#Fish heads music series

Demento Show in 1978 with their songs 'Boogie Woogie Amputee' and 'Fish Heads.' The latter tune was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, and the most requested song in the history of The Dr. To each other, however, they both still remain 'Art'. Originally, both Haimer and Mumy were named 'Art Barnes', but Haimer's alter ego was publicly renamed 'Artie' in 1979 to differentiate between them. Their surname, 'Barnes' was taken from a Bill Cosby comedy routine called 'Revenge', in which a character called Junior Barnes throws a snowball at Cosby as a child. The two began calling each other 'Art', and thus, their alter egos were born. Around 1968, they would shoot short films with a Super 8 motion picture camera, dubbed 'Art Films'. Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy were childhood friends who occasionally jammed together on their musical instruments.

#Fish heads music series

Mumy is also well known for playing Will Robinson in the TV series Lost in Space and Lennier in 'Babylon 5.'īarnes & Barnes formed in 1970. Their real-life alter egos, Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy, are based in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The 'novelty rock' genre is named as such because most of their music is standard rock or pop music with heavy comedy elements. Barnes & Barnes, consisting of fictional twin brothers Art & Artie Barnes, are a 'novelty rock' duo based in Lumania, a fictional mythological civilization (similar to Lemuria or Atlantis).