The Demented Song Almanac
Editor: David Tanny
FF Points Each Song Accumulated Year By Year (1978 annual)
Last Updated 08-17-2008
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Cocktails For Two - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm
& His City Slickers (f/ Carl Grayson) (released 1944, first played on 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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Eric, The Half A Bee - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm
(released 1972, first played on 1976-03-07)
Albums: Monty Python Previous Record / The Final Ripoff
/ Monty Python Sings
/ The Monty Python Instant Record Collection [U.K. Version]
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Freeze A Yankee - The Folkel Minority (first played on 1978-06-04)
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... I Love Me - Mel Blanc http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/blanc-mel.htm
(released 1953, first played on 1978-07-30)
Albums: Best of Mel Blanc, Man of 1000 Voices
/ That's All Folks 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... I'm My Own Grandpa - Lonzo & Oscar (released 1947, first played on 1975-04-13)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Volume I: The 1940s and Before / Ha! Ha!: 24 Great Comedy Songs 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Marvin - Christine Nelson (first played on 1974-12-15)
Albums: Did You Come To Play Cards or To Talk?
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Mongoloid - Devo http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/devo.htm
(released 1977, first played on 1978-02-26)
Albums: Devo's Greatest Misses
/ E-Z Listening Disc
/ Essentials
/ Hardcore Devo, Vol. 1: 74-77
/ Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo
/ Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
/ Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo/Devo Live
/ Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... There's a New Sound (The Sound of Worms) - Tony Burrello (released 1952, first played on 1975-03-09)
Albums: Greasy Kid Stuff: Songs From Inside The Radio
/ Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... Transfusion - Nervous Norvus (released 1956, first played on 1974-07-21)
Albums: Wacky Favorites: Weird & Wild
/ Hot Rods and Custom Classics
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ Stoneage Woo: The Zorch Sounds of Nervous Norvus 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/wooley-sheb.htm
(released 1958, first played on 1975-01-05)
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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:001... The Twelve Gifts of Christmas - Allan Sherman http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sherman-allan.htm
(released 1964, first played on 1974-12-08)
Albums: Bah! Humbug!
/ Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time
/ My Son the Greatest: The Best of Allan Sherman
/ Comedy for Christmas
/ Christmas Comedy Classics Vol 2
/ My Son, The Box 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Boobs A Lot - The Holy Modal Rounders http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/holymodalrounders.htm
(released 1971, first played on 1974-07-07)
Albums: Good Taste is Timeless / Dr. Demento's Delights
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Green Christmas - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm
(released 1958, first played on 1974-12-22)
Albums: Bah! Humbug!
/ Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time
/ Tip Of The Freberg
/ Christmas Comedy Classics 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Highly Illogical - Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/aaastartrek.htm
) (released 1968, first played on 1975-03-16)
Albums: Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection
/ Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... 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 on 1976-02-08)
Albums: The Second Coming 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross (released 1965, first played on 1975-03-09)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection
/ Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Mah-Na Mah-Na - Jim Henson and The Muppets http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/muppets.htm
(released 1969, first played on 1978-02-26)
Albums: Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music
/ Muppet Show: Music Mayhem & More: 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Marijuana Munchies - Troy Walker (first played on 1978-04-02)
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... 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 on 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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Snoopy vs. The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/royalguardsmen.htm
(released 1966, first played on 1978-08-27)
Albums: Royal Guardsmen Anthology
/ Snoopy vs. The Red Baron and Snoopy & His Friends
/ Merry Snoopy Christmas 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... They Don't Make Nun Names (Like That No More) - Tommy Sharp & The Sharptones (released 1977, first played on 1978-07-16)
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... Who's on First (The Rock 'n' Roll Version of the Abbott and Costello classic) - The Credibility Gap (released 1977, first played on 1978-03-19)
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:002... The Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells (released 1963, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition
/ They Came From Outer Space
/ 25 All Time Novelty Hits
/ Halloween Hits
/ Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection
/ Elvira Presents Haunted Hits 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... Beep Beep - The Playmates (released 1958, first played on 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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/jones-spike.htm
& His City Slickers (f/ Carl Grayson vocals and Willie Spicer on birdphone) (released 1942, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: Novelty Songs: Crazy and Obscure, Vol. 2
/ Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology
/ Spike Jones' Greatest Hits!
