The Demented Song Almanac
Editor: David Tanny

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First Time a Song Reached the FF (1976 annual)

** Date:1976-02-15 Pos.5... Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara (first played 1976-01-11)
Albums: They Came From Outer Space  / Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection  / Dr. Demento's Hits From Outer Space  / Star Trek Comedy: The Unofficial Album
** Date:1976-03-14 Pos.3... You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie - Allan Sherman http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sherman-allan.htm (released 1963, first played 1975-06-08)
Albums: My Son the Nut / My Son the Greatest: The Best of Allan Sherman  / My Son, The Box 
** Date:1976-03-21 Pos.3... Gumball Wizard - Brad Stanfield (released 1975, first played 1976-01-18)
** Date:1976-03-21 Pos.4... The Moustache Song - John Ryan (Joe Rines) (released 1939, first played 1974-09-22)
** Date:1976-04-11 Pos.4... Argument Clinic - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (released 1972, first played 1975-06-15)
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:1976-04-18 Pos.4... The Son of Irving - Frank Gallop (released 1966, first played 1976-02-01)
** Date:1976-04-25 Pos.5... Eric, The Half A Bee - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (released 1972, first played 1976-03-07)
Albums: Monty Python Previous Record / The Final Ripoff  / Monty Python Sings  / The Monty Python Instant Record Collection [U.K. Version]
** Date:1976-05-09 Pos.3... Little Blue Riding Hood - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm, Daws Butler, & June Foray (released 1953, first played 1975-03-23)
Albums: But Seriously...The American Comedy Box Set  / The Very Best of Stan Freberg  / Tip Of The Freberg  / Stan Freberg Greatest Hits 
** Date:1976-05-16 Pos.4... Mr. Custer - Larry Verne (released 1960, first played 1974-12-15)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Crazy Classics  / 25 All Time Novelty Hits  / Box of Funny Wacky Favorites  / Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection  / Forty Nutty Novelty Records Of The '60s
** Date:1976-05-30 Pos.4... Tennessee Bird Walk - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (released 1970, first played 1975-09-28)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Box of Funny Wacky Favorites  / World's Greatest Country Novelty Records 
** Date:1976-07-04 Pos.4... Bicentennial - Loudon Wainwright III http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/wainwright-loudon.htm (first played 1976-03-28)
** Date:1976-07-04 Pos.5... Bicentennial Boogie - Mondo Hotoants (first played 1976-07-04)
** Date:1976-07-04 Pos.1... Yankee Doodle - Piper's Gap Ramblers (first played 1975-09-21)
** Date:1976-07-11 Pos.5... Pop Hates the Beatles - Allan Sherman http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sherman-allan.htm (released 1964, first played 1974-09-22)
Albums: My Son the Greatest: The Best of Allan Sherman  / My Son, The Box 
** Date:1976-07-25 Pos.4... Cocktails For Two - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm & His City Slickers (f/ Carl Grayson) (released 1944, first played 1974-09-29)
Albums: Spike Jones' Greatest Hits!  / Strictly For Music Lovers  / Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection  / Wacky World of Spike Jones and His City Slickers  / Best Of Spike Jones and His City Slickers  / Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry  / Musical Depreciation  / Musical Mayhem  / People Are Funnier Than Anybody  / Spike Jones Transcribed  / V-Disc Recordings  / Very Best of Spike Jones and His City Slickers  / Very Worst of Spike Jones  / Not Your Standard Spike Jones Collection 
** Date:1976-07-25 Pos.5... I Owe A Lot To Iowa Pot - Jerry Samuels (a/k/a Napoleon XIV http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/napoleonthe14th.htm) (released 1974, first played 1976-02-08)
Albums: The Second Coming 
** Date:1976-08-01 Pos.5... The Battle Of Kookamonga - Homer and Jethro (released 1959, first played 1974-08-11)
Albums: Novelty Experience  / America's Song Butchers: The Weird World Of Homer & Jethro  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection  / Corny Country 
