Spock’s Record Round-Up

MA-03 - Adventures of Superman - Original MUTEL Soundtrack Recordings

2012-03-02T08:24:00.002-08:00

These are from a pair of cassettes bought by mail-order in the 1980s from a company in New York that was selling music from the MUTEL catalog. The track titles are from their listings.

When the commercial disc containg music from the MUTEL library came out, I sat down with that disc and the cassettes and did a lot of comparison listening. I separated the music on the commercial CD from the music on the tapes that was NOT on the CD.

I came up with these cuts, and got them all ready to share. (Disclaimer) It is always possible that there's a duplication of one of these cues, but I did my best to make that not happen. To the best of my knowledge, this music isn't on the commercial CD.

Here are the tracks:

1) Mysterioso

2) Wax Museum

3) Build to Sting

4) The Getaway

5) Fight

6) Jump the Fence!

7) Deserted Village

8) Rip Through Fear

9) Face at the Window

10) Eerie Oboe

11) Flute to Finale

12) Night of Terror

13) Sad Romance

14) Airport

15) Slow Carousel

16) Blue Melody

17) World of Tomorrow

18) Menace

19) City Desk

20) Sword of Damocles

21) Cat Burglar

22) Atlantic Rollers

23) Solemn Moment

24) Scotland Yard

25) Danger Lurks

26) Prelude to Crime

27) Crime Doesn

28) Changing Moods 1

29) Changing Moods 2

30) Humorous In and Out

31) Chameleon Moods

32) Free for All

33) Hope Abandoned

34) Arctic Wastes

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?jy2532qcq1xfrok

See you next week!

MA-02 - TREKonometry

2012-02-27T16:54:00.002-08:00

Good, Bad, & Silly Versions of Star Trek Themes

And here are the tracks:

1 The Galactic Force Band Star Trek TV Theme

2 Gene Page Star Trek TV Theme

3 Gotham’s Greatest Star Trek TV Theme

4 Gotham’s Greatest STAR TREK: The Motion Picture Theme

5 Chris Holland Star Trek TV Theme

6 Nichelle Nichols Theme from Star Trek

7 Now Sound Orchestra Ilia’s Theme from ST:TMP

8 Now Sound Orchestra Star Trek II Theme

9 Now Sound Orchestra ST:TMP Theme

10 Schnauzer Radio Orchestra Star Trek TV Theme

11 The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde Star Trek TV Theme

12 Orion Star Trek Tekkno

13 The Secret Agents Star Trek TV Theme

14 Phil Reavis Star Trek TV Theme

15 Super Hero Orchestra Star Trek TV Theme

16 Ettore Strata Star Trek Suite

17 Ed Willett Star Trek TV Theme

18 Wonderland Space Shuttle Star Trek TV Theme

19 Laserlight Label Star Trek TV Theme

20 Phil Woods Quintet Star Trek TV Theme

21 London Philharmonic Star Trek TV Theme

22 James Horner The Search for Spock

23 Opie & Anthony Star Trek Rhapsody

24 The Firm Star Trekkin’

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?o79gvzvm42a14ag

See ya!

There's Something Going On Out There

2012-02-24T12:50:00.004-08:00

I bought this LP at a KMart in the 1980s. It's interesting for several things. For example, some of the images on the cover aren't represented by music on the album, such as Quatermass and the Pit (US title: Five Million Years to Earth).

Also, the above track list is from the back of the LP. It's a sticker pasted onto the album cover! Kind of odd that it was not PRINTED on the jacket. Of course Program One and Program Two correspond to Side One and Side Two of the album.

Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?04rvtv836kqvmf2

See you next week.

MA-01 - The Themes from U.N.C.L.E.

2012-02-21T14:51:00.000-08:00

Here we have my compilation of thirty-plus arrangements of Jerry Goldsmith's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme, along with a few pop-culture songs that reference the series.
Here are the tracks:

1	First Season Main Title revised	Original television score	0:55
2	First Season End Title	Original television score	1:14
3	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Roland Shaw and His Orchestra	2:36
4	“The Deadly Decoy Affair” Main Title	Original television score	1:13
5	The Man from Thrush	Lalo Schifrin	2:55
6	Roulette Rhumba	Lalo Schifrin	2:06
7	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Dick Hyman	2:29
8	*To Trap a Spy* - Meet Mr. Solo-End Title	Original film score	1:54
9	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Other TV Themes	1:43
10	Illya	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Other TV Themes	2:30
11	Night People	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Other TV Themes	2:37
12	Second Season Main Title (arr Lalo Schifrin)	Original television score	0:36
13	Second Season End Title (arr Lalo Schifrin)	Original television score	0:48
14	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	New Original TV Themes	3:09
15	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Hugo Montenegro	1:59
16	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Al Caiola	2:00
17	*One of Our Spies Is Missing* Main Title	Original film score	3:07
18	Third Season Main Title (arr Gerald Fried)	Original television score	0:30
19	Third Season End Title (arr Gerald Fried)	Original television score	0:38
20	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Teddy Randazzo	1:33
21	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	The Challengers	1:38
22	*One Spy Too Many* Main Title	Original film score	2:49
23	“The Candidate’s Wife Affair” Main Title	Original television score	0:28
24	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	The Jazz All-Stars	2:07
25	*The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.* Main Title	Original television score	0:33
26	*The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.* End Title	Original television score	0:39
27	*The Spy in the Green Hat* Main Title	Original film score	2:08
28	“The Five Daughters Affair” Main Title	Original television score	0:41
29	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Billy Strange	2:28
30	Fourth Season Main Title	Original television score	0:31
31	Fourth Season End Title	Original television score	0:36
32	*The Karate Killers* Main Title	Original film score	0:29
33	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Swingin' Themes for Secret Agents	2:21
34	*The Helicopter Spies* Main Title	Original film score	2:02
35	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	The Man from UNCLE Cult TV Classics	2:41
36	*Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.* Main Title	Original film score	1:17
37	Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme	Man or Astro-Man?	1:31
38	Love Ya Illya	Alma Cogan	2:27
39	Man from Uncle	Moskow	3:30

These arrangements reflect my "insane completist" persona, since many of the cover versions were found through combing thrift stores over the past thirty years or so.

Also included are notes for each track, two legal-sized pages, with cover images from the various albums. The inner tray insert includes the track information from the table above.

Forgive me for sounding needy, but I always appreciate comments.

NB: I m no longer putting "Re-Post" in the titles of posts.

