I'll Have an Old-Fashioned or Three

 Today our three Halloween comps share the same concept: A little old-fashioned and a lot of amateurish cover art!

MA-149 - An Old-Fashioned Halloween  (77:27):

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)

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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MA-226 - Another Old-Fashioned Halloween:

01 - It's a Good Old Halloween - The Wonderland Singers - 1974  (1:50)

02 - The Boogie Man - Louie Ramirez - 1967  (2:41)

03 - Blue Ghost Blues - Lonnie Johnson - 1938  (3:03)

04 - From the Underworld - The Herd - 1968  (3:13)

05 - Opening the Coffin - Count Baltes & the Egors - 1973  (2:12)

06 - Monster Party - Bill Doggett - 1959  (2:04)

07 - Egor's Chant - Ziggy Gee and His Combo - 1959  (2:04)

08 - Superstition - The Migil Five - 1967  (3:19)

09 - Cold Touch of Death - No Hope for the Kids - 2008  (1:37)

10 - Frankenstein's Party - The Swingin' Phillies - 1958  (2:38)

11 - My Daddy Is a Vampire - The Meteors - 1981  (3:40)

12 - The Raven - Glass Prism - 1969  (3:58)

13 - Nightmare - Don Bishop - 1959  (2:00)

14 - I Was a Teenage Monster - The Keytones - 1961  (2:18)

15 - Monster Man Jam - Bobby (Boris) Pickett - 1970  (2:24)

16 - The Vampire - Buffy Sainte-Marie - 1969  (2:06)

17 - Monster Mash - Ill Repute - 1985  (2:20)

18 - Shock Party - Amery Lynn - 1959  (2:22)

19 - Queen of Halloween - The Chotalls - 1962  (2:39)

20 - The Rockin' Ghost - Archie Bleyer - 1956  (2:32)

21 - The Phantom Skier - The New Dimensions - 1964  (2:22)

22 - Vampire - Bobby Garrett - 1962  (2:04)

23 - Creepy Willy - Griz Green - 1965  (2:00)

24 - Shrimpenstein TV Theme - Gene Moss - 1967  (0:52)

25 - Ghost Creepin' Blues - Blue Belle - 1928  (3:10)

26 - Vampire Daddy - Jerry Bryan - 1959  (1:52)

27 - Plan Nine from Outer Space - 3-D Invisibles - 1986  (2:38)

28 - Dr Jekyll - The Blizzards - 1965  (2:47)

29 - Honky Tonk Jekyll & Hyde - Dinosaurs - 1988  (4:14)

30 - Our Little Girl Wants to Be a Monster - Mark Alfred - 2010  (2:12)

The frightening aspects of an Old-Fashioned Halloween are always scares mixed with a wink.  You might call it Corn on the Macabre.

These songs, ranging across nearly a century, express the wonderful silly spookiness of the season.  The final track is one of my own songs, a low-fi true story about our grandchild who grew up loving the monstrous, just like her ole Grandpa.  An mp4 with some monstrous images is included in the file also.

Let me know if you like it!

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MA-247 - A Third Old-Fashioned Halloween (73:13):

01 - The Monster Swim - Bobby Pickett and the Rolling Bones - 1964  (2:11)

02 - Scooby Doo - The Jinkies - 1996  (2:12)

03 - King Kong Is Back Again - Century Orchestra - 1976  (3:19)

04 - Ghost Train - 50% Potato - 2007  (3:09)

05 - Haunted Disco - Chromium - 1979  (3:40)

06 - The Creature (From a Science Fiction Movie) - Buchanan and Ancell - 1957  (2:49)

07 - Frankenstein the Disco Monster - The Southern Tenant - 2022  (4:58)

08 - The Gorilla - Bert Convy - 1958  (1:49)

09 - Uncle Willy - The Dynamics - 1964  (2:39)

10 - His Ghoul - Dick “Ghoulardy” Knight - 1973  (3:10)

11 - Foul Owl on the Prowl - Boomer & Travis - 1967  (2:30)

12 - The Boogie Man, Parts 1 and 2 - Greg Perry - 1974  (7:00)

