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 Demento. It is also a sequel to the previous album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.
Track listing
Disc one
#TitlePerformer(s)TimeWriter(s)Year released1"Smells Like Nirvana"Weird Al Yankovic3:44Kurt Cobain / Alfred Yankovic19922"Heartbreak Hotel"Stan Freberg2:27Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley19563"The Curly Shuffle"Jump 'N The Saddle Band2:54Peter Quinn19834"Rubber Biscuit"The Chips2:06Charlie Johnson19625"The Martian Boogie"Brownsville Station4:1819776"Fast Food"Stevens & Grdnic2:22Ron Stevens / Joy Grdnic19827"Car Phone"Sheeler & Sheeler2:49Chip Davis / Bill Fries / Wade Sheeler / Karen Sheeler19908"Highly Illogical"Leonard Nimoy3:0219689"One More Minute"Weird Al Yankovic4:02Alfred Yankovic198510"No, I Don't Wanna Do Dat"The Happy Schnapps Combo3:13Jim Krueger199211"Dance of the Hours"Spike Jones and his City Slickers2:58Amilcare Ponchielli194912"My Dead Dog Rover"Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank2:18197713"There's a New Sound"Tony Burrello2:23Tony Burrello / Tom Murray195314"When I Was a Dinosaur"Trout Fishing In America2:41Larry Armer / David Egan199115"The Old Philosopher"Eddie Lawrence3:15Eddie Lawrence195616"I'm a Happy Boy"Beat Farmers1:17Jeff Becker / Dane Conover198517"Tiptoe Through the Tulips"Tiny Tim1:51Joe Burke / Al Dubin196818"Shaving Cream"Benny Bell2:12Benny Bell1946
Disc two
#TitlePerformer(s)TimeWriter(s)Year released1"Particle Man"They Might Be Giants1:56John Flansburgh / John Linnell19902"Sensitive New Age Guys"Christine Lavin3:39John Gorka / Christine Lavin19903"The Hunting Song"Tom Lehrer1:45Tom Lehrer19604"Achy Breaky Song"Weird Al Yankovic3:21Alfred Yankovic19935"In Heaven There is No Beer"Clean Living2:2819726"I Gotta Get A Fake I.D."Barnes and Barnes with Friends3:05Artie Barnes19807"Peter the Meter Reader"Meri Wilson2:30Meri Wilson19818"Everybody Wants My Fanny"Benny Bell2:08Benny Bell19499"Entering Marion"John Forster2:12John Foster199310"'Cause I'm a Blonde"Julie Brown2:15Julie Brown / Charles Coffey / Dennis Poore198911"Leader of the Laundromat"The Detergents3:12Lee Pockriss / Paul Vance196412"Song of the Sewer"Art Carney2:37Matt Dubey195413"Mr. Custer"Larry Verne2:11Fred Darian / Al DeLory / Joseph VanWinkle196014"Second Week of Deer Camp"Da Yoopers2:49Jim DeCaire / Joe Potila198715"Timothy"The Buoys2:46Rupert Holmes197016"Stardrek"Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara4:52Peter Ferrara / Bobby Pickett197617"Three Little Pigs"Green Jellÿ4:21Marc Levinthal / Bill Manspeaker199318"Moose Turd Pie"Utah Phillips5:201973
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