At the end of 1974, Dr. Demento had his first syndication end of year most requested song countdown incorporating the same feature used in the separate LA radio version of the show and with the exception of 1977, has done it every year including the on line paid streaming version of the show which is currently still being done every weekend and can be heard at www.drdemento.com
Since the song Dead Puppies was #1 in both 1982 and 1983, 46 different tracks have finished the year as the #1 most requested song. At last year's FuMPFeST, there was a time slot dedicated to those #1 songs that appeared on the FuMP, whose artists which posted songs to the site had a 16 year streak of having the #1 song of the year (including the five years before the FuMP was launched in 2007).
To my surprise it took almost eight months for me to wonder how many Dr. Demento #1 songs of the year I have seen live and thanks to the www.dmdb.org site, I was able to in a few days compile this chart.
The partials are Weird Al performing a verse/chorus of multiple songs during his shows, Frantics member Peter Wildman doing the Boot To the Head song, and for Spiderverses, three of the seven who did a verse were live while the other verses were shown from the video.
It is possible that Weird Al will do the Hamilton Polka (2018 #1 song) on his tour I will see this summer and that I could see Knuckleheadz do their 2021 #1 song Pee in My Pants. Not optimistic about seeing Lemon Demon (2006 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny) or any others and who knows about the future.
While doing this, realized how fortunate I am to have seen so many awesome songs performed by so many awesome and talented people and I want to thank them as well as Dr. Demento for all he has done since I likely would not have experienced much of this without him.