13 - Gammera (from Gammera the Invincible) - The Moons - 1967  (2:06)

14 - Witching Hour Blues - Tampa Red - 1934  (3:15)

15 - Barnabas - Vampire State Building - 1969  (2:56)

16 - Bigfoot - Bro Smith - 1976  (3:06)

17 - Rockin' Zombie - The Crewnecks - 1959  (2:53)

18 - Vampire Tango - Taboo - 1968  (3:36)

19 - Frankenstein Is a Soul Brother - Dr Shock - 1973  (2:48)

20 - Creature Features - Beauregarde with the Poppers - 1975  (2:54)

21 - Horror Story - Colour Me Wednesday - 2016  (1:58)

22 - Skeleton Bookie - Abe Link and the Western Spotlighters - 1955  (3:23)

23 - The Voodoo Walk - Sonny Richard's Panics with Cindy & Misty - 1962  (2:16)

24 - They're Gonna Get You - Count Five - 1966  (2:38)

You may ask, what makes these songs old-fashioned?  Well, you have:

… Old-fashioned ripoffs like Track 10 parodying “My Girl,” and Track 13 imitating the Batman theme

… Old-fashioned corny humor in Tracks 1, 8

… Old-fashioned disco in Tracks 5 and 7

… Old-fashioned fuzz guitars on Track 18

And an old-fashioned CD presentation!

See you on Monday, fellow creeps and crepes!

  

Frights from Fifty Years Ago

Fifty years ago I clipped thus Sunday panel of Blondie from the Sunday Oklahoman.

Specifically,  it was September 19.  Wish I could be that scary!

See you on Friday for three more Halloween comps.
  

Some People Like This Stuff

Or just reading about it ....

Scary Books, Kiddies!

The History of Torture.  By Daniel P Mannix.  Dell, 1964.  No cover credit.

            This is the first printing, and a Dell original.  Mannix was a many-faceted guy, according to Wikipedia, having been “an American author, journalist, photographer, sideshow performer, stage magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker.”  And he wrote a book The Fox and the Hound which Disney made into a cartoon movie.

            But this tome is all about man’s inhumanity to man—the theory as well as the practice of—umm, let’s call it “forceful coercion.”

            The illustrations are line drawings or prints from past histories of terrors.

 

            Perhaps too ironically, above is the bookmark for the book.

 

EXTRA  EXTRA  READ

ALL  ABOUT  IT!

Giveaway!

I will give this paperback to the first fiend who emails me, at msuperfan1956@gmail.com.  Shoot me your request.  Then I’ll reply to you with a request for your mailing address.  Yes, FREE and postage paid!

See you next time, kiddies!
 

I COMPILE You to Listen!

Three more comps of Halloween (or ALMOST) music from all kindsa places.

MA-10 - 2010 Spook-Tacular:

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 Eyed Beans 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

Someday I may tell the story of how these VERY EARLY and VERY ECLECTIC comps came to pass.

Until then, ponder our next slab of slime ...

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MA-123 - The Haunted 1980s:

01 - Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood - 45 Grave   1980  (2:53)

02 - Halloween - Distant Drums   1982  (3:36)

03 - Monster Island - The Dickies   1985  (1:56)

04 - Bates Motel - The Hitmen   1981  (3:19)

05 - Monster Rock - Screaming Lord Sutch   1982  (2:25)

06 - Jazz Butcher Meets Count Dracula - The Jazz Butcher   1983  (2:52)

07 - The Cabinet - Das Kabinette   1983  (3:57)

08 - Lycanthropia - Harry   1988  (5:00)

09 - Shaking of the Sheets - Steeleye Span   1989  (4:10)

10 - Horror Stories - Dance on Water   1984  (3:39)

11 - Final Scene - Greg Vandike   1980  (2:43)

12 - Like a Ghost - Ignatius Jones   1981  (3:22)

13 - The Masque - The Dark   1982  (3:42)

14 - Horror Movies - The Bollock Brothers   1983  (5:09)

15 - Dead Things - The Gorehounds   1987  (2:49)

