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The Dr. Demento Show #81-18 - May 3, 1981

Special Topic: history of the laughing record

My Home Town (live w/ intro) - Tom Lehrer
Marcell's Talkin' Chain Saw - Jerry Clower
Noah: Right! - Bill Cosby
Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce

Purple People Eater Meets Witch Doctor - The Big Bopper
One Meat Ball - Jimmy Savo
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - Lewis Lee
Call Any Vegetable (Mothermania edit) - The Mothers Of Invention

Laughing Song (Carnival Of Venice) (excerpt) - Henry Klauser
The OKeh Laughing Record (excerpt)
Laughter And Lemons (excerpt) - Charles Penrose
Sobbing Record (excerpt) - anonymous
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (excerpt) - Bob Atcher
The Jones Laughing Record (Flight Of The Bumble Bee) (excerpt) - Spike Jones
Contagious Coughs (excerpt) - anonymous
A Clean Song - Oscar Brand
Janitor - Surface Music

Yoda - "Weird Al" Yankovic
M.T.A. - The Kingston Trio

Rock And Roll Doctor - Travesty Ltd.
I'm Bugged At My Old Man - The Beach Boys
Gob On You - Mel Smith w/ Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, & Chris Langham (from Not The 9 O'Clock News)

Salt - The Vagabonds
A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty
In Heaven There Is No Beer - Dillard, Hartford, & Dillard
The Doper's Rodeo - The Bandits
The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy

#5 Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces - Cheech & Chong
#4 Dallas part 1 - The Dallas Idiots

#3 The Ballad Of Irving ("10 gallon" version) - Frank Gallop
#2 Too Young To Date - D-Day
EXTRA: Back From The Shadows Again - Firesign Theatre

Another One Bites The Crust (parody sung by caller) - Mike Petty (Minerva Park, NE side of Columbus, OH)
#1 Another One Rides The Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic