The Demented Song Almanac
Editor: David Tanny

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Songs That Were Played Just Once (1981 annual)

** Date:1981-01-04... I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Prayers) - Ethel Merman & Ray Bolger (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-04... Who's Yehudi - Jerry Colonna (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-11... Carter Gets A Phone Call - The Zanies (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-11... Why Did I Get Married - Carson Robison (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-11... The Mechanical Man - Devo http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/devo.htm (only date played)
Albums: Hardcore Devo, Vol. 1: 74-77  / Devo's Greatest Misses 
** Date:1981-01-18... Chicken Spaceman - The Marathons (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-18... Crocodile - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (only date played)
Albums: Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album  / The Final Ripoff 
** Date:1981-01-18... Gracie Is Socially Secure - Charley Drew (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-18... Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-18... Squalor - Peter & Lou Berryman (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-18... There's A New Man In The White House - The Senators (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-18... Wouldn't It Be Funny If You Didn't Have A Nose? - The Scaffold (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-25... Houston El Mover - Joe "King" Carrasco (only date played)
** Date:1981-01-25... Speedoo - Ry Cooder (only date played)
Albums: Borderline
** Date:1981-02-01... My Home Town In Kansas - Frank Crumit (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-01... Trickee Trickle - Videos (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Disneyland Dream - Damaskas (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Joe Goes Up...I Come Down - Jimmy Durante (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Punk Rock Drives Me Disco - Biko Miko & The Futurettes (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Space Girl - The Toons (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Turning Kakujin - J.K. Yakamoto (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-08... Wildwood Flower - Carter Family (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-15... B.P.O.E. (Benevolent & Protective Order Of Elks) (Elks Song) - Nat M. Wills (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-15... If She Says She Loves You - Willio & Phillio (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-22... We Are The Chuckleheads - Chuckleheads (only date played)
** Date:1981-02-22... You Can't Do That - Nilsson (only date played)
Albums: Beatlemaniacs: The World of Beatles Novelty 
** Date:1981-02-22... The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlagen - Stan Freberg http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/freberg-stan.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... Bug Boy - Units (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... Oh Susanna, Dust Off That Old Pianna - Fats Waller http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/waller-fats.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... Transvestite Farmers' Anthem - Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - The Kingston Trio http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/kingstontrio.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Burl Ives (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-01... The Whole World Sounds Like Michael McDonald - Michael Silversher (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-08... Cocaine Blues - Red Arnall/Slumber Nichols' Western Aces (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-08... Janitor - Suburban Lawns (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-08... Piggies - Theo Bikel (only date played)
Albums: Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher the Beatles 
** Date:1981-03-08... Them Durn Fool Things - Red Ingle (f/ June Foray as Mrs. Jaymes F. X. Paisley) (only date played)
Albums: Tim-Tayshun 
** Date:1981-03-08... This Is The Chorus - Hoosier Hot Shots http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/hoosierhotshots.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-15... Gemini - P.D.Q. Bach (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-15... If Your Breasts - Ivor Cutler (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-15... My Sweet Little Cathy - Wildman Fischer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/fischer-wildman.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-22... Cancer - P.D.Q. Bach (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-22... Life In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2 Ep. 7 - Ivor Cutler (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-22... Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me) - Peggy Lee (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-22... She Said - Skrooz Lewis (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-22... Yesterday - Wildman Fischer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/fischer-wildman.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-29... All About Music - Travesty, Ltd. (only date played)
Albums: Teen Comedy Party 2000 
** Date:1981-03-29... Are You Hung Up? - Frank Zappa http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/zappa-frank.htm & The Mothers of Invention (only date played)
Albums: We're Only In It For The Money 