Here is the new link: http://www.mediafire.com/?x1z8a18ph91l4vl

See you later!

Re-Post: Sci Fi Music on the Laserlight Label

2012-02-20T14:08:00.000-08:00

Some interesting arrangements of various SF themes:

01. Vangelis - Blade Runner

02. Richard Strauss - 2001 A Space Odyssey

03. Jerry Goldsmith – Alien

04. John Williams - Return of the Jedi

05. John Williams - Star Wars

06. John Williams – ET

07. Les Baxter - The Black Hole

08. Wagener Lohmer -Silent Moon

09. K Doldinger - The Neverending Story

10. Stu Phillips - Battlestar Galactica

11. P Thomas - The Noah's Ark Principle

12. P Thomas - Raumpatrouille Orion

13. John Williams - The Time Tunnel

14. Marius Constant - The Twilight Zone

15. Alexander Courage - Star Trek

16. John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

17. Leith Stevens - War of the Worlds

18. John Williams - Raiders of the Lost Ark

19. Wagener Lohmer – Frost

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?d1uudwlq8bhjc6x

Re-Post: John Debney's Score for "The Halloween Tree"

2012-02-17T10:41:00.000-08:00

The Halloween Tree is not only a 1972 book by the master Ray Bradbury, but also a 1993 animated film with a wondrous score by John Debney.

Here are the tracks:

01) Main Titles

02) Our Costumes

03) Pip's House

04) The Note / The Ravine

05) The Funeral March / Stairs

06) The Marley Knocker

07) Meeting Moundshroud

08) Pip and the Tree

09) Where is Pip?

10) The Barn Poster Kite

11) Landing in Egypt

12) Feast of the Spirits

13) Through the Streets

14) The Tomb Chase

15) Mummies

16) Pip's Casket

17) Funeral Procession

18) Leaving Egypt

19) Medieval Festival / New Years'

20) Stonehenge

21) Broomsticks

22) Witches Hideout

23) "What's a Witch?"

24) Witches Chant

25) Burnings and Flight

26) The Construction Yard

27) Sanctuary

28) The Cathedral

29) The Whistle / Gargoyles

30) Gargoyle Chase pt. 1

31) Gargoyle Chase pt. 2

32) Next Stop, Mexico!

33) Candle-lit Graves

34) Gargoyles Dissipate

35) Sugar Candy Skulls / Piñata

36) The Catacombs / Pip Trapped

37) The Trade

38) Coming Back

39) Pip's Alive! / Moundshroud's Pumpkin

40) End Titles

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ufvr9zpl589tupo

See you next week!

Re-Post: It's Time for Love

2012-02-13T14:50:00.000-08:00

From 1973, Children of the Day's With All Our Love.

The songs:

01. Under the Shadow (Of My Wings)
02. If You'll Take My Hand
03. You're a Gift
04. Russ's Song
05. Two Lives, One Moment
06. Be Ye Still
07. Where Went the Days
08. Just Pretending
09. The Crucifixion
10. Can I Show You

And the link is http://www.mediafire.com/?gechxdnhplqthoy

This is extra-special to me because of the fourth track, "Russ's Song." Joyce sang it to me at our wedding.

Re-Post: A Taste of Vaudeville

2012-02-10T07:40:00.000-08:00

These guys are a pair of warhorses frrom the trenches of show business. Read the liner notes:

Here are the songs:

01 - Opening: That's Entertainment

02 - I Love A Piano

03 - Soft Shoe Song

04 - Lady, Play Your Mandolin

05 - Lullaby Of Broadway

06 - Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye

07 - That Teasin' Rag

08 - Song And Dance Man

09 - June

10 - There's No Business Like Show Business

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?3hbtc4ysi4ay8wb

So, there's this story about two guys in a bar. One listens as the other guy complains about his job at the circus. He has to feed the horses, change out the straw in the monkey cages, and -- worst of all -- clean up after the elephant has diarrhea. The first guy says, "If it's that terrible, why not quit?"

"What? and give up show business?"

See ya next week!

Grub's In!

2012-02-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

Here's a fine collection of Western Songs, performed by various artists.

Here's a link to a 1976 review of the album when it first came out:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19760526&id=WkEsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x8wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3579,4470095

Here are the songs:

1) The Brazos River [2:40]
2) Jesse James [2:52]
3) Get Along Little Dogies [2:09]
4) Red River Valley [2:54]
5) Hell In Texas [2:20]
6) Dreary Black Hills [1:56]
7) Down In The Valley [2:36]
8) Windy Bill [2:16]
9) Little Joe, The Wrangler [3:10]
10) The Old Chisholm Trail [1:40]
11) Billy The Kid [2:27]
12) Trusty Lariat [2:41]
13) Old Paint [2:08]
14) Night-Herding Song [1:43]
15) The Streets Of Laredo [2:06]
16) Zebra Dun [2:11]
17) Hangman, Hangman [2:22]

And here is the link: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/10/6/2595114/Cowboy%20Songs%20Nat%20G.rar

See you later!

Re-Post: Honeytree

2012-02-03T06:58:00.000-08:00

01 - Only God 2:43

02 - Treasures 2:56

03 - Sweet Rain 2:00

04 - Hallelujah, Outasight 1:42

05 - Job's Song 1:58

06 - Resist The Devil 3:47

07 - So Much Man 2:05

08 - Clean Before My Lord 3:00

09 - I Don't Have To Worry 2:36

10 - Honeytree 4:57

And here is the new link. I don't know how long Mediafire leaves things active, so happy shopping!
http://www.mediafire.com/?6z5j7pmdvr0ztg6

See you Monday or Tuesday ...

Once again, this album is special to me because song two, "Treasures," was sung for us at our wedding by our dear friend Susan Talley (now Brinkman). To quote the last verse:

What does it mean to you?
You say to each other, "I do."
Do you feel that your promise will live 'til you die?
I know in Jesus you do.

Let's Try a Different Host

2012-01-30T06:27:00.000-08:00

I still am looking for someone as dependable (and fast) as MegaUpload, that demonized hosting service that is still offline.

This is a fine album of "early" Space Music, dubbed from the commercial cassette. These are the tracks:

1) Horizons Beyond Infinity

2) Stardance

3) Starjourney

4) Gymnopedie

...You'll want to have no pause between tracks 2 and 3. Or even better, cross-fade them ... -- When burning to CD.

Here is the link: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/10/6/2595114/Starmusic.rar

See you next week, I hope!

Any Suggestions?

