MA-149 - An Old-Fashioned Halloween -- Welcome to SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!

Yes, my friends, this is the most delicious time of year -- Halloween time!

To kick off this magic, spooky, wacky season, here's a new music compilation. The tracks:

01 - Halloween Party - Pepper Tanner Creative Sales Service - 1973  (0:31)

02 - Main Title (It! The Terror from Beyond Space) - Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter - 1958  (1:05)

03 - Hey Jude - Paul Frees - 1970  (3:53)

04 - Weebles Haunted House - Hasbro Playskool - 1976  (0:29)

05 - Monster Approaches (Jonny Quest) - Hoyt Curtin & Ted Nichols - 1964  (0:45)

06 - Halloween Driving Safety - Pepper Tanner Creative Sales Service - 1973  (0:31)

07 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Underscore #1 - Ted Nichols - 1969  (0:37)

08 - Attack of the Mole Men - The Dickies - 1979  (3:40)

09 - Main Title / Shooting Stars (This Island Earth) - Herman Stein - 1978  (3:49)

10 - The Mad Scientist - The Zanies - 1958  (1:59)

11 - The Munsters (1st Season Opening Theme) - Jack Marshall - 1964  (0:44)

12 - The Munsters (1st Season End Credits) - Jack Marshall - 1964  (0:31)

13 - Hollywood Halloween - Section 8 - 1979  (3:06)

14 - Mysterioso, Burglar Music - J S Zamecnik - 1913  (0:46)

15 - Plodding Monster (Jonny Quest) - Hoyt Curtin & Ted Nichols - 1964  (0:37)

16 - The Raven - Kenny and the Fiends - 1963  (1:55)

17 - The Witch (Album Version) - The Rattles - 1970  (2:56)

18 - Halloween Values - Pepper Tanner Creative Sales Service - 1973  (0:28)

19 - Sonik Re-Entry (Fantastic Theatre) - The Electrosonics - 1962  (2:34)

20 - Son of Dracula Main Title - Hans J Salter - 1978  (1:07)

21 - TV Monster - The Bounce - 1980  (2:49)

22 - Return to the the Haunted House - The Fleshtones - 1985  (2:22)

23 - Visitors from Space (It Came from Outer Space) - Herman Stein - 1978  (1:40)

24 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Underscore #2 - Ted Nichols - 1969  (1:05)

25 - What Can We Be for Halloween? - Jill Gallina - 1978  (2:05)

26 - Halloween Treats & Candy - Pepper Tanner Creative Sales Service - 1973  (0:28)

27 - Mysterioso Pizzicato - J Bodewalt Lampe - 1914  (0:22)

28 - Spookie Movies - Gary Paxton - 1962  (2:17)

29 - Night Gallery Theme - Gil Melle - 1970  (0:36)

30 - The Octopus - Angel and the Devines - 1964  (2:13)

31 - Halloween Jingle - William B Tanner Co - 1974  (0:32)

32 - Plan 9 from Outer Space - The Happy Few - 1981  (3:36)

33 - Shocks and Stingers (Jonny Quest) - Hoyt Curtin & Ted Nichols - 1964  (1:11)

34 - Graveyard Theme (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) - Vince Guaraldi - 1966  (0:53)

35 - Dumb Ways to Die - Metro Trains Melbourne - 2012  (3:00)

36 - Monsters (Jonny Quest) - Hoyt Curtin & Ted Nichols - 1964  (0:51)

37 - Do They Know It's Halloween? - North American Halloween Prevention Initiative - 2005  (5:52)

38 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Underscore #3 - Ted Nichols - 1969  (0:45)

39 - Halloween Jack-o-Lantern Contest - Pepper Tanner Creative Sales Service - 1973  (0:33)

40 - Winged Death (The Deadly Mantis) - William Lava - 1978  (2:53)

41 - Trick or Treat (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) - John Scott Trotter - 1966  (1:14)

42 - The Night Stalker Suite - Robert Cobert - 1972  (4:00)

43 - Prologue - Welcome to Creepshow - John Harrison - 1982  (4:07)

 

And, to quote the liner notes:     It’s our hope that these selections from TV, film, advertising, and pop music will help rekindle some of the childlike anticipation and corniness inherent in an old-fashioned Halloween!

 

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Come back on Monday for more!  See you then!

   

A Festival of England

 

It's a two-cassette album of stiff-upper-lip and/or mystical evocations of Ye Olde Homeland, officially sanctioned by Britannia herself.

A Festival of England, Disc 1 (63:17)
01 - Pomp and Circumstance March 1 - Elgar (7:07)
02 - Imperial March - Elgar (4:23)
03 - Pomp and Circumstance March 4 - Elgar (5:20)
04 - Orb and Sceptre Coronation March - Walton (7:28)
05 - Coronation March 1953 - Bax (6:41)
06 - Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma" - Elgar (32:17)

A Festival of England, Disc 2 (56:04)
01 - Tintagel - Bax (13:30)
02 - A Shropshire Lad - Butterworth (8:39)
03 - The Banks of Green Willow - Butterworth (5:23)
04 - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis - Vaughan Williams (16:58)
05 - Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughan Williams (4:57) 06 - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Delius (6:37)

All wrapped up for you in one fat file.

See you right back here on Thursday, October 1st, for the commencement of SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!

  

Narcissus Beware!

It's cosmic, baby!  You got your bells and your echoey voices and everything.

01. Crossing the Line (11:30)
02. Spacelights (2:31)
03. Adrift (4:48)
04. Starfires (3:20)

05. Ascension of the Subtle Body (3:54) 

06. The Empty Mirror (26:00)

I hope you have fun spacing out with this one.

Tibetan III

See you on Monday!  And welcome to Fall!  Spooky Spock-Tober is just around the corner!

   

The Pre-Fab Four Roll Again!

Yes, these are stripped-down, alternate versions of the songs heard on the Rutles' TV special and its concomitant album.

01. Baby Let Me Be (2:09)
02. Blue Suede Schubert (2:21)
03. Between Us (2:31)
04. It's Looking Good (1:58)
05. Goose Step Mama (2:35)
06. I Must Be in Love (2:19)
07. We've Arrived (and to Prove It We're Here) (2:05)
08. Now She's Left You (1:46)
09. Number One (2:42)
10. Love Life (2:17)
11. Good Times Roll (3:11)
12. Doubleback Alley (3:13)
13. Piggy in the Middle (2:48)
14. Let's Be Natural (2:26)
15. Get Up and Go (3:29)
16. Living in Hope (2:37)
17. Plenty of Time (3:35)

The Savage Young Rutles 

See you on Thursday!