I played this for my wife this evening. She looked at me afterwards and said "Don't Ever Play That Song Again". As I read the comments she then said "There are Alot of people out there just as disturbing as You". I reminded her that ours was not a shotgum wedding.... Thank You WCCN 107.5 for airing Doctor Demento.....
I first heard this on a Dr. Demento tape when I was 11 years old and it confused and scared me so much that I actually wrote a letter to Tom Stankus asking him what it was all about. He was kind enough to write me quite a lengthy letter in reply. I'm kicking myself for this, but I lost it somewhere, haven't seen it in years.
I used to hear this on Dr. Demento, which would air from 10-midnight, and this would usually come on towards the end near midnight at which point I'd be just about asleep (I used to sleep to the radio), so for the first dozen times I'd heard this song, I was usually in a half-dreamlike state, so it seemed like a surreal dream, especially during the "POPPIES! POPPIES! POPPIES!" part. It wasn't until later that I fully understood and appreciated the brilliance of this song. Long live T Bone! And Dr. Demento too!
If you were a longtime listener of Dr. Demento, like I was, you got familiar with this song pretty fast. "Existential Blues" was consistently on the "Funny Five" most requested songs list week in and week out.
First heard this on the Dr Demento show at age 13. I think the radio station was 94.7 KMET. The song has stuck with me all these years! Thanks so much for posting it!
I wired my alarm clock radio to the barbed wire fence behind my house, and I picked up Dr. Demento from Iceland. Never laughed so hard! Been hooked ever since!
I've been careful to preserve and protect my digital copy of this song. It's a post-infringement version without the 'dream the impossible dream' refrains, but still great. I've only just thought to search it out online. Great to find so many other fans from back in the day! Stay demented!
I love this song..I grew up listening to Dr. Demento in the 80's( I am in my Thirties now), and have always felt that this song in particular had all the answers.Thanks for making this!
This was always my fav from Dr.D days - still meaningful and fun, years later ;) Rock on Tom! I lived not too far from him in CT, and had no idea until after I moved away.
This is AWESOME!!! thanks! My brother introduced me (figuratively) to Dr. D 40+ years ago. Sadly, he just passed, and I was looking up this song as a memory. Well done.
I remember hearing this on Dr. Demento! I was too young to appreciate or understand it though, and it lasted soooo loooong. The part of the song that I never forgot was "Poppies! Poppies! Poppies!". Excellent video! :)
I first heard this song on Dr. Demento when i was 14 and i used to sing it to all my friends and they all looked at me like i was some kind of sub human missing a dna chain. Well, perhaps that's true 🤣🤣 I can't believe i waited 35 years to look this up on TH-cam. Ahhh memories
Lmao, good job, I've loved this song since Dr. Dementos 20th Anniversary album and seeing the visuals you chose were pretty much spot on with what I thought too, I laughed, thanks! 😊
I met Tom T-Bone Stankus at The Framingham State Cookout on 9/1/1986 where he sang this very song and changed maybe a few words to it like calling Dwight Hall by name and calling it the big green glow in the dark house up on the hill upon which it was on a hill but is really a red brick building.I emailed him 19 years later and he said that our meeting is all a blur.
It's a shame that this doesn't include the parts that were excised by the Andy Williams estate (and how weird is that, I must ask). Let me be blunt: "To dream ... the impossible dream ..."
Very witty editing. Cool beans, man! Thanks for doing that. But thank you even more for posting this song to hear again, for the first time in like 25 years! Would you believe I still sing this from beginning to end for people today, and still get like 75% from memory--!?!? LOL So stoked this is lost-and-found.
LOVE IT! I too first heard this song on a Dr Demento album years ago, the images you found are so much like what went through my head while listening, you did a really great job, thank you!! :)
i remeber listening to DR DEMENTO back in the 5th grade (1980) and hearing this song for the first time. its still one of my favs. i was surised to find it on TH-cam.............
