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12. Dr. Demento essentially launched Weird Al Yankovic's career

Thu Feb 27, 2025, 03:50 PM

Feb 2025

Earliest known video of Weird Al, recorded in San Luis Obispo the same year, while he was still an archeterial student at Cal Poly.

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randykerdoon641
10 years ago
just to clear this up. This video was recorded at the TV production facility at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo as part of my final directing project for a TV production class I took in '79. I knew Al from the Cal Poly radio station KCPR...never thought much about this afterwards until I got a call from MTV asking if I had any pics of Al for their "Driven" TV show. I said no...but I have this "video" on 3/4 inch tape!! Thought the producer was about to faint.

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