The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - March 27, 1977 (6p-10p)

[Jeff Morris]

The first syndication run had ended a couple of months before, so at this time
the show was only heard on KMET. The top ten is half full of songs that were
never hits in syndication: #9, #8, #6, #4, and #1. #6 had been heard on the
last syndicated show, but the others weren't heard in syndication at the time,
and in fact only #1 and #8 ever made it to syndication and only in recent
years. Of course #9 & #8 are local items not likely to have been hits
nationally anyway. But one would think the other three would've had a good
potential to be national Funny Five hits had the syndicated show not gone on
a one-year hiatus at this time. But they seem to have been overlooked in
favor of more recent hits when syndication resumed the following year.

playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show
The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - March 27, 1977 (6p-10p)
Yellow Submarine - Mrs. Miller
I Hate Music - Jerry Colonna

Looney Tune - Montezuma's Revenge
Women Wear No Clothes At All - Fiddlin' Bob Larkin's Music Makers
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Homer & Jethro
Ms. Pinky - Frank Zappa

Dance Of The Hours - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Spike Jones Describes The Musical (?) Instruments Used In "Dance Of The Hours" - Spike Jones [ending reversed]
Intermission - Nick Vestuto
Khrushchev And The Devil - Jay Chevalier
Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III

You Make Me Stand In The Corner - Peter Alsop
Jenny Darling - The Great Arturo
Bobby And The Prez - The Washington Hillbillies (Billy Minkin, Jeff Altman, Nellie Bellflower)
Mississippi Mud - Paul Whiteman/Bix Beiderbecke/Bing Crosby & The Rhythm Boys
Protest Song - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
Benevolent Oil #7 - Trumpeting Fool
Can I Pawn My Teeth To You - Roy Esser

Everybody Wants My Fanny - Benny Bell
Elizabeth And Richard - John & Marsha
Detroit City - Lily Tomlin

Dentist Chair Blues - Damaskas Holodin
Long John Blues - Dinah Washington
Buying A Bed - Monty Python
Interesting People (brief accidental excerpt) - Monty Python
Fantasy Song - Kokonuts

Slap Slap - Four King Sisters & Rhythm Reys
"Three Auctioneers" (old radio show)
(does your mother know that you smoke?) (brief excerpt) - ?
Benevolent Oil #5 - Trumpeting Fool
The Navy Gets The Gravy But The Army Gets The Beans - Jerry Lewis
7th Air Force Song (w/ intro) - Bing Crosby

Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Drink Drink, Come Brother Drink - Ivan Frank's Hofbraus Band
A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty
Marijuana Munchies - Troy Walker
Romper Room Do-Bee Song - Judy James f/ Bobby Colt
Astro Boy - Comic Rangers
I Am An Astronaut - Ricky Wilde
Benevolent Oil #3 - Trumpeting Fool
Pollution (w/ intro) - Tom Lehrer

Little Blue Riding Hood - Stan Freberg
Friendship - T. Dorsey Family

Alley Cat - Spivy
In The Bushes At The Bottom Of The Garden - Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra
Our Old Friend Dr. D (edit) - Paul Clarke & William Tucker
Freakout Frog - Spirit
He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts - Rick Dees

Yes, We Have No Bananas - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
How To Write A Popular Song - Clarence Senna
Intermission - Nick Vestuto
The Young Woman Disco - Peter Alsop
Sally Ate A Pickle - anonymous
Jenny - Danny Kaye

I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll - Butterbeans & Susie
I Said No - Nan Wynn
Star Trip - Congress Of Wonders
Honky Tonk Train Blues - Keith Emerson

Benevolent Oil #4 - Trumpeting Fool
#10 Beam Me Up Scotty - Terry McGovern
EXTRA: I Believe In Bugs - Ivor Cutler
#9 Dodgers And Reds - Phil Wilson
#8 El Monte - Llyn Foulkes & The Rubber Band

#7 Dirty Old Man - Jim Backus
Happy Birthday (To Sulu) (live in studio) - Dr. Demento & Bob Bedlam
Birthday Cake Polka - Sheriff John
#6 No No - Sulu [brief guitar intro not heard]
#5 Redback On The Toilet Seat - Slim Newton

#4 Just A Banana - Sharon "Disco" Dunn w/ The Johnny Baltimore Band
#3 C. B. Savage - Rod Hart [tape rewinding in first chorus]
Happy Birthday (to me) (brief in-studio performance) - Dr. Demento
#2 Dragnet Goes To Kindergarten - Ricky Vera
#1 Garage Sale - Little Leon's Goodtime Kiddie Band

[R H Draney]

Post by Jeff Morris
playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show
The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - March 27, 1977 (6p-10p)
Dentist Chair Blues - Damaskas Holodin

Still being billed with his last name at this point, then?...

Post by Jeff Morris
He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts - Rick Dees

Would become incredibly poor taste just five months later....r

[Jeff Morris]

Post by R H Draney

Post by Jeff Morris
Dentist Chair Blues - Damaskas Holodin

Still being billed with his last name at this point, then?...

Yes, from 1976-1977 he was, but normally it's spelled Hollodan. I think that's the right spelling, but on this playlist it's typed Holodin. Dr. D makes a point of saying he had previously been pronouncing the last name wrong, so I wonder if he intentionally mistyped it on this playlist as a phonetic help to himself so he'd say it right on the air.

[R H Draney]

Post by R H Draney

Post by Jeff Morris
Dentist Chair Blues - Damaskas Holodin

=20
Still being billed with his last name at this point, then?...

Yes, from 1976-1977 he was, but normally it's spelled Hollodan. I think th=
at's the right spelling, but on this playlist it's typed Holodin. Dr. D ma=
kes a point of saying he had previously been pronouncing the last name wron=
g, so I wonder if he intentionally mistyped it on this playlist as a phonet=
ic help to himself so he'd say it right on the air.

ObSerendipity: in the teaser, but edited from the show proper, on this week's
"Says You", the host pronounces Joaquin Phoenix's first name as "Yokum", as in
Mammy Yokum from Li'l Abner...and then confesses that he had spelled it
phonetically on his notes specifically so he *wouldn't* say it wrong....r