MA-07 - Howl-oween

This is my first Halloween compilation, full of fun songs and excerpts of creepy music from the Jonny Quest background music and sound snippets from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

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 Tone
33 Music for Monsters: Skeleton Dance
34 Space Ghost: Main Title
35 Bloodrock: DOA

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Howl-oween

Creepy, Scary TV Music

This wonderfully moody music accompanied the 1979 TV miniseries that was delightfully atmospheric and well-done, especially for TV's usual low-rent reputation.

Composer Harry Sukman not only did a great job of creeping us out, he tapped into a long musical tradition of including the Dies Irae theme in his music.  This is a practice also followed by Franz List, Hector Berlioz, and Sergei Rachmaninoff in classical music, and Jerry Goldsmith and Gerald Fried for the movies.

This is a bootleg of sorts in that the story goes that Sukman just had a cassette tape or two rattling around in an office drawer and pulled them out when someone asked him out of the blue about this work.

I added one or two tracks dubbed from the soundtrack of the commercial DVD release.

1     Ximico, Guatemala        (0:24)

2     We Must Keep Going and Main Titles        (2:10)
3     Two Years Earlier         (1:28)
4     The Town and Antique Store         (1:39)
5     Susan      (0:44)
6     The Marsden House and Straker   (1:01)
7     Good Evening         (0:57)
8     Mike's Graveyard and Ben's Notes       (0:45)
9     The Lake  (1:06)
10   Straker Leaves the House (1:15)
11 Straker Anxious (1:05)
12 Straker Closes the Store (0:57)
13 Beer With Jason (5:51)
14 The Crate Moves (0:33)
15 Mark's Room (0:32)
16 That Thing Is Movin’! (0:28)
17 Straker and the Body Bag (1:49)
18 Shotgun (1:17)
19 Ralphie at Danny's Window (2:37)
20 Crockett Stinger and Finding the Dog (0:51)
21 Hospital Window (2:37)
22 Straker Delivers His Suits (1:03)
23 Ben at the Window (0:20)
24 Glick Funeral Begins (0:23)
25 Glick Funeral End (2:11)
26 The Grave Digger and the Grave (1:23)
27 Open the Window, Mark (3:06)
28 Jason in Bed (1:10)
29 Trouble at Jason's House (0:37)
30 Rocking Chair (0:41)
31 Jason's Heart Attack (1:31)
32 Jail Cell (0:20)
33 Barlow Visits the Petries (0:24)
34 The Priest and Barlow (1:48)
35 Marjorie Glick Rises and Staking Barlow (2:00)
36 Empty Town (3:35)
37 Susan Looks for Mark (2:08)
38 Norton's Demise and Straker's Death (1:34)
39 Barlow Disintegrates (0:35)
40 Marsden House Burns (0:49)
41 Two Years Later -They've Found Us (0:44)
42 Susan's Second Death and Full Moon (1:11)
43 Commercial Break Stinger (0:05)
44 The Marsden House (1:38)
45 Main Titles Alternate (Bonus) (1:33)
46 End Part 1 (Bonus) (0:27)
47 Trailer Music (Bonus) (0:59)
48 Series End Credits (Bonus) (0:51)

 

So prepare for deliciously trembly fun!

MA-60 - Midnite Jinx Show!

We kick off this year’s Halloween season with my compilation for 2013 …

 

MA-60 - Midnite Jinx Show!

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)

 

This year’s compilation features musical memories from my youth growing up in Bartlesville, OK.  We watched Tulsa TV stations, and from 1970 to 1973, Mazeppa Pompazoidi http://www.mazeppa.com/Mazeppa1.html ruled the airwaves Saturday nights after the late movie, which began around 10:30PM.  In other words, it stared around 1AM and ended around 3:30AM.

 

Track 01 is the “Mazeppa Theme,” assembled by station staff from old clip music.  Yes, it plays through forwards, then backwards, then forwards again.  Those crazy engineers!  The music ACTUALLY APPEARED this way on TV for a while.

 

Track 17 is the A-side of a 1970 45rpm released in the Tulsa area to cash in on the Mazeppa craze.

 

The last track was used as the end titles for Mazeppa’s show, and this feeling not only applies to those teenage Saturday nights at 3:30 in the morning, but also to the wondrous Halloween of our imaginations!  Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever?

 

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



 

 

 

Here's the original art which inspired this year's cover ...

 

 

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