Get into the Motion, Monsters!

Yes, we end this year's SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER with another new music comp!  The results of the dissection are:

01 - Come On! - Zombina and the Skeletones - 2003  (2:26)

02 - Monsters Everywhere - Bloodshot Bill - 2003  (1:27)

03 - Dracula's Daughter - Screaming Lord Sutch - 1964  (3:37)

04 - Mummy Walk - Bo Diddley - 1965  (2:16)

05 - Walk Like a Zombie - HorrorPops - 2005  (4:04)

06 - Zoola Zooky - Johnny Alderson - 1963  (2:24)

07 - Frankystein - Los Rockin Devil's - 1967  (2:46)

08 - Ghost Guitars - Baron Daemon & the Vampires - 1963  (2:22)

09 - The Cool Gool - Sharkey Todd and His Monsters - 1959  (2:00)

10 - The Monster's Bride - Miss L Louise Lewis - 1962  (1:49)

11 - Dancing with Mr D - The Rolling Stones - 1973  (4:48)

12 - Dracula's Tango - Toto Coelo - 1982  (4:39)

13 - Jam at the Mortuary - Griz Green - 1965  (2:53)

14 - Zombies' March - The Mao Tse Tung Experience - 1991  (3:59)

15 - I'm Dracula - Plastik - 1982  (2:28)

16 - Graveyard - F L Wray - 1962  (2:54)

17 - Frankenstein Baby - Mad Jack and the Hatters - 2011  (3:07)

18 - Dry Bones Twist - The Drivers - 1962  (2:44)

19 - Furry Happy Monsters - REM and The Muppets - 1998  (3:26)

20 - Monster Motion - Bobby Boris Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers - 1962  (2:31)

21 - Mr Frankenstein - Peter and the Wolves - 1961  (2:55)

22 - Old Boris - Bela la Goldenstein - 1962  (2:13)

23 - Frankenstein - The Cadillacs - 1962  (2:47)

24 - Creatures' Nite Out - The Rockets - 2000  (2:34)

25 - Monster Bossa Nova - Gene Moss - 1964  (2:06)

26 - Dead Boyfriend - The Monarchs - 1995  (1:45)

27 - Draculena - Aaron McNeil - 1964  (2:34)

28 - Rock Until You Drop (from The Monster Squad) - Michael Sembello - 1987  (3:01)

This compilation takes its inspiration from Track 20, a rockin' little number from a little Massachusetts kid of some later note.  Don't step on the Wolf Man's tail!

MA-143 - Monster Motion

That's the end of this year's SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER, kiddies! See ya on Thursday with another bit of delectability! I'm buggin' out for now, it's kinda dead around here!

  

Is Anybody Out There? Anybody?

That's what the amateur-radio guy says about halfway through the program.

Come with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when radio was king, and Orson Welles pulled its pants down.

     01.     Introduction  - John Callaway  (3:13)

     02.   The Original Broadcast  - October 30, 1938   (59:16)

     03.     Post-Broadcast Anger - October 31, 1938   -  Welles is confronted by the media - (2:03) 

     04.     Commentary - October 29, 1940 - HG Wells meets Orson Welles on KSTA radio, San Antonio, TX - (3:28)

05. FFW - 1968 Buffalo - October 31, 1968  - excerpt from updated version broadcast on WKBW, Buffalo, NY - (3:54)

06. Welles Retrospect - November 3, 1978  - NBC interview with Welles - (2:15)

This isn't JUST the broadcast, as you can see from the tracklist.

War of the Worlds Broadcast

If your hair hasn't turned white, or your teeth broken out from chattering, join me on Monday, Halloween, for another new music comp, as we bid farewell to this year's SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!

  

Now Undead -- My First Halloween Comp!

 

This was my first attempt at piling up a graveyard-full of Halloweenish songs. It ain't been available for a while due to host issues.

