John Valby (born November 22, 1945 in Staten Island and raised in Rochester, New York) is a musician and comedian who plays in barrooms and college campuses up and down the East Coast. Using an old-fashioned piano, he creates comedic, obscene parodies of classic songs. He can always be found performing in his classic white tailcoat and black derby hat.

Valby lives up to his nickname "Dr. Dirty". His songs and shows focus mainly on sex and racial slurs, with a mix of current and historic people and events.

Many of the songs sung by Valby are drinking songs like Ya, Ya, Ya (aka limericks), Roll Your Leg Over, Barnacle Bill, etc. See Richard Reuss' master thesis and Ed Cray's Erotic Muse for further examples.

Valby lives outside Buffalo, New York with his wife and five children. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Middlebury College Class of 1966. He served in the Army and claims that he avoided being sent to Vietnam because his superior officer liked him. He is a classically trained pianist, and was an avid hockey player.

In 1975, Valby was playing ragtime piano, a style popular around the turn of the century, in Buffalo bars. One evening, he blended three dirty songs into his act. The next evening, the bar was full of people who came out just to hear him sing the dirty songs. Dr. Dirty was born.

While Valby is best known for his "Dr. Dirty" act, he has recorded and produced pop and rock albums for himself and other artists. One unusual act he was responsible for producing was that of Buffalo Sabres defenseman Jim Schoenfeld in 1971, for the album Schony. He also had a small role as a piano player in a Tijuana brothel in the 1983 film Losin' It, which featured an early performance by Tom Cruise.
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References
Richard A. Reuss, An Annotated Field Collection of Songs From the American College Student Oral Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Masters Thesis, 1965).
Ed Cray, The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs (University of Illinois, 1992).
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Discography
1988 - Beaver Fever
1989 - Double Valby: Don't Go Soft on Me Now/Your Face or Mine
1990 - Cherry Poppin' in Grand Rapids
1992 - Butt Seriously Folks
1994 - Double D CD
1995 - Butt's Up Doc
1996 - Fruits of an Idle Mind
1997 - Compact Digital Dirties
1998 - Sit on a Happy Face
1998 - WWW.VALBY.CUM
2000 - Best of Dr Dirty
2001 - Dr. Dirty's Sphincter Unplugged
2001 - Herniated Jingle Balls
2001 - Dr. Dirty: O<A and T<A Video
2002 - Greatest Tits
2003 - Concerto for 500 Screaming Assholes
2005 - American Troubadour
2005 - Scratch N Sniff
2005 - Valby Rocks
2007 - Coming Soon on a Face Near You
2008 - Sheep Thrills
The Not Yet On CD, CD
A Midsummer's Night Wet Dream
Operation Fuck Iraq
Live from Jackinsack New Jersey
The Old Fart Cuts Another One
Treasury of XXXMas Classics
Super Pixies
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Dirt Poems
Half in the Fuckin' Bag
Same Shit, Different Cover
Dr. Dirty in Pixieland
Give Me Dirt or Give Me Death
Live at the Pine Inn
Lily White and Burnout Blue
I'm Here for the Gangbang
Philosophical Bullshit
Hotel Buffalo
Ivy
Dirt
Bootleg Valby
The Doctor Is In
Up for Re-Erection
Concert for Piano Voice 566 Screaming Assholes
Tequila Mockingbird

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