** Date:1981-03-29... Leo - P.D.Q. Bach (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-29... Looks For A Cherry - Billy Mitchell (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-29... No Beer In Heaven - Dillard-Hartford-Dillard (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-29... Stalin Wasn't Stallin' - Robert Wyatt (only date played)
** Date:1981-03-29... '62 Ladies In Sea-Green Pajamas - Starlighters (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-05... I Can't Breathe - Don Preston (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-05... Ride, Red, Ride - The Mills Blue Rhythm Band (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-05... Throw It Out The Window - Willio & Phillio (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-12... Alcatraz (I Hear You Calling) - Ron Ormond & The Rodeo Revelers (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-12... Frank - Wildman Fischer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/fischer-wildman.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-12... Libra - P.D.Q. Bach (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-12... Potatoland Introduction - Spirit (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-12... The Day That I Met Mr. Peanut - Travesty, Ltd. (only date played)
Albums: Teen Comedy Party 2000 
** Date:1981-04-19... Here Come The Elephants - Johnny Bond (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-19... Ice Cream - Crazy Joe & The Variable Speed Band (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-19... Mary Lou - Abe Lyman (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-19... O.I.L. - Andy Gross & The National Product (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-19... Somebody - Bert Williams (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-19... The Continuing Adventures Of Pedro De Pacas and Man - Cheech and Chong http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cheechandchong.htm (only date played)
Albums: Big Bambu  / Where There's Smoke There's Cheech and Chong  / Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hit 
** Date:1981-04-26... Baseball Game - Weher & Fields (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-26... Confessions Of A North Beach Poet - Jerry & Mel (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-26... Junco Partner - James Wayne (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-26... Tight Jeans - SuLu (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-26... Train sound effects - ? (only date played)
** Date:1981-04-26... The Devil - Rowan Atkinson (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-03... Another One Bites The Crust (sung by caller) - Mike Petty (Minerva Park, NE side of Columbus, OH) (only date played)

** Date:1981-05-03... Gob On You - Mel Smith w/ Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, & Chris Langham (from Not The 9 O'Clock News) (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-03... In Heaven There Is No Beer - Dillard, Hartford, & Dillard (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-03... Laughter And Lemons - Charles Penrose (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-03... Salt - The Vagabonds (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-10... King Of Scurf - The Bonzo Dog Band http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/bonzodogband.htm (only date played)
Albums: Cornology  / The History of the Bonzos  / Let's Make Up And Be Friendly 
** Date:1981-05-17... 77 Sunset Strip - Warren Barker (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... After I Gave You My Heart - Cats (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Do-Wah - Spanials (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Greeting Prelude - Stravinsky (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Have Your Way - Lightnin' Slim (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... He's The Groove - Snuky Tate (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... I Am Honest - Model Citizens (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Jungle Hop - Don & Dewey (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Rambling Woman - Big Moose (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... She's Got A 60 Cycle Brain - Paul Buff (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Shift The Blame - Model Citizens (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-17... Take My Brain - Pinheads (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-24... Crazy Mixed-Up Song - Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-24... Sarah Sittin' In A Shoe Shine Shop - Larry Vincent (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-31... Fine Girl - Frank Zappa http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/zappa-frank.htm (only date played)
Albums: Tinsel Town Rebellion  / Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa  / Zappa Picks By Larry LaLonde of Primus 
** Date:1981-05-31... Rum, By Gum - The Chad Mitchell Trio (only date played)
** Date:1981-05-31... Tell 'Em I'm Surfin' - Fantastic Baggys (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Got This Chick In A (Twist): The Ayatollah Song - Pamela Stephenson w/ Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson, & Griff Rhys Jones (from Not The 9 O'Clock News) (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... I Lift Up My Finger And I Say Tweet Tweet - Jack Hylton & His Orchestra (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... I Took My Harp To A Party - Gracie Fields (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Jollity Farm - Jack Payne (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Lambeth Walk - Lupino Lane (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Life's Not All That Bad - Ian Whitcomb (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... On The Wigan Boat Express - George Formby http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/formby-george.