The creepy concoction comprises:

1 - Alice Cooper: - Welcome to My Nightmare

2 - Sid Frank & James Dukas: - Holidays Halloween

3 - Marilyn Manson: - This Is Halloween

4 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: - Rock 1

5 - Dick Dale: - Riders in the Sky

6 - Aqua: - Halloween

7 - Donald Duck 1937: - Trick or Treat

8 - Jonny Quest: - Underscore 1

9 - Sheb Wooley: - The Purple People Eater

10 - Music for Monsters: - Ghouls Glide

11 - The Who: - Boris the Spider

12 - Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra: - The Raven

13 - CD Creepies: - Frenzy #1 

14 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: - Rock 2 

15 - Hap Palmer: - Have a Good Time on Halloween Night

16 - Nekromantix: - Trick or Treat

17 - Jonny Quest: - Underscore 2

18 - Stephen Lynch: - Halloween

19 - Spooky Music for Spooky Occasions: - Part One

20 - Henry Hall: - Here Comes the Boogeyman

21 - James Horner: - Something Wicked This Way Comes Main Title

22 - George McKelvey: - My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen)

23 - Jonny Quest: - Underscore 3

24 - Squirrel Nut Zippers: - Hell

25 - Ukulele: - Five Little Pumpkins

26 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: - Rock 3

27 - Jack Marshall: - The Munsters Theme

28 - Spooky Music for Spooky Occasions: - Part Two

29 - Zombina and the Skeletones: - Nobody Likes You When You're Dead

30 - Grateful Dead & Merl Saunders: - The Twilight Zone '85 Main Title

31 - Mickey Mouse 1929: - The Haunted House

32 - Manhattan Transfer: - Twilight Zone

33 - Music for Monsters: - Skeleton Dance

34 - Space Ghost: - Main Title

35 - Bloodrock: - DOA

To visit the mind of an amateur-but-well-intended compilationist, just listen!

MA-07 - Howl-oween

See you on Thursday!

  

It'll Rot Your Teeth!

Then them thar necks will be harder to poke holes inter!

01. Intro! Lost in Transylvania (1:52)

02. The Courting Count (1:46)

03. The Count's Lair (5:33)

04. The Bribe of Franken Berry (2:28)

05. The Laboratory (6:08)

06. Labyrinth of Knowledge (2:45)

07. The Secret Chamber (5:59)

08. Thrill on Boo Berry Hill (1:52)

09. The Graveyard (10:04)

10. The End (1:28)

Can it be cheesy and Halloweeny?

Spooky Sounds from Count Chocula Castle

You betcha!

See you on Monday with another Halloween comp brought back from the dead!

  

Don't Wait for Midnight!

As you can read on the CD cover, this is my 20013 Halloween comp. It was linked with an outdated host.

Brought back from the grave, here are:

1: The Uncanny Film Festival & Camp Meeting Intro Mazeppa Pompazoidi (1:34)

2: Graveyard Boogie Buster Doss & His Arkansas Playboys (2:36)

3: Theme from "Young Frankenstein" Madeira (2:44)

4: The Purple People Eater Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages (2:40)

5: Horror Movies Dickie Goodman (1:57)

6: "House of Frankenstein" Main Title Dick Jacobs & His Orchestra (3:09)

7: The Mechanical Man Bent Bolt and the Nuts (2:12)

8: Hearse On A Surfari Ding & Bat (1:49)

9: Night On Disco Mountain David Shire (5:07)

10: Frankenstein New York Dolls (5:57)

11: Evil Eye Al Saxon (2:25)

12: Hallowe'en Dance (1909) American Symphony Orchestra (2:03)

13: Halloween Siouxsie and the Banshees (3:34)

14: Weeds Above My Grave Jo Ann Stokes (2:33)

15: The Screemin' Meemies from Planet X Merv Griffin (2:57)

16: Trick or Treat Otis Redding (3:10)

17: Scope Them Turkeys Out! Natural Brass Company (featuring Dr Mazeppa Pompazoidi) (3:08)

18: Skeleton Frolics (1937) Joe DeNat (7:05)

19: Zombie Lou The Johnson Brothers (2:06)

20: The Transylvania Twist Baron Daemon and the Vampires (2:05)

21: The Night Before Halloween Bill Buchanan (2:05)

22: The Skeleton Fight Mack Allen (2:37)

23: Where Danger Lurks Ronald Hanmer (1:35)

24: Something from the Twilight Zone Barry Ray (Rich Cutcher) (2:02)

25: Nudist Colony of the Dead Joyce Mordoh (3:41)

26: It's Halloween Capsela (2:47)

27: Why Can't This Night Go on Forever (1932) Isham Jones and His Orchestra (2:58)

MA-60 - Midnight Jinx Show!

