Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Delicious - Jim Backus
2. Scotsman - Bryan Bowers
3. Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce
4. Eat It - Weird Al Yankovic
5. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight - Lonnie Donegan
6. Wet Dream - Kip Addotta
7. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! - Allan Sherman
8. Wappin' - Darrell Hammond, Christopher Snell
9. Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
10. Monster Mash - Crypt-Kickers, Crypt Keepers, Bobby "Boris" Pickett
11. Cocktails for Two - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
12. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
13. Beep Beep - The Playmates
14. St. George and the Dragonet - Stan Freberg
15. Witch Doctor - David Seville
16. Gitarzan - Ray Stevens
17. Earache My Eye - Featuring Alice Bowie - Alice Bowie, Cheech & Chong
18. Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl

Disc 2:

1. Dancin' Fool - Frank Zappa
2. Star Trekkin' - Firm
3. Time Warp
4. Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer
5. Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun - Julie Brown
6. Ballad of Irving - Frank Gallop
7. Battle of Kookamonga - Homer & Jethro
8. King Tut - Steve Martin, Toot Uncommons
9. Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
10. Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
11. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer
12. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein
13. Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
14. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
15. Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie
16. Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head - The Frantics
17. Existential Blues
18. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3503 in Music
• Released on: 1991-05-21
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .47 pounds

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

Customer Reviews

The perfect carpool collection....
_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....

Explain this to the kindergarten teacher...
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).

Ha, ha...blah, blah
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.