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Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After Last Show
He's 84 now and the man born Barry Hansen thinks it's time to stop being demented.
He announced this just completed show is his last, although he still plans to do a few retrospectives before hanging up the headphones altogether.
"I'm now 84 years old, and I have been doing this show for nearly 55 years -- about two-thirds of my life," Hansen told listeners after playing the No. 1 song on the show's final Top 10 countdown. "It's been a blast, but I have come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows."
The show used to be heard on Toronto radio for a while, but a few years ago, it switched to streaming only via a subscription service.
I guess the "novelty" has finally worn off.
Dr. Demento Retires After 55-Year Radio Career
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CHYM in Kitchener, then at 1490 and on AM, played Dr. Demento for a few years on Saturday evenings at 8pm. The program ran for two years, 1975/76. When the show was cancelled, Dr. Demento's small but very loyal audience phoned in and wrote letters to management trying to convince the station to bring back the good Dr. I was an operator at CHYM and took many of the calls on Saturday evening for a few weeks with upset listeners disappointed at the cancellation.
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paterson1 wrote:
CHYM in Kitchener, then at 1490 and on AM, played Dr. Demento for a few years on Saturday evenings at 8pm. The program ran for two years, 1975/76. When the show was cancelled, Dr. Demento's small but very loyal audience phoned in and wrote letters to management trying to convince the station to bring back the good Dr. I was an operator at CHYM and took many of the calls on Saturday evening for a few weeks with upset listeners disappointed at the cancellation.
Management probably didn't listen, did they?
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Ratings for Dr. Demento weren't great and the station did better just playing top 40 music on Saturday night. I liked the program and felt that Dr. Demento made CHYM's "Saturday Night Special" unique.
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I recall it on CHUM-FM in the early to mid 80s on Sunday Nights. Then it was the Sunday Funnies, or we'd switch to Comedy Bowl or Pink Flamingo Room on Q with Wolyshyn.
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I loved DD.
Used to have dinner with some friends on a Sunday night, and we'd all listen to the show.
Also Chicken Man. (he's everywhere, he's everywhere!"
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I loved DD.
Also Chicken Man. (he's everywhere, he's everywhere!")
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I recall it on CHUM-FM in the early to mid 80s on Sunday Nights. Then it was the Sunday Funnies, or we'd switch to Comedy Bowl or Pink Flamingo Room on Q with Wolyshyn.
I remember tuning in to Q107 one Sunday night and hearing what he called 'The BLUE Flamingo Room', where he told VERY politically incorrect jokes that wouldn't even come close to airing on any broadcast medium today.
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I remember tuning in to Q107 one Sunday night and hearing what he called 'The BLUE Flamingo Room', where he told VERY politically incorrect jokes that wouldn't even come close to airing on any broadcast medium today.
Yup! It could be pretty raucous. Weird to think this was the same guy that hosted a morning show on 1010 only a wee bit over a decade later.
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