The Dr. Demento Show #03-24 - June 15, 2003
Jeff Morris
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The Dr. Demento Show #03-24 - June 15, 2003
Special Topic: motorcycles
The Annoying Song - Man Bites God
It's Still Billy Joel To Me (live) - "Weird Al" Yankovic
How Would You Torture Bin Laden? - Les White
Every 28 Days - Robin Roberts
Sushi Baby - Bianca Bob & Flystrip
3 Blind Jellyfish - The Scaffold
Life In The Slaw Lane - Kip Addotta
Demented News With Whimsical Will
Chocolate Chip Cookies - Bill Steele
Golden Fluffy Loaves Of Love - Andrew & Aaron
The French Toast Man - Fred Lane & The Hittite Hot Shots
Let 'Im In (For Pete Rose's Sake) - The Dan Orr Project
Booty Man - Tim Wilson
Bob - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Thank God I'm Just An Atheist - Les White
Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers
The Harley Song - Rob Paravonian
Harley-Davidson - Brigitte Bardot
The Motorcycle Story - Brother Dave Gardner
The Motorcycle Song (live) - Arlo Guthrie
#5 A Complicated Song - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#4 The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun - Julie Brown
#3 Hardware Store - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#2 Couch Potato - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#1 Stealing Like A Hobbit - the great Luke Ski
next week: demented blues
Jeff Morris
Five. He points out that this week there are three songs in the Funny
Five from the same album (Poodle Hat). He then asks me if there is any
other time that this has happened.
The short answer is no. For more details, read on...
To check this, I am not counting compilations such as the 20th anniversary
set, Basement Tapes, etc. I'm also only counting standard syndicated shows,
and excluding from that group year-end countdowns and other special shows
with non-standard countdowns.
Twice in the past, Al has had three songs on the Funny Five - 99-31 and
99-32. But in those cases, two were from one album and the other from a
previous album.
On show #55, Monty Python placed three songs in the countdown, but that
was a Top Ten, and only one of those was in the top five, plus they were
from different albums.
I already said Dr. Demento compilation albums were excluded, but it seems
reasonable that Dementia Royale and Demento's Mementos could be included,
since they mostly consistented of current tracks that often had not
previously been on albums. With that in mind...
78-30, 79-15, 79-25, 80-1, 80-6, and 80-9 had 3 songs each in the Funny
Five which later appeared on Dementia Royale, but that album wasn't out
then, so that doesn't count.
81-11 also has three songs from Demento Royale in the Funny Five, but all
of those were on albums prior to Dementia Royale, so I guess that doesn't
exactly count either.
81-30 and 81-40 each had three songs apiece that later appeared on
Demento's Mementos, but again that album wasn't out at the time, so again
this doesn't count.
So, once again, it looks like Al has made Funny Five history!
Ejfan1973
YAY Al! But, Lukeski has #1.
I'm waiting for Al to have a funny five hat trick like the Beatles had on the
Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964 -- they had all 5 of the top 5.
R H Draney
says...
We did have a different sort of record a couple of weeks ago with three parodies
of the same song in one show, and two of those in the Funny Five...that was the
week Tony Goldmark took Eminem to task for not letting Weird Al do the video för
"Couch Potato"....r
Randall Bart
as R H Draney <dado...@earthlink.net> uttered:
>We did have a different sort of record a couple of weeks ago with three parodies
>of the same song in one show, and two of those in the Funny Five...
Back in 1980 there were FOUR parodies of My Sharona in the Top Ten (live
LA show) in the same week.
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Jeff Morris
>Back in 1980 there were FOUR parodies of My Sharona in the Top Ten (live
>LA show) in the same week.
Really? I can't seem to find when this was. I found instances of two
and three parodies of it at once, but not four. Do you remember which four
they were, or approximately when in 1980 it was?
Randall Bart
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
I remember three of them: Ayatollah (Steve Dahl), My Bologna (Weird Al),
Slide Trombona (??). I can't narrow down the date; it may have been late
1979 rather than 1980. I remember that Dr D specifically said there were
four satires of a single song in the Top Ten. I think Dr D specifically
said there had never even three satires of one song at a time. Post the
Top Tens with three versions here, and maybe we can figure out which other
one was also My Sharona.
I know there is a "new" version of Nine Caronas, so I figure there must
have been an old one. Was it back then?
We know it's not Wynona's Song.
Tim Ryan
> > R H Draney <> uttered:
>
> >We did have a different sort of record a couple of weeks ago with
three parodies
> >of the same song in one show, and two of those in the Funny Five...
>
> Back in 1980 there were FOUR parodies of My Sharona in the Top Ten
(live
> LA show) in the same week.