2012-01-21T07:53:00.000-08:00

Since my previous file hoster, MegaUpload, appears to be toast, I would like some suggestions as to where to move the music!

There's FileDen, there's FileFactory, there's MediaFire, there's 4Shared ... and more...

4Shared will leave a file up 180 days, and that may be the longest.

When I make a decision, I will have to re-up and change all the previous links. This will take a while!

So, in the meantime, please give me some suggestions for a free hosting service. Until then, Spock's headphones will be empty!

See ya!

Natural Light

2012-01-16T18:18:00.000-08:00

Here is some more mellow, flowing, new agey-type of stuff. It's dreamy and great for listening to in the dark, lying on your back on the floor, with a lit candle just above your head, while you watch the candlelight's circle dancing on the ceiling.

I can't do that any more, because now we have a celiing fan in every room, and it kind of ruins the effect.

Still, it's fun stuff. Here are the tracks:

1 Natural Light 7:04

2 Play Of Light 4:02

3 Harp And Soul 4:09

4 Firelight 3:33

5 Shared Visions 4:07

6 Butterfly And The Lotus 4:25

7 Flowing With The Changes 4:30

8 Serenity 3:31

9 The Light In Your Eye 7:57

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D1VRGVHS

See you next week!

From a Hypnotic Dentist?

2012-01-09T17:52:00.000-08:00

That was an old Peter Schickele joke. Get it? Trance-in-Dental?

Anyway, this is from an old LP of thunderous music. Here are the pieces:

1. No.1 Prelude (Presto) 1:07

2. No.2 Molto vivace 2:13

3. No.3 Paysage (Poco adagio) 4:21

4. No.4 Mazeppa (Presto) 7:35

5. No.5 Feux follets (Allegretto) 4:26

6. No.6 Vision (Lento) 6:05

7. No.7 Eroica (Allegro) 4:54

8. No.8 Wilde Jagd (Presto furioso) 5:07

9. No.9 Ricordanza (Andantino) 11:00

10. No.10 Allegro agitato molto 4:46

11. No.11 Harmonies du soir (Andantino) 8:52

12. No.12 Chasse neige (Andante con moto) 6:06

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VYK224WI

Golden Barbershop Ballads

2012-01-02T18:09:00.000-08:00

This is a cassette originally issued in the mid 1960s, I believe. To my mind, I wish the performanes wre a little LESS golden. Maybe a little raggedness here and there would make it sound less like an insulated recording studio and more like a barbershop.

Nevertheless, it's fun music. Here's what Billboard magazine had to say in 1965:

Here are the numbers included:

01 - When You're A Long, Long From Home - Four Hearseman

02 - Little Pal - The Rascals

03 - My Ideal - The Gala-Lads

04 - A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet - Sun Tones

05 - I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen - Easternaires

06 - Did Your Mother Come From Ireland - Play Tonics

07 - For Me And My Gal - Sidewinders

08 - Love Me and the World Is Mine - Lads of Enchantment

09 - Cabin On The Hilltop - Play Tonics

10 - That Old Gang Of Mine - Four Pitchikers

11 - Danny Boy - Easternaires

12 - Down By The Old Mill Stream - The Rhythm Counts

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8EU4YTH0

Favorites of the Roaring Twenties

2011-12-26T14:35:00.000-08:00

This is a great collection, dubbed from a cassete. Fun music, optimistic in tone overall.

Here are the songs:

Favorites of the Roaring Twenties (60:01)

01. Fred Rich and His Orchestra - It All Depends on You (2:59)

02. Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along (2:56)

03. Ben Bernie and His Orchestra - Make Believe (2:27)

04. Harry Richman - Blue Skies (2:50)

05. Ben Selvin and His Orchestra - Ramona (3:13)

06. Don Voorhees and His Orchestra - My Blue Heaven (3:22)

07. Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra - The Varsity Drag (2:43)

08. Eddie Walters - Makin’ Whoopee! (3:14)

09. Colonial Club Orchestra - You’re the Cream in My Coffee (3:16)

10. Regent Club Orchestra - Together (3:01)

11. Helen Kane - That’s My Weakness Now (3:37)

12. Ted Lewis and His Band - She’s Funny That Way (3:19)

13. Waring’s Pennsylvanians - Button Up Your Overcoat (3:00)

14. The Capitolians - You Were Meant for Me (2:40)

15. Franklyn Baur - With a Song in My Heart (3:01)

16. Fred Rich and His Orchestra - Singin’ in the Rain (3:16)

17. The Charleston Chasers - Ain’t Misbehavin’ (3:02)

18. Nick Lucas - Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me (2:46)

19. Earl Burnett and His Orchestra - If I Had a Talking Picture of You (2:56)

20. Johnny Marvin - Happy Days Are Here Again (2:22)

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1DKXIKNS

Keep smilin'!

The Gift of Memories

2011-12-22T18:42:00.000-08:00

More musical memories of a tail-end Baby Boomer. Here are the songs:

1969

1 Give Peace A Chance John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band
2 Cinnamon Girl Neil Young with Crazy Horse

1970

3         Without You            Badfinger
4         Make Me Smile (single version) Chicago
5 Lucky Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer
6 Let It Rain Eric Clapton
7 Temma Harbour    Mary Hopkin
8 Another Day    Paul McCartney

1971

9 Free Chicago
10 Vincent Don McLean
11 I Just Want to Celebrate Rare Earth
12 Tongue In Cheek (single version) Sugarloaf

1972

13 From the Beginning Emerson, Lake & Palmer
14 Day by Day Godspell Cast; Robin Lamont
15 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio Joni Mitchell

16 Young Americans David Bowie 1975

17 Falling Star Karla Bonoff    1977
18 Peek-A-Boo! Devo 1982
19 Hold On Santana    1982
20 Goodbye To You Scandal 1982
21 On the Dark Side    John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band 1983

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7FEFG7D5

Merry Christmas!

Love Those Swingle Medleys!

2011-12-20T13:28:00.000-08:00

The Swingle Singers have been around (with various staff changes) for decades. Their signature bright, multilayered acapella sound really shines on these Christmas songs. And where would they be without an audacious arranger?

Here are the songs:

1) Sleigh Ride

2) A Visit from St Nicholas

3) Coventry Carol

4) I Believe in Father Christmas

5) Il est ne le Divin Enfant / Petit Papa Noel

6) White Christmas

7) Carol Medley

8) Audete Gaudete

9) Frosty the Snowman

10) Christmas Song

11) Rockin' Rudolph

12) Christmas Medley

Winter Wonderland

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

13) Twelve Days of Christmas

14) Silent Night

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVBLL0DN

Springtime in December

2011-12-15T07:51:00.000-08:00

There may be a lot of you who first encountered Stravinksy's Rite of Spring when watching Fantasia. That's the way it was with me!

