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Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Hansen "About The Dr." The Online Internet Site For Information on Dr. Demento music, songs, lyrics, and chat. 2005. 03 Mar. 2006 ., who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM . Legend has it, after Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, someone said that he had to be demented to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and is still on the air as of 2006. He has also released many compilations of music featured on his show on vinyl records, audio tape cassettes, and compact discs (see "Dr. Demento Discography" under external links at the bottom of this page).

To some people, he is best known as the man who brought rock parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic to national attention, as well as Elmo and Patsy's 1979 Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer".

Hansen was born the son of an amateur pianist and claims to have started his vast record collection as early as age 12, when he found "that a local thrift store had thousands of old 78 RPM records for sale at 5 cents each" . He attended Reed College, where he wrote his senior thesis on Wagnerian opera, graduating in 1963, and later studied at UCLA, from which he earned a master's degree in folklore and ethnomusicology.

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The female vocals on the Dr. Demento show favorite "Marvin I Love You" are provided by Kimi Wong-O'Brian. I found this out randomly tonight.
mikebdoss (Michael Doss) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:29:20 -0000
The female vocals on the Dr. Demento show favorite "Marvin I Love You" are provided by Kimi Wong-O'Brian. I found this out randomly tonight.
♫ Dr. Demento - Dog Jingle Bells
xmasinfrisko (xmasinfrisko) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:14:36 -0000
♫ Dr. Demento - Dog Jingle Bells
Just had the Charlie Brown Xmas shows on here, which reminded me of this song I heard on Dr. Demento. http://bit.ly/8aXHxi Not for the kids!
Packard_Sonic (Packard Sonic) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:24:10 -0000
Just had the Charlie Brown Xmas shows on here, which reminded me of this song I heard on Dr. Demento. http://bit.ly/8aXHxi Not for the kids!
This song just made me feel like I'm 14 and listening to Dr. Demento. (that's good.) http://tinyurl.com/yaturqn (by @paulandstorm)
tweetpod (A Global Playlist) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:47:25 -0000
This song just made me feel like I'm 14 and listening to Dr. Demento. (that's good.) http://tinyurl.com/yaturqn (by @paulandstorm)
This song just made me feel like I'm 14 and listening to Dr. Demento. (that's good.) http://tinyurl.com/yaturqn (by @paulandstorm)
phirm (Mike Phirman) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:59:00 -0000
This song just made me feel like I'm 14 and listening to Dr. Demento. (that's good.) http://tinyurl.com/yaturqn (by @paulandstorm)
@fatwallet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfTGozskHM its a classic from the Dr. Demento days http://www.drdemento.com
happywakko (happywakko) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:05:49 -0000
@fatwallet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfTGozskHM its a classic from the Dr. Demento days http://www.drdemento.com

 
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The Official Dr. Demento Web Site - Includes news, games, contests, and playlists.
Meta Description: [ Dr. Demento's Online Internet Site. Novelty and Comedic Music, Information, News, and chat. ]

Dementia - Music convention for fans of Dr. Demento and parody music.

Dr. Demento Funny Music Page, The - Dave Tanny's Dr. Demento and Dementia page

Krellan Demented Radio Streams - Scheduled time slots of radio stations carrying the Dr. Demento program with dates links were last checked.
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The Doctor Is In - Homepage for the rec.music.dementia newsgroup. Reviews, articles, biographies, email addresses and links.

The Onion A.V. Club - Dr. Demento - Barry Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, speaks about his archives, Napster, his unique job, and the past and future of novelty songs.
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