John R. Valby (born November 22, 1944) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, comedian, and producer known for his comedic and obscene song parodies. Also known as Dr. Dirty, he typically performs in a white tailcoat suit and black derby hat. His songs and shows focus mainly on sex and racial slurs, with a mix of current and historic people and events.

Early life Valby was born and raised in Western New York. He attended school in Rochester, New York, where at age seven, was taught to play the piano by two nuns. At ten, Valby wanted to become a performer. In 1966, Valby graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. At one point he considered a profession as a philosophy teacher, but soon realized it was not right for him and focused on musical entertainment.

Career Valby joined various rock bands in his early career that "kept on breaking up", which drove him to become a solo piano act of mostly rock and roll and honky tonk tunes. At one show in May 1974, he added some dirty songs of his own into the set. The positive response to the dirty songs led Valby to focus on the more adult material. He would often write new material while traveling between gigs. Valby claimed that he was named "Dr. Dirty" by the National Entertainment Conference, a booking organisation for the college circuit. He stated that he disliked the name because it "takes away from the element of surprise". He credited some of his obscene act as a reaction to the Catholic repression that he faced during childhood.

In addition to his blue comedy act, Valby has recorded and produced pop and rock albums for himself and other artists, including Buffalo Sabres defenseman Jim Schoenfeld, with whom Valby recorded two albums, Schony (1972) and The Key is Love (1974). He also had a small role as a piano player in a Tijuana brothel in the 1983 film Losin' It which featured an early performance by Tom Cruise.

Personal life Valby is married to his wife Anne; together they have six children. In August 2012 his home in Clarence, New York was burned due to suspected arson. As of 2016, he still lives in Clarence.

Valby endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election and recorded a song and music video supporting his campaign.John Valby sings "Everybody Hates Trump" at YouTube (April 18, 2016). (He would later backtrack on his endorsement, working a line into a 2018 song stating that Trump was "full of shit".)John Valby - "Give My Remains to Science" on YouTube (January 29, 2018).

Discography + John Valby discography Album Year Notes The Key Is Love 1974 collaboration with Jim Schoenfeld Philosophical Bull Shit 1974 Dirt 1975 Hotel Buffalo 1977 Concerto for Piano, Voice and 500 Screaming Assholes 1978 Lily White And Burnout Blue 1980 Give Me Dirt or Give Me Death 1980 Sit on a Happy Face 1982 Jingle Balls 1982 Dr. Dirty in Pixieland 1982 What I Did on My Summer Vacation 1986 A Sawmill River Christmas 1986 A Midsummer's Wet Dream 1987 Don't Go Soft on Me Now 1988 Beaver Fever 1988 Your Face or Mine 1989 Compact DIRT: Digital Ditties 1989 Fruits of an Idle Mind 1990 Double Valby: Don't Go Soft on Me Now/Your Face or Mine 1990 Bootleg Valby 1991 Dirt the Movie 1991 VHS The Doctor Is In 1992 Half in the Bag 1992 Butt Seriously Folks 1992 Live from Jackinsack New Jersey 1992 It's a Small Dick After All and Other Short Subjects 1992 live album Double D CD 1993 Up for Re-Erection 1994 Scratch N Sniff 1995 Super Pixies 1995 20 Years as Dr. Dirty in America 1995 VHS Fruits of an Idle Mind 1996 Butt's Up Doc 1997 Cherry Poppin' in Grand Rapids 1998 WWW.VALBY.CUM 1998 Same Shit Different Cover 1998 Half in the Fuckin' Bag 1999 Best of Dr Dirty 2000 The Not Yet On CD, CD 2000 Herniated Jingle Balls 2000 Dr. Dirty's Sphincter Unplugged 2001 American Troubadour 2001 Dr. Dirty: O&A and T&A Video 2001 Greatest Tits 2001 Operation Fuck Iraq 2003 Up for Re-Erection 2003 The Old Fart Cuts Another One 2004 Valby Rocks 2005 Treasury of XXXMas Classics 2006 Coming Soon on a Face Near You 2007 I'm Here for the Gangbang 2007 Sheep Thrills 2008 The Dirt Poems 2009 Tequila Mockingbird 2009 DVD Superpixies 2011 Tickling the Ovaries 2012 Survival of the Stiffest 2015 Keep Calm and Valby On 2015 Democracy Is Working Again 2016 Juicy Tidbits 2018 A Fun Night Out 2023 Live at the Pine Inn Ivy

References

Richard A. Reuss, An Annotated Field Collection of Songs From the American College Student Oral Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Masters Thesis, 1965). Ed Cray, The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs (University of Illinois, 1992).

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