While this is wild, raucous music at times, it always makes you look down your nose on those folks who rioted at the first performance, because it was so --- ODD.

Here are two transcriptions, one for piano, one for guitar. Both will get your eyebrows rising, your fingers twitching, and maybe your shoulders bopping, too!

As included, here are the tracks:

Dickran Atamian - solo piano

Part One: TheAdoration of the Earth (14:35)

1. Intro - TheAugurs Of Spring - Ritual Of Abduction - SpringRounds - Ritual Of The Rival Tribes - Procession Of The Sage - The Sage - Dance Of The Earth

2. PartTwo: The Sacrifice (15:26)

Intro -Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls - Glorification Of TheChosen One - Evocation Of The Ancestors - Ritual Action OfThe Ancestors - Sacrificial Dance: The Chosen One

Larry Coryell - sologuitar

3. PartOne: The Adoration of the Earth (16:25).

Introduction- Dance of the Young Maidens - Mock Abduction- SpringRounds - Games of the Rival Tribes - Entryof the Wise Men - Kissto the Earth - Worship Dance of theEarth

4. Part Two: The Sacrifice (18:48).

Introduction - MysticalCircle of the Young Maidens - Glorification of the Chosen One - Evocation ofthe Ancestors - Sacrificial Dance

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0ZHU4CP

See you Monday with more Christmas music.

The Children of the Day Christmas Album

2011-12-12T13:07:00.000-08:00

From 1975, here is a heartfelt and really well-produced album. CLICK ALERT though -- I found it at the Goodwill a couple of months ago, and in some tracks the surface noise is REALLY noticeable.

After you listen to the songs, especially "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" from the Messiah, and remember that the group only had FOUR MEMBERS -- to paraphrase ol' Jerry Lee Lewis, there was a whole lot o' dubbin' goin' on!

Here are the tracks:

01. Joy to the World (1:18)

02. What Child Is This (2:22)

03. Angels We Have Heard on High (1:37)

04. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (2:26)

05. Oh Come, Oh Come Immanuel (2:49)

06. O Little Town of Bethlehem (2:24)

07. For Unto Us a Child Is Born (4:54)

08. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (1:28)

09. Holy, Radiant Light (4:38)

10. He Is Born (1:31)

11. Deck the Halls (1:09)

12. Oh Come All Ye Faithful (1:54)

13. Silent Night / It That's Not Love / Oh Holy Night (6:56)

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TET3SC0Z

I'll have another album on Thursday.

The King of Elfland's Daughter

2011-12-08T13:28:00.001-08:00

You know, I bet you could do a "Degrees of Christopher Lee" and get to ANYBODY pretty easily. For example, he's the narrator of this 1977 album and "plays" The Elf King. He even semi-SINGS a number. Mary Hopkin is also on this.

So you could go from Christopher Lee to Mary Hopkin to the Beatles to almost anybody!

This is based on the wondrous 1924 book of the same name by Lord Dunsany. My paperback cover is from Ballantine, and looks like this:

The writers of the album are Bob Johnson and Pete Knight of Steeleye Span, and the musical style is a lot like Span's stuff of the time.

I encourage you to read this fun book. It's not only charming and interesting to read, it's also one of those very accurate observations about some of our human foibles. You see, the men of Eorl have decided that life is too ordinary and boring, so they ask their Lord to send their Lord's son to marry "The King of Elfland's Daughter," so liltingly portrayed by Mary Hopkin, and thus bring a bit of Elfland's magic to their humdrum lives.

Of course, by the end of the book, they realize that there is such a thing as "Too Much Magic," and wish they could just undo everything.

The album tells just bits of the story, so to get the full appreciation -- "the goodness of it 'ot" (to quote somebody -- TELL ME WHO!!!) you should really read the book as well as listen to this fun album. Here are the tracks:

1. The Request (3.23)

2. Lirazel (4.11)

3. Witch (3.35)

4. Alveric's Journey Through Elfland (4.57)

5. The Rune of the Elf King (3.59)

6. The Coming of the Troll (1.53)

7. Just Another Day of Searching (5.09)

8. Too Much Magic (3.58)

9. Beyond the Fields We Know (4.29)

and here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CWQCAELM

see you next week!

MA-42 - Happy Christmas Time

2011-12-05T16:56:00.001-08:00

Here is a collection I’ve made of Christmas music from manydifferent sources, from lounge to very traditional, from instrumentals to veryimportant lyrics.

In Track 6, “Happy Birthday Jesus,” my friends Tim andMiranda, that that time known as Sparklepop, present a sadly true and cogent lookat some of the same topics raised by Charlie Brown’s “commercial dog.” They reappear under a more recent name asSeranova, for Track 24, a great version of a song from “Charlie Brown Christmas.”

On Track 17, VM of the Beatles Remixers Group overlays achant from one of the Beatles Fan Club’s Christmas releases with “Flying” from MagicalMystery Tour, with the result being a fun (though not profound) new Christmasditty.

Lots of retro, punchy fun comes along in Tracks 7, 13, and15.

Once based out of Nashville, Fleming and John work theirspecial magic on Track 19, an Elseworlds version of “Winter Wonderland.”

Track 25 is a great piece from Joan Baez’s 1960s album Noel,with instrumentation and arrangements by Peter Schickele of PDQ Bach fame. The entire album is a moving assemblage ofmusic.

Track 26, from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” just wouldn’t bethe same without that shouted “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!” -- so I inserted that but from the TV specialinto the song.

I tried to put together a mix of fast and slow, of reverentand joyous. The collection is bookendedby a rousing “Hark the Herald” and a stilling “Silent Night” from an wonderfulalbum by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

As I get ready for the arrival of Jesus’ birthday, I’malways struck by a combination of emotions. On one side is thankful humility: God loves me so much that he sent his Son to show that love! On the other side is sorrow and shame, torealize the sacrifice that my sinful nature requires for expiation.

Join me in being thoughtful and thankful!