> --
#6 Steve
#5 I Had Sex with E.T.
#4 Fish Heads
(which was thought of to be historic)
was it 10/3/1982 or 11/7/1982?
-Tim Ryan
Jeff Morris
> Barnes and Barnes scored three in a row on a live KMET Top Ten:
>#6 Steve
>#5 I Had Sex with E.T.
>#4 Fish Heads
> (which was thought of to be historic)
> was it 10/3/1982 or 11/7/1982?
The latter. The former had "I Had Sex With E.T." at #10 and "Fish Heads"
at #1.
Jeff Morris
>I remember three of them: Ayatollah (Steve Dahl), My Bologna (Weird Al),
>Slide Trombona (??). I can't narrow down the date; it may have been late
>1979 rather than 1980. I remember that Dr D specifically said there were
>four satires of a single song in the Top Ten. I think Dr D specifically
>said there had never even three satires of one song at a time.
OK, I looked through all the KMET playlists from September 16, 1979 through
June 27, 1981, and actually found no shows with all three of those in the
Top Ten! Earlier, I thought I had found one or two. They do all appear in
the Funny 50 from the end of 1980 (playlist at my site).
Other songs I noticed in the Top Ten during 1980 which could possibly be
parodies of "My Sharona" are:
Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
My Bologna - Meyer & Drake
I'm not familiar with these songs so I can't say for sure if they're parodies
or not.
>I know there is a "new" version of Nine Caronas, so I figure there must
>have been an old one. Was it back then?
No, the original version wasn't played until 1988.
luk...@charter.net
"R H Draney" <dado...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:bch2d...@drn.newsguy.com...
CLARIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Weird Al" and I did *NOT* parody the same song.
My song, "Stealing Like A Hobbit", which was recorded back in March (way
before there was any inkling to what would be on Al's next CD) is a parody
of Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet", the song he wrote about the
unfortunate state of his relationship with his mother. (Chorus: "I'm sorry
mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry, cause
tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet".)
My song does contain brief parody elements of 2 of Eminem's other 'serious'
singles. "Stan" which featured female vocalist Dido, his song about an
obsessed fan writing him a fan letter, in my song became 'Sam' writing Frodo
a fan letter, with Arwen on the chorus singing of her lost love Aragorn.
And yes, I briefly parodied "Lose Yourself", which manifests itself only at
the very beginning and the very end of the song. At the beginning, I
spoofed his "Look, if you had one shot, etc." opening line, and at the very
end I parodied the Chorus by having Gollum steal the ring away from Frodo
and sing his victory cry to the precious, before Frodo snatches it back
again. The song fades out on that final chorus.
I kind of assumed everybody knew that "Stealing Like A Hobbit" and "Couch
Potato" were not parodies of the same Eminem song. I mean, different tempo,
different notes, different syncopated rhythms and rhyme schemes... Well,
whatever. As long a speople keep requesting it, I really have nothing to
beeyotch about.
Anybody pick up on my reference to the movie "Willow"?
--
Luke Collis Sienkowski, a.k.a. "the great Luke Ski!"
GNOME Productions
Luk...@Juno.com / http://www.LukeSki.com
AOL IM handle: thegreatLukeSki / ICQ info: Luke Ski, #19122313
R H Draney
>
>I kind of assumed everybody knew that "Stealing Like A Hobbit" and "Couch
>Potato" were not parodies of the same Eminem song. I mean, different tempo,
>different notes, different syncopated rhythms and rhyme schemes... Well,
>whatever. As long a speople keep requesting it, I really have nothing to
>beeyotch about.
Fair enough...I'm not really a fan of Eminem, so I was basing my remarks on the
intro part...as far as that goes, I'm not really much of a fan of rap at all
(although I did hear one English-language one a couple of weeks ago on Taiwan
Radio that had me laughing my head off; I wish I could find out who it was)....
I keep hoping against hope that "A Mighty Wind" will suddenly catch fire...folk
music parodies I can do...comes from growing up with all those Smothers Brothers
albums around the house...I've got a Burl Ives bit that I think would work if
only there were a market for it....r
Randall Bart
and newsgroups.)
'Twas Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:27:02 +0000 (UTC) when all rec.music.dementia
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
>Other songs I noticed in the Top Ten during 1980 which could possibly be
>parodies of "My Sharona" are:
>
>Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
>My Bologna - Meyer & Drake
Were there two songs called "My Bologna" at the same time? Searching your
site for "My Bologna", every line says Weird Al Yankovic or Alfred
Yankovic. I think if the Meyer & Drake version were good enough to make
the Top Ten on the live show it would make the syndicated show at least
once. I conclude therefore that Meyer & Drake is an error and that the
only "My Bologna" is the one by Alfred Yankovic.
