The Demented Song Almanac
Editor: David Tanny

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First Time a FF Song Was Played (1975 annual)

** Date:1975-01-05... Light My Fire - The Templeton Twins with Teddy Turner & His Bunsen Burners (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-01-05)
** Date:1975-01-05... The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/wooley-sheb.htm (released 1958, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-04-27)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1  / The Purple People Eater  / Wild & Crazy Tunes  / Novelty No. 1's  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Hey Mr. Spaceman  / 22 Greatest Hits Of Sheb Wooley Or Ben Colder  / They Came From Outer Space  / Box of Funny Wacky Favorites  / Halloween Hits  / Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection  / Elvira Presents Haunted Hits  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1975-01-12... Pico and Sepulveda (The Street Song) - The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band (released 1974, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-02-23)
** Date:1975-01-12... Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny? - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm & His City Slickers (f/ George Rock) (released 1949, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-09-28)
Albums: Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology  / Spike Jones' Greatest Hits! 
** Date:1975-01-12... The Ballad of Irving - Frank Gallop (released 1966, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-05-04)
Albums: When You're In Love The Whole World is Jewish / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1975-01-19... Bozo's Song - Pinto Colvig (released 1946, first hit the Funny Five on 2001-07-29)
** Date:1975-01-26... Alvin For President - David Seville & The Chipmunks http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/chipmunks.htm (released 1960, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-09-19)
Albums: Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years  / Solid Gold Chipmunks
** Date:1975-01-26... The Ballad of Ben Gay - Ben Gay & The Silly Savages (released 1973, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-07-20)
Albums: Dr. Demento's Delights
** Date:1975-01-26... The Witch Doctor - The Music of David Seville (released 1958, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-12-26)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1  / Wild & Crazy Tunes  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection  / Crazy Classics  / Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years 
** Date:1975-02-09... Timothy - The Buoys (released 1971, first hit the Funny Five on 1990-08-26)
Albums: Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection  / Timothy: Golden Classics 
** Date:1975-02-16... Ahab, The Arab - Ray Stevens http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/stevens-ray.htm (released 1962, first hit the Funny Five on 1980-05-18)
Albums: The Ray Stevens Box Set  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Ray Stevens: All-Time Greatest Hits  / Gitarzan  / Ray Stevens' Greatest Hits by MCA / Ray Stevens: 20 Comedy Hits Special Collection  / Ray Stevens: Collection  / Ray Stevens: All Time Greatest Comic Hits / Ray Stevens: All-Time Hits  / Ray Stevens: His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits  / The Best Of Ray Stevens by Rhino / Funny Man / Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens by Empire
** Date:1975-02-16... Political Science (Let's Drop The Big One) - Randy Newman http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/newman-randy.htm (released 1972, first hit the Funny Five on 2001-03-11)
Albums: Sailed Away / Guilty: 30 Years Of Randy Newman 
** Date:1975-02-16... Spam - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (released 1971, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-04-13)
Albums: The Final Ripoff  / Monty Python Sings  / Another Monty Python Record 
** Date:1975-03-09... Ain't It A Beauty - Cliff Ferre w/ The Cafe Society Quintet (first hit the Funny Five on 1998-08-30)
** Date:1975-03-09... I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross (released 1965, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-04-20)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition 
** Date:1975-03-09... National Brotherhood Week - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm (released 1965, first hit the Funny Five on 1980-03-09)
Albums: That Was The Year That Was  / The Remains Of Tom Lehrer 
** Date:1975-03-09... There's a New Sound (The Sound of Worms) - Tony Burrello (released 1952, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-08-03)
Albums: Greasy Kid Stuff: Songs From Inside The Radio  / Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1975-03-16... 30,000 Pounds of Bananas - Harry Chapin http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/chapin-harry.htm (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-06-08)
Albums: Verities & Balderdash  / Greatest Stories Live
** Date:1975-03-16... Gentry's Gin - Doodles Weaver (first hit the Funny Five on 1979-01-21)
** Date:1975-03-16... Highly Illogical - Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/aaastartrek.htm) (released 1968, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-06-15)
Albums: Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection  / Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner 
** Date:1975-03-23... Little Blue Riding Hood - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm, Daws Butler, & June Foray (released 1953, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-05-09)
Albums: But Seriously...The American Comedy Box Set  / The Very Best of Stan Freberg  / Tip Of The Freberg  / Stan Freberg Greatest Hits 
** Date:1975-03-23... Say Guy, You Wanna Boogie - Sgt. Charts & The Teenage Zombie Drug Band (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-11-16)
** Date:1975-03-23... Theme From Blazing Saddles - Frankie Laine (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-05-25)
** Date:1975-04-13... I'm My Own Grandpa - Lonzo & Oscar (released 1947, first hit the Funny Five on 1978-07-09)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Volume I: The 1940s and Before / Ha! Ha!: 24 Great Comedy Songs 
** Date:1975-04-13... The Hospitality Blues - Doug Harrell, M.D. (released 1956, first hit the Funny Five on 1978-05-28)
Albums: Laugh a Spell with Doug Harrell
