Happy birthday to DJ, music historian, and collector of weird novelty tunes Barret Hansen, better known as Dr Demento! Choice songlist to follow in a thread...
"Cocktails for Two", one of the early songs by Spike Jones and his City Slickers, featuring voice acting legend Mel Blanc on drunk guy vocals...
I don't know much about this song other than that it stuck with me...
The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
Dr Demento is also responsible for launching "Weird Al" Yankovic into his long and successful recording career after playing his parody of "My Sharona", "My Bologna". But prior to that Al mostly did original songs, and continued to - so here's a deep cut:
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