Hold the turkey

Predictably, host David Tanny is starting up with the holiday music on the Mad Music Dementia Top 20, beginning the merciless cycle of turkey and Santa songs.

A retro holiday counter-movement, however, appears to be under way with the voters, who placed three Halloween songs in the Top 20 — including Vampire Surprise by Veronique (aka Weird Val) Chevalier at No. 1.

Following the trend, a not so scary Fly Me To The Moon came in at No. 11 in the countdown. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 10:54 pm Sun, Nov 18, 2007.

Cap’n Wayne cries poop, dooms culture

Somebody’s crossing the line here. Who could have imagined a Demented music show with lyrics presented as the author originally intended, un-masked with “clever” audio snippets of fart noises, dogs barking or Jerry Falwell praising Jesus?

Society won’t end today because Captain Wayne broke new wind with his Bathroom Humor edition of The Mad Music Show, but the culture is certainly doomed. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 2:00 pm Thu, Nov 15, 2007.

I give back to the commoonity

Fly Me To The Moon just made its fifth appearance on David Tanny’s Mad Music Dementia Top 20, jumping a spot to No. 7 in listener voting.

I don’t know how long my Jerry Lewis impression can hold out, but DT sounded a bit scratchy throated during his introductions.

Sounds like he needs a break from introducing the same songs week after week. My previous numbah, I’ll Get Old And Die, appeared a good seven times on MMDT20 before it fell off the list. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 2:31 am Thu, Nov 15, 2007.

Happy Halloween, lady!

A few days after Halloween, MMDT20 host David Tanny stretches for a connection between my Jerry Lewis-lite cover of Fly Me To The Moon and the haunting holiday.

“The moon is something that werewolves like to howl at. It could be a Halloween song. I don’t care!” DT says.

And neither do the voters, who kept my song airborne for another week, at No. 8 on the chart. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 3:18 am Mon, Nov 5, 2007.

At the automat with Jerry

Fly Me To The Moon presents Jerry Lewis as distilled Vegas ego, served up to the yokels like a hot plate of kreplach.

It’s the sort of yiddishkeit one rarely hears any more from Dr. Demento, once a fount of Borscht Belt comedy music.

Fortunately, though, the famished nudnicks on the Mad Music Archive are eating this stuff up, sending my song to No. 4 on the Mad Music Dementia Top 20 one week and No. 11 the next. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 11:04 pm Mon, Oct 29, 2007.