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Such a great flashback to the days of listen todetailed Dr. Demento!!! Set to video no less! Thanks for the great trip plus excellent work on putting the video together! (poppies)!!!! Loved it!!!
Our parents would ban it. NO fun allowed! You hear this song just once, and, u can't just let it go! Anyone who has never gotten high just would not get this...
I have a recording of this with the line "To dream the impossible dream" not cut out of it. He used to perform once a month in a bar not too far from my house. He refused to play this song as he was getting tired of trying to explain it to the drunks.
The guy who wrote this hilarious bit of history must have been on one helluva cocaine trip while a re-run of "Wizard of Oz" was on a late-night TV channel. I used to listen to this during my college days late Sunday nights on KUPD-FM-98 out Tempe, Arizona. It still hasn't lost any of its bite or humor.
It's a very cool video but it really does suffer from not having the lyrics from that very famous Broadway musical Man of la Mancha you know... the theme song Don Quixote sings
2:44 - 2:47 what is this music from? I picture an old timey villain with a mustache, black top hat and black cape being introduced to a scene. I can hear another bar or two in my head but that's it, I can't place it.
I was certainly picturing the countless times it's been used in cartoons. After a couple of hours of sleuthing I found it's "The Villains Theme" from 1914
I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this for around forty years. Must've misspelled his name, or something, because none of my searches in recent years pulled anything up at all. Fast forward to half an hour ago, found out that it's on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes 3...but the version on there kind of sucks. This is the version I remember hearing on the radio so many years ago. Happily, another song I'd been wanting to find has also popped up here! Boot to the Head.
I met him too! In around 90-92, he came to my school to do his camp Muckalucka routine. I pointed out at the end of the performance that his fly had been down the whole time. :p
@retroexplosion1 Yeah, the Impossible Dream lyrics infringed copyright laws. When was the last time Man of LaMancha was played anywhere? (I know the frequency of a performance has nothing to do with copyright, but by the time the copyright runs out the lyric won't have any significance.)
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I played this for my wife this evening. She looked at me afterwards and said "Don't Ever Play That Song Again".
As I read the comments she then said "There are Alot of people out there just as disturbing as You".
I reminded her that ours was not a shotgum wedding....
Thank You WCCN 107.5 for airing Doctor Demento.....
I first heard this on a Dr. Demento tape when I was 11 years old and it confused and scared me so much that I actually wrote a letter to Tom Stankus asking him what it was all about. He was kind enough to write me quite a lengthy letter in reply. I'm kicking myself for this, but I lost it somewhere, haven't seen it in years.
I used to hear this on Dr. Demento, which would air from 10-midnight, and this would usually come on towards the end near midnight at which point I'd be just about asleep (I used to sleep to the radio), so for the first dozen times I'd heard this song, I was usually in a half-dreamlike state, so it seemed like a surreal dream, especially during the "POPPIES! POPPIES! POPPIES!" part. It wasn't until later that I fully understood and appreciated the brilliance of this song. Long live T Bone! And Dr. Demento too!
I had the same tape! Also featured the song 'fish heads' and 'poisoning the pigeons in the park '
Can you summarize what he said?
@@BassByTheBay Thanks for asking. I wish I could, but that was almost 25 years ago, so I really can’t remember.
@@andrewgilmore7669 Ah, too bad. Would be fascinating to hear his explanation, especially written to a kid! 😊
Oh the days of my misspent youth Listening to The Dr Demento show. I wouldn't change a thing if I could.
Always one of my favorite songs. Takes me back to some very Demented days...
But they cut out, "To Dream the Impossible Dream..."
@@BoneCity copyright thing. Stankus mentions it somewhere on another video of it.
If you were a longtime listener of Dr. Demento, like I was, you got familiar with this song pretty fast. "Existential Blues" was consistently on the "Funny Five" most requested songs list week in and week out.
yep
And they eventually had to remove the Fiddler on the Roof excerpt, "To dreeamm the impossibULL dream..." The audio here is the edited version.
i been doing that field of poppies, poppies, poppies poppies. bit for over 30 years. nobody remembers where it is from.
