Happy birthday to Barret Eugene Hansen, born today in 1941. Better known professionally as Dr. Demento, he is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings. #DrDemento
If all the Nintendo Luigi bros did a singing group instead:
#DrDemento #fun #AprilFool
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On TO THE BATPOLES we've pointed out many, many versions of Neal Hefti's #Batman66 theme. One of our favorites is the #Hamburglars version, from the #DrDemento album "Covered in Punk"!
“Popcorn in my Pants” music video, MTV ready. Song is from Ep. 7 of Marko the Comic: Almost a Podcast, available here on my Substack. #popcorn #MTV #musicvideo #DrDemento
Songs that bring me joy that I think you should hear too, because we all could use more joy. #musicsky This is an all-time #drdemento classic. A totally tubular boobular track!😄😄 It took 20 years of my personal musical journey to get the mix of pop tunes referenced here .
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🔮⛵🎧🍺🏝️🎁🏝️🍺🎧⛵🔮
VERBALSHENANIGANS #PODCAST Ep 547
ScottBrennan&MikeBurlew
REDPETERS #comedy
#musicsky #podcastsky
#media #talkradio #otr #comedysky #SiriusXM
#DrDemento #HowardStern
#NowListening
ALLPLATFORMS
#YouTube
RedPeters.com
Babyboomer.org/shows/verbal-shenanigans
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Experimental #NewWave band #TheHawaiianPups were actually from #NewYorkCity & released only one EP during their much too brief incarnation- their kooky but danceable 1983 track “Baby Judy” was an early Starck fave
#Obscure80s #ArtRock #NoWave #AvantGarde #1980s #DrDemento #80s
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Songs that bring me joy that I think you should hear too, because we all could use more joy. #musicsky. RIP #BrigitteBardot . I heard this on #Drdemento many moons ago, and I think of this first whenever I have heard her referenced.
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![How Can You Mend A Broken Car? (Parody) - "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez (Bee Gees) [1981]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s3kvxuo2ekfctmtwklpl57yk/bafkreibtjmbjdrtccffi2xdvecxga7fuzggi3a446jrqnztapir7wgpoue)
From 1981 AND The Dr. Demento Show, "The Incredible Vince" Sanchez's creative & fun(ny) Bee Gees' #song #parody about #repairing lemon #cars =)
#TheIncredibleVince #BeeGees #DrDemento #car #carrepair #mechanic #songparody #parodysong #comedy #music #radio #LostMedia #YouTube #1980s 1980's #80s 80's
New, short-length golf game. Two putts, all you have time for, work 22 hours day.
#DrDemento #JailTrump
"The Gym" originally by Wolves of Glendale, covered by Insane Ian, available wherever you stream music! #comedymusic #funnymusic #coversong #drdemento #wolvesofglendale
Sometimes the strangest things trigger memories and you just roll with it. #DrDemento
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Halloween 2025 #playlist complete.
#Halloween #HalloweenMusic #Horror
#DuranDuran
#MatthewSweet
#ACDC
#TheJackson5
#FoxyShazam
#AdamSandler
#TheSonics
#garagerock
#DrDemento
#TheFleshtones
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Dr. Demento has spun his final track. The famed radio host known for his offbeat taste—and for helping make "Weird Al" Yankovic famous—has wrapped up a 55-year career with the final broadcast of The Dr. Demento Show, reports the AV Club. Barret Hansen, the 84-year-old Minneapolis native behind the persona, first took "demented" music to the airwaves in 1970, starting at KPPC in Pasadena. Over the decades, Hansen championed novelty and comedy records, introducing listeners to everything from obscure musical oddities to early tracks by Yankovic.
#DrDemento has retired. Best of everything to you, man. Thanks for the joy!
#DrDemento #DoctorDemento
Final show. Thank you, cousin, for telling us!
T-Bone!!!! Knew it would be up there!
Sailing…sailing…over the….
#DrDemento
T-Bone!!!! Knew it would be up there!
Sailing…sailing…over the….
#DrDemento
May all of his fans pour out a little Fish Head Soup, have a wacky Wet Dream, and schedule a visit to the Diggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota in his honor. And may his Last Will and Temperment include many Boots to the Head for all who said his broadcast was a waste of precious airtime. #DrDemento
This. Freaking. Sucks. The Good Doctor was my favorite part of my weekends during both my late teens and twenties and my 40s. It seems impossible that there won't be any new #DrDemento Shows, even though I haven't been able to listen since he went to satellite radio... #RIP
So so many weird and amazing things came from this man's show. This truly is the end of an era.
Now, off I go to listen to The Ballad of Irving (The Hundred-and-Forty-Second Fastest Gun in the West)
#DrDemento #BeWeird
It's the end of an era as we bid a fond farewell to #DrDemento! I first encountered this radio madman in 1980, staying up late on a school night to listen to his insane comedy songs. Download his final show on his website at
https://drdemento.com/online.html
Don't forget to STAY DEMENTED
#WeirdAl
Dr. Demento, so long and thanks for all the Fish Heads!
Fish Heads the music video
performed by Barnes & Barnes
(i.e. Bill Mumy & Robert Haimer)
directed by Bill Paxton
#DrDemento #BarryHansen #FishHeads #Barnes&Barnes #BillMumy #RobertHaimer #BillPaxton
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I'm still grateful to the good doc for playing my two song parodies, "The Cosby Song" and "Racism Killed the TV Show". You can listen to those shows at the links below (links to the shows are at the top of the page highlighted in green). #DrDemento
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Here's some good news!
As #DrDemento retires, @reed.edu tells the world it is proud of him.
Barret Hansen's alma mater, Reed College, in its wisdom, has just this week named him recipient of the Thomas Lamb Eliot Award for Lifetime Achievement by an alumnus.
All too easily underestimated, Doctor Demento has been a significant force in spreading appreciation of popular music.
Again I ask: Will a university, perhaps *your* university, award to Barry Hansen an honorary doctorate?
#DrDemento
#DrDemento will record his final show tomorrow. It's the end of an era.
Interesting Fact: the Barnes & Barnes video for "Fish Heads" was directed by the late great actor #BillPaxton (who appears in the video with a cameo by #DrDemento himself) 😉
![Brady Bunch Fields Forever (Mashup Parody) ~ Damaskas (Sherwood Schwartz & The Beatles) [1978]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s3kvxuo2ekfctmtwklpl57yk/bafkreifnymfzn7ygusq74uiftf6retvfg5kjlyyzhicuit54dlvf7d2c5a)
A very cool #mashup #parody by #Damaskas of ♫The Brady Bunch♫ and The Beatles' ♫Strawberry Fields Forever♫.
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#StrawberryFieldsForever #TheBeatles #Beatles #TheBradyBunch #BradyBunch #DrDemento #themesong #tvshow #sitcom #songparody #parodysong #comedy #song #music