There is no page named http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/1980l.html so you
don't appear to have any live play lists for 1980, except the Nifty Fifty
at http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/drd80l.1228.html.
I really don't recall "Mi Charona" (which Dave Tanny lists as "Me
Charona"). However it's a good bet that it's a version of "My Sharona".
This makes the four parodies of a single song that once made the live top
ten in the same week:
Ayatollah - Steve Dahl (for sure)
Slide Trombona - Jay Williams (for sure)
My Bologna - Weird Al Yankovic (unless it was covered my Meyer & Drake)
Mi Charona - Marina Swingers (educated guess)
And since then we have had "Nine Coronas" and "Wynona's Song", so Dr D has
played six parodies of this one song.
I find it odd that "Ayatollah" wasn't played on the syndicated show until
1994. It was on the live show every week from late 1979 until early 1981.
Too political to play in Peoria I guess.
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Tim Ryan
> 'Twas Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:27:02 +0000 (UTC) when all
rec.music.dementia
>
> >Other songs I noticed in the Top Ten during 1980 which could possibly
be
> >parodies of "My Sharona" are:
> >
> >Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
> >My Bologna - Meyer & Drake
big bunch of KMET shows to get from cassette to PC.
>
> Were there two songs called "My Bologna" at the same time? Searching
your
> site for "My Bologna", every line says Weird Al Yankovic or Alfred
> Yankovic. I think if the Meyer & Drake version were good enough to
make
> the Top Ten on the live show it would make the syndicated show at
least
> once. I conclude therefore that Meyer & Drake is an error and that
the
> only "My Bologna" is the one by Alfred Yankovic.
>
top
> ten in the same week:
>
> Ayatollah - Steve Dahl (for sure)
> Slide Trombona - Jay Williams (for sure)
> My Bologna - Weird Al Yankovic (unless it was covered my Meyer &
Drake)
> Mi Charona - Marina Swingers (educated guess)
>
> And since then we have had "Nine Coronas" and "Wynona's Song", so Dr D
has
> played six parodies of this one song.
>
> I find it odd that "Ayatollah" wasn't played on the syndicated show
until
> 1994. It was on the live show every week from late 1979 until early
1981.
> Too political to play in Peoria I guess.
The more lax standards that KMET would support for him and/or the
audience that would not complain about a song as could happen in the
syndicated markets. Let's face it, if you tuned into KMET, you where
less up-tight. It was alright, outa sight. Right on. Boogie. Where
was I? Oh yeah, political situations could always change quickly from
the time the show is taped for syndication and the time the station
would air the show. The four hours shows also gave DrD the chance to
play plenty of tunes for us to "discover"....be they new or wonderfull
old stuff. Things like Musical Mike's Jazz corner.
-Tim Ryan
> --
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"glans corona"...
"Randall Bart" <Bart...@att.spam.net> wrote in message
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Chris/Power Salad
This has a cheezy organ-percussion-combo sound (like the
auto-accompaniment on a Wurlitzer) and a spoken intro over the musical
intro in high school Spanish introducing the band and the tune - "Los
Marina Sweengers!", then he speaks the lyrics sorta translated into
Spanish - "Ay mi chica chica - Mi chica bonita - Cuando darme tiempo
ahora MIIIIII CHARONA!!!" That's about all I can remember of it but it
was a funny thang....
Chris/Power Salad
a proud meat-eater, smokin' up ribs n turkey for da Fourth.....
Randall Bart
awe as Chris/Power Salad <power...@powersalad.com> uttered:
>>> >Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
>
>This has a cheezy organ-percussion-combo sound (like the
>auto-accompaniment on a Wurlitzer) and a spoken intro over the musical
>intro in high school Spanish introducing the band and the tune - "Los
>Marina Sweengers!", then he speaks the lyrics sorta translated into
>Spanish - "Ay mi chica chica - Mi chica bonita - Cuando darme tiempo
>ahora MIIIIII CHARONA!!!" That's about all I can remember of it but it
>was a funny thang....
Thank you. That's what we needed to know.
Jeff Morris
>Were there two songs called "My Bologna" at the same time? Searching your
>site for "My Bologna", every line says Weird Al Yankovic or Alfred
>Yankovic. I think if the Meyer & Drake version were good enough to make
>the Top Ten on the live show it would make the syndicated show at least
>once. I conclude therefore that Meyer & Drake is an error and that the
>only "My Bologna" is the one by Alfred Yankovic.