Here are the songs:

01. The Philadelphia Orchestra - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing(3:10)

02. The O.C. Supertones - Joy to the World (2:41)

03. Martin Denny - Exotic Night (2:16)

04. Georgia Kelly - Little Drummer Boy (4:22)

05. Chris Willis - Sweet Little Jesus Boy (4:00)

06. Sparklepop - Happy Birthday Jesus (3:37)

07. Capitol Studio Orchestra - Cha-Cha All the Way (2:19)

08. Teja Bell - Carol of the Bells (3:49)

09. Joan Baez - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (2:58)

10. Sarah Masen - Heaven's Got a Baby (4:17)

11. The Philadelphia Orchestra - Away in a Manger (2:26)

12. Erin O'Donnell - I Need Christmas (3:49)

13. Claymation Christmas Celebration - We Three Kings Bop (2:50)

14. Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus (1:57)

15. Johnny Mercer - Jingle Bells (2:36)

16. Twila Paris - Silent Night (4:25)

17. The Beatles (VM) - Christmas Time Is Here Again (2:03)

18. The Drifters - White Christmas (2:38)

19. Fleming and John - Winter Wonderland (3:40)

20. Billy May - Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (2:38)

21. Xmas! The Beatmas - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (2:31)

22. Five Iron Frenzy - You Gotta Get Up (2:27)

23. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing(1:55)

24. Seranova - Christmastime Is Here (3:16)

25. Joan Baez - I Wonder as I Wander (3:53)

26. The Philadelphia Orchestra- Silent Night, Holy Night (3:16)

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5ZG5LSY7

And Track 22 is ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!

"Beruhmte Ouverturen" Sounds So Classy

2011-11-30T17:10:00.001-08:00

It means "Famous Overtures." And they are!

1) William Tell Overture - Rossini

2) The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture - Nicolai

3) Tannhauser Overture - Wagner

4) The Bat Overture - Strauss Jr

(number 4 is better known, untranslated, as "Die Fledermaus.")

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZGDM3MAT

See you on Monday next.

Gipsy Band

2011-11-23T05:06:00.001-08:00

Erno Kalli Kiss Jr is a big name in Gypsy Music, as far as I can tell. This is another thrift store cassette treasure. My heart always starts beating a little louder when I see a label and can't read it! This means that adventure may await!

These are medleys of "Gipsy" tunes, I guess traditional Hungarian stuff. What struck me, on listening, is that many of these selections sound to me like five-minute-long introductions that never "kick off" into an actual theme or melody! It's kind of like a piano accompanist playing those glissando "vamps" but never getting around to the song.

Still, very interesting. The track listings below are my transcriptions of the verr-rr-rry interesting titles from the cassette liner. It seems to lose a lot without all the phonetic typesetting curlicues. But you can see those on the CD insert back, where I've included the cassette label insert.

The Young Master Primas - Asztali Zene Es Czardasok

Artist: Erno Kallai Kiss jun. and His Gipsy Band

“Asztali Muzsika”

01 - Levelem, levelem - Mit keres a temetoben - De szeretnek en a regi kis falumba visszaterni

02 - Ne szidjadok soha engem - Kiballagok a vasuthoz - Azt mondjak a mennyorszagben

03- Ugye most mar tifeletek

04 - Leveles az erdo

“Csardasok”

05 - Lakodalom van a mi utcankban - Jon a tavasz, jon mar - Felrevagom a kalapom - Zold ablakos kicsi haz - Szeretem a cseresznyet - Koncert friss

06 - Hideg szel fuj, edesanyam - Hazam ereszere raszallott - Mikor kezdtem a ladamat pakolni - Orszaguton hosszu a jegenyesor - Koncert friss

07 - Ez a kislany most kezd nekem - Csak ugy mondom maganak - Libamaj, kacsamaj - Lore, lore - Hallod-e notas, futtyos kismadar

08 - Oreg czardas - Buzavirag, buzavirag - Paros elet a legszebb - Gyere velem kiskertembe

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=90EBB5C6

See you next time!

It Makes Me Mellow

2011-11-16T14:48:00.001-08:00

I couldn't help but think of the Elton John song when posting this CD.

When we first entered the CD age at our house, this was porbably number nine or ten in our collection. Nowadays it's out-of-print.

For me this rates about a SIX on the ten-point nostalgia scale. Here are the tracks:

Mellow Sixties (37:43)

01. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (3:09)

02. The Hollies - Carrie Ann (2:58)

03. Stone Poneys - A Different Drum (2:38)

04. The Lovin' Spoonful - Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (2:00)

05. Association - Never My Love (3:12)

06. Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (4:41)

07. The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin' (2:41)

08. The Rascals - A Beautiful Morning (2:35)

09. Oliver - Good Morning, Starshine (3:38)

10. The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me (2:17)

11. Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (3:07)

12. The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) (4:48)

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D9R5BY9D

See you next Wednesday!

MA-26 - Break -Ins from Beyond

2011-11-09T14:27:00.000-08:00

Along with the rising of mass media and a united pop culture in the twentieth century came a realization that folks might have shared the same experience as you, even if they hadn’t been WITH YOU. In other words, two people might have seen the same silent movie, even though they lived in far-apart towns. Hence, “So’s your old man!” came to mean, “Shut up” or “I disagree with you,” by common reference to the WC Fields 1926 silent movie of the same title.

Similarly, Veronica Lake’s hair-over-one-eye look may have been sultry and attractive, even when emulated by thousands of women in the 1940s, but it also was dangerous when those same women were working in war plants during WWII and got their loose, sultry tresses caught in machinery, leading to injury and death. Here’s a Youtube video concerning this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgpvKXLTwr8

When recorded music reached this same plateau (or valley, take your pick), then folks could start referring to hit records with the assurance that the listener would understand the reference. That’s the whole idea behind sound-alike “cover” versions of pop tunes. If the imitation sounded enough like the original, then the cover version could score some sales, riding on the coattails of the original hit record.

Then came along people with twisted senses of humor, like me. They realized that this same familiarity with hit records meant that various catch-phrases could be cut out from the recording and reassembled, much like a newspaper-ad ransom note.

And thus the “break-in” record was born. Ordinarily, such an assemblage would have the format of a narrator or an interview giving a leading statement that could then be “replied to” by a one-or-two-second segment from a song that was current enough that the hoped-for listener would recognize the clip, and get the joke – meanwhile marveling at the assembler’s creativeness, and eventually buying the break-in record.

Here’s my own assemblage of a bunch of these, as they relate to outer space and little green men, and the like. Not all are break-ins, there are some more straight songs.

