Re-Post: Oddio Overplay's Ghouls With Attitude, ! & 2

 

For some reason the folks at Oddio Overplay released these two compilations, but they are no longer available on their site.  Here they are. 

 

Volume 1:
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 Volume 2:

 

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

 

So have fun, you happenin' fiends and ghouls!

 

 

Sam and the Weary Worry Witches

 

 

From the October, 1964 Jack and Jill, here's "Sam and the Witches," the last part of this magazine that I haven't shared in previous years.

 

 

So, look out for witches -- and stay out of the stewpot!

The Unsuspecting Schmuck Hopes to Make Time with Marilyn Munster

In these further pages from The Munsters coloring book, Mr Unnamed is helping Marilyn home with her groceries in an attempt to help fill her pantry (if you get my drift).

 

In an earlier post you saw Cousin Eddie in his coffinmobile.  At the left edge of this page you can see the edge of Eddie's ride.  So WHY IS MARILYN POINTING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION?  If they'd flipped this art before printing, then Marilyn would've been pointing at her little kinsman.

 

If no one can come near their mailbox, HOW DO THEY GET THEIR MAIL?  I'm so confused!

More later, fiends and familiars!

MA-10 - The 2010 Spook-Tacular

Back from the limbo of a defunct hosting service, it's my Halloween compilation for 2010.

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!

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 now your fate is is in your hands!

 

 

Olde Halloween Relics

Actually, you could say that I'm an old Halloween relic!  But these pics are selected from a party in 1977 -- a few months before that wonderful event known as our wedding.

 

On the left is lovely Joyce, wearing my Groucho Marx suit.  She's watching as Jan Engleman watches her fiancé, now-internationally famous composer and pianist Roger Price, lunge for an apple.  They're dressed as high-school jocks.  On the right is friend Robyn Brevard as a Funeral Home Honey, waiting her turn.

 



 

Proof that Joyce once showed a little whimsy!

 

Robyn gets her own chance at the apple, watched by her roommate Tina Melton, who's garbed as a highway accident victim.

 

Another view of the two, flanked by an international student from OCU at the time.

 

Yours truly, in getup as Luke Skywalker, photobombs friends Sara and Ed Oakley.  Sara is cast against character as a witch, while Ed Oakley is a zombie version of (big failure) Penn Square Bank's Bill Patterson.

 

Robyn looks very fetching in her bite of the apple.

 

 

Amongst the group of revelers is that high-tech entertainment device known as a television.  It's black-and-white ... it's got a dial ... it's got a single metal antenna ... it's high tech.

 

 

See you on Monday with another mad music al offering!



Cheesy Tomatoes!

Here's a promo CD that came free with the purchase of a certain version of the film on DVD.  It came at a perfect time in my shopping life, since I only had the movie as an umpteenth-generation dub from HBO or something.

It's really a fun film, and it's a shame that only these tracks are on this "official" CD.  I don't remember for sure, but there was surely some background music of some kind.  It would be nice to hear that, even if it was "stock" music, as used in Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Anyway, here are the numbers:

1.   Main Theme from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (02:52)

2.   The Mindmaker Song (02:00)

3.   Tomato Stomp (01:46)

4.   Puberty Love (00:46)

5.   Love Theme (01:13)

6.   End Theme (00:51)

Yep, it's a short musical trip, campers.  Seems that these tracks were basically dubbed from the film's audio track.  For example, we don't get the original performance of "Puberty Love," only the snippets heard on radios or PA systems in the movie.  What a shame!

Anyway, I know I'm going to miss her; a tomato ate my sister!

 

 

Meet the Creepy Kid and Color Him

 

The mundane guy gallantly tries to make time with the mundane-seeming Marilyn Munster by walking her home.  Of course, we know that the Munsters live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

 

I think it's the bow tie that makes me think of Jack Larson as Jimmy Olsen.

 

And who wouldn't take a step back and gulp, "Jeepers!" when this little terror tore around the corner?

 

I cleaned it up a little bit.  Print out this page and let your little monster color Eddie in his Coffin-Mobile!

 

See you tomorrow for more music.

The Love of Monsters Is ... Universal!

In years past I've shared pages from this (carefully generic) Universal Monsters coloring book.  Here are some more unshown pages.

As you can see, the visual approach is, I think, dictated by Universal's legal rights department.  You see, the studio owns the characters of Frankenstein's Monster, Larry Talbot the Wolf Man, and such ...  The studio can use these characters as they wish ...

Except they can't use the monsters the way they looked in the Universal movies!  WHY?  Because the estates of the actors who played the roles -- Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and the rest -- would have to be paid a licensing fee!

I imagine it's a thin line to tread between a recognizable monster and a not-recognizable guy INSIDE the monster.

 

So, the lady shown above May or may NOT be Gwen Conliffe, but she is DEFINITELY NOT Evelyn Ankers!  However, her father MAY run a shop as told in the 1941 original, since there appear to be various commodities strewn about in the background.

 

 

This action tableau is pretty dramatic.  You can see the wolf head on the can held by the guy.  And even though the wolf's shape isn't exactly anatomically accurate -- the neck is too long and bent at a funny angle -- you could argue that this is a werewolf and therefore not exactly your run-of-the-moor wolf.

 

Stay tuned for when happens next to our tragic hero!