From: jbmorris@mango.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) Date: 4 Oct 93 08:46:43 GMT Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia Subject: FAQ: rec.music.dementia FAQ * = new info since last posting Hello, and welcome to rec.music.dementia! What is "dementia", other than a mental disorder, you may ask. The group is so named after "The Dr. Demento Show", a weekly radio program hosted by Barry Hansen, a/k/a Dr. Demento. It is described by him as: "Mad music and crazy comedy from out of the archives and off the wall. Rare records and outrageous tapes from yesterday, today, and tomorrow." The show has been around for over 20 years, and got its name when Barry was playing "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio one day, and someone said, "You've gotta be demented to play that!" Where can I hear "The Dr. Demento Show" in my area? Well, our own Scooby (ras@copper.denver.colorado.edu) faithfully keeps track of what stations broadcast the good Dr.'s show, and posts a list to this group regularly. The latest list can also be obtained by mailing the auto-reply FAQ server. More on this later. What can I do if the show isn't heard in my area? The Dr. sez: If the Doctor Demento Show can no longer be heard in your area you can try to get it back on the air by writing to the Program Director of your favorite radio station. Most stations pay close attention to feedback from their listeners, so your telling them that you'd like to hear the Dr. Demento Show on their station is the best thing you can do, short of sending rubber chickens. What sort of radio station is the Dr. most likely to be heard on? I don't think there's an answer to this. I've heard of him being on all kinds, from hard rock to Top 40 to oldies. The music that the Dr. plays fits all formats and no formats at the same time. Try any radio station that you think is open-minded enough. :) Where can I write to Dr. Demento? The Demento Society P.O. Box 884 Culver City, CA 90232 USA How can I join The Demento Society? Send a check or money order for $14.95 (U.S. dollars) to the above address. You will receive a membership kit which includes, among other things, a membership card, a bio and photos of the Dr., a Stay Demented! button, a demented bumper sticker, a four-year subscription to the annual Demento Society News (usually comes out around December), and a CD or cassette (please specify) of 26 tracks unavailable in stores. [Please note that I am not in any way affiliated with The Demento Society, but am providing this information as a public service.] Where else can I get demented music from? Check out the comedy section in your local record store. If there isn't one, you may have to hunt around for particular artists. "Weird Al" Yankovic can sometimes be located in the rock/pop section. Dr. Demento's albums are often in the compilations section. Some stand-up comedy may be in the spoken word section. You may even find some demented music in the oldies sections and the childrens sections. It's everywhere! Just take a look. *Many songs heard on the Dr.'s show aren't available in stores, but can be *obtained from the artists themselves. Since June, 1993, a list of addresses *given on the show is being maintained by annie@redrock.nevada.edu. This list *is available from the FAQ mail server - more info later. *Anyone who's had their material played on the program and wishes to advertise *qualifies for inclusion in this list. Send address and pertinent info to *Annie. How can I submit my own songs to The Dr. Demento Show? The Dr. sez: I'm always happy to listen to tapes for possible airplay on the Dr. Demento Show. Reel-to-reel (7 1/2 ips preferred) or cassette tapes are acceptable (as are discs). Since all material is carefully auditioned, please allow six weeks for response. If your tape is selected for airplay, you will be notified in advance, and asked for written permission. I'll look forward to hearing from you. P.S. You don't have to get permission to use other people's tunes, or names of products, before sending me a tape. Names of products can sometimes cause us problems on the show (especially if you say things about them that are nasty) and you DO need permission before making a RECORD of someone else's tune with your words (as opposed to a tape). The address for submitting is the same as that for the society: Dr. Demento P.O. Box 884 Culver City, CA 90232 USA What is appropriate to be discussed in r.m.d? Can I post lyrics or request songs or talk about a new album? Sure. Anything related to comedy and/or novelty music, records, performances, personalities, etc. is fine to post about. Is there an ftp site to retrieve things such as lyrics, discographies, playlists, etc.? *These files will soon be available for ftp from cs.uwp.edu *In the meantime, there is a mail server. The auto-server address is jbmorris@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu You can send mail to there with certain subject lines, and a reply will be sent back to you automatically, normally within a minute. The list of subject lines will be posted separately following this message, or can be obtained by mailing the server with a subject line of LIST. Do you accept contributions and/or corrections to the things available from the mail server? Most definitely! If you have something you want considered for addition to the site, please send it to the same address. (Just be sure not to use one of the auto-reply keywords as your subject! Also be sure you do have a subject line, or else your letter won't get through to me.) Also, if you notice a problem with any of the files you receive from the server, such as wrong or unclear information, misspellings, and the like, please also write me and tell me to fix it. Stay Demented! - Jeff From: jbmorris@mango.