** Date:1976-08-08 Pos.4... King Kong (Your Song) - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara (first played 1976-06-20)
** Date:1976-08-08 Pos.1... Madalena Hadalena - The Marshmellows (released 1975, first played 1976-01-25)
** Date:1976-08-22 Pos.5... Beep Beep - The Playmates (released 1958, first played 1974-12-01)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1  / Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition  / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection  / Hot Rods and Custom Classics 
** Date:1976-08-22 Pos.4... Harry The Hairy Ape - Ray Stevens http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/stevens-ray.htm (released 1963, first played 1975-05-18)
Albums: Gitarzan  / Ray Stevens: All-Time Hits  / The Best Of Ray Stevens by Rhino / Funny Man / Ray Stevens: All-Time Greatest Hits 
** Date:1976-08-29 Pos.5... Disco Tech - Homemade Theatre (first played 1976-06-20)
** Date:1976-09-05 Pos.5... Cinderella - Jack Ross (released 1962, first played 1975-05-04)
** Date:1976-09-05 Pos.4... The Bumble Bee Invaded A Nudist Colony - Billy Mitchell (released 1950, first played 1974-08-11)
** Date:1976-09-12 Pos.3... Convoy G. B. - Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks (Dave Lee Travis & Paul Burnett) (first played 1976-08-08)
** Date:1976-09-12 Pos.5... Safari (a/k/a My Sister's Nose) - Peter Alsop http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/alsop-peter.htm (first played 1976-04-11)
Albums: Silly Songs & Modern Lullabyes
** Date:1976-09-19 Pos.4... Alvin For President - David Seville & The Chipmunks http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/chipmunks.htm (released 1960, first played 1975-01-26)
Albums: Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years  / Solid Gold Chipmunks
** Date:1976-09-19 Pos.5... Hey Shirley (This Is Squirrely) - Shirley & Squirrely (first played 1976-09-12)
Albums: All Ears
** Date:1976-10-03 Pos.5... Dream Dirty Dreams - SuLu (first played 1976-08-01)
** Date:1976-10-17 Pos.4... My Old Flame - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm & His City Slickers (f/ Paul Judson & Paul Frees) (released 1947, first played 1975-10-05)
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:1976-10-31 Pos.1... Rock & Roll Classroom - Conception Corporation (released 1971, first played 1976-05-02)
Albums: Conception Corporation Box Set / Conception and Other States of Mind
** Date:1976-11-14 Pos.5... Harv Kirshner - The Fabulous DeLuxe Brothers (first played 1976-04-11)
** Date:1976-11-14 Pos.4... Loving Me - Vinnie Zipperton (first played 1975-10-12)
** Date:1976-12-12 Pos.5... C. B. Savage - Rod Hart (first played 1976-11-28)
Albums: Trucker Songs
** Date:1976-12-19 Pos.3... All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm & His City Slickers (f/ George Rock) (released 1948, first played 1974-12-08)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time  / Strictly For Music Lovers  / Spike Jones' Greatest Hits!  / Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology  / Let's Sing a Song of Christmas  / It's a Spike Jones Christmas  / People Are Funnier Than Anybody  / The Jones Laughing Record  / Very Worst of Spike Jones  / Billboard's Greatest Christmas Hits 1935-1954 
** Date:1976-12-19 Pos.2... Green Christmas - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm (released 1958, first played 1974-12-22)
Albums: Bah! Humbug!  / Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time  / Tip Of The Freberg  / Christmas Comedy Classics 
** Date:1976-12-19 Pos.5... Ho Ho Ho (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas) - Elton John (released 1972, first played 1976-12-12)
** Date:1976-12-19 Pos.4... I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd (released 1952, first played 1974-12-22)
Albums: Billboard's Greatest Christmas Hits 1935-1954 
** Date:1976-12-19 Pos.1... The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/chipmunks.htm (Alvin, Theodore & Simon) With The Music of David Seville (released 1958, first played 1974-12-22)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time  / Greatest Christmas Hits  / Alvin and the Chipmunks' Greatest Hits  / Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years  / Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits 1955-Present  / Christmas Comedy Classics 
** Date:1976-12-26 Pos.5... The Witch Doctor - The Music of David Seville (released 1958, first played 1975-01-26)
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 

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