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"Shaving Cream" is a song written by Benny Bell in 1946, and originally sung by Paul Wynn. [1] It is a novelty song in which each verse ends with a mind rhyme of shit, the initial sh-segueing into the refrain, "Shaving Cream". An example of this can be found in the opening verse: "I have a sad story to tell you It may hurt your feelings a bit
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]
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 ...
Incorporates lyrics from "The Ballad of ... Title is a play on Prince's tendency to omit vowels from song titles and takes from ... "Shaving Cream" (with Dr. Demento ...
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 ...
At the end of the song, he exclaims, "Oh, no!" following by the sound of a door slamming, signifying his confinement back within the asylum. [18] The recording appeared on disc releases by Dr. Demento in 1975 as part of Dr. Demento's Delights, [19] [20] then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991.
For a long period of time, Ogden Edsl's "Dead Puppies" was the most requested song on the Dr. Demento radio show, and remains the only song to ever hit number one on the annual "Funny 25" countdown two years in a row (1982 and 1983). Ogden Edsl formally disbanded in 1983.