The Dr. Demento Show #25-20

playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show

The Dr. Demento Show #25-20 - May 17, 2025

Special Topic: television (flashing back)
NOTE: This show was assembled from 7 prior shows, with commercials and outdated references removed. The first 4 segments are from 83-40, the next is from 98-23, the next is from 85-29, the next is from 90-05, the next 2 are from 01-39, the next 2 are from 90-15, and the last is from 00-20. None of these shows had been made available for streaming in full on drdemento.com at the time of this show's posting.
'Tain't No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin And Dance Around In Your Bones) - Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys
The Great Gildersleeve (radio broadcast excerpts)
The Fred Allen Show (excerpt)
Howdy Doody TV opening - Buffalo Bob Smith
Milton Berle (TV broadcast excerpt)
Television - Zeke Manners
The Great Gildersleeve (radio broadcast excerpt)
The Lone Ranger TV theme (excerpt)
Along Came Jones - The Coasters
Your Hit Parade TV opening
TV Is The Thing (This Year) (excerpt) - Dinah Washington
Mr. Question Man (excerpt) - Ernie Kovacs

You Bet Your Life (TV broadcast excerpt) - Groucho Marx
What Did You Do Before You Had TV? - The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller And Orchestra
Captain Kangaroo (TV broadcast excerpt)
Tele-Vee-Shun' (album version) - Stan Freberg

"The following program is brought to you in Living Color on NBC."
The Vidiot - Ken Nordine
My Little Margie/The Life Of Riley/I Love Lucy/The Dick Van Dyke Show/The Beverly Hillbillies (TV broadcast excerpts)
I'm The Slime - The Mothers
Let's Make A Deal (TV broadcast excerpt)
TVGB's - Tyler Von Jeebes

The Secret Storm/The Guiding Light/The Doctors (TV broadcast intros)
General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights
The Mickey Mouse Club TV theme (excerpt)

Singing TV Stars Medley:

Proud Mary - Leonard Nimoy
A Smile Is Just A Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Eddie Albert
Da Doo Ron Ron - Laverne & Shirley (Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams)
I Love To Dance - Carroll O'Connor
Little Ole Man (Up Tight Everthing's Alright) - Bill Cosby
Lu - Peggy Lipton
When Banana Skins Are Falling (I'll Come Sliding Back To You) - The Odd Couple (Tony Randall & Jack Klugman w/ Roland Shaw & The London Festival Orchestra & Chorus)
If - Telly Savalas
Ballad Of The Good Luck Charm - Larry Hagman
Country Girls - John Schneider
Molly Darlin' - Andy Griffith
The Covered Man - David Soul
Just The Way I Planned It - Philip Michael Thomas
Heartbeat - Don Johnson
Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Sherman Hemsley
A Cowboy's Best Friend Is His Horse - Little Georgie Gobel

George of the Jungle - "Weird Al" Yankovic
The Jetsons Main Title (1985 version)
Mr. Ed - Tiny Tim & The Gloomchasers
Honeymooners Rap - Joe Piscopo (w/ Eddie Murphy & D.S.T.)

We Love Barney Fife - Guns N' Moses
Love Poems: "To The Lovely Juanita Beasley" - Andy Griffith
Mayberry Beret - Zot Theater
I Ain't Good Looking (But I'm Mighty Sweet) - George Lindsey

Vanna, Pick Me A Letter - Dr. Dave
I Lost On Jeopardy - "Weird Al" Yankovic

It's A Really Big Show Tonight - The Kirby Stone Four f/ Ed Sullivan - Boy Singer
Gigantor - original TV theme
Jane, Get Me Off This Crazy Thing! (Prime Time Radio Mix) - The Tee Vee Toons Master Mix
I Can't Watch This - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Jonny Quest (Main Title) (background only)

My Little Margie - Robert Klein
Vegematic - Steve Goodman
Ed Sullivan, ED SULLIVAN - Gabriel Kaplan

Who Is It? - Carlton The Doorman (Lorenzo Music)
My Name Is Not Merv Griffin - Gary Muller
The Chicken In Black - Johnny Cash

Frank's 2000" TV - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Wun'erful, Wun'erful! - Stan Freberg
Gilligan's Island (Stairway) - Little Roger & The Goosebumps
next week: count down the top ten for May 2025; free-form