Here are the tracks:
1 -        Marty on the Planet Mars Part 1         Martty 1954
2 -        Marty on the Planet Mars Part 2         Martty 1954
3 -        Santa and the Satellite Part 1 Buchanan and Goodman        1957
4 -        Santa and the Satellite Part 2 Buchanan and Goodman        1957
5 -        Destination Love        Jan Davis         1958
6 -        The Outer Space Looters Part 1          The Mad Martians       1958
7 -        The Outer Space Looters Part 2          The Mad Martians       1958
8 -        Flying Saucer The 3rd Buchanan and Goodman        1959
9 -        Blast Off!        Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra      1959
10 -      Comic Strip Rock N Roll        Robert Ashley 1959
11 -      Space Ship      Dickie Goodman         1960
12 -      Santa and the Touchables       Dickie Goodman         1961
13 -      Moon Gas       Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo 1963
14 -      The Flying Saucer       Chickenman    1966
15 -      Luna Trip        Dickie Goodman         1969
16 -      London, London         Ceatano Veloso           1971
17 -      Spaceship        Spontaneous Combustion       1973
18 -      Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft     Klaatu 1976
19 -      Hey ET            Dicklie Goodman        1982
20 -      The Martian Boogie    Brownsville Station    1977
21 -      The Ballad of William Robinson        Bill Mumy       1997
22 -      Return of the Flying Saucer    Jon Goodman 1997
23 -      I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship          David Bowie      2002
24 -      UFO    Darryl Rhoades           2005
25 -      le flying saucer hat      Chairlift           2008
26 -      Flying Saucers Breakfast in Fur          2009

And here is the link:   http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X17GB074

As John Landis likes to say, SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Farewell to a King-Sized Sweetheart

2011-11-02T13:02:00.000-07:00

Here’s what the Daily Oklahoman’s obit read

March 22, 1959 - October 28, 2011 MOORE Mark Lynn Barragar left this life to be with the Lord on Friday, October 28, 2011. He was born March 22, 1959 in Columbus, Kansas. He was the only child of Wallace and Loree Barragar. He graduated with the Capitol Hill High School Class of 1976. He spent most of his working life as a Master Control technician. Mark enjoyed a variety of pastimes, especially entertaining. Many people know Mark best by "Ranger Roger," the name he used when he hosted "Camp Kids Club" on KOKH (Channel 25) from 1991 to 1998. His most recent passion was as an Elvis "tribute artist" known as the "King-sized King." Mark married the love of his life, Yvonne, in 1981 and is the stepfather of Dru West of Chicago, IL; and Yevette O'Leary of Shawnee, OK; and is survived by them and his son-in-law, Michael O'Leary; and grandchildren, Turner, Kathryn, Ashlyn and J. Patrick. He was preceded in death by his parents, Wallace and Loree Barragar. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at John M. Ireland Funeral Home Chapel, Moore, OK, under their direction.

I knew Mark since the 1990s. He came to a ThunderCon in full Klingon regalia. Believe me, you pay attention to a 6-foot-4 Klingon!

Mark had played the Frankenstein Monster on Count Gregore’s Sleepwalker’s Matinee on Channel 5. In the 1990s he was “Ranger Roger” for Channel 25. Later he became an Elvis tribute artist, “The King Size King.”

in the 2000s, Joyce and I saw him perform as the King several times, once at Moore’s Yellow Rose Theatre, where we bought this CD.

In between, Mark had talked to me about having his own show as a horror host (probably based on Count Gregore and other hosts). I wrote him a couple of scripts, and when Mark said his character would be Cyclopean, I suggested we name him Professor Eisingel (“Eye”+”single”, get it?) Alas, nothing came of that.

You can find a few more tributes here:

http://www.thelostogle.com/2011/10/31/rip-ranger-roger/

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSlh=1&GRid=79691753&

As to his CD, here are the tracks:

1) 2001 / That's Alright Mama

2) Hound Dog

3) Treat Me Nice

4) Love Me

5) Follow That Dream

6) Viva Las Vegas

7) In the Ghetto

8) Wonder of You

9) American Trilogy

10) I Can't Stop Loving You

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CT5EG86Q

See you next week!

Under the Halloween Tree

2011-10-31T05:40:00.000-07:00

We end this Halloween season with a bit of gentle fun, John Debney's enchanting soundtrack to the 1994 telefilm The Halloween Tree. It was based of course on Ray Bradbury's fun tour of Halloween origins, the volume of the same name.

Here are the tracks:

01. Main Titles

02. Our Costumes

03. Pip's House

04. The Note / The Ravine

05. The Funeral March / Stairs

06. The Marley Knocker

07. Meeting Moundshroud

08. Pip and the Tree

09. Where is Pip?

10. The Barn Poster Kite

11. Landing in Egypt

12. Feast of the Spirits

13. Through the Streets

14. The Tomb Chase

15. Mummies

16. Pip's Casket

17. Funeral Procession

18. Leaving Egypt

19. Medieval Festival / New Years'

20. Stonehenge

21. Broomsticks

22. Witches Hideout

23. "What's a Witch?"

24. Witches Chant

25. Burnings and Flight

26. The Construction Yard

27. Sanctuary

28. The Cathedral

29. The Whistle / Gargoyles

30. Gargoyle Chase pt. 1

31. Gargoyle Chase pt. 2

32. Next Stop, Mexico!

33. Candle-lit Graves

34. Gargoyles Dissipate

35. Sugar Candy Skulls / Piñata

36. The Catacombs / Pip Trapped

37. The Trade

38. Coming Back

39. Pip's Alive! / Moundshroud's Pumpkin

40. End Titles

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KEE70YEZ

And, as the butcher said when he sold me the empty frankfurter casing,

HAPPY HOLLOW-WEENIE!

You Heard it in Alien

2011-10-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

When I first saw Alien in the theatre in 1979, I snuck out to the lobby after it ended and called my wife from a pay phone, telling her I was going to sneak back into the movie and watch it a second time -- which I did. (No way would she have wanted to go to a scary movie!)

After all the frights and tension, it was most charming to sit back and watch the final few moments of the movie, as Lt Ripley relaxes into her well-earned hypersleep, to the accompanying sound of lush, almost decadent-sounding classical music, which continued into the end credits.

If you, too, were enraptured by this music, you can listen to it again here. It's from Symphony 1, "Romantic," by American composer Howard Hanson.

This compilation contains his first and second symphonies, along with another piece that tickled my musical fancy when I heard it, Lament for Beowulf. (Being an English major and all.)

