- Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
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Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
Compilation album by Various artists Released 1991 Genre Comedy rock, Novelty songs Label Rhino Records Producer Various Professional reviews This is a release by radio disc jockey Dr. Demento to celebrate 20 years since the beginning of his radio career.
It covers many of the novelty and comedy songs from the 1950s such as Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night) 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
# Title Performer(s) Time Writer(s) Year released 1 "Delicious" Backus, Jim & Friend 3:09 Buddy Kaye 1958 2 "The Scotsman" Bryan Bowers 2:27 Mike Cross 1980 3 "Junk Food Junkie" Larry Groce 3:05 Larry Groce 1976 4 "Eat It" "Weird Al" Yankovic 3:20 Alfred Yankovic 1984 5 "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)" Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group 2:30 Marty Bloom/Ernest Breur/Billy Rose 1958 6 "Wet Dream" Kip Addotta 5:08 Biff Manard/Kip Addotta 1984 7 "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" Allan Sherman 2:49 Allan Sherman/Lou Busch 1963 8 "Wappin'" Darrell Hammond & Christopher Snell 3:02 Christopher Snell 1989 9 "Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley 2:15 Sheb Wooley 1958 10 "Monster Mash" Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers 3:13 Bobby Pickett/Leonard L. Capizzi 1962 11 "Cocktails for Two" Spike Jones and his City Slickers 2:58 Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow 1944 12 "Transfusion" Nervous Norvus 2:27 Jimmy Drake 1956 13 "Beep Beep" The Playmates 2:47 Carl Cicchetti/Donald Claps 1958 14 "St. George and the Dragonet" Stan Freberg 3:26 Daws Butler/Stan Freberg/Walter Schumann 1953 15 "Witch Doctor" David Seville 2:21 Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. 1958 16 "Gitarzan" Ray Stevens 3:15 Bill Everette/Ray Stevens 1969 17 "Earache My Eye" Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie 5:22 Cheech Marin/Gaye Marin/Thomas Chong 1974 18 "Dead Puppies" Ogden Edsl 2:12 Bill Frenzer/Rich Thieman 1977 Disc two
# Title Performer(s) Time Writer(s) Year released 1 "Dancin' Fool" Frank Zappa 3:36 Frank Zappa 1979 2 "Star Trekkin'" The Firm 3:47 Grahame Lister/John O'Connor 1987 3 "The Time Warp" The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast 3:19 Richard O'Brien 1975 4 "The Masochism Tango" Tom Lehrer 2:56 Tom Lehrer 1959 5 "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" Julie Brown 4:41 Julie Brown/Charles Coffey/Ray Colcord/Terrence McNally 1984 6 "The Ballad of Irving" Frank Gallop/Phil Leeds 3:27 John Aylesworth/Frank Peppiatt/Dick Williams 1966 7 "The Battle of Kookamonga" Homer & Jethro 2:39 Jimmie Driftwood/J. J. Reynolds 1960 8 "King Tut" Steve Martin 2:39 Steve Martin 1978 9 "Der Fuehrer's Face" Spike Jones and His City Slickers 2:12 Oliver Wallace 1942 10 "Fish Heads" Barnes and Barnes 2:26 Artie Barnes 1980 11 "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" Tom Lehrer 2:09 Tom Lehrer 1959 12 "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" Shel Silverstein 2:47 Shel Silverstein 1969 13 "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" Rose & The Arrangement 2:11 Drill 1974 14 "Surfin' Bird" The Trashmen 2:24 Al Frazier/Robert Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson 1963 15 "Pencil Neck Geek" Freddie Blassie 3:29 Pete Cicero/Martin Margulies 1975 16 "Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head" The Frantics 6:08 The Frantics 1987 17 "Existential Blues" Tom "T-Bone" Stankus 6:14 Tom "T-Bone" Stankus 1979 18 "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" Napoleon XIV 2:10 N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels) 1966 Categories:- Novelty albums
- Double compilation albums
- 1991 compilation albums
- Comedy rock compilation albums
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