Diagnosis Murder Rap

Album: Diagnosis Murder (1992)
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Songfacts®:

  • A one-off rendition of this didactic song was given by Dick Van Dyke, star of the long running American TV series Diagnosis Murder. A somewhat elderly white hospital doctor is not most people's idea of a rapper, but Van Dyke's character Mark Sloan is no run of the mill doctor, and he is seen here instructing a class of medical students in his usual unorthodox manner. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 1

  • Moosehead from Scso, as of today, mr van dyke is 97 years old and still going. love bert on mary poppins. talented fellow. biggie and shock G are jealous!
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