I think you're probably right. The KMET playlist for August 24, 1980
shows Meyer & Drake at #9 and Al at #7, so #9 was probably "Mr. Bill"
in actuality. I checked the previous few months and didn't see a song
called "My Bologna" by Meyer & Drake.
>There is no page named http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/1980l.html so you
>don't appear to have any live play lists for 1980, except the Nifty Fifty
>at http://mypage.iu.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/drd80l.1228.html.
I have them in hard copy, but not in electronic form yet. I am in the
middle of getting the live playlists posted. More coming very soon!
>This makes the four parodies of a single song that once made the live top
>ten in the same week:
>
>Ayatollah - Steve Dahl (for sure)
>Slide Trombona - Jay Williams (for sure)
>My Bologna - Weird Al Yankovic (unless it was covered my Meyer & Drake)
>Mi Charona - Marina Swingers (educated guess)
Maybe I wasn't clear in my previous post. I was just listing songs I saw
on the playlists that I thought were parodies of "My Sharona". However,
there was never a single week when all four of these were on the Top Ten,
at least no according to the typed playlists I have. If anyone is able
to disprove this, please let me know! I'd like to have the playlists at
my site as accurate as possible when I get around to posting them.
>I find it odd that "Ayatollah" wasn't played on the syndicated show until
>1994. It was on the live show every week from late 1979 until early 1981.
>Too political to play in Peoria I guess.
...and/or the situation had too much potential to change before the air date,
as Tim Ryan mentioned. As I was looking through the KSAN playlists recently,
I saw there were several times when a set of Ayatollah songs were played,
but there was a note to play an alternate set if the situation escalated
during the week between the time the show was recorded and aired. I don't
know for sure if this ever happened.
Spam-A-Ram-A
in Chicago?
"You better make your position clear, we're gonna do something nuclear.
Bye, bye bya-atollah!"
"Randall Bart" <Bart...@att.spam.net> wrote in message
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>
Adam Conlea
Spam-A-Ram-A wrote in message
<1bANa.59528$TJ.30...@twister.austin.rr.com>...
>You know, I hadn't thought of Steve Dahl in years. Is he still on the
radio
>in Chicago?
>
Apparently...
http://www.dahl.com/
Adam
Randall Bart
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
>Maybe I wasn't clear in my previous post. I was just listing songs I saw
>on the playlists that I thought were parodies of "My Sharona". However,
>there was never a single week when all four of these were on the Top Ten,
>at least no according to the typed playlists I have. If anyone is able
>to disprove this, please let me know! I'd like to have the playlists at
>my site as accurate as possible when I get around to posting them.
I am quite sure that Dr D announced that there were four parodies of "My
Sharona" that week. If you can't find such a week, I believe it's an
error in your lists. The live Top Ten was truly live. They took phone
requests through the third hour of the show. There weren't published play
lists; the play lists were written down as the show was on. Errors occur
in that process.
The one that didn't make the Top Fifty for 1980 was "Mi Charona". How
many times was that one on? My guess is that the first time "Mi Charona"
was on the Top Ten is the week in question. Unless there's a week with
"My Bologna", "Slide Trombona", and "Ayatollah" before that, in which case
I figure "My Charona" was on that week. The week where you have "My
Bologna" by Meyer & Drake is a good possibility, since we already know it
was mangled.
I wish I had been taping the show in those days. The first machine I ever
had for taping off the radio was about 1982, and it was a terrible
recorder. The first machine I had that made good tapes was in 1986. But
even then I never taped Dr D. I only taped Roy of Hollywood and some
dramas on the Santa Monica City College station.
But someone had tapes; the problem is finding them.
Tim Ryan
>
> I am quite sure that Dr D announced that there were four parodies of
"My
> Sharona" that week.
parodies of "My Sharona". Without a memory like Memorex and our love of
demented chart trivia, the perception of what was said *could* have
changed.
Then again, when DrD said in 1990 or 1991 that he had all these Star
Trek original series funny records but none for the 'been running for a
few years' Next Generation, I sent him one (Robin Nakkula doing "The
Android" (4/16/1991)).
>
> I wish I had been taping the show in those days. The first machine I
ever
> had for taping off the radio was about 1982, and it was a terrible
> recorder. The first machine I had that made good tapes was in 1986.
But
> even then I never taped Dr D. I only taped Roy of Hollywood and some
> dramas on the Santa Monica City College station.
I rediscovered that I used my reel-to-reel to record the show, then
would listen later in the week and re-use the tape. Only a handfull of
tapes remain with a unique show on them. It took to November 1987, when
after the show returned to the Detroit airwaves, and I got a video tape
machine, that I kept over a decades worth of shows.
>
> But someone had tapes; the problem is finding them.
