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Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection

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Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection
Compilation album by
Various artists
Released1996
GenreComedy rock, Novelty songs
Length1:55:00
LabelRhino Records
ProducerVarious
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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

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Disc one

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# Title Performer(s) Time Writer(s) Year released
1 "Smells Like Nirvana" Weird Al Yankovic 3:44 Kurt Cobain / Alfred Yankovic 1992
2 "Heartbreak Hotel" Stan Freberg 2:27 Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley 1956
3 "The Curly Shuffle" Jump 'N The Saddle Band 2:54 Peter Quinn 1983
4 "Rubber Biscuit" The Chips 2:06 Charlie Johnson 1962
5 "The Martian Boogie" Brownsville Station 4:18 1977
6 "Fast Food" Stevens & Grdnic 2:22 Ron Stevens / Joy Grdnic 1982
7 "Car Phone" Sheeler & Sheeler 2:49 Chip Davis / Bill Fries / Wade Sheeler / Karen Sheeler 1990
8 "Highly Illogical" Leonard Nimoy 3:02 1968
9 "One More Minute" Weird Al Yankovic 4:02 Alfred Yankovic 1985
10 "No, I Don't Wanna Do Dat" The Happy Schnapps Combo 3:13 Jim Krueger 1992
11 "Dance of the Hours" Spike Jones and his City Slickers 2:58 Amilcare Ponchielli 1949
12 "My Dead Dog Rover" Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank 2:18 1977
13 "There's a New Sound" Tony Burrello 2:23 Tony Burrello / Tom Murray 1953
14 "When I Was a Dinosaur" Trout Fishing In America 2:41 Larry Armer / David Egan 1991
15 "The Old Philosopher" Eddie Lawrence 3:15 Eddie Lawrence 1956
16 "I'm a Happy Boy" Beat Farmers 1:17 Jeff Becker / Dane Conover 1985
17 "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" Tiny Tim 1:51 Joe Burke / Al Dubin 1968
18 "Shaving Cream" Benny Bell 2:12 Benny Bell 1946

Disc two

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# Title Performer(s) Time Writer(s) Year released
1 "Particle Man" They Might Be Giants 1:56 John Flansburgh / John Linnell 1990
2 "Sensitive New Age Guys" Christine Lavin 3:39 John Gorka / Christine Lavin 1990
3 "The Hunting Song" Tom Lehrer 1:45 Tom Lehrer 1960
4 "Achy Breaky Song" Weird Al Yankovic 3:21 Alfred Yankovic 1993
5 "In Heaven There is No Beer" Clean Living 2:28 1972
6 "I Gotta Get A Fake I.D." Barnes and Barnes with Friends 3:05 Artie Barnes 1980
7 "Peter the Meter Reader" Meri Wilson 2:30 Meri Wilson 1981
8 "Everybody Wants My Fanny" Benny Bell 2:08 Benny Bell 1949
9 "Entering Marion" John Forster 2:12 John Foster 1993
10 "'Cause I'm a Blonde" Julie Brown 2:15 Julie Brown / Charles Coffey / Dennis Poore 1989
11 "Leader of the Laundromat" The Detergents 3:12 Lee Pockriss / Paul Vance 1964
12 "Song of the Sewer" Art Carney 2:37 Matt Dubey 1954
13 "Mr. Custer" Larry Verne 2:11 Fred Darian / Al DeLory / Joseph VanWinkle 1960
14 "Second Week of Deer Camp" Da Yoopers 2:49 Jim DeCaire / Joe Potila 1987
15 "Timothy" The Buoys 2:46 Rupert Holmes 1970
16 "Stardrek" Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara 4:52 Peter Ferrara / Bobby Pickett 1976
17 "Three Little Pigs" Green Jellÿ 4:21 Marc Levinthal / Bill Manspeaker 1993
18 "Moose Turd Pie" Utah Phillips 5:20 1973

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