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The Dr. Demento Show #116 - October 17, 1976

Special Topic: Spike Jones; some very funny football songs; some more of that wonderful new album from Neil Innes & Eric Idle of Monty Python fame

Testing - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
Heartbreak Hotel - Stan Freberg
Protest Song - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
His Rocking Horse Ran Away - Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Take Me Out To The Ball Game - Arden & Maisie
Medley: Mr. Touchdown - Hugo Winterhalter w/ orchestra & chorus/You Gotta Be A Football Hero - The Crew-Cuts/Football Freddy - Ted Wallace & His Swing Kings/I Fell Asleep At The Football Game - Eddie Paul & His Paramount Orchestra
Football - Eric Idle & Neil Innes

Teenage Brain Surgeon - Spike Jones & The Band That Plays For Fun f/ Thurl Ravenscroft

Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me - Jonathan & Darlene Edwards
Harvest Of Love - Benny Hill
Story Of The W. C. - anonymous
Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back - Billy Edd Wheeler

Communist Cooking - Eric Idle & Neil Innes
Hail To Thee, Fat Person - Allan Sherman
Wheezy Anna - Ray Noble & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Purple People Eater Meets Witch Doctor - The Big Bopper

Pimples And Braces - Spike Jones & The Band That Plays For Fun
Springtime For Hitler - Mel Brooks

On The Good Ship Lollipop - Shirley Temple
Sailin' On The Robert E. Lee - Ray Noble & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Poor Man's Heaven - Carson Robison
Life Gits Tee-jus, Don't It - Carson Robison w/ His Pleasant Valley Boys

Girl With The Three Blue Eyes Medley - Abe Burrows
Dummy Song - The Modernaires
Marching Off To Bedlam - Napoleon XIV

Chocolate Toenails - SuLu & Chris Cathcart
Serenade To A Maid - Teddy Powell & His Orchestra
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (orchestral version) - Tom Lehrer

A Serenade To A Jerk - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
#5 Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
#4 My Old Flame - Spike Jones & His City Slickers

#3 The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati (missing spoken outro) - Possum
Most Demented City (tie) - Sacramento, California: Sacramento - Hoagy Carmichael
Most Demented City (tie) - Portland, Oregon: The Oregon Trail - Ozzie Nelson
#2 Deteriorata - National Lampoon

#1 The Ballad Of Irving ("schlepping" version) - Frank Gallop