Barret Eugene Barry Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.
Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played Transfusion by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ The Obscene Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be demented to play that. Thereafter, the name...
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