playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show

The Best Of Dr. Demento #XM-104

May 21, 2005 - 12m ET (XM channel 151, mono, Saturday night); May 22, 2005 - 12m ET (XM channel 40, stereo, Sunday night)

originally broadcast as The Dr. Demento Show #05-18 - May 1, 2005

NOTE: This was the last broadcast on XM, who decided not to renew their contract with Dr. Demento
Special Topic: hot humor from the cold war years

Petroleum - Tim Cavanagh
Gas Station Washroom - The Frantics
Gas Money - Jan & Arnie
Energy Crisis '74 - Dickie Goodman
I Like You - Lorne Elliott

Barbershop - 50 Schment a/k/a Iceman
I Wear Cologne - The Dan Orr Project
One More Minute - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Demented News With Whimsical Will

My Dead Dog Rover - Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank
Lizard And Fish - Logan Whitehurst & The Junior Science Club
Llama Serenade - Shebel & Larson
The Great Mosquito Hunt - Lorne Elliott
Monster (minor edit) - Fred Schneider & The Shake Society
Toribio The Clown Gets His Groove Back (background only) - Hip Hop Hoodios

The Old Dope Peddler (original studio version) - Tom Lehrer
Be Prepared (original studio version) - Tom Lehrer
God Is In - Billy Jonas

Russian Band Stand - Spencer & Spencer w/ the Sonia Pryor Choir
Bolshevik (excerpt) - Waring's Pennsylvanians
Rise Up (excerpt) - Hans Eisler et al.
The Steel Foundry (excerpt) - Julius Ehrlich, conductor
The Red Deck Of Cards - Red River Dave
There's A Hole In The Iron Curtain - Mickey Katz/Mel Blanc

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues - Bob Dylan
In Russia - Ladda Howard
The ABC's Of Dead Russian Leaders - Tim Cavanagh
Moscow Drug Club - B. B. Gabor

#5 Girlfriend (w/o intro) - Henry Phillips
#4 Inner Voice (uncensored) - Sudden Death f/ Worm Quartet

#3 Amish Paradise - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#2 Sirius Black - Tony Goldmark

#1 Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes
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