Here are the selections:
Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 -
1) I. Andante solenne - Allegro con forza
2) II. Andante teneramente, con semplicita
3) III. Allegro con fuoco
4) Lament for Beowulf - Op. 25
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 -
5) I. Adagio - Allegro moderato
6) II. Andante con tenerezza
7) III. Allegro con brio

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XTI5F5ON

See you Monday to wrap up the Halloween Season!

Listen for the Clanking Skeletons

2011-10-26T06:15:00.000-07:00

This fine selection of fantasy film music by master Bernard Herrmann is another selection that has lapsed from current release. It features music from four films:

1) Journey to the Center of the Earth
2) The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
3) The Day the Earth Stood Still
4) Fahrenheit 451

Here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RWBJFV8R

Ghouls with Attitude, Volume 2

2011-10-24T04:39:00.001-07:00

Here is the second installation of Oddio Overplay’s Halloween record. As I said last Monday, the comps are sadly no longer available from them!

Here are the tracks:

1) Billy DeMarcus - Drac's Back

2) Movie Trailer - Ghost In The Invisible Bikini

3) Peter Pan Singers - Theme to Casper the Friendly Ghost

4) The Creatures - Mostly Ghostly

5) Tyrone A' Saurus & his Cro-Magnons - The Monster Twist

6) Mann Drake - Vampire's Ball

7) Movie Trailer - The Return of Count Yorga

8) The Hamburger Brothers - Omar The Vampire

9) The Zanies - The Mad Scientist

10) The Cool Ghoul - You Can't Ghoul Me

11) Ted Cassidy - The Lurch

12) The Detergents - Igor's Cellar

13) The Milton the Monster Show - Theme Song

14) Movie Trailer - Graveyard Tramps

15) Cathy Mills - Monster Hop

16) Glen Ryle - Wolf Gal

17) Movie Trailer - Dr. Jeckyl and Sister Hyde

18) Ralph Marterie and His Marlboro Men - Alfred Hitchcock Presents

19) Lois Prante Ellis and Mary Ann Parker - Troll At The General Meeting

20) Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back

21) Count Baltes & The Egors - Opening The Coffin

22) Sounds of Terror! - The Exorcism

23) Al Zanino - The Vampire Speaks

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XB3JJYVJ

See you again soon!

[untitled] Halloween sounds

2011-10-21T06:05:00.000-07:00

I came across this CD in a way I can't now recal. It's a single track of various anguished sounds , cries, and such. It's safe to play in the background while the kids come up to yur porch (no swear words like some I've heard).

I gussied it up with a CD front & rear case insert, should you wish. The original had none, by the time I got it.

One track of thunder - bats - crunching bones - night creatures - growls - screams - barks - howls - creaks - clanks - cries

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O51LAQUZ

It's Fantastic !

2011-10-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a well-known classic with a wonderfully creepy ending -- movement 5, the "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath," featuring the "Dies Irae" theme. Here we have a piano transcription.

The tracks:
1. I. Reveries - Passions
2. II. Un Bal
3. III. Scene Aux Champs
4. IV. Marche Au Supplice
5. V. Songe D'une Nuit Du Sabbat
The link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FRGLXL6Y

Ghouls with Attitude, Volume 1

2011-10-17T05:41:00.001-07:00

The Oddio Overplay website no longer seems to carry this anthology of fun and “scary” music. Glad I found it first to share with you!

This is Volume 1. Next Monday will bring Volume 2.

Here are the tracks:

1 Tarantula Ghoul and the Gravediggers - Graveyard Rock

2 Don Hinson and the Rigamorticians - Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsatured Blood

3 Movie Trailer - Vampire Playgirls

4 Bobby Bare - Vampira

5 The Crewnecks - Rockin' Zombie

6 Griz Green - Jam at the Mortuary

7 Movie Trailer - Monsters Crash the Pajama Party

8 The MSR Singers - Monster Man

9 The Abominable Surfers - Monster Surfer

10 Bobby 'Boris' Jones - Surfer Smash

11 Jupiter Jones - The Spook Spoke

12 Bob McFadden and Dor - I Dig You Baby

13 Movie Trailer - The Mind of Mr. Soames

14 Albert DeSalvo - Strangler in the Night

15 Kenny and the Fiends - House on Haunted Hill

16 Winchell's Donut House Halloween Record - Hear the Monsters (Spooky Sounds and a Spooky Tale)

17 Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra - The Raven

18 The Modernaires - The Rockin' Ghost

19 Bob Rosengarden & Phil Kraus - Satan Takes a Holiday

20 Boris Karloff and Friends - Ha Ha Ha / The Bride of Frankenstein

21 Movie Trailer - Brain Eaters

22 Groovie Goolies - Goolie Garden

23 Hap Palmer - Haunted House

24 Bruce Haack and Norman Bridwell - The Witch's Vacation

25 Sounds of Terror! - Burned at the Stake

26 Louise Huebner - Intro Orgies, a Tool of Witchcraft

27 Marty Manning and His Orchestra - Night on Bald Mountain

28 Criswell (The Legendary) - Someone Walked Over My Grave

and here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WVXUPCF2

Well, Swash My Buckles!

2011-10-14T05:42:00.000-07:00

This is a great recording of some fun and moving music.

These are the tracks:

1. Prologue (Main Title) (01:34)

2. Banquet At Nottingham Castle (01:52)

3. Robin Enters The Great Hall (00:56)

4. Escape From The Castle (05:09)

5. Robin Meets Little John (01:38)

6. The Oath And The Black Arrow (01:54)

7. Robin And Friar Tuck (01:24)

8. Ambush In Sherwood (03:01)

9. Feast In The Forest (02:52)

10. Robin And Marian (03:09)

11. The Archery Tournament (03:04)

12. Escape From The Gallows (02:13)

13. Love Scene (05:40)

14. Dagger Fight: King Richard In Sherwood (02:07)

15. Coronation Procession (03:05)

16. Duel, Victory And Epilogue (03:22)

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3NOMIJI0

See ya Monday . . .

Billy Strange's "Secret Agent File"

2011-10-12T05:37:00.000-07:00

With his big ol' guitar and swaggering beat, guitarist Billy strange puts his own mark on some familiar spy tunes.

Here are the tracks:

1 Thunderball

2 A Man Alone

3 9th Man Theme

4 I Spy

5 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme

6 The James Bond Theme

7 Our Man Flint

8 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

9 Run Spy Run

10 Get Smart

11 007 Theme

12 Goldfinger

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4VXUX7MD

CD Creepies

2011-10-10T05:37:00.000-07:00

A little shivering music, Maestro! -- or should it be Monstro?

