The Demented Song Almanac
Editor: David Tanny

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First Time a Song Reached the FF (1985 annual)

** Date:1985-01-06 Pos.2... Eat My Shorts - Rick Dees (released 1984, first played 1985-01-06)
** Date:1985-01-13 Pos.4... Revenge Of The Nerds - The Rubinoos (first played 1984-10-14)
** Date:1985-01-27 Pos.5... Telephone Man - Meri Wilson (released 1977, first played 1978-07-16)
Albums: 25 All Time Novelty Hits  / Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Country Funnies 
** Date:1985-01-27 Pos.3... The Doctor - Jim Burrill (first played 1983-02-06)
** Date:1985-02-03 Pos.3... Nature Trail To Hell - "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/yankovic-alfred.htm (first played 1984-02-19)
Albums: In 3-D  / Dr. Demento Presents Spooky Tunes & Scary Melodies 
** Date:1985-02-03 Pos.4... Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/toydolls.htm (first played 1983-11-06)
Albums: We're Mad: Anthology  / Best of Toy Dolls 
** Date:1985-02-17 Pos.2... Earth Girls Are Easy - Julie Brown http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/brown-julie.htm (first played 1984-12-09)
Albums: Earth Girls Are Easy
** Date:1985-02-17 Pos.5... Little Toot - Maclean & Maclean (first played 1984-06-24)
** Date:1985-03-10 Pos.5... The Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/stevens-ray.htm (first played 1985-01-06)
Albums: The Ray Stevens Box Set  / Dr. Demento's Country Corn  / Ray Stevens: His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits  / Ray Stevens: All Time Greatest Comic Hits / Ray Stevens' Greatest Hits by MCA / Ray Stevens: Collection  / Ray Stevens: Live!  / He Thinks He's Ray Stevens / Wacky Favorites: Weird & Wild 
** Date:1985-04-07 Pos.5... I'm Tuff - George Smilovici (released 1984, first played 1985-02-17)
** Date:1985-04-14 Pos.5... Tell Me You Rove Me Lin Chow - Dennis (first played 1985-02-24)
** Date:1985-04-28 Pos.5... Marvin - Marvin The Paranoid Android (Stephen Moore) (released 1981, first played 1985-03-10)
Albums: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
** Date:1985-04-28 Pos.4... Rappin' Duke - Rappin' Duke (Shawn Brown) (first played 1985-02-17)
Albums: Street Jams Part 2: Hip Hop from the Top
** Date:1985-05-05 Pos.3... Hairless Sister - Grant & Elliott (KKRL/Carroll IA) (first played 1985-03-24)
** Date:1985-05-05 Pos.5... Rocky Meets Moose - The Brass Band (first played 1984-12-09)
** Date:1985-05-12 Pos.3... We Are the Worms - Ken Johnson & Jim Toftee (first played 1985-04-28)
** Date:1985-05-19 Pos.1... Existential Blues Pt. Too? - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus (first played 1985-03-31)
** Date:1985-05-19 Pos.5... We Like Ugly Women - Bobby Jimmy & The Critters (first played 1985-04-07)
** Date:1985-05-26 Pos.5... Last Will and Temperament - The Frantics http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/frantics.htm (first played 1985-03-24)
Albums: Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection  / Frantic Times 
** Date:1985-05-26 Pos.4... Yuppie Love - The Unchartables (first played 1985-04-14)
** Date:1985-06-02 Pos.5... Big Butt - Bobby Jimmy & The Critters (first played 1985-04-14)
** Date:1985-06-16 Pos.1... The World Is Mine (A Duet Featuring Ron & Gorby) - Wally Wingert http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/wingert-wally.htm and The Amazing Skippy (first played 1985-05-19)
Albums: Parody Hearty
** Date:1985-06-23 Pos.4... Like A Surgeon - "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/yankovic-alfred.htm (first played 1985-06-09)
Albums: The Permanent Record: Al In The Box  / Dare To Be Stupid  / "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits 
** Date:1985-06-30 Pos.5... California Kid - The Beat Farmers http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/beatfarmers.htm (f/ Country Dick Montana) (first played 1985-03-17)
Albums: Tales of the New West  / Loud And Plowed And...Live! 