/ Strictly For Music Lovers
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ Wacky World of Spike Jones and His City Slickers
/ Best Of Spike Jones and His City Slickers
/ Cocktail Hour
/ Musical Depreciation
/ Musical Mayhem
/ Riot Squad
/ Spike Jones Transcribed
/ The Bluebirds
/ The Ones You Always Wanted But Thought You'd Never Get
/ V-Disc Recordings
/ Not Your Standard Spike Jones Collection 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... Santa Claus & His Old Lady - Cheech and Chong http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cheechandchong.htm
(released 1971, first played on 1976-12-19)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time
/ Where There's Smoke There's Cheech and Chong
/ Billboard Rock 'N' Roll Christmas 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... Someone Ate the Baby - Shel Silverstein http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/silverstein-shel.htm
(first played on 1978-08-27)
Albums: Songs and Stories 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... What It Was, Was Football Parts I & II - Deacon Andy Griffith http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/griffith-andy.htm
(released 1953, first played on 1974-10-06)
Albums: The Wit and Wisdom of Andy Griffith
/ But Seriously...The American Comedy Box Set
/ American Originals
/ Crazy Guys: Gems of American Comedy 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... The Crusher - The Novas (released 1964, first played on 1974-07-07)
Albums: World's Worst Records / Land of 1000 Dances
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... The Hospitality Blues - Doug Harrell, M.D. (released 1956, first played on 1975-04-13)
Albums: Laugh a Spell with Doug Harrell
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:003... The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/silverstein-shel.htm
(first played on 1978-07-30)
Albums: Songs and Stories
/ The Very Best of Dr. Demento 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:004... 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 on 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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:004... Grandmother's Song - Steve Martin http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/martin-steve.htm
(released 1977, first played on 1978-06-25)
Albums: Let's Get Small 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:004... The Lumberjack Song - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm
(released 1974, first played on 1975-06-08)
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 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:005... Ape Call - Nervous Norvus (released 1956, first played on 1974-10-13)
Albums: Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition
/ Time/Life's Your Hit Parade: Golden Goofers / Stoneage Woo: The Zorch Sounds of Nervous Norvus 
** Times Played:03 For Year:1978 FF Points:005... Doggy Doo - Steve Wahl & The Hydrants (first played on 1978-02-19)
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:005... Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers (released 1962, first played on 1976-10-31)
Albums: Wackiest Album In The Universe, Vol.1
/ Elvira Presents Monster Hits
/ Wild & Crazy Tunes
/ Novelty No. 1's
/ Box of Funny Wacky Favorites
/ Halloween Hits
/ Elvira Presents Haunted Hits
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:01 For Year:1978 FF Points:005... A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm
(released 1959, first played on 1976-09-12)
Albums: Christmas Comedy Classics Vol 2
/ An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
/ Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer
/ The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
/ Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:006... The Geek's Revenge - Don Noon (released 1977, first played on 1978-04-02)
Albums: I Bite The Songs
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:007... Bounce Your Boobies - Rusty Warren (released 1961, first played on 1974-07-07)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Volume III: The 1960s
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:007... Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm
(released 1953, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
/ An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
/ Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:04 For Year:1978 FF Points:007... The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm
(released 1959, first played on 1974-07-28)
Albums: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
/ Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer
/ The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:02 For Year:1978 FF Points:008... Sweet Transvestite - The Rocky Horror Picture Show f/ Tim Curry as Frank N Furter or from Rocky Horror Picture Show Audience Participation soundtrack versions (released 1975, first played on 1978-04-02)
Albums: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 
** Times Played:03 For Year:1978 FF Points:009... Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/silverstein-shel.htm
(released 1972, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: Freakin' At The Freakers Ball
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ Where The Sidewalk Ends 
** Times Played:04 For Year:1978 FF Points:009... Stairway To Gilligan's Island - Little Roger And The Goosebumps (first played on 1978-08-20)
Albums: Laguna Tunes 
