[78-L] End of an Era: Dr. Demento ends radio run

[David Lennick]

Dr D's program was heard on a number of Canadian radio stations (I have a number of tapes from the station that duped them) but eventually disappeared up here because of the lack of sufficient Canadian Content, a certain amount of which is required of all stations. Wacky Canadiana certainly exists but wouldn't mean much to American listeners.

 

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> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:35:37 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] End of an Era: Dr. Demento ends radio run
> 
> I had done a program very similar to his about 6 months before his first
> program. Mine was The Junkyard, on WNUR Evanston Illinois. I ended up
> doing a segment each week playing a weird record on a talk show by Al
> Lerner for the next couple of years till 1972. Al later was on WGN,
> Chicago, and I would have picked up doing that except by then Demento
> was going strong and anybody doing novelty records would seem like a
> copy of Demento even if we had done it before him. But you are so
> right, radio ain't fun no more.
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Dr. Demento is a member of Toast of New York and is heard from frequently. A couple of months ago he gave me a plug when he aired (online only, not on the broadcast version) my near first-generation copy of The Crepitation Contest.
> 
> > I'll admit to having drawn some inspiration from Dr. D over the years, although I'd never heard his program when a listener to my local show called me a Canadian Doctor Demento. Some years later, I presented nightly insanity on the CBC Network on "Summer Camp" and then "Night Camp". While on a visit to Los Angeles, I dropped into the offices of Westwood One with a few samples..they said they loved the program but couldn't do anything with it, since they already had Dr. D and HE was a hard sell. Radio ain't fun no more.
> 
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