I remember, effendi
handyhippie65 Saw Tom at a local bar in the 70’s. We partied hard with him.
I still reply to things: "How profound, wizard!"
I still answer 'Neon' when asked my sign.
Same!
First heard this on the Dr Demento show at age 13. I think the radio station was 94.7 KMET. The song has stuck with me all these years! Thanks so much for posting it!
Whoooya!
I discovered the Dr. through a friend in middle school in 1972. I had multiple cassette tapes of the show.
I remember listening to this as on Dr. Demento's show on Sunday nights on 94.7 Fm KMET as great memories!
The Mighty Met
Wind up your radios!
I wired my alarm clock radio to the barbed wire fence behind my house, and I picked up Dr. Demento from Iceland. Never laughed so hard! Been hooked ever since!
Little Bit of Heaven
94.7
KMET
Tweedle Dee!
Followed by Jim Ladd with Inner View
It's been 20 years since I heard it but I thought of it today for some reason. And every last second of it is burned into my brain. Thank you Dr. D.
this was a standard played almost weekly on the dr. demento radio show, cool to hear it again
"I'll get you my pretty! And your little dog, Todo, too!" "I don't even HAVE a little dog Todo!" Cracks me up every time XD
Arryn Haynes omg. Too funny 😂
Any one here remember The Groggery In Oakville, CT?
Such a legendary song! Even C.1993 this played fairly often on the Dr. Demento Show! Thank you 107.7 KRXO Oklahoma City(at the time)!
I've been careful to preserve and protect my digital copy of this song. It's a post-infringement version without the 'dream the impossible dream' refrains, but still great. I've only just thought to search it out online. Great to find so many other fans from back in the day! Stay demented!
You just hear this song once and OMG u come back for more, cause it's so well done on so many levels! Disturbing can't let others know I enjoy this!
I love this song..I grew up listening to Dr. Demento in the 80's( I am in my Thirties now), and have always felt that this song in particular had all the answers.Thanks for making this!
Adding that ending was a marvelous touch. Thank You.
Makes total sense to me..... in an insane world
lmao
me too, gotta love it...
This was always my fav from Dr.D days - still meaningful and fun, years later ;) Rock on Tom! I lived not too far from him in CT, and had no idea until after I moved away.
This is AWESOME!!! thanks! My brother introduced me (figuratively) to Dr. D 40+ years ago. Sadly, he just passed, and I was looking up this song as a memory. Well done.
I swear this song has been repeating in my head as I wade through my mundane existence as a college student.
sang this at my talent show first place
snowmankiller1233 impressive.
That’s so cool!
@@silviusoracle1414 not really I bombed it 😂
Brilliant video!!! Heard this song years ago on Dr. Demento. You've done it justice!!
I still have a taped off Dr. Demento with the original line “I was on a questTo dream the impossible dream”
I absolutely love this song since i was a kid i remember having this song on dr dementoe cd
"...to dream the imposssssible dreammm...." :P
I remember hearing this on Dr. Demento! I was too young to appreciate or understand it though, and it lasted soooo loooong. The part of the song that I never forgot was "Poppies! Poppies! Poppies!". Excellent video! :)
Been over 30 years since I heard this classic. Watching wizard of Oz with poppies!!!
Unbelievable how after all this time my brain regurgitates most of those macap lyrics off the top of me head at the drop of a needle on the record.
I first heard this song on Dr. Demento when i was 14 and i used to sing it to all my friends and they all looked at me like i was some kind of sub human missing a dna chain. Well, perhaps that's true 🤣🤣 I can't believe i waited 35 years to look this up on TH-cam. Ahhh memories
Lmao, good job, I've loved this song since Dr. Dementos 20th Anniversary album and seeing the visuals you chose were pretty much spot on with what I thought too, I laughed, thanks! 😊
BRING BACK DR. DEMENTO ON FREE RADIO!!
