Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection explained

Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection
Type:compilation
Artist:Various artists
Cover:Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection.jpg
Released:1996
Genre:Comedy rock, Novelty songs
Length:1:55:00
Label:Rhino Records
Producer:Various

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 released
1"Smells Like Nirvana"Weird Al Yankovic3:44Kurt Cobain / Alfred Yankovic1992
2"Heartbreak Hotel"Stan Freberg2:27Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley1956
3"The Curly Shuffle"Jump 'N The Saddle Band2:54Peter Quinn1983
4"Rubber Biscuit"The Chips2:06Charlie Johnson1962
5"The Martian Boogie"Brownsville Station4:181977
6"Fast Food"Stevens & Grdnic2:22Ron Stevens / Joy Grdnic1982
7"Car Phone"Sheeler & Sheeler2:49Chip Davis / Bill Fries / Wade Sheeler / Karen Sheeler1990
8"Highly Illogical"Leonard Nimoy3:021968
9"One More Minute"Weird Al Yankovic4:02Alfred Yankovic1985
10"No, I Don't Wanna Do Dat"The Happy Schnapps Combo3:13Jim Krueger1992
11"Dance of the Hours"Spike Jones and his City Slickers2:58Amilcare Ponchielli1949
12"My Dead Dog Rover"Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank2:181977
13"There's a New Sound"Tony Burrello2:23Tony Burrello / Tom Murray1953
14"When I Was a Dinosaur"Trout Fishing In America2:41Larry Armer / David Egan1991
15"The Old Philosopher"Eddie Lawrence3:15Eddie Lawrence1956
16"I'm a Happy Boy"Beat Farmers1:17Jeff Becker / Dane Conover1985
17"Tiptoe Through the Tulips"Tiny Tim1:51Joe Burke / Al Dubin1968
18"Shaving Cream"Benny Bell2:12Benny Bell1946

Disc two

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TitlePerformer(s)TimeWriter(s)Year released
1"Particle Man"They Might Be Giants1:56John Flansburgh / John Linnell1990
2"Sensitive New Age Guys"Christine Lavin3:39John Gorka / Christine Lavin1990
3"The Hunting Song"Tom Lehrer1:45Tom Lehrer1960
4"Achy Breaky Song"Weird Al Yankovic3:21Alfred Yankovic1993
5"In Heaven There is No Beer"Clean Living2:281972
6"I Gotta Get A Fake I.D."Barnes and Barnes with Friends3:05Artie Barnes1980
7"Peter the Meter Reader"Meri Wilson2:30Meri Wilson1981
8"Everybody Wants My Fanny"Benny Bell2:08Benny Bell1949
9"Entering Marion"John Forster2:12John Foster1993
10"'Cause I'm a Blonde"Julie Brown2:15Julie Brown / Charles Coffey / Dennis Poore1989
11"Leader of the Laundromat"The Detergents3:12Lee Pockriss / Paul Vance1964
12"Song of the Sewer"Art Carney2:37Matt Dubey1954
13"Mr. Custer"Larry Verne2:11Fred Darian / Al DeLory / Joseph VanWinkle1960
14"Second Week of Deer Camp"Da Yoopers2:49Jim DeCaire / Joe Potila1987
15"Timothy"The Buoys2:46Rupert Holmes1970
16"Stardrek"Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara4:52Peter Ferrara / Bobby Pickett1976
17"Three Little Pigs"Green Jellÿ4:21Marc Levinthal / Bill Manspeaker1993
18"Moose Turd Pie"Utah Phillips5:201973