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Smile And Sing Your Cares Away - The Organ, The Dance Band & Me (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... There's A Man (In Iran) That I Can't Resist (Much Revered Kinda Weird) - ? (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... They're Parking Camels Where The Taxis Used To Be - Peter Sellers http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/sellers-peter.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Today I Feel So Happy - Jack Hylton & His Orchestra (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... Two Ton Tessie - Tessie O'Shea (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... A Friend Of A Friend Of Mine - Ian Whitcomb (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... The Cabaret Boys - Douglas Byng & Lance Lister (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-07... The Farmyard Cabaret - Ian Whitcomb (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-14... Crashing The Party - Feathers (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-14... Hula Love - Buddy Knox (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-14... Nice Dreams Theme - Cheech and Chong http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cheechandchong.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-14... On the Road Again - Alvin & the Chipmunks http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/chipmunks.htm (only date played)
Albums: Urban Chipmunk 
** Date:1981-06-14... Soul Pad - The Coasters http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/coasters.htm (only date played)
Albums: 50 Coastin' Classics: Anthology 
** Date:1981-06-14... Tinsel Town Rebellion - Frank Zappa http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/zappa-frank.htm (only date played)
Albums: Tinsel Town Rebellion  / Have I Offended Someone?  / Does Humor Belong In Music? 
** Date:1981-06-21... Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-21... Long Arm - Wall of Voodoo http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/wallofvoodoo.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-28... I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones - Rose & The Arrangement (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-28... Sex Junkie - Plasmatics (only date played)
** Date:1981-06-28... "Summer" Montage - ? (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-05... Death By Phone - Scott Puffer (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-05... Football Results - Michael Bentine (only date played)
Albums: Best Comedy Album in the World...Ever! 
** Date:1981-07-05... Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps (only date played)
Albums: Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hit 
** Date:1981-07-05... I Think I Oughtn't Auto Any More - Billy Murray (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-05... Stoned - The Rolling Stones (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-12... She Said - Cramps (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-19... Ballad Of Lady Di - Nick Jones & Ian Macrae (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-19... Dallas Part Two - The Dallas Idiots (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-19... Down In The Subway - Billy Murray (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-19... Spanish Inquisition - Monty Python http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/montypython.htm (only date played)
Albums: Another Monty Python Record  / The Final Ripoff 
** Date:1981-07-19... What Do The Animals Do? - George Olsen (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-26... Bouncing Song - Rowan Atkinson w/ Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, & Griff Rhys Jones (from Not The 9 O'Clock News) (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-26... Ding Dong - McGuire Sisters (only date played)
** Date:1981-07-26... I've Been Ridin' In A U.F.O. - Dave Gordon & Watershed (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-02... Alabama Jubilee - Collins & Harlan (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-02... Buy My Record - Robert Williams (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-02... Fly Buttons - Millicent Martin & Roy Kinnear (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-02... Nellie Is A Nice Girl - P.D.Q. Bach (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-09... Jack, You're Dead - Joe Jackson (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-09... King Kripple - Vivian Stanshall (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-16... Noises - Don Bestor & Jack Oakie (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-16... Perry Mason Theme - The Blues Brothers http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/bluesbrothers.htm (only date played)
Albums: Made in America 
** Date:1981-08-16... There's A Riot Goin' On (Riot In Cell Block Number Nine) - The Blues Brothers http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/bluesbrothers.htm (only date played)
Albums: Made in America  / The Definitive Collection 
** Date:1981-08-16... Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? - Barbra Streisand (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-16... Yarmouth 5-0 - Splodgenss Abounds (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-23... Pancho The Parrot (medley) - San Diego Wild Animal Park (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-30... I Don't Wanna Go Back To School - Arnold (only date played)

** Date:1981-08-30... I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) - Bob Wills (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-30... Once Upon A Nickel - Ethel Merman & Ray Bolger (only date played)
** Date:1981-08-30... The Little Black Egg - Bebe Buell w/ Rick Ocasek (& most of The Cars) (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-06... Magnolia Simms - The Monkees http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/monkees.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... D.I. D.I. - Dick Murphy (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... Hanky Tonk Queen - Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... Honeydew, We Canteloupe - Malibooz (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Billy Murray (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... I'm Movin' On No. 2 - Homer and Jethro (only date played)
Albums: America's Song Butchers: The Weird World Of Homer & Jethro 
