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The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - January 1, 1978 (6p-10:15p)

Special Topic: Top 50 for 1977
Note: This show was only broadcast in Los Angeles (KMET), as this was during a one-year hiatus that Dr. Demento took from syndication (February, 1977 - February, 1978), before being picked up by Westwood One. At this point, the show was four hours instead of two hours, thus a top 50 instead of a top 25.

NOTE: "Pet Shop" by Monty Python and "Tse-Tse Fly" by Sulu were tied for #50 based on the point system, but they were not aired.

The Hokey Pokey (live in studio, background only) - Sulu (briefly w/ Damaskas)
Stars And Stripes Forever - Crazy Rick's Psychedelic American Flea Band
EXTRA: Happy New Year - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
#50 Deteriorata - National Lampoon

#49 Third Base Bag - Ron Cey
#46 (tie) I Love Your Toes - Sulu
#46 (tie) Just A Banana - Johnny Baltimore Band

#46 (tie) Hamster Love - Big Daddy
#40 (tie) They Ain't Makin' Jews Likes Jesus Anymore - Kinky Friedman
#40 (tie) Earache My Eye - Cheech & Chong
#40 (tie) Hooray For Captain Spaulding - Groucho Marx

#40 (tie) Beam Me Up, Scotty - Terry McGovern
#40 (tie) Star Trip - The Congress Of Wonders

#40 (tie) It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman
#39 Voyeur - Mushroom Cloud
#38 The Ballad Of Ben Gay - Ben Gay & The Silly Savages

#37 Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein
For He's A Jolly Good Fellow (live in studio) - The Million Dollar Quartet (Brad Stanfield, Alfred Yankovic, Damaskas, Sulu, & Kooky Karen)
#36 The Party - Moorpark Dementites
#34 (tie) Boobs A Lot - The Holy Modal Rounders
EXTRA: Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Getting) - Devo
#34 (tie) The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati - Possum

#31 (tie) Roots - Big Daddy
#31 (tie) Telephone Man - Meri Wilson

#31 (tie) Chaos (Part I) - Arbogast & Ross
Love Hurts (brief altered excerpt) - Nazareth
#31 (tie) Chaos (Part II) - Arbogast & Ross

Yes Yes - Damaskas/No No (additional verse) - Sulu (brief simultaneous in-studio performances)

#27 The Legend Of The U.S.S. Titanic - Jaime Brockett
#25 (tie) He Hit Me - Bedlam A. C.
#25 (tie) The Ballad Of Irving ("schlepping" version) - Frank Gallop
#24 Garage Sale - Little Leon's Goodtime Kiddie Band

Sulu brief interview
#23 Pizza Song - Sulu & Mark "Synthesizer" Stone
#21 (tie) Argument Clinic - Monty Python
Sulu brief interview
#21 (tie) Chocolate Toenails - Sulu & Chris Cathcart
#20 Lumberjack Song/Monty Python Theme (live at Drury Lane) - Monty Python
Home In Pasadena (brief in-studio performance) - Dr. Demento
EXTRA: Nobody Here But Us Frogs (live in studio) - Alfred Yankovic
Alfred Yankovic brief interview
#19 Star Warts - Dickie Goodman
#16 (tie) Killer Kitty - B. J. Band
#16 (tie) Dragnet Goes To Kindergarten - Ricky Vera

Brad Stanfield brief interview
#16 (tie) Gumball Wizard (live in studio from syndicated show #102, 1976) - Brad Stanfield
#15 Geek's Revenge - Don Noon
#14 Thank God For Porno - Johnny Baltimore
#13 The Vatican Rag - Tom Lehrer
#12 Bounce Your Boobies - Rusty Warren
#11 They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Demented Mix) - Napoleon XIV
EXTRA: My Microwave TV - Damaskas
#9 (tie) The Dodgers And The Reds - Phil Wilson
#9 (tie) Who's On First - Abbott & Costello

#8 Small Busted Women - Sulu
#7 Dead Puppies - Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band
#6 Spam - Monty Python
#5 Shaving Cream - Paul Wynn & Benny Bell
#4 Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp) (New 1964 Version) - Allan Sherman [both versions counted towards the song's #4 placement]
#3 C. B. Savage - Rod Hart

(May All Dementians Be Demented) - Sulu, Kooky Karen, Alfred Yankovic, Brad Stanfield, & Damaskas
#2 Stardrek - Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara
Barstow (accidental excerpt) - Harry Partch [simultaneous with above record]
#1 Pencil Neck Geek (w/ epilogue) - Fred Blassie
next week: a solid hour of 78s from 7 to 8