Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection is a release by radio disc jockey Dr. Demento to celebrate 20 years since the beginning of his radio career and novelty song show. It covers many of the novelty and comedy songs from the 1950s to the 1980s, such as “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)” by Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group, to “Eat It” by "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose popularity was boosted by Demento.
Track listing
Disc one
#TitlePerformer(s)TimeWriter(s)Year released1"Delicious"Backus, Jim & Friend3:09Buddy Kaye19582"The Scotsman"Bryan Bowers2:27Mike Cross19803"Junk Food Junkie"Larry Groce3:05Larry Groce19764"Eat It""Weird Al" Yankovic3:20Michael Jackson/Alfred Yankovic19845"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)"Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group2:30Marty Bloom/Ernest Breur/Billy Rose19586"Wet Dream"Kip Addotta5:08Biff Manard/Kip Addotta19847"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"Allan Sherman2:49Allan Sherman/Lou Busch19638"Wappin'"Darrell Hammond & Christopher Snell3:02Christopher Snell19899"The Purple People Eater"Sheb Wooley2:15Sheb Wooley195810"Monster Mash"Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers3:13Bobby Pickett/Leonard L. Capizzi196211"Cocktails for Two"Spike Jones and his City Slickers2:58Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow194412"Transfusion"Nervous Norvus2:27Jimmy Drake195613"Beep Beep"The Playmates2:47Carl Cicchetti/Donald Claps195814"St. George and the Dragonet"Stan Freberg3:26Daws Butler/Stan Freberg/Walter Schumann195315"Witch Doctor"David Seville2:21Ross Bagdasarian Sr.195816"Gitarzan"Ray Stevens3:15Bill Everette/Ray Stevens196917"Earache My Eye"Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie5:22Cheech Marin/Gaye Delorme/Thomas Chong197418"Dead Puppies"Ogden Edsl2:12Bill Frenzer/Rich Thieman1977
Disc two
#TitlePerformer(s)TimeWriter(s)Year released1"Dancin' Fool"Frank Zappa3:36Frank Zappa19792"Star Trekkin'"The Firm3:47Grahame Lister/John O'Connor19873"The Time Warp"The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast3:19Richard O'Brien19754"The Masochism Tango"Tom Lehrer2:56Tom Lehrer19595"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"Julie Brown4:41Julie Brown/Charles Coffey/Ray Colcord/Terrence McNally19846"The Ballad of Irving"Frank Gallop/Phil Leeds3:27John Aylesworth/Frank Peppiatt/Dick Williams19667"The Battle of Kookamonga"Homer & Jethro2:39Jimmie Driftwood/J. J. Reynolds19608"King Tut"Steve Martin2:39Steve Martin19789"Der Fuehrer's Face"Spike Jones and His City Slickers2:12Oliver Wallace194210"Fish Heads"Barnes and Barnes2:26Artie Barnes198011"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"Tom Lehrer2:09Tom Lehrer195912"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"Shel Silverstein2:47Shel Silverstein196913"The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati"Rose & The Arrangement2:11Drill197414"Surfin' Bird"The Trashmen2:24Al Frazier/Robert Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson196315"Pencil Neck Geek"Freddie Blassie3:29Pete Cicero/Martin Margulies197516"Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head"The Frantics6:08The Frantics198717"Existential Blues"Tom "T-Bone" Stankus6:14Tom "T-Bone" Stankus197918"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"Napoleon XIV2:10N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels)1966
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