I am currently getting some KMET and other LA shows from cassette to
PC and CD. The original archivist wrote down mostly song titles, but no
date. After listening to the 120 or so of them, I got a bit of
organization to them. Comparing to SYND playlists, finding matches on
rarely played songs, or hearing that 'this is new' I could narrow things
down to maybe a month and year. Some exact dates could be determined
when hearing a Tribute/Obit for someone. Others when events are
mentioned, such as Labor Day, Memorial Day, first Sunday of the month or
'just back from the last show of the Weird Al tour', a date can also be
tagged on to a tape. With the help of Jeff Morris I am getting some
live playlists and he is getting some verification on songs, song order,
where the breaks came and special titles to things like 'Dr. Demento
Discovery for this week', or 'Double Shot' or 'Triple Play'.
I am looking for additional trading partners for Dr. Demento shows.
My current desire is for pre-LP Westwood One shows that where on tape
(1978 thru Jan 1984). Also looking for some 1984 and 1985 dates where
the syndicated show was played on KMET. (covered June of 1983 to May
of 1985). The original taper recorded these, also, and I would like to
get those back to him, too.
-Tim Ryan
Ann Arbor, MI
> --
Jeff Morris
>I am quite sure that Dr D announced that there were four parodies of "My
>Sharona" that week. If you can't find such a week, I believe it's an
>error in your lists.
That's a definite possibility, but without any hard evidence on a date or
list of songs, I will have to stick with what's on the typed lists when
I post them. I always welcome updates to the playlists to make them more
accurate.
>The one that didn't make the Top Fifty for 1980 was "Mi Charona". How
>many times was that one on? My guess is that the first time "Mi Charona"
>was on the Top Ten is the week in question.
It was only on the top ten once (according to the lists I have). That week
also had "Ayatollah" but no other parodies of "My Sharona" (unless that's
not obvious by the title).
>Unless there's a week with "My Bologna", "Slide Trombona", and "Ayatollah"
>before that, in which case I figure "My Charona" was on that week.
No, there aren't any weeks (outside of the year-end countdowns) that list
three of these at once. Here are all the ones with two of them:
November 25, 1979:
#10 My Dead Dog Rover- Stu, Dave & Hank
#9 Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
#8 The Ballad Of Irving - Frank Gallop
#7 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl
#6 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#5 Gilligan's Island (Stairway) - Little Roger & The Goosebumps
#4 (Beep)ies And Beer - Frank Zappa
#3 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
#2 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#1 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
December 16, 1979:
#10 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl
#9 My Name Is Larry - Wild Man Fischer
#8 The Ballad Of Irving - Frank Gallop
#7 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#6 Frosty The Dope Man - Marc Zydiac
#5 It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman
#4 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#2 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#1 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
December 30, 1979:
Top 50 - see list at my site
January 6, 1980:
#10 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#9 I Eat Kids - Barry Louis Polisar
#8 Religion And Politics - Scott Beach
#7 Disco Sucks - Chuck Wagon & The Wheels
#6 Gumball Wizard - Brad Stanfield
#5 Frosty The Dope Man - Marc Zydiak
#4 Moose Turd Pie - Utah Phillips
#3 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#2 Star Trip - Congress Of Wonders
#1 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
January 1, 1980:
#10 Daffy Duck's Rhapsody - Mel Blanc
#9 The Ballad Of Irving - Frank Gallop
#8 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#7 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#6 Sixpence - The Escorts
#5 Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
#4 Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara
#3 Me And My Vibrator - Susie Seacell
#2 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#1 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
February 10, 1980:
#10 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#9 School Cafeteria - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#8 The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati - Possum
#7 Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry
#6 Me And My Vibrator - Susie Seacell
#5 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#4 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#3 It's Sister Ginny's Turn To Throw The Bomb - The Glencoves
#2 I Can See Uranus - Chills
#1 Punk Polka - The Toons
[I'm not familiar with "I Can See Uranus" - could it be a parody?]
February 17, 1980:
#10 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#9 Grow Mrs. Goldfarb - Allan Sherman
#8 Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
#7 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
#6 Beepies And Beer - Frank Zappa
#5 Punk Polka - The Toons
#4 Disco Sucks - Chuck Wagon & The Wheels
#3 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#2 I Can See Uranus - Chills
#1 Sixpence - The Escorts
March 23, 1980:
#10 Bounce Your Boobies - Rusty Warren
#9 Disco Sucks, Country Swings - Chuck Wagon & The Wheels
#8 Louise - Cheeks
#7 Sixpence - The Escorts
#6 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#5 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#4 Punk Polka - The Toons
#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#2 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
#1 Interview With Bigfoot - JBCM
[I'm also not familiar with "Louise"...]
