I dunno, but I say we took a shellackin’ out here.
I discovered Dr. Demento at age 10 in 1973 the same week I discovered MAD magazine. The first thing I did when I got a tape recorder was to start collecting episodes. If there was a flaw with the show, it was that it was so infrequently infused with new content. I would stop listening for years or decades and when I would tune in again, he was still playing “Fishheads” and “Frosty the Dopeman”. That said, I’m proud of the 100 or so original verses I have personally composed for "Shaving Cream.
Same here, feeling’s shared. Not everyone gets a graceful bow out.
In the times when you had to look for and catch programming as it happened, this was quite the discovery when I first explored this media world back all those decades ago.
Yes! Remember before vcrs, when you had to be home when the programs aired or lose your chance??? One of my sisters told be maybe ten years ago: “DVRs changed my life.” And she was completely serious.
OP poster ought to report the OP post to get the title changed to fix “no long be in”.
One of my all time favorite skits is “Boot to the head” which I found a live-action remake of on YouTube one year and shared to Facebook. It’s a great memory each year when it comes around.
Sad to hear but good to know. I have several of his CDs, including ones from his Fan club, along with a special 10" ruler.
We also listened to it on KMET , along with the “Fish report with a beat”.
There are two- the martial arts school one and the Will.
That song is the ultimate earworm. I’ve had There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow stuck in my head for over 30 years.
I’m shocked he’s just now retiring. I grew up listening to his collections. He is a legend.
Dammit, now you got it stuck in my head.
It’s likely we could start a chorus line.
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.
I didn’t realize he was still on the air. It’s been forever since any radio station in these parts has run his show.
I first heard him when I was living in St. Louis in 1974. One of the album rock stations ran his show. It was either KSHE (a legendary station that’s still rockin’ after all these years) or the long-defunct KADI. I thought his show was hilarious. Hearing “It’s a Gas” by Alfred E. Neuman on the radio was a cosmic experience indeed. He played goofy but authentic recordings from years past.
I kind of lost interest when he began playing songs that seemed to be created just for his show. They just weren’t as funny as “Everybody Likes My Fanny” by the supremely wacky Benny Bell.
I’m sorry to hear he’s hanging up the headphones. I respect a guy who took a crazy obsessive hobby and turned it in a long successful and loved way to make a living. It must have been a lot of fun to be Dr. Demento, don’t ya think?
Ye cannae change the laws of physics! Laws of physics! Laws of physics!
Arghh! Make it stop! I curse all of you!
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
As Czarcasm noted a few posts back, the show ceased running as a syndicated radio program some years ago (2010, if the Doctor’s Wikipedia entry is accurate), and has been online-only since then. So, “still on the air” is relative: he’s still creating new programs, but he hasn’t technically been on the radio for fifteen years.
I listened to Dr D every weekend at college - good times
I’ve met Dr. Demento a few times at science fiction conventions. In addition to participating in panels on various topics, he always DJed a music show. Usually with an SF theme so of course this thread’s earworm was one of the songs.
I realized last night as I was drifting off to sleep that I’d gotten the KMET jingle wrong.
It’s: A little bit of heaven, 94.7, KMET, tweedle dee!
I omitted the call letters. Shame on me.
Oddly the voice actors they got for the male cast members are kinda, sorta close, but Uhura is way way off.
I was going to say, I don’t think any central WI stations carried it, so if you heard it in the 70s, it would retroactively make me mad that I missed it. I think Milwaukee carried it, but we couldn’t get those stations.
In fact, I’ve never heard the show, ever.