Radio Show: DR DEMENTO SHOW 5/6/89 WEIRD AL, NAPOLEON XIV, ROCKY HORROR, MORE

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PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU PURCHASE FIVE ITEMS FROM MY STORE AT ONE TIME, YOUR SIXTH IS ABSOLUTELY FREE SAVING YOU A MINIMUM OF 20% ON YOUR ENTIRE ORDER.   JUST EMAIL ME THROUGH THE EBAY MESSAGE SYSTEM WITH YOUR CHOICE OF THE FREE ITEM AND IT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE SAME SHIPMENT.    

 SO HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION:  WHAT IS A RADIO SHOW?  WHY COLLECT THEM? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?  

Well, those are good questions, especially if you have never known of them.

  Radio Shows are syndicated productions by one of several large and small distributors who supply broadcast product to radio stations normally during weekends when the usual air personalities have a break.  Many air on Saturday or Sunday evenings or during overnight segments.  

They often feature some of the best known voices for their genre from across the country thus the Dick Clark's and Casey Kasem's and Rick Dees and Dick Bartley and so many others. 

People collect them for various reasons. 

Some just collect the series because they like it and want them all. 

 Some collect their favorite artists or genre of music.  Rather than an album by the artist or a compilation bought at Wal Mart or downloaded through iTunes or wherever, they have a unique presentation of their favorite artist or music not available anywhere else and always with dj presentations which were very entertaining. 

 Some collect interviews with their favorite artists as most shows had interview segments.  

Some collect commercials especially old car commercials but certainly not limited to only those. 

AND, these shows are in limited quantity. 

 They were printed just for syndicated stations in the United States.  Many have just a few still in circulation.  Some of the more popular shows may have as many as a few hundred of each week's show that survived but think about it.  A few hundred for some 200 million Americans and millions of overseas collectors who look for unique presentations of their favorite artists or form of music is about as rare as rare can be. 

AND they are increasingly hard to find.

  They were first distributed on reel to reel tape if the show goes back that far into the 60's, then later on lp, later on CD and even later (after 2000 for most shows) on CDR.  Now they are not available at all to collectors since they are distributed by digital download much like you get your music from iTunes. 

These shows become rarer and rarer every day because the people who buy them hold on to them and the people who sell them, like me, are running out of them.  My best contact for these shows is running very low and when he is gone I will be at the mercy of finding a good deal here and there but never from a regular source.  The shows that you get now and hold on to will never decrease in value and only increase. 

And, I have one of the biggest radio show libraries in the world consisting of over ten thousand of shows, so many that I don't even know all that I have and am sometimes amazed when I go to look for one show and find another that I did not realize I had.

Finally, it is Americana at its best. 

 Whether the show be from the 60's or 2000's, rock, countdown, oldies, country, classical, religious, jazz or big band, it is unique and home grown.  

And you just can't find them anywhere.  Even record stores that still exist will rarely have any.

Radio shows are wonderful representations of the real golden age of radio at least music wise.  And every  one you buy is  an original, not a copy, not a remake - all are limited editions in the hundreds at most and most much less.  Once you get hooked, like me, it is a love affair for life!  Welcome to the Club!  

OK guys and gals, in this outing, A RARE TREAT!!!!    

 I recently came across many of the old DR DEMENTO shows, the definitive comedy series of all time.  All of you  know how great these shows are      And I am proud to offer them to you

AND, HERE'S ANOTHER EXTRA!!!   I can attest for you that these shows were only played one time and then stored away until now.  The friend of mine who allowed me access to these shows was the station engineer at a small station in Wisconsin.  He was given these shows after broadcast in thanks for all the overtime engineering work that he did for the station for many years.  They went directly from being played on air to him.  He has stored them in plastic bins in his home since.  I cannot give you any better guarantee than this.  It is like picking the shows off the shelf from the factory.

These shows all come with their cue sheets, of course in fresh clean shape .  Of course, I ship them to you in a special mailer to ensure they will be as fresh and good looking when they come to your home as they are now.  I am proud to offer you an opportunity to have some of these rare shows for your own collection. 

