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A remake of "Shaving Cream" performed as a duet with Dr. Demento was released on the albums Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale and Dr. Demento's 25th Anniversary Collection. Dr. Demento occasionally performed the song live in concert with "Weird Al" Yankovic's band (Yankovic playing accordion).
Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), [1] known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.
Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection is a release by radio disc jockey Dr. Demento to celebrate 25 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 early 1990s, such as Shaving Cream by Benny Bell, to the then recent release of Smells Like Nirvana by "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose popularity was boosted by ...
He continued recording and releasing records into the 1980s, but he remained little-known beyond New York City until the 1970s when "Shaving Cream" was played regularly on the Dr. Demento radio program, leading to its re-issue as a single in 1975 on the Vanguard Records label, along with a similarly titled album. [3]
has been a popular song on the Dr. Demento Show, appearing 54 times between the show's premiere and 2006 [8] and selected for the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection double CD. [ 9 ] In Ken Kesey 's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , the character Randle Patrick McMurphy also sings a few lines of this song when he realizes the Chief is ...
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 (On the Bedpost Overnight)” by Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group, to “Eat It” by "Weird Al ...
The latter recording was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, as well as the most requested song in the history of The Dr. Demento Show. In 1978, Damaskas and Barnes & Barnes recorded "A Day in the Life of Green Acres," a song that combined the music of The Beatles " A Day in the Life ...
A different, live in the studio version recorded the same year is on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes No. 7 "Baby Likes Burping" 1980 Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes No. 11 [8] Parody of "Baby Talks Dirty" by The Knack [9] "You Don't Take Your Showers" 1980 Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes No. 14 [8]