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The Dr. Demento Show (live on KMET) - December 21, 1980 (6p-10p)

Special Topic: Trim A Tree w/ Dr. D

Jingle Bells (edit) - The Singing Dogs
Got A Cold In The Node For Christmas - Gayla Peevey
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band w/ The Harlem Community Choir
Musical Mike's Jazz Corner: Swingin' Them Jingle Bells - Fats Waller [started too fast then restarted]
Christmas Greeting - Thomas A. Edison
A Sleighride Party - Hadyn Quartet
Merry Christmas - Meco
An Albert Brooks Christmas - Albert Brooks w/ Little Kristi
Merry Christmas You Suckers - Paddy Roberts
Nuttin' For Christmas - Stan Freberg
Santa's Beard - The Beach Boys
The Twelve Days Of A Los Angeles Ram Christmas - Elliott, Walter & Bennett
The Night Before Christmas - Basil Rathbone

Good King Kong Looked Out - Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach)
Punk Rock Christmas - The Ravers
Slippin' Into Christmas - Leon Russell

Ho Ho Ho (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas) - Elton John

Chinchy Old Scrooge - Phil Moore
Green Chri$tma$ - Stan Freberg

Granny's Holiday Fruitcake - Granny
I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas - The Goons
Christmas Goose - Stan Boreson & Doug Setterberg
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Hippo The Hero) - Gayla Peevey

Santa Jaws (Part 2) - Homemade Theatre
I Was Santa Claus At The School House (For The P.T.A.) - Yogi Yorgesson w/ Johnny Duffy & The Scandahoovians
Kung Fu Christmas - National Lampoon
Bebop Santa Claus - Babs Gonzales
I Won't Be Twisting This Christmas - Father Guido Sarducci
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd
Dumbo, The Clown Who Loved Christmas - The Residents
Monster's Holiday - Lon Chaney, Jr.
Merry Christmas In The NFL - Willis The Guard
Wreck The Halls - The Three Stooges

Uncle Bernie's Farm - The Mothers
Santa And The Sidewalk Surfer - The Crossfires (The Turtles)

Jingle Bells (excerpt) - Homer & Jethro
Randolph, The Flat-Nosed Reindeer - Homer & Jethro
Open Me First - Ogden Edsl
I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson
A Squirrely Christmas - Shirley & Squirrely

What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb?) - The Star Wars Intergalactic Droid Choir & Chorale [Meco]
The Day That Santa Claus Retired - Rose & The Arrangement
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Smothers Brothers
Santa Claus Is Dead - Eight Bay Bus
Christmas Dragnet - Stan Freberg

All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
The Chipmunk Song - Canned Heat & The Chipmunks
White Christmas (original version) - Bing Crosby
The Beatles Seventh Christmas Record (1969)
I'm A Christmas Tree - Wild Man Fischer w/ Dr. D

Musical Mike's Jazz Corner: Some Of These Days - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
#10 The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas - Allan Sherman
#9 The Twelve Days Of A Los Angeles Ram Christmas - Elliott, Walter & Bennett
#8 Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie
#7 Space Invaders - Uncle Vic
EXTRA: Have A Demented Christmas (live in studio) - Sulu w/ "Weird Al" Yankovic & Artie Barnes
EXTRA: Silent Night/O Come, All Ye Faithful (live in studio) - "Weird Al" Yankovic w/ SuLu & Artie Barnes
"Weird Al" Yankovic brief interview

#6 Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
#5 Santa Claus And His Old Lady - Cheech & Chong
#4 The Twelve Days Of Christmas - The Mushroom Tab. Choir
#3 Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy
#2 Another One Rides The Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#1 Frosty The Dope Man - Marc Zydiac
next week: Funny 50