Welcome to the official online archive of The Dr. Demento Show!
Here you can browse our archives, which range from last week all the back to 1970! A new episode is added each Saturday morning, and older items are added to the archives each Sunday evening.
You may purchase any stream in high quality, or join the Demento Online Club to get the new episode automatically every week, plus 3 credits for episodes of your choice from the archives! To become a member, click here!
(Please note that you are not purchasing a download but a single performance which is streamed to your computer. Any offers mentioned in older shows are null and void at this point.)
Please be aware that some of the older shows although available in high quality format may have less then stellar sound quality due to the age and quality of the original recording. Also, while most shows are stereo, a few shows are only available in mono (as indicated).
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3 new additions within last seven days. (1 in this category.)
BASEMENT TAPES 7 2114: This week's show features Dr Demento Basement Tapes #7, with a Weird Al rarity, Henry Phillips and more, plus a few Happy Easter songs...and I'll be celebrating a round number birthday with a couple of curlicues too! Join the party at www.drdemento.com!
ANIMALS 2104: The topic is funny songs about animals. Mississippi Squirrel Revival, Walter Wart the Freaky Frog, and lots more trash and treasures. Plus 8-year-old rapper Grandmaster Jax and Knucklehedz, Kirby Krackle, Phil Spector's most Demented song, and Q-Anon Girl (the only political song), drdemento.com Jan 23, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 23, 2021)
BASEMENT TAPES 6 2102: Here's Dr Demento's Basement Tapes #6, for your dementing pleasure! Includes Weird Al's demo of "Yoda" plus "Star Wars Cantina," and the first Demented hits by Henry Phillips and the great Luke Ski, plus "Deteoriorata," "I'd Rather Have a Bottle In Front Of Me," "The Trouble with Klingons" and lots more. drdemento.com [drdemento.com] Jan 9, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 7, 2021)
BASEMENT TAPES 7 2114: This week's show features Dr Demento Basement Tapes #7, with a Weird Al rarity, Henry Phillips and more, plus a few Happy Easter songs...and I'll be celebrating a round number birthday with a couple of curlicues too! Join the party at www.drdemento.com! Apr 3, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Apr 3, 2021)
BODY PARTS 2111: The new show is a tribute to the human body. 29 songs, with 29 different Demented attitudes, explore body parts from head to toes. Also eight all-time favorites for St. Patrick's Day, plus "Mr. Biden (Bring My Vaccine)", "Chicken Fat", Max Headroom and more. Mar 13, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 13, 2021)
FRUITS & VEGETABLES 2108: This week's topic is Fruits and Vegetables. Half a dozen songs about beans, and seven about bananas -- plus Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Call Any Vegetable, and Carrot Juice Is Murder. Plus a song about the Perseverance Rover, written and recorded the day it landed! drdemento.com Feb 20, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 20, 2021)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2101: At last it's 2021! Our first show of the New Year features a few songs from the 1920s, and from more recent times, Viral Hits from the internet. Plus lots of requests and other surprises. Jan 2, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 2, 2021)
LIST SONGS 2106: This week's show celebrates "list songs", AKA "catalog songs" - songs like Weird Al's "Hardware Store," Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" and "99 Words for Boobs" by Robert Lund & Spaff. Also a shovelful of snow songs! Hear it now at drdemento.com Feb 6, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 6, 2021)
LIST SONGS PART 2 2110: By popular demand, List Songs, Part 2! Plus sets about pianos, moles, and 2 kinds of bums. www.drdemento.com Mar 6, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 6, 2021)
SINGERS AND MUSICIANS 2115: This week I have songs and sketches about Singers and Musicians, real and imaginary, from Gitarzan to Smells Like Nirvana - sung by artists from Allan Sherman to Tenacious D, from the Andrews Sisters to Shel Silverstein. Plus sets about stupid people and the solar system, and the first Weird Al song I ever played. www.drdemento.com Apr 10, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Apr 10, 2021)
SPRING 2112: Spring officially begins Saturday morning, March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere -- in the USA, just hours after my new show uploads. The show features a half hour of Demented spring songs, plus a glorious mixture of requests, a few new things, and Grammy winners Mister Rogers and Jim Kimo West (Weird Al's guitarist). www.drdemento.com Mar 20, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 20, 2021)
SUPERHEROES 2103: For Inauguration Day, here's a show devoted to the kind of person we hope our Presidents can be -- a Superhero! Here are songs and sketches about superheroes from Aquaman to Howard the Duck, plus a few about actual Presidents. www.drdemento.com Jan 16, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 16, 2021)
TOP TEN 2105: The Top Ten for January is here! Thanks to everyone who "voted" for their favorites. This show includes many of the "runners-up" as well. drdemento.com Jan 30, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Jan 30, 2021)
TOP TEN 2109: The Top Ten for February with runners-up, plus our first hour free-for-all, and a half hour of delightful Demented Discs from the 20s -- the 1920s! drdemento.com Feb 27, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 27, 2021)
TOP TEN 2113: The Top Ten for March, plus the W.A.P. Polka by Cardi Beerdehosen, Ghost Chickens In the Sky, an impromptu 90th birthday tribute to William Shatner, and other improbabilities! drdemento.com Mar 27, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Mar 27, 2021)
VALENTINE'S DAY 2107: Happy Valentine's Day everyone! We celebrate with a show that's 3/4 Demented love songs - Tapeworm of Love, Swallow My Love, U-Stink-But-I-Love-You, Loving You Is Surfing You, John & Marsha, Communist Love Song - you get the picture! drdemento.com Feb 13, 2021 [ Play List ] (Added Feb 13, 2021)
