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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 Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played 'Transfusion' by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ 'The Obscene' Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be 'demented' to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and from 1978 to 1992 was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version.
Hansen has a degree in ethnomusicology, and has written magazine articles and liner notes on recording artists outside of the novelty genre. He is credited with introducing new generations of listeners to artists of the early and middle 20th century whom they might not have otherwise discovered, such as Haywire Mac, Spike Jones, Benny Bell, Yogi Yorgesson, Stan Freberg, and Tom Lehrer, as well as with bringing parodist 'Weird Al' Yankovic to national attention.
Discography
A number of compilations have been released by Dr. Demento, including:
Dr. Demento's Delights (1975)
Dr. Demento's Dementia Royale (1980)
Dr. Demento's Mementos (1982)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time Volume I: The 1940s (and Before) (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume II: The 1950s (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume III: The 1960s (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume IV: The 1970s (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume V: The 1980s (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume VI: Christmas (1985)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Novelty CD of All Time (1988)
Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time (1989)
Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection (1991)
Dr. Demento: Holidays In Dementia (1995)
Dr. Demento's Country Corn (1995)
Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection (1996)
Dr. Demento 2000! 30th Anniversary Collection (2001)
Dr. Demento's Hits From Outer Space (2003)
Dr. Demento Interviews, The (2013)
Dr. Demento Covered in Punk (2018)
The Demento Society released members-only demo compilations titled Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes yearly from 1991 to 2008.
In 2013, Meep Morp Studio put out a boxed set of all 17 of 'Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes' to date. The box set was limited to just 50 copies, available only by donating to the Kickstarter campaign for 'Under the Smogberry Trees', the Dr. Demento documentary. Each box was hand signed and numbered by Dr. Demento himself.
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