PAY HIM, HE'S A NATIONAL TREASURE!!
(caps intentional)
I’ve had thins song in my personal memory bank for 40 years, and I never realized it was Butte, Montana!
This has been in my head now and then since 1983. I'm glad it was not formulated within my brain. No one I know remembers it.
I met Tom T-Bone Stankus at The Framingham State Cookout on 9/1/1986 where he sang this very song and changed maybe a few words to it like calling Dwight Hall by name and calling it the big green glow in the dark house up on the hill upon which it was on a hill but is really a red brick building.I emailed him 19 years later and he said that our meeting is all a blur.
It's a shame that this doesn't include the parts that were excised by the Andy Williams estate (and how weird is that, I must ask). Let me be blunt: "To dream ... the impossible dream ..."
I still have a recording with those lyrics somewhere.
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@@warrenash5370 It's been taken down. :(
How weird! I wondered where those lyrics went. Especially when it came from Man of La Mancha, a Broadway musical
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Been a few decades since I've heard this. Always love the line "All right, tighten your shorts and sing like The Duke."
Very witty editing. Cool beans, man!
Thanks for doing that.
But thank you even more for posting this song to hear again, for the first time in like 25 years!
Would you believe I still sing this from beginning to end for people today, and still get like 75% from memory--!?!? LOL
So stoked this is lost-and-found.
He was till the copyright fairies appeared and threatened to sprinkle him with "magical lawsuit dust"...
Outstanding...thanks for posting this....haven't heard it for many moons. What a step in time. Long live Dr. Demento.
LOVE IT! I too first heard this song on a Dr Demento album years ago, the images you found are so much like what went through my head while listening, you did a really great job, thank you!! :)
i remeber listening to DR DEMENTO back in the 5th grade (1980) and hearing this song for the first time. its still one of my favs. i was surised to find it on TH-cam.............
Just remember... It's not paranoia if they really ARE out to get you 😆😂🤣
This is EXCELLENT! Really well done.
these days this song calms me down and seems more rational than reality
Oh man, I love the LARD ad at the end of the song!
I dimly remember the guy with the arms and "fishy" but couldn't place it in my brain. What was it originally from?
@@TheGruffchickJournal Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
@@BassByTheBay Thank you!
"Sinking in the Quagmire" haha, I love your illustration.
We used this as a psy ops weapon over seas
Love this!!! You should get some kind of award for this!!! thank you for sharing!!
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Such a great flashback to the days of listen todetailed Dr. Demento!!! Set to video no less! Thanks for the great trip plus excellent work on putting the video together! (poppies)!!!! Loved it!!!
High-Five to whomever put the video together for this'n :) I just came here for the song, and was delighted by the video too
this sounds really weird when you're laying in a field of poppies...poppies...poppies....
Why isn't this song taught in school?
+Mush Beeguy For the same reason they don't teach how dollars are created.
+Mush Beeguy References to drugs (the field of poppies, poppies, poppies...) and alcohol ('Toting a bottle of Yukon Jack).
Our parents would ban it. NO fun allowed! You hear this song just once, and, u can't just let it go! Anyone who has never gotten high just would not get this...
Pretty good Arlo impression.
Existential Blues,By Tom T-Bone Stankus,on The Doctor Demento Radio Show
This brings back so many memories.
Everytime I it gives me tears of joy
I have a recording of this with the line "To dream the impossible dream" not cut out of it. He used to perform once a month in a bar not too far from my house. He refused to play this song as he was getting tired of trying to explain it to the drunks.
Great F🤯CKING song also heard it on Dr Demento 🎶 along time ago 🤣😂
Thank you Dr Demento, you have enriched my life.
POPPIES POPPIES POPPIES...
5:13 I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!
How Profound!
What a pleasant little surprise at the end too! :D
A+ for effort, but it was "Thundersub" in America (thank you Sandy Frank) or "Blue Noah" in Japan.
