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| Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 7773
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
MPN: 70743
UPC: 081227074326
EAN: 0081227074326
ASIN: B0000032MK
Release Date: May 21, 1991
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Delicious - Dr. Demento, Garson | | • | The Scotsman - Dr. Demento, Cross, Mike [1] | | • | Junk Food Junkie - Dr. Demento, Groce, Larry | | • | Eat It - Dr. Demento, Jackson, Michael [1 | | • | Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight - Dr. Demento, Rose, Billy [1] | | • | Wet Dream - Dr. Demento, Addotta | | • | Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! - Dr. Demento, Sherman | | • | Wappin' - Dr. Demento, Snell | | • | The Purple People Eater - Dr. Demento, Wooley, Sheb | | • | Monster Mash - Dr. Demento, Pickett, Bobby "Bor | | • | Cocktails for Two - Dr. Demento, Coslow, Sam | | • | Transfusion - Dr. Demento, Drake, Jimmy | | • | Beep Beep - Dr. Demento, Cicchetti, Carl | | • | St. George and the Dragonet - Dr. Demento, Freberg, Stan | | • | Witch Doctor - Dr. Demento, Bagdasarian, Ross | | • | Gitarzan - Dr. Demento, Stevens, Ray [1] | | • | Earache My Eye - Featuring Alice Bowie - Dr. Demento, Chong | | • | Dead Puppies - Dr. Demento, Thieman |
Disc 2
| • | Dancin' Fool - Dr. Demento, Zappa, Frank | | • | Star Trekkin' - Dr. Demento, Lister, G. | | • | The Time Warp - Dr. Demento, O'Brien | | • | Masochism Tango - Dr. Demento, Lehrer, Tom | | • | The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Dr. Demento, Brown, Julie | | • | The Ballad of Irving - Dr. Demento, Peppiatt | | • | The Battle of Kookamonga - Dr. Demento, Driftwood, Jimmie | | • | King Tut - Dr. Demento, Martin, Steve [1] | | • | Der Fuehrer's Face - Dr. Demento, Wallace, Oliver | | • | Fish Heads - Dr. Demento, Barnes, Artie | | • | Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Dr. Demento, Lehrer, Tom | | • | Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Dr. Demento, Silverstein, Shel | | • | The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati - Dr. Demento, Drill | | • | Surfin' Bird - Dr. Demento, Frazier, Al | | • | Pencil Neck Geek - Dr. Demento, Marguiles | | • | Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head - Dr. Demento, Frantics | | • | Existential Blues - Dr. Demento, Stankus | | • | They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Dr. Demento, Bonaparte |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Pop has a good time eating itself on this collection of Doctor Demento favorites. The tunes on this stylistically varied double CD send up a plethora of pop culture phenomena. The perpetrators come from every imaginable entertainment background. Pro wrestlers, folk singers, comedians, actors, garage bands--you never know who's liable to produce a novelty song. Here it doesn't matter if a respected composer or a one-hit wonder recorded the ditty; all sorts of tracks jostle each other on this funny collection. The material covers quite a time span, ranging from Spike Jones's "Der Fuehrer's Face," released in 1942, to "Wappin'," an unreleased track by Darrell Hammond and Christopher Snell which was a hit on Demento's radio show at the tail end of the 1980s. The 20th Anniversary Collection is quite an assortment of the corny, goofy, wacky, and wild. --Fred Cisterna
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 The perfect carpool collection.... September 21, 2002
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
_When I was a kid there was one crazy dad in the neighborhood that collected novelty and party records- and looked for any excuse to play them- usually for us kids. There are recordings here that I haven't heard for 30 years- and several that I never heard before. There was also some stuff here that I think that I may have heard before at parties, but it was so far into the evening before anyone had the guts to play it that I'm not really sure....
_If you want to drive your carpool crazy on the way to work, then this is the perfect collection for the job. Actually, if you just want to make a permanent impression on people, turn the stereo up full blast, roll down the windows, and play "Masochism Tango" or "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"....they'll never forget you. In fact, they'll probably even write down your license plate number....
 Ha, ha...blah, blah May 14, 1998
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
You will buy the CD for half of it, and never listen to the other half...no, I don't mean that one of the two is bad. It's just that in a collection as varied as this, you're bound to find about ten songs you love and ten more that you hate. Some of the songs suffer from being jokes that are utterly too long - by the time you reach the punchline, you've skipped to the next track. Others manage to keep you well entertained until then ("The Ballad of Irving" comes to mind). And still others are just a riot the whole way through (Tom Lehrer's two songs instantly come to mind). The moral is - listen before you buy, and figure out if you like enough of the songs to buy the discs. Don't just take someone else's word.
Explain this to the kindergarten teacher... January 10, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have worn out two copies of the audio tape in the car. My toddler has probably been permanently warped because of it, but at least he'll have a well-rounded catalogue to work from. For those of us in the shadow of corporate radio, it is a joy to have such a collection to sing along with, loudly (especially at traffic lights - I seem to have no trouble retaining the right-of-way).
 Worth it just for Fred Blassie classic "Pencil Neck Geek" May 13, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The songs are funny, the artists a little warped and the compiler himself, Dr. Demento definately twisted. There is good and average in this collection, but its all worth it for the Classy Freddie Blassie classic "Pencil Neck Geek." Blassie, a former WWF wrestler (in the good old days) recorded this beauty in his own inimitable fashion. Weird Al's selections are typically strong and Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" is fabulous. Guaranteed to make you laugh,if you've got a pulse!
DrDemento-Radio's Wild & CrazyGuy October 18, 2000
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This anthology includes many of the songs that have become synonomous with the good Doctor(ie:"They're Coming To Take Me Away,Ha-Ha!","Fish Heads","Pencil Neck Geek",& "Dead Puppies").Obviously,Dr.Demento is an acquired taste,but I'll take him over Howard Stern anyday.You should definitely add this one to your comedy collection.
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