Every Sunday evening, I would be studying hard as from September 1975 until May 1977. D r. D would be playing as I was competing an Associate Dregree in Industrial Electronics. Some of the classes were homework intensive and Dr. D provided entertainment in busy time in my life.
I heard "Your Feet's Too Big" by Fats Waller on Dr. Demento's Show 40 years ago. "Fishheads" I hated, but "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover", to this day when I hear that, I LMAO!!! Dark, sick, and hilarious! 🤣
I am a big fan of Dr. Demento, I found his show when I was a kid in the 80s, he would come on our local radio rock station FM 99-WNOR every Sunday night. I think that laughter is one of gods greatest gifts and laughter is the best medicine, my sister would say when things go wrong, is that you have to hav humor in everything or else you’ll go nuts, and she’s right.
I would listen to his show under the covers in the dark at night. There was nothing like it and still isn't. I love that man for all of the musical knowledge he dropped on me over the many years.
I started listening to Dr. Demento around 1974, when his syndicated show was carried by WNBC-AM in NYC. I remember a time when he visited NYC, and he performed the show live from the WNBC studio. In those days the Dr. Demento show was sponsored by Warner Brothers Records. At the scheduled commercial break, the Doctor announced that he had left the tapes of the commercials back home in California, so he ended up ad libbing spots for new releases by Warner Brothers artists like Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, and Ry Cooder. Radio was a lot simpler and more free-form back then.
As someone who started listening in 1976, the wannabes with the guy in the garbage bag simply need to give it up. The magic of the Dr Demento show was the music was organic. Not created by millennial hipsters wanting to be famous. How did they even end up in this documentary?
I listen to Dr demento on kmet every Sunday and I would listen to him on kola radio for another 2 hours on Sunday he always made things happy and fun I miss hearing him every week I love Dr demento he was one of a kind he was very special in so many different ways I enjoyed this presentation
I saw Dr Demento at a Weird Al concert in 2016. I really regret not going up to him and saying hi. BTW, I hope by now he's put his entire collection on a hard drive.
Thanks to the American Forces Network (US Forces radio) in Germany, we were able to hear him each Sunday night via cable in Switzerland throughout the 1990s. Thanks a lot, I'll never forget it!
LOVE IT!! The first time we heard Dr. Demento was when Dad started the car up to go home from watching Bambi at the drive in theater in Maybe April of 1974. The song that was on, the first song we heard from the show, was The Ballad of Irving. Our dad loves Western and he was laughing so hard, I never heard him laugh that like. He was a man that always hides his feelings. He couldn't hide them that night. Those were the days! Every Sunday night we'd listen the show. About 10 years ago I was able to get 70 cassette tapes from the show to 23 CDs. I sure miss listening to the shows. The stations seemed to stopped playing the show shortly after the 9/11 incident. I recorded the show Sunday night before 9/11 and one of the songs were called, Boom Boom Boom Boom. it makes me think of if the terrorist were communicating by song request. I have my doubts about that theory but it makes me wonder. Just the same, We need to keep these songs of yesterday year alive. Thank you for so many great and happy memories Dr. Demento!
Hi all. I hate to toot my own horn, but I just sent the Good Doctor an email, and I think it's pretty damn good! Let me know what you all think about it "I don't knowthe name of the song or the artist...I'll explain below. I think it was 1985 or so, you had played a track that through various songs, it used the same words as Stairway To Heaven. I SO bADLY want to hear this again. How badly you asK? Well, I told my friends about it and apparently they didn't believe because those nice young men with the clean white coats came and took me away to yhe funny farm (HA HA!) where I spent my days with a pencil neck geek who had fish heads in his pockets. I heard rumors he had dead puppies in his room, but I wasn't about to find out!!!! Every night we ate Weird Al's bologna. Ever eat bologna 6128 nights in a row? It'll turn you int a junk food junkie and drive you Brady I sent The Good Doctor an email, I wanted to show him my wit. But when he read it over the air, it just turned into a pile of shaving cream. "
16:00 Kip Adotta got HAJDUK SPLIT cap on, I can't believe it hahahahhaaa It is a football Club from my hometown of Split Croatia - check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wp_LpSfxIgw.html
Wow I am respected company I also discovered Dr. Dementia back in 79 when I was 17. Stay Demented and I have since I was 17, I am 56 and still Demented
While in LA I listened to the good Doctor religiously. But then the family moved to san Diego. Because I wanted to stay in touch with the doctor, I would drive up to the top of Mt Soledad on Sunday nights to get high enough to pick up the FM signal. There I would listen and then finish the evening with HARRISONS mike and then come home around midnite
I just came across this video. It's an excellent documentary about the amazing Dr. Demento. I started listening to his show on KMET back in my junior high school days in 1973. It's too bad that they made no mention of Captain Chaos and Jungle Judy.
I was about 13 when I discovered Dr Demento. A shy Australian girl with a weird sense of humour. My family would watch New Faces(bland national talent show a but like UK's Opportunity Knocks) and I would disappear into my room and listen to DD on my little red transistor radio on 4IP on Sundays. The show introduced me to Monty Python, Stan Freburg etc and it had a huge influence on why I think my SOH is the way it is today. I've used humour as a coping mechanism all my life and i love so many of the artists he introduced me to.He should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I can't recall ever hearing "The Dr. Demento Show" on ANY local radio station, AM or FM. (did KPOI FM "Underground" or KTUH FM, University of Hawaii play the Doctor?) I kept reading about him from time to time in "culture" magazines. It was Bob Rivers' "twisted repertoire" found at Jelly's, where there were Dr. Demento CD music collections. Speaking of Jelly's, Norm Winter and "Radio Free Hawaii." the very eclectic, listener-programmed "playlist" was the closest thing to Dr. Demento.