** Date:1981-09-13... Lenny Bruce - Bob Dylan (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... Pineapple Man - J. B. Sky (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... Rat Bait - Swimming Pool Q's (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-13... Teenage Wind - Frank Zappa http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/zappa-frank.htm (only date played)
Albums: You Are What You Is 
** Date:1981-09-20... Drafted Again - Frank and Moon Unit Zappa (only date played)
Albums: You Are What You Is 
** Date:1981-09-20... I Dig Worms - Phillip Jewell (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-20... Yakety Yak - Dillard, Hartford & Dillard (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-27... Dance, Mr. Big, Dance - The Deadly Nightshade (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-27... Give Us A Recording Contract - The Toons (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-27... My Baby's 3-D - Billy Ward & The Dominoes (only date played)
** Date:1981-09-27... A Modern Major General - John Reed & D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Armadillo - Clifford J. Buckosh w/ Refuge & Armadillo Chorus (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Bitchin' In The Kitchen - Cliff DeYoung & Jessica Harper (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Born To Be Cheap - Divine (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Bye Bye Blues - The Whiskey Bottle Boys (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Fernando - Stanley Ralph Ross (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Lenny And The Bear - Jeff Wayne (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-04... Pins - Andy Andrews (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-11... Spasticus Autisticus - Ian Dury http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/dury-ian.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-18... Classical Rap - Bernard T. Bassoonski (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-18... Looking For A Cherry - Billy Mitchell (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-18... Meltdown - The Songs (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-18... Teenage Mother - Allen & Grier (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-18... The Policeman's Song - Tony Azito & The Pirates Of Penzance Cast (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-25... My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll - Trixie Smith (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-25... Rock & Roll Sermon - Elder Charles Beck http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/beck.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-25... Rock & Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-25... We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - Wild Bill Moore (only date played)
** Date:1981-10-25... The Tale - Meredith Monk (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-01... Ode To A Doze - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-01... The Goons Are Drinking Again - Billygoons (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-08... All-Go-Hungry Hash House - Uncle Dave Macon (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-08... Experiments With Mice - Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-08... Jackie Onassis - Human Sexual Response (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-08... She's In Love With The Rolling Stones - The Telefones (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-08... "Dreams" - Montage by Damaskas (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-15... Boss Of The B-B-Q - Bruce "Baby Man" Baum (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-22... Shipwrecked On Planet X - Rocky Jones (with Professor Newton & Bobby) (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-22... Thank You Very Much - The Scaffold (only date played)
** Date:1981-11-29... I Need You - Barnes & Barnes http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/barnesandbarnes.htm (only date played)
Albums: Spazchow 
** Date:1981-11-29... Little Black Dress - Shock Treatment http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/aamshocktreatment.htm soundtrack (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-06... The Colonel Put The Lickin' In The Chicken - Webb Bros. (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-06... The Garbage Dumpster Took My Love Away - Elmo & Patsy http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/drelmo.htm (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-06... The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away - Rudy Vallee (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-13... I Can't Leave My Girl Behind - Freddie Fisher (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-13... Johnny Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton (only date played)
Albums: New Wave Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 6  / Sedated in the '80s, Vol. 5 
** Date:1981-12-13... Misery Farm - Tommy Handley (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-20... I Want Eddie Fisher For Christmas - Cliffhangers (only date played)
** Date:1981-12-20... Jingle Bell Rock - Joe Dolce (only date played)

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