Famous Monsters Speak!

If you're like me, you spent a good deal of the 19620s with your head buried in the back pages of Famous Monsters magazine, wishing you could possess the wonders to be seen in the ads.

Here's one!

According to this Discogs page, "the voices of Gabriel Dell" performed.  Original release date was 1963.

Listen yourself, foolish mortal!

Alternate link.

The bad news is that the trifecta of fright in the illo's background are NOT participants ... only the Frankenstein Monster and Dracula.

But that's enough for me, kiddies!  See you Thursday ....

MA-75 - Fraidy Cat Frolics

We kick off this year’s Halloween season with my compilation for 2014 …

01. Count Rupert the Roué Intro - G Ailard S Artain (1:18)

02. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Open and End Titles - Frank Skinner (1:48)

03. Sinister Stomp - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (2:19)

04. Nose Goblins - Ren & Stimpy (4:20)

05. The Haunted House Boogie - Happy Wilson (2:30)

06. Skeletons in Your Closet - The 3-D Invisibles (2:37)

07. Halloween Shindig - Ed Twilley and the Creepers (0:46)

08. The Funeral March - Theremin (2:34)

09. The Ghost and Mr Chicken Main Title - Vic Mizzy (2:08)

10. Halloween Evening - The Frighteners (2:52)

11. Monster in Black Tights - Screaming Lord Sutch (2:03)

12. Haunted Lover - Carole Bennett (2:15)

13. Burning of the Witch - Troyka (2:59)

14. Tales from the Crypt Main Title - Danny Elfman (2:27)

15. The Transylvania Polka - The Family Arts Theatre (3:19)

16. The Skeleton Rag (1912) - The American Quartet with Billy Murray (2:08)

17. Fright Song - Monster High (2:55)

18. Frankie Frankenstein - 'Ivan' (Jerry Allison) (2:27)

19. Theme from The Bat - The Ventures (2:12)

20. I Hold Your Hand in Mine - Tom Lehrer (1:33)

21. Goolie Get-Together - Toadies (3:47)

22. Scream and Run Away - Gothic Archies (2:23)

23. Count Macabre - Connoissurs (2:19)

24. Werecow - Flippy T Fishead (5:04)

25. The Raven - The Yo-Yo's (2:27)

26. I Don't Stand A Chance With A Ghost Like You - Sheldon Allman (2:11)

27. In the Twilight Zone - The Astors (2:41)

28. Skeletons - Inflatable Boy Clams (3:02)

29. The Great Pumpkin - The Jack O Lanterns (2:31)

30. The Munsters Theme - Billy Strange (1:53)

31. Nightmare (Count Gregore Theme) - David Barnes (2:29)

We open this year’s compilation with an excerpt from Mazeppa Pompazoidi’s Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting.  You can learn more here.

The last selection is the theme music for Count Gregore, horror host here in the OKC area for decades.  His Facebook page is here.  An online article with more background is this place.  John is a sweet guy who’s been making appearances annually at SoonerCon and will return, we hope for many more years.  In the past year or so he also appeared as a Mad Scientist in the film Army of Frankensteins.

MA-75 - Fraidy Cat Frolics

Over the next month we’ll share my earlier Halloween compilations and other creepy, scary, FUN stuff!  See you every Monday and Thursday, kiddies!

  

MA-22 - A Star to Steer By: Music from the Great Beyond

Here's another in our series of songs about space, the universe, and visitors therefrom.

1 -  (When You) See Those Flying Saucers     The Buchanan Brothers     1947

2 -       Rocket    Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones 1957

3 -       Tiny Space Man     Bill Carlisle      1957

4 - The Flying Saucer Goes West   Buchanan and Goodman      1958

5 - Outer Space Santa The Lennon Sisters 1958

6 - Mope-itty Mope Boss-Tones 1959

7 - Asteroid Hop Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra   1959

8 - Beep Beep Loiuis Prima 1959

9 - Beep, Beep Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans 1959

10 - UFOs Soul, Inc 1967

11 - Have You Seen the Saucers Jefferson Airplane 1970

12 - Supersonic Rocket Ship The Kinks 1972

13 - UFOs Undisputed Truth 1975

14 - Waiting for the UFOs Graham Parker 1979

15 - Flying Saucer Safari Suburban Lawns 1981

16 - The Alien Song (for those who listen) Milla Jovovich 1994

17 - Subterranean Homesick Alien Radiohead 1997

18 - Fell in Love With an Alien The Kelly Family 1997

19 - Space Robot Five   Brave Saint Saturn 2000

20 - Outer Space Song Pinky and Perky 2002

21 - UFOs, Big Rigs and BBQ Mojo Nixon 2005

22 - Devil Woman from Outer Space Rezurex 2006

23 - Space Craze Rick McGuire 2006

24 - Pluto Clare and The Reasons 2007

25 - The Planet Mars The Corillions 2007

26 - Robot Monster Damon Alexander & the Ten Cent Rentals 2008

27 - The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)   They Might Be Giants 2009

The central image of our cover art is based on Marjorie Fish's star map, which was produced in order to try & make sense of what Betty Hill claimed she saw on the wall of the alien ship she claimed she and Barney were taken into.

Hope you enjoy the serendipity.  Blast off!

See you Monday.