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From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Worst Lyrics: "Fish heads..."
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 18:06:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 18:06:42 1984
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>The "Fish heads" song, if I remember correctly, was one of a series
>of similarly weird pieces recorded by a UCLA student and submitted
>to Dr. Demento when he was doing his original Sunday night show on
>KMET in Los Angeles (mid-seventies or earlier...). I don't remember 
>the student's name, but she was very creative and prolific; she
>apparently did all her recordings on a little cassette player in the
>UCLA dorm where she lived at the time. BTW, "Weird Al" Yancovic also got
>his start in the same way; Dr. Demento was playing his stuff (much of
>it FAR weirder and funnier than the recent Jackson parodies) many
>years ago... And as for bad lyrics in general, some of Dr. Demento's
>favorites would win any competition hands down (e.g., "Dead puppies
>aren't much fun...   YEECHH!!!).

For some of the strangest lyrics, you should look to Tom Lehrer.
He did a lot of parodies of styles of songs (rather than individual
songs) back in the '50s and '60s.  Has anybody here ever heard of him?
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