When he started putting them on the radio in 1970, it wasnвЂ™t all that unusual for a pop station to play a record by blues-rocker Eric Clapton, followed immediately by one from crooner Frank Sinatra. He says heвЂ™s long since lost count of how many recordings he keeps in the Southern California home he shares with his wife, Sue, but puts the number somewhere north of 300,000. The program has always been built on DementoвЂ™s personal music collection, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands and includes every recording format from antique wax cylinders to modern-day digital downloads. Dementos sunday night program of zany music was a staple of late night weekend radio for years, KMET Radio was the best. Demento Top 10- KMET Augpart 1 of 2 10:01. November 27 is always a special day for vinyl enthusiasts. Demento -The Gumbys The Ballad of Gumby One Hit Wonders Comedy Radio Rick Shulman Yosemite Sam Warner Brothers Art Clokey Cowboy KMET FM Los Angeles. Amazon Canada) Our friends at Real Gone Music have a Christmas-green color vinyl edition of Cee Los Magic Moment, the 2012 holiday album by neo-soul icon Cee Lo. вЂњWith the increasingly narrow casting, as they call it, of radio where stations will pick one relatively restricted format and stick with it 24 hours a day, especially in the music area, my show just got perhaps a little too odd of a duck to fit in,вЂќ he said. Cee Lo Green, Cee Los Magic Moment (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. His college masterвЂ™s thesis was on the evolution of rhythm and blues. But it was changing radio formats that did in his syndicated show, said Demento, 69, who in a parallel life is Barret Hansen, music writer and ethnomusicologist. Over the decades, Demento, who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame last year, has kept his playlists contemporary. He had planned to stop syndicating it this month until he learned a college station in Amarillo, Texas, had committed to airing it through the summer. Recently, however, the radio stations carrying DementoвЂ™s show declined to fewer than a dozen. вЂњHe kept my whole career alive by playing Freberg records constantly,вЂќ says Stan Freberg, the Grammy-winning song satirist who, at 83, continues to write and perform comedy music and make public appearances.

Demento is discontinuing his syndicated radio show.Д«y summerвЂ™s end, the good doctorвЂ™s hyper-enthusiastic voice will be heard only on the Internet as it introduces oddball classics such as вЂњThereвЂ™s a Fungus Among Us,вЂќ вЂњFish HeadsвЂќ and вЂњDead Puppies.вЂќДЇor decades Demento has been a Sunday-night fixture on radio stations across the country, keeping alive the music of political satirists like Tom Lehrer (вЂњThe Vatican RagвЂќ), while making a star of вЂњWeird AlвЂќ Yankovic, whose first hit, вЂњMy Bologna,вЂќ debuted on the doctorвЂ™s show. A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer / Christmas Comedy Classics Vol 2 / An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer / Songs And More Songs by Tom Lehrer / The Remains Of Tom Lehrer / Dr. Listen closely, thatвЂ™s the sound of demented music dying that youвЂ™re hearing on your radio.ДЄfter nearly 40 years of broadcasting catchy little tunes celebrating everything from dogs getting run over by lawnmowers to cockroaches devouring entire cities, Dr.

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