** Date:1975-04-20... Take Off Your Clothes - Peter Sarstedt http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sarstedt-peter.htm (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-05-18)
Albums: As Though It Were a Movie / The Legends Collection 
** Date:1975-05-04... Boris The Spider - The Who http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/who.htm (released 1966, first hit the Funny Five on 1980-03-09)
Albums: My Generation: The Very Best of The Who  / A Quick One [Happy Jack] 
** Date:1975-05-04... Cinderella - Jack Ross (released 1962, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-09-05)
** Date:1975-05-11... Banana Boat (Day-O) - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm (released 1957, first hit the Funny Five on 1981-03-01)
Albums: Tip Of The Freberg  / The Very Best of Stan Freberg  / Stan Freberg Greatest Hits 
** Date:1975-05-11... Dinner With Drac - John Zacherle "The Cool Ghoul" (released 1958, first hit the Funny Five on 1979-10-28)
Albums: Novelty Experience  / Dead Man's Ball 
** Date:1975-05-18... Harry The Hairy Ape - Ray Stevens http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/stevens-ray.htm (released 1963, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-08-22)
Albums: Gitarzan  / Ray Stevens: All-Time Hits  / The Best Of Ray Stevens by Rhino / Funny Man / Ray Stevens: All-Time Greatest Hits 
** Date:1975-05-25... Puttin' On The Ritz - Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle w/ music conducted by John Morris (released 1974, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-07-20)
Albums: Young Frankenstein OST
** Date:1975-06-01... Deteriorata - National Lampoon http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/nationallampoon.htm f/ Melissa Manchester (released 1972, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-08-10)
Albums: Radio Dinner  / Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / The Classic National Lampoon Box Set  / Greatest Hits of the National Lampoon 
** Date:1975-06-01... Leader Of The Laundromat - The Detergents (released 1964, first hit the Funny Five on 1981-09-20)
Albums: Novelty Experience  / Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Forty Nutty Novelty Records Of The '60s
** Date:1975-06-08... We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm (released 1959, first hit the Funny Five on 1985-08-25)
Albums: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer  / Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer  / The Remains Of Tom Lehrer 
** Date:1975-06-08... You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie - Allan Sherman http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sherman-allan.htm (released 1963, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-03-14)
Albums: My Son the Nut / My Son the Greatest: The Best of Allan Sherman  / My Son, The Box 
** Date:1975-06-08... The Alphabet Song - The Three Stooges http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/threestooges.htm (first hit the Funny Five on 1982-02-14)
Albums: Nonsense Song Book  / Dr. Demento's Mementos
** Date:1975-06-08... The Lumberjack Song - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (released 1974, first hit the Funny Five on 1975-08-03)
Albums: Monty Python Live at City Center  / Monty Python Live at Drury Lane  / Best Comedy Album in the World...Ever!  / And Now For Something Completely Different / The Monty Python Instant Record Collection [U.S. version]  / Monty Python Sings  / The Final Ripoff  / Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1975-06-15... Argument Clinic - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (released 1972, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-04-11)
Albums: Monty Python Live at City Center  / Monty Python Live at Drury Lane  / Monty Python Previous Record / The Final Ripoff  / Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy  / The Monty Python Instant Record Collection [U.K. Version] / The Monty Python Instant Record Collection [U.S. version]  / Hey, That's Funny! Comedy's Greatest Hits 
** Date:1975-07-27... My Daddy Is President - Little Joe (first hit the Funny Five on 1982-08-29)
** Date:1975-08-17... Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland (released 1960, first hit the Funny Five on 1984-06-24)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1  / Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Forty Nutty Novelty Records Of The '60s / Wacky Favorites: Weird & Wild 
** Date:1975-08-31... Elderly Man River - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm & Daws Butler (released 1957, first hit the Funny Five on 2005-04-03)
Albums: Tip Of The Freberg 
** Date:1975-09-14... Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm (released 1953, first hit the Funny Five on 1980-01-06)
Albums: Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer  / The Remains Of Tom Lehrer  / Tom Lehrer Revisited 
** Date:1975-09-21... Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-10-26)
Albums: Wild & Crazy Tunes  / 25 All Time Novelty Hits  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1975-09-21... Yankee Doodle - Piper's Gap Ramblers (first hit the Funny Five on 1976-07-04)
** Date:1975-09-28... Tennessee Bird Walk - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (released 1970, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-05-30)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Box of Funny Wacky Favorites  / World's Greatest Country Novelty Records 
** Date:1975-10-05... My Old Flame - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm & His City Slickers (f/ Paul Judson & Paul Frees) (released 1947, first hit the Funny Five on 1976-10-17)
Albums: Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology  / Strictly For Music Lovers  / Spike Jones' Greatest Hits!  / Wacky World of Spike Jones and His City Slickers  / Best Of Spike Jones and His City Slickers  / Corn's A-Poppin'  / Musical Mayhem  / The Jones Laughing Record  / Very Worst of Spike Jones 
** Date:1975-10-12... Loving Me - Vinnie Zipperton (first hit the Funny Five on 1976-11-14)
** Date:1975-11-09... Them Poem Medley - Jim Connor (first hit the Funny Five on 1975-11-09)

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