Subj : Re: Backwards Music
To   : DustCouncil
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 02:28:00

-=> On Wed Jun 1 03:55:00 2022, DustCouncil wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 >  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:

Fortunately...when the Dr. went to Westwood One...the show was syndicated to stations on CD in the '80's. One station I worked at which covered the show...would run it on Wednesday nights. Others would run it whenever they wanted. 

Tried to get those CD's...since stations at the time would just junk them & the vinyl other shows came on. Remember having a stack of American Top 40 & such I was allowed to take home after the show...since they took up space needed.

Before that...thought it was great on Sunday nights. 1st time I heard it...was on from Sunday nites from 10-12 AM on 104 FM-KOFM in Oklahoma City. Note on this station...they got sold...changed format & call letters. We all thought that was the craziest thing not to keep those call letters.

Remember during the show...one of the sponsors was a store called Magnolia Thunderpu$$y's. Just looking it up...they are still in business. Means it was a national ad sell for the program.

Even had a college professor who appeared in the TV commercials for KOFM. He eventually moved from Oklahoma back to Kentucky.

 > 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.

Wasn't my parents who cared...but tried like crazy to get an FM radio in the mid-70's. At  the time being a teenager...buying an FM radio was a luxury item. Now...I've 3D printed FM radios from modules I've ordered from China. How times have changed.

.... Cat - The Other White Meat! 

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