These are the tracks:

1) Contata and Fugue

2) Frenzy #1

3) Torment

4) Psycho

5) Private Lab

6) The Unexpected

7) Night on Bald Mountain

8) Angel of Death

9) The Devil Rides

10) Lucifer's Choir

11) Troubled Voices

12) Sinister Street

13) Spinecharge

14) Omen

15) Marked Man

16) Sleeper Awaits

time 33:25

17) Thunder and Rain

18) Bats Flying in Cave

19) Electric Lab

20) Mad Man Laugh

21) Witch's Laugh

22) Church Bell Toll

23) Wolf Howl

24) Owl Hoot

25) Beast Roar

26) Heart Speeds Up

27) Creaky Door

28) Rattling Chains

29) Monster Scream

30) Laboratory Chemicals

31) Crazy Machine

32) Barking Blood Hounds

33) Attack Dog Fight

34) Squeaking Rats

35) Eerie Wind

36) Terrified Crowd

37) Woman Ghost (Sad)

38) Poltergeist (Happy)

39) Cat Meow

40) Horrified Woman

41) Horrified Man

42) Water Drip In Cave

43) Hounds Of Hell

44) Castle Footsteps

45) Haunted House Creak

46) Kookaburra Bird Laugh

time 19:07

47) Monster Story

time 11:33

total time 1:04:05

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQK2G5O2

Major Glenn Miller

2011-10-07T04:45:00.000-07:00

Glenn Miller's civilian orchestra could not ompete with the talent assembled for him by the US Government as he played for his service comrades in WWII.

These performances were all live recordings, hence the applause at the end of the selections, I feel like joining in.

These are the tracks:

01 - Over There

02 - The G. I. Jive

03 - Peggy the Pin-Up Girl

04 - Speak Low

05 - Tail-End Charlie

06 - Anvil Chorus

07 - Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'

08 - There Are Yanks

09 - Pistol Packin' Mama

10 - Everybody Loves My Baby

11 - Enlisted Men's Mess

12 - I'll Be Around

13 - There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin

14 - People Will Say We're in Love

15 - Pearls on Velvet

16 - St. Louis Blues March

17 - Poinciana

18 - It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)

19 - Jeep Jockey Jump

20 - Victory Polka

21 - Farewell Blues

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=531EDCI2

Peter Maxewll Davies' "Vesalii Icones"

2011-10-05T04:59:00.000-07:00

This is modern music, perhaps an a-tonal music. Nevertheless it music that can be very moving. The piece

There's also an insert shewing these Stations.

Some other pieces are included afterwards.

Here are the tracks in this compilation:

Vesalii Icones
for Cello, Small Instrumental Group & Dancer, J. 85
1 Prima Musculorum Tabula The Agony In The Garden 5:32
2 Secunda Musculorum Tabula The Betrayal Of Judas 2:33
3 Tertia Musculorum Tabula Christ And Pilate 2:35
4 Quarta Musculorum Tabula The Flagellation 2:04
5 Quinta Musculorum Tabula Christ Condemned To Death 3:51
6 Sexta Musculorum Tabula The Mocking Of Christ 2:57
7 Septima Musculorum Tabula Christ Receives The Cross 1:58
8 Octava Musculorum Tabula St. Veronica Wipes His Face 2:52
9 Nona Musculorum Tabula Christ Prepared For Death 1:05
10 Decima Musculorum Tabula Christ Nailed To The Cross 1:58
11 Undecima Musculorum Tabula The Death Of Christ 4:42
12 Duodecima Musculorum Tabula The Descent From The Cross 2:45
13 Deceimateria Musculorum Tabula The Entombment Of Christ 3:00
14 Decimaquarta Musculorum Tabula The Resurrection - Antichrist 1:50
The Bairns of Brugh for instrumental ensemble, J. 17615 The Bairns of Brugh Runes from a Holy Island 6:00
Runes from a Holy Island for instrumental ensemble, J. 14816 Runes from a Holy Island First Movement 2:37
17 Runes from a Holy Island Second Movement 0:56
18 Runes from a Holy Island Third Movement 1:58
19 Runes from a Holy Island Fourth Movement 3:58
20 Runes from a Holy Island Fifth Movement 1:36

And here is the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AC2FXVRI

"Vesalii Icones" is twelve movements based on Tarot cards melded with various traditions of "Stations of the Cross."

MA-16 - Ghos-terrific Sounds

2011-10-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

Here is your 2011 Halloween compilation of scare-tastic fun.

These are the tracks:

1 Mr After Halloween Costume Shop Salesman Al Lowe 1:00

2 "The Return of Dracula": The End Gerald Fried 4:08

3 Teenage Frankenstein Alice Cooper 3:27

4 Trick or Treat Andrew Gold 3:23

5 Everybody Loves You When You're Dead Stranglers 2:39

6 Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon The Cramps 3:12

7 Count Dracula All About Halloween 1:09

8 Halloween in Heaven Type O Negative 4:50

9 The Nightmare Before Christmas Pharaoh Atem 1:37

10 Godzilla (Album Version) Blue Oyster Cult 3:42

11 Halloween Parade David Berkeley 3:16

12 Gigantor Helmet 4:12

13 Surfin' Halloween Big Chopper 1:27

14 Count Dracula Robbie the Werewolf 5:09

15 Halloween Monster Mania stAllio! 7:55

16 Planet of the Apes Frankenstein Drag Queens 3:00

17 The Legend of Wooley Swamp Charlie Daniels 3:56

18 Spooks of Halloween Town Yoko Shimomura 1:20

19 Hand of Blood Bullet for My Valentine 3:37

20 Casper, the Friendly Ghost Peter Pan Singers 0:53

21 Scary Song Frankenstein Drag Queens 2:37

22 Zombie Stomp H. Zombie featuring Toño Pneumo 4:14

23 Halloween Party Sue Schnitzer 3:54

24 Frankenstein Rock Eddie Thomas 1:50

25 I Want a Monster Prairie Dawn 2:12

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See You Again in October!

2011-08-31T05:02:00.001-07:00

We're taking a month to pray for cooler weather. Spock and I will return with some spooky stuff in October!

Honeytree

2011-08-31T04:48:00.000-07:00

This was released in 1972. I always wondered if the deliberately unflattering photo was chosen as a sign of humility.

There are some great songs here from Nancy Henigbaum's first album.