April 6, 1980:
#10 Dancin' Fool - Frank Zappa
#9 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#8 Punk Polka - The Toons
#7 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#6 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#5 Baby Likes Burping - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#4 Something's In The Bag - Barnes & Barnes
#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#2 Psycho Chicken - The Fools
#1 Disco Toilet - Hersh & Chipkin
May 18, 1980:
#10 Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman
#9 Punk Polka - The Toons
#8 Boogie Woogie Amputee - Barnes & Barnes
#7 Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce
#6 Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
#5 Disco Sucks, Country Swings - Chuck Wagon & The Wheels
#4 (live)
#3 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#2 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#1 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
NOTE: the above is a *possible* instance of two parodies of "My Sharona"
on at once. We don't know what #4 was at this point, just that it was a
live performance of some sort. (This show was a live broadcast from Tower
Records.) It could possibly have been Al doing "My Bologna", but I think
he was probably still in school at Cal Poly at this point in the year. It
could also have been Dr. D singing "Shaving Cream".
June 22, 1980:
#10 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#9 Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong
#8 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#7 Psycho Chicken - The Fools
#6 The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein
#5 The Geek's Revenge - Don Noon
#4 Shaving Cream - Dr. Demento
#3 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
#2 I Gotta Get A Fake I.D. - Barnes & Barnes
#1 Dragnet Goes To Kindergarten - Ricky Vera
July 20, 1980:
#10 Undertaker - Monty Python
#9 Healthy Attitude - Daniel Brownfield
#8 Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
#7 Baby Likes Burping - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#6 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#5 So Long, Mom - Tom Lehrer
#4 Psycho Chicken - The Fools
#3 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#2 (Bleep)ies And Beer - Frank Zappa
#1 Mr. Bill - Meyer & Drake
July 27, 1980:
#10 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
#9 Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones
#8 Healthy Attitude - Daniel Brownfield
#7 Locked In The Closet With You - SuLu
#6 Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
#5 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#4 Shaving Cream - Dr. Demento
#3 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#2 I Don't Wanna Get Drafted - Frank Zappa
#1 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl
August 3, 1980:
#10 Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong
#9 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
#8 Psycho Chicken - The Fools
#7 My Girl's Pussy - R. Crumb
#6 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#5 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl
#4 Shaving Cream - Dr. Demento
#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#2 Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara
#1 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
August 24, 1980:
#10 My Dead Dog Rover - Stu, Dave & Hank
#9 My Bologna - Meyer & Drake [presumably "Mr. Bill"]
#8 It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman
#7 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#6 My Girl's Pussy - R. Crumb
#5 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#4 Shaving Cream - Dr. Demento
#3 Baby Likes Burping - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#2 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
#1 It's Still Billy Joel To Me - "Weird Al" Yankovic
September 14, 1980:
#10 Robert Hilburn - Damaskas
#9 The Ballad Of Irving - Frank Gallop
#8 The Hicky On Your Neck - Tiny Tim
#7 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
EXTRA: Another One Rides The Bus (live in studio) - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#6 Locked In The Closet With You - SuLu
#5 Party In My Pants - Barnes & Barnes
#4 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#3 Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong
#2 It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman
#1 It's Still Billy Joel To Me - "Weird Al" Yankovic
NOTE: this is another possible...I don't know "Robert Hilburn", but maybe
it's a parody?
Rocktober 12, 1980:
#10 The Phantom Windbreaker - Red Bovine
#9 My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#8 Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie
#7 Taco Mama - B. J. Band
#6 Space Invaders - Uncle Vic
#5 TKO Mine Yopper Song - 3-Leez
#4 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
#3 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl
#2 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#1 Another One Rides The Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic
NOTE: yet another possible...is "Taco Mama" a parody? Or "TKO Mine Yopper
Song"?
November 2, 1980:
#10 TKO Mine Yopper Song - 3-Leez
#9 (Bleep)ies And Beer - Frank Zappa
#8 Three Blind Mice - SuLu
#7 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
#6 Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
#5 The Great Debate - The Correspondents
#4 Moose Turd Pie - Utah Phillips
#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
#2 Space Invaders - Uncle Vic
#1 Another One Rides The Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic
December 28, 1980:
Funny 50 - features three confirmed and several possible parodies of "My
Sharona" - see my site for the full list
I checked July, 1979 through June, 1981 for these. I doubt it would've
happened outside of that time range.