 You will especially love them if you are a fan of the comedy music from the 20's through today because if it was classic comedy, Dr Demento had it.   He has a doctorate to prove his credentials.   So whatever your taste, just check out the listing and see what you will get.  You will be amazed.  

And remember, each show had great different songs on it along with all the interviews, commentary, history, and entertainment features! 

Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen (born April 2, 1941), better known as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.

Hansen created the persona of Dr. Demento in 1970 while working at Pasadena station KPPC-FM. The positive listener response to the offbeat novelties that Hansen included in his rock oldies show led to his eventually turning it into an all-novelty show. At the end of 1971, he moved to KMET in Los Angeles. From 1972 to 1983, he performed a four-hour live show on KMET. Later, the show would be a two-hour live show on KLSX, and after they converted to a talk-only format, moved again to KSCA, where it remained until they changed to a Spanish-language broadcast, in February, 1997.

His weekly show went into national syndication in a two-hour all-novelty format in 1974, produced by his manager Larry Gordon of Gordon/Casady and during 1978–92 was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network. The Westwood One period marked the height of the show's national popularity; it was carried in most major radio markets, airing mainly on FM rock stations, usually late on Sunday evenings. The producer Westwood One assigned to work with Hansen from 1978 to 1982 was Lynnsey Guererro, a former track star from UCLA and Senior Producer at the company. In 1982, he handed off the show to a new producer from San Diego, professional journalist Robert Young. It was under Young's guidance that the show gained in popularity, mainly due to his willingness to foster relationships with national media and with nationally known and up-and-coming artists, including John Mammoser, Judy Tenuta, Emo Philips, Pinkard and Bowden, Wally Wingert, and Mark Davis (Richard Cheese). Young accompanied Dr. Demento to Portland, Ore.; Dallas, Texas; New York City; San Diego; Montreal; Phoenix; and other cities to do live performances and PR Events, taking photos, setting up interviews and even 'running the board' at some of the live shows. He left the radio network in 1990 during a business downturn. In January 2014 Young released an e-book titled "Producing Demento," about his memories of working on the show.

From 1992 to 2000, the show was syndicated by On the Radio Broadcasting. Hansen, under the name "Talonian Productions," handled syndication himself from 2000 until discontinuing syndication in 2010 (though Hansen did not reveal he was Talonian until being forced to respond to significant criticism of the company in 2007; this despite the fairly obvious fact that Talonian had no involvement in any other show than Dr. Demento). Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, Hansen continued to do live broadcasts on KMET and other Los Angeles area stations, in addition to his weekly taped syndicated show. He also made occasional television appearances, on such shows as The Gong Show(on the 1988-89 revival), Bobby's World and The Simpsons, and on the Barnes and Barnes music video for "Fish Heads".

The syndicated radio show normally started with an hour of randomly chosen records and listener requests. The second hour was normally mostly devoted to a specific theme (cars, sports, pets, romance, movies, etc.) with a final segment taken up by a "Funny" countdown of the most requested songs. There were also shows devoted to holidays and seasonal events, with the most important being the Halloween and Christmas shows (Hansen produced multiple Christmas shows during the holiday season consisting solely of novelty Christmas music), because of the large number of novelty records those holidays have inspired. The final radio episode each year was the Funny 25, a countdown of the 25 most requested novelty songs that year (see below). For most of the syndicated show's history, Hansen produced 52 original weekly shows every year; repeat broadcasts were rare.

The program's opening theme is an instrumental version of "Pico and Sepulveda" recorded for the show by The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band. The same Los Angeles area group recorded some of the musical teasers used on the show, such as "It's time for number one...." The other "countdown" intros come from "Barstow" by the American maverick composer Harry Partch. Hansen's opening line, "Wind up your radios," refers to the rare 78rpm novelty records from the days of wind-up phonographs that he has featured on the show, especially in its early years. The closing theme is "Cheerio, Cherry Lips, Cheerio," a 1929 vocal by Scrappy Lambert (recording under the name Gordon Wallace), which Hansen tells listeners he discovered in a thrift shop. The Doctor closes each show with "Stay Dement-ed!"