** Date:1985-07-28 Pos.5... Big Cock-Roach - Kip Addotta (first played 1985-05-26)
** Date:1985-08-11 Pos.2... I Want a New Duck - "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/yankovic-alfred.htm (first played 1985-06-23)
Albums: Dare To Be Stupid  / The Permanent Record: Al In The Box 
** Date:1985-08-18 Pos.4... Just A Big Ego - Bob & Zip (first played 1985-08-11)
Albums: The World's Worst Records Volume 2
** Date:1985-08-18 Pos.5... The Honeymooners Rap - Joe Piscopo http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/piscopo-joe.htm (With Eddie Murphy http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/murphy-eddie.htm & D.S.T.) (first played 1985-07-21)
Albums: New Jersey 
** Date:1985-08-25 Pos.5... We Will All Go Together When We Go - Tom Lehrer http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/lehrer-tom.htm (released 1959, first played 1975-06-08)
Albums: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer  / Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer  / The Remains Of Tom Lehrer 
** Date:1985-09-01 Pos.5... One More Minute - "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/yankovic-alfred.htm (first played 1985-06-16)
Albums: The Permanent Record: Al In The Box  / "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits  / Dare To Be Stupid  / Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1985-09-01 Pos.4... You Look Mahvelous - Fernando (Billy Crystal http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/crystal-billy.htm) (first played 1985-08-25)
Albums: Mahvelous  / Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box [Totally]  / Voices For Gilda 
** Date:1985-09-22 Pos.2... Born in East L.A. - Cheech and Chong http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cheechandchong.htm (first played 1985-09-15)
Albums: Get Out of My Room  / Where There's Smoke There's Cheech and Chong 
** Date:1985-09-29 Pos.5... Purple Rain - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus (first played 1985-07-28)
** Date:1985-09-29 Pos.3... The ABC's Of Dead Russian Leaders - Tim Cavanagh http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cavanagh-tim.htm (first played 1985-07-07)
** Date:1985-10-20 Pos.5... I Hate When That Happens - Billy Crystal http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/crystal-billy.htm (special guest Christopher Guest) (first played 1985-10-13)
Albums: Mahvelous  / Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection 
** Date:1985-10-27 Pos.4... Monster Rap - Bobby "Boris" Pickett f/ Bobby Payne (first played 1985-09-15)
** Date:1985-10-27 Pos.5... Whatever Happened to Eddie? - Butch Patrick (Eddie & The Monsters) (first played 1982-11-21)
** Date:1985-11-03 Pos.5... The Haircut Song - Ray Stevens http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/stevens-ray.htm (first played 1985-09-08)
Albums: I Have Returned / Ray Stevens' Greatest Hits, Vol 2 [MCA]  / Ray Stevens: Collection  / The Ray Stevens Box Set 
** Date:1985-11-10 Pos.5... I'm Not Home Right Now - Cheech and Chong http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/cheechandchong.htm (first played 1985-09-29)
Albums: Get Out of My Room 
** Date:1985-11-24 Pos.5... Buc-Wheet Toupee - Guy Black & The Beautiful Choir (first played 1985-09-29)
** Date:1985-11-24 Pos.4... Dare To Be Stupid - "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.davesfunstuff.com/funnycity/yankovic-alfred.htm (first played 1985-06-09)
Albums: The Permanent Record: Al In The Box  / "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits  / Dare To Be Stupid 
** Date:1985-12-08 Pos.5... Downtown Downers Grove - Emo Philips (first played 1985-08-25)
** Date:1985-12-15 Pos.5... Su-Sushi-O - Steve Lehman & E.E.G.A.D. (first played 1985-09-29)
** Date:1985-12-22 Pos.4... Jingle Bells - Don Charles Presents The Singing Dogs Directed By Carl Weismann (released 1956, first played 1974-12-08)
Albums: Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time  / Bah! Humbug! 

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