Staying Demented (feat. an interview with Dr. Demento)
2:00pm, 1-23-2015
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Wind up your radio dials! Today's show features an interview with legendary radio personality and walking music encyclopedia Dr. Demento!
Best known as a connoisseur of "mad music and crazy comedy," Dr. Demento is also Barry Hansen, a respected music historian and scholar. He joins the show to share his wealth of knowledge about all kinds of music, particularly blues and R&B.
Mr. Hansen also discusses his memories of KRRC (the Reed College radio station that is now KXRY!), record collecting, and his lecture at Reed tonight called "From Ragtime to Rap in an Hour and a Quarter."
- 2:00pm Mr. Ghost Goes to Town by Zeke Manners & His Swing Billies on Park Avenue Hillbillies And West End Cowboys (Country Novelty Songs) (Collectors Choice)
- 2:05pm My Four Reasons by Banjo Ikey Robinson and His Bull Fiddle Band on Baby, How Can it Be? (Dust-to-Digital)
- 2:07pm Let Me Play With It by Hartman's Heartbreakers on Baby, How Can it Be? (Dust-to-Digital)
- 2:10pm (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra on MP3 (Vocalion)
- 2:13pm Barnacle Bill the Sailor by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five on MP3 (Decca)
- 2:17pm Honey Hush by Big Joe Turner on MP3 (Atlantic )
- 2:19pm Oochie Coochie by Young Jessie on MP3 (Modern)
- 2:22pm My Ding-a-Ling by Dave Bartholomew & His Orchestra on MP3 (King)
- 2:29pm Confession Blues by The Maxin Trio on MP3 (Down Beat)
- 2:32pm Tall Cool One by The Wailers on MP3 (Golden Crest)
- 2:34pm What'd I Say (excerpt) by Ray Charles on MP3 (Atlantic)
- 2:55pm WPLJ by The Four Deuces on MP3 (Music City )
- 2:58pm Shortnin' Bread by Spike Jones on MP3 (-)