A childhood favorite and warm, nostalgic memory as an adult. A good friend of mine and I taped a spoof of Copacabana by Barry Manilow and got a really lovely le

A childhood favorite and warm, nostalgic memory as an adult. A good friend of mine and I taped a spoof of Copacabana by Barry Manilow and got a really lovely letter back from the good doctor saying he'd done his best but couldn't play our tape. My friend had gotten a tape splicing kit from Radio Shack and insisted we cut the tape down to just our demo. Somehow we botched it and sent Dr. Demento a blank tape. He said he repaired our splice job and even tried flipping the tape in case we'd done the same by accident. Which was a really kind and probably time consuming gesture for a random tape sent in by two fifth graders. The man is a gem. The only lyrics I remember from our spoof are how it starts: Her name was Lola, she was a show bot, but that was many years ago, when her neon used to glow. Oh well. Time to download an MP3 or two and subject my wife to Fish heads and I'm looking over my dead dog Rover.