The history of radio is filled with legendary figures; Jack Benny, Wolfman Jack, Casey Kasem, Arnie "Woo-Woo Ginsberg", and Paul Harvey, just to name a few. However, one radio icon found a unique niche and ran with it, and he landed himself a nationally syndicated spot on many a classic rock-style station in the 70s, 80s and even into the 90s, and as recently as 2010 on a small number of stations. I am of course talking about Dr. Demento, a.k.a. Barrett Hansen. Since 1971, he has specialized in playing comedy/novelty records on his weekly show in California, which got syndicated nationally in 1974. For some time, the local show was longer than the national version, but eventually, the national version was all that was left. In the 1990s, with radio stations being bought up by large corporations and such, h...

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