Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection is a release by radio disc jockey Dr. Demento to celebrate 20 years since the beginning of his radio career and novelty song show. It covers many of the novelty and comedy songs from the 1950s to the 1980s, such as “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)” by Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group, to “Eat It” by "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose popularity was boosted by Demento.
| Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1991 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 1:55:00 |
| Label | Rhino Records |
| Producer | Various |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| allmusic |  [1] |
Track listing
editDisc one
edit| # | Title | Performer(s) | Time | Writer(s) | Year released |
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| 1 | "Delicious" | Backus, Jim & Friend | 3:09 | Buddy Kaye | 1958 |
| 2 | "The Scotsman" | Bryan Bowers | 2:27 | Mike Cross | 1980 |
| 3 | "Junk Food Junkie" | Larry Groce | 3:05 | Larry Groce | 1976 |
| 4 | "Eat It" | "Weird Al" Yankovic | 3:20 | Michael Jackson/Alfred Yankovic | 1984 |
| 5 | "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)" | Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group | 2:30 | Marty Bloom/Ernest Breur/Billy Rose | 1958 |
| 6 | "Wet Dream" | Kip Addotta | 5:08 | Biff Manard/Kip Addotta | 1984 |
| 7 | "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" | Allan Sherman | 2:49 | Allan Sherman/Lou Busch | 1963 |
| 8 | "Wappin'" | Darrell Hammond & Christopher Snell | 3:02 | Christopher Snell | 1989 |
| 9 | "The Purple People Eater" | Sheb Wooley | 2:15 | Sheb Wooley | 1958 |
| 10 | "Monster Mash" | Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers | 3:13 | Bobby Pickett/Leonard L. Capizzi | 1962 |
| 11 | "Cocktails for Two" | Spike Jones and his City Slickers | 2:58 | Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow | 1944 |
| 12 | "Transfusion" | Nervous Norvus | 2:27 | Jimmy Drake | 1956 |
| 13 | "Beep Beep" | The Playmates | 2:47 | Carl Cicchetti/Donald Claps | 1958 |
| 14 | "St. George and the Dragonet" | Stan Freberg | 3:26 | Daws Butler/Stan Freberg/Walter Schumann | 1953 |
| 15 | "Witch Doctor" | David Seville | 2:21 | Ross Bagdasarian Sr. | 1958 |
| 16 | "Gitarzan" | Ray Stevens | 3:15 | Bill Everette/Ray Stevens | 1969 |
| 17 | "Earache My Eye" | Cheech & Chong feat. Alice Bowie | 5:22 | Cheech Marin/Gaye Delorme/Thomas Chong | 1974 |
| 18 | "Dead Puppies" | Ogden Edsl | 2:12 | Bill Frenzer/Rich Thieman | 1977 |
Disc two
edit| # | Title | Performer(s) | Time | Writer(s) | Year released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dancin' Fool" | Frank Zappa | 3:36 | Frank Zappa | 1979 |
| 2 | "Star Trekkin'" | The Firm | 3:47 | Grahame Lister/John O'Connor | 1987 |
| 3 | "The Time Warp" | The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast | 3:19 | Richard O'Brien | 1975 |
| 4 | "The Masochism Tango" | Tom Lehrer | 2:56 | Tom Lehrer | 1959 |
| 5 | "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" | Julie Brown | 4:41 | Julie Brown/Charles Coffey/Ray Colcord/Terrence McNally | 1984 |
| 6 | "The Ballad of Irving" | Frank Gallop/Phil Leeds | 3:27 | John Aylesworth/Frank Peppiatt/Dick Williams | 1966 |
| 7 | "The Battle of Kookamonga" | Homer & Jethro | 2:39 | Jimmie Driftwood/J. J. Reynolds | 1960 |
| 8 | "King Tut" | Steve Martin | 2:39 | Steve Martin | 1978 |
| 9 | "Der Fuehrer's Face" | Spike Jones and His City Slickers | 2:12 | Oliver Wallace | 1942 |
| 10 | "Fish Heads" | Barnes and Barnes | 2:26 | Artie Barnes | 1980 |
| 11 | "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" | Tom Lehrer | 2:09 | Tom Lehrer | 1959 |
| 12 | "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" | Shel Silverstein | 2:47 | Shel Silverstein | 1969 |
| 13 | "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" | Rose & The Arrangement | 2:11 | Drill | 1974 |
| 14 | "Surfin' Bird" | The Trashmen | 2:24 | Al Frazier/Robert Harris/Carl White/Turner Wilson | 1963 |
| 15 | "Pencil Neck Geek" | Freddie Blassie | 3:29 | Pete Cicero/Martin Margulies | 1975 |
| 16 | "Ti Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head" | The Frantics | 6:08 | The Frantics | 1987 |
| 17 | "Existential Blues" | Tom "T-Bone" Stankus | 6:14 | Tom "T-Bone" Stankus | 1979 |
| 18 | "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" | Napoleon XIV | 2:10 | N. Bonaparte (Jerry Samuels) | 1966 |