer’s album _An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer._ He used the music from “The Major-General’s Song,” from _The Pirates of Penzance,_ by Gilbert & Sullivan; the liner notes even acknowledge that Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the music. The liner notes also point out that the words of the last line were true as of the date of the recording, but are so no longer. (It goes, “These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah-vahd;/There may be many others but they haven’t been discah-vahd.”) According to the song, nobelium was the last one discovered; lawrencium hadn’t yet been discovered.) * * * “If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/22 "1999-12-09T23:06:00Z")
Star Trekin’ across the universe Boldly going forward 'cause we can’t find reverse… I am truly blessed. Dr. D, himself, did a live show at the place just down the street from me. He played the songs. He showed film shorts. He told stories. And, because my boyfriend’s radio station was one of the sponsors of the show, I got to meet him live and in-person after the show. He is so nice and a really sweet guy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 1999, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/23 "1999-12-09T23:41:00Z")
Unless Dr Demento has gone off the air very recently he’s still doing his weekly show. A local station plays it in my area Sunday nights and I’ve caught it as recently as a couple of months ago. And it must be new shows because he’s playing songs from Weird Al’s recent CD. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/24 "1999-12-10T01:04:00Z")
I second Little Nemo. The good Dr. is still on the air around here, or was as of a couple months ago. Unfortunately, it’s played at a time that I’m usually busy. I got to see the Dr. live as the opening act of a Weird Al concert. I think it was '84 or '85. He played some short films on a large screen behind him. I remember _The Wizard of Speed and Time_ and \*Godzilla vs. Bambi{/i] were two of them. Great stuff. * * * Mr. K’s Link of the Month: [The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass](http://www.rankinbass.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/25 "1999-12-10T07:54:00Z")
Oh, this is sick. Let’s see if I can remember all the tracks from _An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer_ Elements Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Smut The one about “Good bye mom, I’m off to drop the bomb, so don’t wait up for me” The one about “Don’t drink the water, and don’t breath the air” Ahh, I can’t do it. It’s been too long. –Tim * * * We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/26 "1999-12-10T09:22:00Z")
Anybody else ever heard the song “Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy? Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, Only three feet tall! Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, Bravest little hobbit of them all! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/27 "1999-12-10T13:42:00Z")
Cabbage, I don’t know if they have that particular song, but Rhino Records sells a series called _Golden Throats_ which features various celebrities singing their untalented hearts out. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/28 "1999-12-10T14:11:00Z")
Golden Throats has Nimoy singing Proud Mary, which is as bad as Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer contains the same songs as More Songs by Tom Lehrer, just performed live. There’s a CD out by Rhino of Lehrer’s first two albums (along with a few bonus cuts, including “I got it from Alice.”). Well worth getting. And, of course, no serious fan of novelty music can afford to miss the Bonzo Dog Band, probably the greatest novelty band of all time (and I include Spike Jones, the closest thing to them). Click on this link for their classic album “The Donut in Granny’s Greenhouse” (aka “Urban Spaceman”). [http://www.rnsd.com/donut.ram](http://www.rnsd.com/donut.ram) * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/29 "1999-12-10T14:29:00Z")
Rock Me Jerry Lewis!(amadaeus) ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/30 "1999-12-10T16:25:00Z")
## Also for the Tom Lehrer fans: “That Was The Year That Was”. I haul it out every year for a spin. (Vinyl, remember vinyl?) Let’s see if I can recall the cuts: National Brotherhood Week MLF Lullaby Send The Marines So Long Mom, I’m Off To Drop The Bomb. The Folk Song Army New Math Alma Werner Von Braun The Vatican Rag… I’m sure I’m missing some… With God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/31 "1999-12-10T19:57:00Z")
The other titles from _That Was the Year That Was_ are: George Murphy Smut Pollution Whatever Became of Hubert [Humphrey; written about 1965] Who’s Next? The titles from \*An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer are: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Bright College Days A Christmas Carol The Elements Oedipus Rex In Old Mexico Clementine It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier She’s My Girl The Masochism Tango We Will All Go Together When We Go ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/32 "1999-12-11T20:36:00Z")
To Homer: The Tom Lehrer songs you are referring to are “So Long, Mom” (a song for World War III); and “Pollution,” both from Lehrer’s 1965 album _That Was The Year That Was._ Surely some of the Teeming Millions must remember Lehrer’s _first_ album–which he originally published under his own label. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 1999, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/33 "1999-12-11T21:10:00Z")
**smeggy** began this post remembering: \*One year, many moons ago, there was a song contest on Dr. Demento, and the song that won was a lovely Christmas song. It went something like this: " I found the brains of Santa Claus\* [snip] # This song is one of the featured tunes on this week’s show. From rec.music.dementia: The Dr. Demento Show #99-50 - December 12, 1999 Special Topic: Christmas part 2/3 Here Comes Fatty Clause - Rudolph & The Gang I Am Santa Claus - The Hot Buttered Elves/Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio I Was Santa Claus At The School House (For The P.T.A.) (edit) - Yogi Yorgesson w/ Johnny Duffy & The Scandahoovians **I Found The Brains Of Santa Claus - Jason & The Strap-Tones** You Ain’t Gettin’ Diddly Squat - Heywood Banks f/ The Heylettes [snip] ---
**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/34 "1999-12-12T07:37:00Z")
Smeggy and torq, you are both correct about the Chipmunks/Bird on My Head creator. David Seville is an alias of Ross Bagdasarian’s, under which he did a lot of writing, producing, and singing, as well as “managing” the Chipmunks. Anyone recall this ditty by Tim Cavanaugh? I wanna kiss her butt… she won’t let me. I wanna whisper sweet nothings in herrear. I wanna hold her behind Closed doors and more… (It doesn’t translate well into the written word, I’m afraid, but those of you who know it will know what I mean) CT ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 1999, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/35 "1999-12-12T22:19:00Z")
Ah, fond memories. Yes indeedy, Chrome, I do remember said ditty. It was wonderful, tooling along the highway singing along with that song. My favorite Dr. D. song was “My baby has rabies” (I think by The Piggies, though I’ll have to check that out.) Lush vocals, warbling sentiments of true love: “My _baby_ has rabies, She’s a contraceptive wonder, her foam’s up top as well as down under…” Given my hometown, I take chauvinistic pride in “The cockroach that ate Cincinnati”. Damn, it’s hard being a high-brow. Veb ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 1999, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957/36 "1999-12-13T05:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > dougie\_monty > Member posted 12-11-1999 02:36 PM > Surely some of the Teeming Millions must remember Lehrer’s first album–which he originally published under his own label. I sure do, I even own a copy. And I also have the reissue CD by Rhino, bless 'em. "Oh I ache for the touch of your lips, dear, But much more for the touch of your whips, dear. You can raise welts Like nobody elts As we dance to the Masochism Tango!’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fond-dr-demento-memories/11957.md?page=1)