Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection


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 by Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group, to the then recent release of Eat It by "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose popularity was boosted by Demento.

Track listing

Disc one

#TitlePerformerTimeWriterYear released
1"Delicious"Backus, Jim & Friend3:09Buddy Kaye1958
2"The Scotsman"Bryan Bowers2:27Mike Cross1980
3"Junk Food Junkie"Larry Groce3:05Larry Groce1976
4"Eat It""Weird Al" Yankovic3:20Alfred Yankovic1984
5"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour "Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group2:30Marty Bloom/Ernest Breur/Billy Rose1958
6"Wet Dream"Kip Addotta5:08Biff Manard/Kip Addotta1984
7"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"Allan Sherman2:49Allan Sherman/Lou Busch1963
8"Wappin'"Darrell Hammond & Christopher Snell3:02Christopher Snell1989
9"The Purple People Eater"Sheb Wooley2:15Sheb Wooley1958
10"Monster Mash"Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers3:13Bobby Pickett/Leonard L. Capizzi1962
11"Cocktails for Two"Spike Jones and his City Slickers2:58Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow1944
12"Transfusion"Nervous Norvus2:27Jimmy Drake1956
13"Beep Beep"The Playmates2:47Carl Cicchetti/Donald Claps1958
14"St. George and the Dragonet"Stan Freberg3:26Daws Butler/Stan Freberg/Walter Schumann1953
15"Witch Doctor"David Seville2:21Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.1958
16"Gitarzan"Ray Stevens3:15Bill Everette/Ray Stevens1969
17"Earache My Eye"Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie5:22Cheech Marin/Gaye Delorme/Thomas Chong1974
18"Dead Puppies"Ogden Edsl2:12Bill Frenzer/Rich Thieman1977

Disc two

#TitlePerformerTimeWriterYear released
1"Dancin' Fool"Frank Zappa3:36Frank Zappa1979
2"Star Trekkin'"The Firm3:47Grahame Lister/John O'Connor1987
3"The Time Warp"The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast3:19Richard O'Brien1975
4"The Masochism Tango"Tom Lehrer2:56Tom Lehrer1959
5"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"Julie Brown4:41Julie Brown/Charles Coffey/Ray Colcord/Terrence McNally1984
6"The Ballad of Irving"Frank Gallop/Phil Leeds3:27John Aylesworth/Frank Peppiatt/Dick Williams1966
7"The Battle of Kookamonga"Homer & Jethro2:39Jimmie Driftwood/J. J. Reynolds1960
8"King Tut"Steve Martin2:39Steve Martin1978
9"Der Fuehrer's Face"Spike Jones and His City Slickers2:12Oliver Wallace1942
10"Fish Heads"Barnes and Barnes2:26Artie Barnes1980
11"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"Tom Lehrer2:09Tom Lehrer1959
12"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"Shel Silverstein2:47Shel Silverstein1969
13"The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati"Rose & The Arrangement2:11Drill1974
14"Surfin' Bird"The Trashmen2:24Al Frazier/Robert Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson1963
15"Pencil Neck Geek"Freddie Blassie3:29Pete Cicero/Martin Margulies1975
16"Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head"The Frantics6:08The Frantics1987
17"Existential Blues"Tom "T-Bone" Stankus6:14Tom "T-Bone" Stankus1979
18"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"Napoleon XIV2:10N. Bonaparte 1966