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From: wendya@apollo.uucp (Wendy Alberts)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Worst Lyrics: "Fish heads..."
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 15:10:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 15:10:01 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!!!).

W. Christensen