Tim Ryan
>
> September 14, 1980:
> #10 Robert Hilburn - Damaskas
> #9 The Ballad Of Irving - Frank Gallop
> #8 The Hicky On Your Neck - Tiny Tim
> #7 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
> EXTRA: Another One Rides The Bus (live in studio) - "Weird Al"
Yankovic
> #6 Locked In The Closet With You - SuLu
> #5 Party In My Pants - Barnes & Barnes
> #4 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
> #3 Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong
> #2 It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman
> #1 It's Still Billy Joel To Me - "Weird Al" Yankovic
>
> NOTE: this is another possible...I don't know "Robert Hilburn", but
maybe
> it's a parody?
You see why that would be a popular KMET only song. In listening to all
those KMET tapes I got, IIRC, doc said that "Weird Al" Yankovic was in
on it. Will find it again someday.
I don't think it was a parody.
-Tim Ryan
>
Randall Bart
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
>[I'm not familiar with "I Can See Uranus" - could it be a parody?]
No.
>March 23, 1980:
>#8 Louise - Cheeks
>#7 Sixpence - The Escorts
>[I'm also not familiar with "Louise"...]
I don't recall "Louise" or "Sixpence".
>May 18, 1980:
>NOTE: the above is a *possible* instance of two parodies of "My Sharona"
>on at once. We don't know what #4 was at this point, just that it was a
>live performance of some sort. (This show was a live broadcast from Tower
>Records.) It could possibly have been Al doing "My Bologna", but I think
>he was probably still in school at Cal Poly at this point in the year. It
>could also have been Dr. D singing "Shaving Cream".
I recognize the other eight. It's quite possible (likely even) that Weird
Al was at a live event.
>July 20, 1980:
>#9 Healthy Attitude - Daniel Brownfield
I don't recognize this one.
>NOTE: this is another possible...I don't know "Robert Hilburn", but maybe
>it's a parody?
No
>Rocktober 12, 1980:
>#10 The Phantom Windbreaker - Red Bovine
>#7 Taco Mama - B. J. Band
>#5 TKO Mine Yopper Song - 3-Leez
>NOTE: yet another possible...is "Taco Mama" a parody? Or "TKO Mine Yopper
>Song"?
These are three songs I don't recognize.
>November 2, 1980:
>#10 TKO Mine Yopper Song - 3-Leez
>#6 Mi Charona - Marina Swingers
>#5 The Great Debate - The Correspondents
>#3 Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
Hmmm. "Mi Charona", "Ayatollah" and two songs I don't recognize.
>I checked July, 1979 through June, 1981 for these. I doubt it would've
>happened outside of that time range.
I agree. Does anyone remember a fifth "My Sharona" parody in that era?
'Twas Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:19:03 GMT when all rec.music.dementia stood in
awe as "Tim Ryan" <tim...@earthlink.net> uttered:
> Maybe during a Top Ten one week, doc announced that there are now 4
>parodies of "My Sharona". Without a memory like Memorex and our love of
>demented chart trivia, the perception of what was said *could* have
>changed.
I s'pose I could be misremembering, and The Good Doctor was only referring
to four songs that had made it ever, not that made it in one week, but I
remember hearing the songs after he announced it.
Jeff Morris
>I don't recall "Louise" or "Sixpence".
"Sixpence" is not a parody. He has played it comparatively recently.
>I recognize the other eight. It's quite possible (likely even) that Weird
>Al was at a live event.
He was certainly at some, I'm just not sure if he was at this one.
>>#9 Healthy Attitude - Daniel Brownfield
>
>I don't recognize this one.
It's not a parody.
>>#10 The Phantom Windbreaker - Red Bovine
>>#7 Taco Mama - B. J. Band
>>#5 TKO Mine Yopper Song - 3-Leez
>
>These are three songs I don't recognize.
I don't know the latter two, but the first one is on Dementia Royale. It's
sort of a take off on "Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine, but definitely not a "My
Sharona" parody.
>>#5 The Great Debate - The Correspondents
This is a break-in interview about the 1980 presidential election.
>I s'pose I could be misremembering, and The Good Doctor was only referring
>to four songs that had made it ever, not that made it in one week, but I
>remember hearing the songs after he announced it.
Could it possibly have been on the year-end countdown, rather than a
weekly top ten?
Randall Bart
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
>Could it possibly have been on the year-end countdown, rather than a
>weekly top ten?
No, it was a regular show. Also "Mi Charona" wasn't in the top 50.
The Rooster
years ago (but I admit that they could've written it co-incidentally without
knowing that I wrote it years before.))
Stan,
'Stan and the Sequencers'
www.thesequencers.us
"There's something rotten here" - "Genius Al" Yankovic
+- +- +- +-
'They're Coming To Snuff Me Away, Luv Uh' by 'Stan and the Sequencers'
Parody of 'They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha' by 'Napoleon XIV'
Remember when you ran a WAY and you grabbed your scissors and begged me to
leave because I'd go "Weird Al"?