** Times Played:03 For Year:1978 FF Points:010... Argument Clinic - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm
(released 1972, first played on 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 
** Times Played:03 For Year:1978 FF Points:010... Dragnet Goes To Kindergarten - Ricky Vera (released 1954, first played on 1974-09-01)
** Times Played:06 For Year:1978 FF Points:010... My Name is Larry - Wildman Fischer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/fischer-wildman.htm
(first played on 1978-04-30)
Albums: Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale / Wildmania 
** Times Played:04 For Year:1978 FF Points:011... The Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Soundtrack (f/ Richard O'Brien) (released 1975, first played on 1978-06-04)
Albums: New Wave Halloween: Just Can't Get Enough
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ The Rocky Horror Picture Show 
** Times Played:03 For Year:1978 FF Points:012... Deteriorata - National Lampoon http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/nationallampoon.htm
f/ Melissa Manchester (released 1972, first played on 1975-06-01)
Albums: Radio Dinner
/ Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection
/ The Classic National Lampoon Box Set
/ Greatest Hits of the National Lampoon 
** Times Played:04 For Year:1978 FF Points:012... Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent - Jef Jaisun (released 1969, first played on 1974-07-07)
Albums: Dr. Demento's Delights
** Times Played:04 For Year:1978 FF Points:013... Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/barnesandbarnes.htm
(first played on 1978-10-01)
Albums: Zabagabee: Best of Barnes & Barnes
/ Yeah-Essential Barnes & Barnes
/ Voobaha
/ The Very Best of Dr. Demento
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:06 For Year:1978 FF Points:016... Gumball Wizard - Brad Stanfield (released 1975, first played on 1976-01-18)
** Times Played:07 For Year:1978 FF Points:019... Who's on First? - Abbott & Costello (released 1945, first played on 1974-08-04)
Albums: Crazy Guys: Gems of American Comedy
/ But Seriously...The American Comedy Box Set
/ Baseball's Greatest Hits 
** Times Played:07 For Year:1978 FF Points:019... The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnatti - Possum or Rose & The Arrangement (released 1973, first played on 1974-09-01)
Albums: Dr. Demento's Delights / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary CD
** Times Played:06 For Year:1978 FF Points:020... My Dead Dog Rover - Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank and their Aeolian Duo-Art Player Piano (first played on 1978-07-30)
Albums: Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:07 For Year:1978 FF Points:025... Shaving Cream - Benny Bell (vocal by Paul Wynn), or Dr. Demento w/ The Benny Bell Orchestra or The Fabulous Five Inc. versions (released 1946, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: 25 All Time Novelty Hits
/ Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:08 For Year:1978 FF Points:027... Spam - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm
(released 1971, first played on 1975-02-16)
Albums: The Final Ripoff
/ Monty Python Sings
/ Another Monty Python Record 
** Times Played:08 For Year:1978 FF Points:031... They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! - Napoleon XIV http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/napoleonthe14th.htm
(released 1966, first played on 1974-07-14)
Albums: Novelty Experience
/ Golden Age of American Rock'N'Roll: Special Novelty Edition
/ 25 All Time Novelty Hits
/ The Second Coming
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ Forty Nutty Novelty Records Of The '60s
** Times Played:11 For Year:1978 FF Points:032... Hamster Love - Big Daddy http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/bigdaddy.htm
(released 1977, first played on 1978-02-19)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection 
** Times Played:09 For Year:1978 FF Points:033... Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara (first played on 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
** Times Played:12 For Year:1978 FF Points:036... Making Love In A Subaru - Damaskas (first played on 1978-02-19)
Albums: Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale
** Times Played:12 For Year:1978 FF Points:046... Dead Puppies - The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band f/ Bill Frenzer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/frenzer-bill.htm
(released 1977, first played on 1978-02-19)
Albums: Mower Of The Ogden Edsl
/ Stuffed / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ The Very Best of Dr. Demento 
** Times Played:13 For Year:1978 FF Points:046... King Tut - Steve Martin http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/martin-steve.htm
& The Toot Uncommons (first played on 1978-05-21)
Albums: A Wild and Crazy Guy
/ Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ Voices For Gilda 
** Times Played:13 For Year:1978 FF Points:047... Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie (released 1977, first played on 1978-02-19)
Albums: Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection
/ The Very Best of Dr. Demento
/ Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale / Volume IV: The 1970s
** Times Played:13 For Year:1978 FF Points:056... The Ballad of Irving - Frank Gallop (released 1966, first played on 1975-01-12)
Albums: When You're In Love The Whole World is Jewish / Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection 
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