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) Date: 4 Oct 93 08:47:47 GMT Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia Subject: FAQ: rec.music.dementia LIST This file will list all of the subjects you can mail with that will send you an automatic reply. The auto-server address is jbmorris@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu Use that to get these files. Just mail with one of the following subject lines. No text is necessary in the body of the letter, and in fact I will not see it if you put it there anyway. Also, please note that it is only possible to request one thing at a time. If your subject line has more than one file listed, only the first will be sent. I think this is best, since you would probably not want everything grouped together in one message anyway. To correspond with me, please use jbmorris@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu To send contributions or corrections to these lists, mail jbmorris@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu Be sure to not use one of the FAQ keywords as a subject line, and also be sure to have a subject line, otherwise I won't see your letter. THANKS! By the way, the server is not case sensitive, so you can type these in caps, lowercase, or any combination thereof. Subjects marked with an asterisk (*) are new since the last posting of the FAQ. Do NOT include the * in your subject line when requesting them, however. Here's the list so far...: Mail with a subject of: and you will get: LIST This list FAQ the introductory note to rec.music.dementia DIR Directory of files, to see when a file was last updated, how big it is, what files are there, etc. STATIONS Scooby's list of stations that broadcast Dr. D *ADDR Annie's list of demented artists' addresses BEAT.NOV Moko's list of Beatles novelty songs AL.UNR a list of unreleased "Weird Al" songs AL.DISCO a list of Al's albums and the songs on them AL.45S a list of Al's 45's AL.INT an interview I did with Al PYTHON.DISCO A discography of albums by Monty Python SHERMAN.DISCO A discography of records by Allan Sherman NEWS.11 The Demento Society News, Volume 1 Issue 1, 1st Quarter 1986 NEWS.12 The Demento Society News, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2nd Quarter 1986 NEWS.22 The Demento Society News, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2nd Quarter 1987 NEWS.32 The Demento Society News, Volume 3 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 1990 NEWS.101 The Demento Society News, No. 101 (winter 1992/1993) [Thanks to annie@redrock.nevada.edu for contributing many of the Demento Society newsletters available now and in the future.] Playlists are now available through the FAQ server! So far, only the playlists for this year are available. The format for the subject line to request one of the playlists is DRDYY.MMDD, where YY=the year (so far, only 93 is available), MM=the month (01=January, 02=February, etc.), and DD=the Sunday the show was aired. If your area airs the show on a different day, requesting the Sunday following that day will probably get you the correct playlist. The whole year so far is available, but here are some examples: DRD93.0103 playlist for The Dr. Demento Show: January 3, 1993 DRD93.0425 playlist for The Dr. Demento Show: April 25, 1993 DRD93.0502 playlist for The Dr. Demento Show: May 2, 1993 The new playlist each week is put in around 11:30 PM EST on Sunday, but it varies. It will always be posted to the newsgroup first, so if it's not up there yet, there's no reason to request it from the FAQ server. There are more Demento Society Newsletters on the way! I swear! Also coming soon is a Tom Lehrer biography and discography. There is now a second directory at the server site exclusively for lyrics. To access anything in here, you must put "LYRICS: " at the beginning of your subject line preceding what you wish to request. To see what lyrics are available so far, mail with a subject of "LYRICS: LIST" Thanks, Jeff From: jbmorris@mango.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris) Date: 4 Oct 93 08:51:47 GMT Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia Subject: FAQ: rec.music.dementia LYRICS: LIST This file will list all of the subjects you can mail with that will send you an automatic reply of lyrics to a particular song or songs. The auto-server address is jbmorris@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu Use that to get these files. Just mail with one of the following subject lines. To access files in this directory, the subject line must begin with "LYRICS: ". To see what non-lyrics files are available, mail with the subject of "LIST" instead of "LYRICS: LIST". No text is necessary in the body of the letter, and in fact I will not see it if you put it there anyway. Also, please note that it is only possible to request one thing at a time. If your subject line has more than one file listed, only the first will be sent. I think this is best, since you would probably not want everything grouped together in one message anyway. To correspond with me, please use jbmorris@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu To send contributions or corrections to these lists, mail jbmorris@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu THANKS! By the way, the server is not case sensitive, so you can type these in caps, lowercase, or any combination thereof. Subjects marked with an asterisk (*) are new since the last posting of the FAQ. Do NOT include the * in your subject line when requesting them, however. Here's the list so far...: Mail with a subject of: and you will get: LYRICS: DIR Directory of files, to see when a file was last updated, how big it is, what files are there, etc. LYRICS: LIST This list of what lyrics are available so far LYRICS: AL.1ST the lyrics to "Weird Al" Yankovic's first LP LYRICS: AL.THREE the lyrics to Al's _In 3-D_ LP LYRICS: AL.DTBS the lyrics to Al's _Dare To Be Stupid_ LP LYRICS: AL.POLKA the lyrics to Al's _Polka Party!_ LP LYRICS: AL.WORSE the lyrics to Al's _Even Worse_ LP LYRICS: AL.UHF the lyrics to Al's _UHF_ LP LYRICS: AL.OTDE the lyrics to Al's _Off the Deep End_ LP *LYRICS: ALAPALOOZA the lyrics to Al's _Alapalooza_ LP LYRICS: BRUCES Bruces' Philosophers sketch and song - Monty Python LYRICS: COMPUTER.SONGS various computer parody songs LYRICS: DEAD.PUPPIES Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl LYRICS: DETERIORATA Desiderata - Les Crane & Deteriorata - National Lampoon LYRICS: FISH.HEADS Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes LYRICS: GRANDPA I'm My Own Grandpa - Lonzo & Oscar LYRICS: LEHRER.MISC Some miscellaneous unreleased Tom Lehrer songs LYRICS: MAJOR.GENERAL The Major-General's Song - The Pirates of Penzance (the song that Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" is a parody of) LYRICS: NEGLIGEE parody of Yesterday - Marty Hale-Evans & Melinda Hale LYRICS: POLKA.DOT.UNDIES Polka Dot Undies - Bowser & Blue LYRICS: SCOTSMAN The Scotsman - Bryan Bowers LYRICS: SHAKESPEARE.RAP The Shakespeare Rap - Open Season LYRICS: SHAVING.CREAM Shaving Cream - Benny Bell & Dr. Demento LYRICS: STAR.TREKKIN Star Trekkin' - The Firm LYRICS: WET.DREAM Wet Dream - Kip Addotta Thanks to Dean Myers (Dean.Myers@ebay.sun.com) for sending the Al lyrics, and Bill Gasarch (gasarch@cs.umd.edu) for sending many of the others, and many more which I am still putting in! Thanks, Jeff