Whimsical Will (real name: William Simpson[5]) produced a weekly "Demented News" for the show since the late 1980's. He also has recorded false comedy interviews "break-in" style, following Dickie Goodman, including "Hey Dickie" (1989), which is available on iTunes.

Starting in the late 1980s, the show began to lose affiliates, a victim of media consolidation and other changes in the radio industry that were pushing many alternative rock stations and individualistic broadcasters off the air. In 1992, Westwood One dropped the show which was immediately picked up by another syndicator, On the Radio Broadcasting.[6] This allowed the syndicated show to air records which were popular on the local Los Angeles show, but Westwood One would not allow, such as "It's A Gas" byAlfred E. Neuman and "Moose Turd Pie" by Utah Phillips. It also allowed Whimsical Will's Demented News, a fixture of the local Los Angeles show, to also air on the national show.

In 2000, Hansen formed Talonian Productions to syndicate the show himself.[7] According to Hansen, the show steadily lost advertisers, and as such, he had to restructure the distribution of the show from the usual barter system to a system in which stations pay a rights fee for the program (though he apparently made exceptions in some major markets, such as WLUP in Chicago). He stated in October 2007 that "unless the show's financial situation changes soon, I will be unable to continue the show much longer." ]After approximately two and a half years, and no significant change in the show's financial situation, the Dr. Demento official website announced on June 6, 2010, that the show that aired that weekend would be the final broadcast in the terrestrial radio version; however, new episodes of the online streaming version would still continue to be produced for the foreseeable future, with new episodes posted every Saturday. In addition, according to the site, "...by special agreement and due to contractual considerations, a version of the internet show will be heard weekly on KACV-FM (in Amarillo, Texas), at least through the summer." The show was removed from KACV-FM in January 2011

 THIS AUCTION IS FOR  A CLASSIC TWO HOUR DR DEMENTO SHOW FROM 1989.   

  IT COMES WITH ITS CUE SHEETS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION ANDTHE LP'S ARE IN PRISTINE, NEW,  GREAT CONDITION.

    YOU KNOW THAT DR D SHOWS ARE THE HARDEST TO FIND AND THE MOST EXPENSIVE - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TO FILL OUT YOUR COLLECTION

THE SONGS CAN BE ACCESSED BY LOOKING AT THE CUE SHEETS IN THE LISTING PICTURE  

Since all shows are now not distributed to stations on CD, these too will soon vanish.   As long as I have them, I will sell them for as reasonable a price as I can,  even given the almost 25% of every purchase that Uncles EBay and Paypal keep for their very own.  Again, the show comes on 2 LP'S ,  TWO HOURS, and in pristine condition and  with their cue sheets in excellent condition.  AND IS A SUPER RARE SHOW                  

Please remember, this is the genuine original show that was sent to the radio station for airing.  It is NOT an unauthorized copy but the Real McCoy!!!  I personally guarantee that every radio show that I sell is the original show sent to stations.  Each show comes from my personal collection of thousands of radio shows of every genre.  Stations could use the show anytime during the weekend date printed on the show and then  the remaining ones ended up available to us all to enjoy. 

THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL HOW MANY OF EACH SHOW SURVIVED    AND WITH THIS SERIES, THERE ARE LIKELY FEW

On the financial side, you are truly buying a  show that will only increase in value and I am selling them at a price very close to what I paid for it.

Remember that this and all the radio music shows that you see on eBay  are not just about the music - the music can be found anywhere.  It is the mixture of great music and great announcing that makes it so entertaining. 

 As well, it is a piece of radio and music  history. Think of what they will be worth in a future years!  (IF you wanted to sell.)  I am selling to share with other music lovers what I was able to get at a reasonable price. 

As always, for U.S. buyers, I charge only shipping on the first show you buy so the more you buy the more money you will save.  For my international friends, I will again only charge shipping on the heaviest show you purchase and all others ship for free. 

Good Luck and God Bless You.