Subj : Re: Backwards Music
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : DustCouncil
Date : Wed Jun 01 2022 03:55:43

 pF> I guess I go way back. Dr. Demento used to have a syndicated radio show
 pF> on  Sunday nights, and played novelty songs and comedy records. Weird Al
 pF> was  just Al back then, and he sent in tapes he'd made in the bathroom
 pF> of the  dorms he lived in at Cal Poly University - just him and the
 pF> accordion. The  first was "My Bologna", a parody of The Knack's "My
 pF> Sharona".

I used to listen on my Walkman under the covers on Sunday night - my parents were annoyed I'd be up that late on a school night.

Apparently I was not alone in having hostile parents:

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Despite his mother having caught Yankovic listening to Dr. Demento's program and banning him from listening to it again in the future, he found ways to hear it discreetly.

In 1976, Dr. Demento spoke at Yankovic's school, where the then 16-year old Yankovic gave him a homemade take of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in Yankovic's bedroom into a "cheesy little tape recorder."  The tape's first song, "Belvedere Cruisin" - about his family's Plymouth Belvedere - was played on Demento's comedy radio show, launching Yankovic's career.
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Belvedere Cruisin' and Dr. D. Superstar here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwaY5Ibz83w

Anyway on a semi-related note, I've had Existential Blues by Tom 'T-Bone' Stankus stuck in my brain since I was about 13.  The first line of this song, which I have heard about one million times, and which was, over several decades, a frequent #1 on the "Funny Five" each week, is:

"The elusive butterfly has just tip-toed past my door."

Only a few m

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