The fish is in the percolator
Magic 92, from Rochester New York. Every Sunday night during the 80s
*tears* Graham Chapman...didn't even expect the bit at the end. Love the song, but that tag just finished me off. Well done.
The guy who wrote this hilarious bit of history must have been on one helluva cocaine trip while a re-run of "Wizard of Oz" was on a late-night TV channel. I used to listen to this during my college days late Sunday nights on KUPD-FM-98 out Tempe, Arizona. It still hasn't lost any of its bite or humor.
This brings the gathering of the Demen-tos & Dement-ites together...
Axe Cop needs to follow this song as a valid example of pure, unrelenting, unmitigated, undiluted, concentrated, insanity.
"Existentialism: because you're dead a hell of a lot longer than you're alive." ~ KWSM
Oh Man, Don't bother me....Poppiespoppies......
So awesome. My dad gave me this tape.
The Monty Python at the end is hilarious too...
Sometimes We All Get 'Em... stretch out in a field of POPPIES!!!
It's a very cool video but it really does suffer from not having the lyrics from that very famous Broadway musical Man of la Mancha you know... the theme song Don Quixote sings
Pure insanity! I love it then wonder if we should be concerned about this individual? Genius! Thank Dr Demento for playing this. Disturbingly cool!
I remember recording this from the DR D show (97FM Dallas) on a Radioshack cassette in 1979. The tape still lives! I have ALWAYS bloved this song!
Wasn't he on a quest to dream the impossible dream?
NICE! Love this Song and you matched up the video perfectly!
Very nice job to a great song. Thank you!
I remember in the original he used to say "I'm on a quest! -To dream the impossible dream..." Edited for copyright reasons I guess?
2:44 - 2:47 what is this music from? I picture an old timey villain with a mustache, black top hat and black cape being introduced to a scene. I can hear another bar or two in my head but that's it, I can't place it.
I was certainly picturing the countless times it's been used in cartoons. After a couple of hours of sleuthing I found it's "The Villains Theme" from 1914
Does anyone know why the line "to dream the impossible dream" was removed?
+Grif Priest Not sure, exactly, but I suspect it was a copyright issue.
I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this for around forty years. Must've misspelled his name, or something, because none of my searches in recent years pulled anything up at all. Fast forward to half an hour ago, found out that it's on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes 3...but the version on there kind of sucks. This is the version I remember hearing on the radio so many years ago. Happily, another song I'd been wanting to find has also popped up here! Boot to the Head.
wonderful song, haven't heard it in years - the video is great - thanks!
I hadn't seen anything like that since my last joint. Now you know why I don't do it any more.
No, now I don't understand why you choose not to!
So happy this is still around. I taped this off the Dr Demento radio show and wore it out.
Try looking for Dr. Dimento's 20th annivesrary. Hope that helps:)
I haven't heard this song forever. Thank you!
Did ANYONE get the Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) refereance? BRILLIANT!!!!!
I did.
*smiling, well that just proves, one can get anything at Alice's restaurant.
good job.
"I said, "yes I'm tall."" Thanks for uploading this!
This was epic thanks
I met him too! In around 90-92, he came to my school to do his camp Muckalucka routine.
I pointed out at the end of the performance that his fly had been down the whole time. :p
Yes, it's been cut out of most versions due to the lawsuit by Frank Sinatra. There are other versions on youtube that are uncut.
Ah my cousin and I listened together for years. We even made some of our own recordings which she still has 🤣🤣
What is that 9 or 10 note riff at 2:44? I've heard it in countless cartoons and scary movies. It must have a name or be from some longer music piece.
i love this song
Dr demento sun night 12 to 2am on wcoz out of boston
@retroexplosion1
Yeah, the Impossible Dream lyrics infringed copyright laws. When was the last time Man of LaMancha was played anywhere? (I know the frequency of a performance has nothing to do with copyright, but by the time the copyright runs out the lyric won't have any significance.)