16 - Halloween - The Wigs   1985  (2:28)

17 - The Vegas Vampire - Jim Parker   1983  (2:18)

18 - Count Duckula Theme - TV Soundtrack   1988  (1:09)

19 - Stuck in a Nightmare - Tooth & Nail   1988  (3:54)

20 - See You in the Boneyard - The Flesh Eaters   1981  (3:31)

21 - Scared of the Dark - Unit 5   1981  (4:00)

22 - I Kill with Warning - Rash of Stabbings   1983  (2:38)

23 - Something in My House - Dead or Alive   1987  (3:49)

24 - Slave Beyond the Grave - Johanna Went   1981  (2:51)

All of the above meditations, as you should have deduced, were released in the 1980s.

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MA-234 - Almost Halloween:

01 - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - Johann Sebastian Bach (8:27)

02 - Nightmare Fantasy Rag - A Night on Rag Mountain - William Albright (10:09)

03 - Piano Sonata #2 In B Flat Minor, Op. 35, B 128 - 3. Marche Funèbre - Frédéric Chopin (8:57)

04 - 3 Ghost Rags No. 1, Graceful Ghost Rag - William Bolcom (4:30)

05 - 3 Ghost Rags No. 2, The Poltergeist - William Bolcom (3:28)

06 - 3 Ghost Rags No. 3, Dream Shadows - William Bolcom (7:23)

07 - Carnival of the Animals - Zoological Fantasy XII. Fossils - Camille Saint-Saëns (1:22)

08 - Violin Sonata in G Minor, The Devil's Trill - Giuseppe Tartini - 1997  (18:49)

09 - A Rag-Time Nightmare - Tom Turpin (1:15)

10 - Ave Satani (from The Omen) - Jerry Goldsmith (2:32)

11 - Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 - 5. Songe D'une Nuit Du Sabbat - Hector Berlioz (10:21)

ALL CLASSICAL, ALL FUN!  

These classical pieces may remind you of Halloween, even if they weren’t specifically intended that way when composed or published.  When I hear them or see their titles, I get a small smile reminding me that Autumn (aka Halloween Time) can be a state of mind, not just a date range on a calendar.

You can listen to this one and call it a presage of Halloween, a foreshadowing if you will.  And if you’re like me, YOU WILL!  Listen to MA-234 and feel your mouth curling up, your musical horizons broaden, and a lift to them gloomy ole Halloween spirits.

See you Monday!

  

Did Part of the Bride Go to College?

You know, I had this planned for today's date long before the horrific events involving rape and diminished capacity became publicized at a fancy college up north.

I photocopied it from a book, but this is originally from The New York Review in 1967.  Brrr, I say, brrr!

Nurse your compassion for the Bride, and all threatened by overweening power, until Friday, when we'll go a little more lighthearted with three more comps of Halloween music.

  

I Won't Live in a World Without Weird!

Scary Books, Kiddies!

Worlds of Weird.  Edited by Stan Margulies.  Third Jove printing, 1978.  Copyright 1965.  Cover art by Virgil Finlay.

 Who’s that girl? Va-va-voom! Who’d’ve thought a batwoman could look so ... alluring?

Ahemm .... the contents are ...

• · “The Forgotten Creator of Weird Tales” · Sam Moskowitz
• · Roads · Seabury Quinn · Weird Tales Jan 1938
• · The Sapphire Goddess · Nictzin Dyalhis · Weird Tales Feb 1934
• · The Valley of the Worm [James Allison] · Robert E. Howard · Weird Tales Feb 1934
• · He That Hath Wings · Edmond Hamilton · Weird Tales Jul 1938
• · Mother of Toads · Clark Ashton Smith · Weird Tales Jul 1938
• · The Thing in the Cellar · David H. Keller, M.D. · Weird Tales Mar 1932
• · Giants in the Sky · Frank Belknap Long · Weird Tales Aug 1939

The first tale, “Roads,” is an unexpected narration of an important event. “He that Hath Wings” is, some might say, a parable about creativity.