Well,
You left me anyhow and then the trolls got worse and worse and now BC I've
gone completely out of my mind.
And,
They're coming to fake you a WAY, luv uh
They're coming to snuff me away, Oh No!, Cra Z, W
On Uncle Jon's farm, where Stan is 'Beautiful' all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men and their bald white heads and
they're coming to snuff me away, luv uh!
You said you had a toke and so you coughed you laughed when I had said that
losing that hit made me Flipp my er,
White?
You know you coughed I heard you cough you laughed you coughed and laughed
and then you toked but now you know you're totally stoned.
And,
They're coming to fake you a WAY, luv uh
They're coming to snuff me away, Oh No!, Cra Z, W
At the flaming house with trolls and spammers and airplane rules and basket
cases who KISS and sign and wiggle their hips and hoes and they're coming to
snuff me away, W!
I cooked your 'tude, I nailed your CON and this is how you pay me back for
all my kind, unselfish trolling deeds?
Huh?
Well, you just wait we'll find you yet and when we do they'll pull your
account at AOLuh you mangy muttuh!
And,
They're coming to fake you a WAY, luv uh
They're coming to snuff me away, Oh No!, Cra Z, W
On Uncle Jon's farm, where Stan is 'Beautiful' all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men and their bald white heads and
they're coming to snuff me away, luv uh!
At the flaming house with trolls and spammers and airplane rules and basket
cases who KISS and sign and wiggle their hips and hoes and they're coming to
snuff me away, W!
On Uncle Jon's farm, where Stan is 'Beautiful' all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men and their bald white heads and they're
coming to snuff me away!
Jeff Morris
not parodies of "My Sharona". Therefore that leaves the following three
unidentified tracks:
Interview With Bigfoot - JBCM
Taco Mama - B. J. Band
Three Blind Mice - SuLu
In my opinion, "Interview With Bigfoot" sounds like a break-in interview
to me, not a parody of "My Sharona". I doubt "Three Blind Mice" is either,
since SuLu wasn't known for parodies, and that title doesn't sound like
it would be a "My Sharona" parody. "Taco Mama" sounds like a possible
title for a "My Sharona" parody, but even if it is, that only appeared on
the 10-12-80 top ten and wouldn't account for four parodies of the same
song in the same top ten. Neiher would either of the other two if they
did turn out to be parodies.
Is it possible you're thinking of another song, like "Bette Davis Eyes"?
I haven't checked for that one.
Jeff Morris
These two have been confirmed not to be parodies of "My Sharona".
So that leaves only this one unidentified:
> Interview With Bigfoot - JBCM
From the title, I doubt that it is a parody of "My Sharona".
Also, #9 on August 24, 1980, has been confirmed to be "Mr. Bill" by
Meyer & Drake, not "My Bologna".
Jeff Morris
>Is it possible you're thinking of another song, like "Bette Davis Eyes"?
>I haven't checked for that one.
Another song that inspired a lot of parodies was "Valley Girl". I ran
across a 1982 playlist that included two parodies of that, plus the original
song itself at #1.
Jeff Morris
>I s'pose I could be misremembering, and The Good Doctor was only referring
>to four songs that had made it ever, not that made it in one week, but I
>remember hearing the songs after he announced it.
OK, are you sure it was during the top ten?
I just ran across something on the February 28, 1982 KMET playlist that
looks suspicious:
Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
Rosh Hashanah - Allied Force
My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
This is in the middle of the second hour, nowhere near the top ten. Later
in the show is an interview with Jim Abrahams & David Zucker (of Airplane
and Police Squad) also aired on the WWO show that week.
The top ten contains no "My Sharona" parodies that I'm aware of.
Randall Bart
stood in awe as jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) uttered:
>I just ran across something on the February 28, 1982 KMET playlist that
>looks suspicious:
>
>Slide Trombona - Jay Williams
>Rosh Hashanah - Allied Force
>My Bologna - "Weird Al" Yankovic
>Ayatollah - Steve Dahl
By the grouping of the songs, "Rosh Hashanah" is clearly to the tune of
"My Sharona", but I never heard it. I'm pretty much convinced what I
heard was the first time "Mi Charona" made the top ten. Dr D must have
said something ambiguous about four parodies of "My Sharona" making the
top ten, and I thought he meant all in one week, but he just meant ever.
So how many "My Sharona" parodies does this make?
My Bologna
Ayatollah
Slide Trombona
Mi Charona
Rosh Hashanah
Nine Coronas (two versions)
Wynona's Song
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