Here's the art I mutilated to produce the CD cover.

See you next time!

  

Mancini Update!

Yup, there was something missing in yesterday's post -- the cassette insert!

There was CD art in the file, but my original files were dubbed from the cassette release of Mancini in Surround.  Heavens to Murgatroyd, I hadn't scanned them!

Insane completist that I be, I still had the insert.

Here it is!  whew now I can sleep until I see ya again on Monday!

  

He's Got You Surrounded

See if you like it ...

This guy is full of mayhem, at least ...

01. Surround Fantastique (0:59)

02. Arctic Whale Hunt (The White Dawn) (4:40)

03. Mommy Dearest (3:04)

04. Frenzy (rejected Main Title) (2:50)

05. The Monster Gets Mark (Creature from the Black Lagoon) (6:48)

06. The Thing Strikes / Desert Rendezvous (It Came from Outer Space) (5:05)

07. Terror Strikes (Tarantula) (3:29)

08. Casey's Theme (Fear) (2:56)

09. Little Boys (The Man Who Loved Women) (3:49)

10. Main Title (The Prisoner of Zenda) (4:58)

11. Coronation Waltz (The Prisoner of Zenda) (3:35)

12. Croquette (The Prisoner of Zenda) (3:29)

13. Nightwing (Main Title) (3:38)

14. Super Sleuth (Without a Clue) (2:54)

15. End Title (Without a Clue) (3:01)

16. Sunset Theme (Sunset) (2:36)

17. Cheryl's Theme (Sunset) (4:28)

18. The Cowboys (Sunset) (4:17)

Mancini in Surround

PS: this link now includes the cassette insert images referred to in the subsequent post!

See you on Monday with a renewed dead comp from 2013 ...

  

2010 Called, It Wanted Its Anthology Re-Upped

Yep, the 2010 Spook-Tacular was dead.  An ex-comp, if you will.  When I learned the link had died, I opened the crypt and cleaned things up a bit, just for you, my pretties!

The contents:

1    Halloween Sale       Goodwill       0:59

2    Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman  The Tubes       4:25

3    It's a Nerdy Halloween      Herbert Midgley  2:42

4    Frankie-Stein       Robbie Robison  2:58

5    This Is Halloween          Panic! At the Disco    3:27

6    I Only Have Eyes for You      Spike Jones 3:26

7 Horray For Horrorwood Frankenstein Drag Queens 2:18

8 It's Halloween Greg Conley 3:07

9 Zombie Dance The Cramps 1:51

10 Mummy Beach Hot Lava 2:59

11 Love Song For A Vampire Annie Lennox 4:12

12 Creature with the Atom Brain JezusFactory 2:40

13 Saturday Evening Ghost Frankie Stein and His Ghouls 2:01

14 Halloween Song Evangelicals 2:15

15 Mummy Walk Contrails 2:36

16 Main Theme Dracula Twins 1:32

17 Vincent Price Zombina & the Skeletones2:19

18 Monster Mash Misfits 2:34

19 Kids Halloween 10/30/2008 ASK U 1:14

20 Halloween Linda Book 2:52

21 Feed My Frankenstein    Alice Cooper 4:40

22 Dead Man's Curve Jan & Dean 2:25

23 Creature from Outer Space Big EyedBeans from Venus 3:05

24 Bo Meets the Monster   Bo Diddley 3:03

25 TV  Theme Gigantor 0:52

26 Frankenstein Stomp Count Lorry & The Biters 2:01

27 The Skeleton In The Closet Louis Armstrong    3:08

28 Frankenstein Twist The Crystals 2:53

29 Frankenstein Meets The Beetles     Jekyll & Hyde 1:51

... And while it's a mixed bag, it's still ALIVE!

As I told you in 2013, the last time this thing escaped into the light, "In the tradition of old spook shows, you are hereby dared to sit still the whole performance through!  Can your heart take the thrill! as monsters emerge from the speakers, REAL and ALIVE! we're not sure what happens when Frankie Stein meets the Creature with the Atom Brain, but -- WOW!"

Now you can discover for yourself!  It's ... 

MA-10 - The 2010 Spook-Tacular

See you Thursday!