Keller’s “The Thing in the Cellar” is a simple, and simply astounding, little tale. It means a lot to me both because, as precocious youngster, I felt ignored and mistreated. Secondly, the house of family friends, the O’Garas, had just an entrance-to-downstairs from their kitchen. After reading this story at about age ten, I could easily locate this scenario at their house, and when visiting for parents’ bridge night, I was definitely uneasy at times.

Typing from memory: “Didn’t you tell me there was nothing there? Down there? In the cellar?”

See you next time, kiddies!
  

FRIGHTFUL FRIDAYS THROUGHOUT OCTOBER!

 Welcome to the wondrous month of October across the Super Blog and the Record Round-Up!

Every Friday we'll share three -- count 'em, THREE!  Halloween comps from yours truly.  A whole bunch of them have never been presented before.  Plus a few old standbys who became orphans when my previous host since 2015 castrated itself.

First up is a compilation of songs you hear all the time on "party records" of Halloween music.  They are FALSE, I say!  They may be songs mentioning an odd thing, but for the sake of the Blob, they DO NOT have the delicious, intentional creepiness of a "true" Halloween song.

MA-231 - Not Halloween: 

01 - Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group - 1972  (4:44)

02 - Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon - 1978  (3:25)

03 - Season of the Witch - Donovan - 1966  (4:54)

04 - The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band - 1979  (3:35)

05 - Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra - 1957  (2:52)

06 - The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone - 1971  (2:44)

07 - Clap for the Wolfman - The Guess Who - 1974  (3:24)

08 - Spooky - Classics IV - 1967  (2:43)

09 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult - 1976  (5:06)

10 - Devil Woman - Cliff Richard - 1976  (3:31)

11 - Time Warp - Rocky Horror Cast - 1975  (3:16)

12 - Evil Ways - Santana - 1969  (3:57)

13 - Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf - 1977  (9:46)

14 - That Old Black Magic - Margaret Whiting - 1943  (2:41)

15 - In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett - 1965  (2:36)

16 - Witchy Woman - Eagles - 1972  (4:11)

17 - Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell - 1983  (3:33)

18 - Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac - 1968  (2:51)

19 - Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran - 1982  (3:39)

 We real Halloween connoisseurs are sick and tired of hearing these songs played at Halloween parties, or constituting the bulk of a so-labeled “Halloween” CD.  These songs may have scary or weird elements, but they ARE NOT about Halloween!

To express your agreement, download and burn this selection to disc … then shred the disc.

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MA-07 - Howl-oween:

01. Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper (5:03)

02. Halloween - Sid Frank & James Dukas (0:58)

03. This Is Halloween - Marilyn Manson (3:04)

04. Rock 1 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (0:32)

05. Riders in the Sky - Dick Dale (2:07)

06. Halloween - Aqua (3:44)

07. Trick or Treat (1937) - Donald Duck (0:55)

08. Jonny Quest Underscore 1 - Hoyt Curtin (0:31)

09. The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley (2:13)

10. Ghouls Glide - Music for Monsters (1:51)

11. Boris the Spider - The Who (2:27)

12. The Raven - Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra   (3:30)

13. Frenzy #1 - CD Creepies (2:15)

14. Rock 2 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (0:19)

15. Have a Good Time on Halloween Night - Hap Palmer (1:46)

16. Trick or Treat - Nekromantix (4:10)

17. Jonny Quest Underscore 2 - Hoyt Curtin (0:51)

18. Halloween - Stephen Lynch (2:27)

19. Part One - Spooky Music for Spooky Occasions (1:43)

20. Here Comes the Boogeyman - Henry Hall (2:48)

21. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Main Title) - James Horner (2:00)

22. My Radiation Baby (My Teenage Fallout Queen) - George McKelvey (2:46)

23. Jonny Quest Underscore 3 - Hoyt Curtin (1:05)

24. Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers (3:03)

25. Five Little Pumpkins - Ukisociety (0:39)

26. Rock 3 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (0:11)

27. The Munsters Theme - Jack Marshall (2:10)

28. Part Two - Spooky Music for Spooky Occasions (1:35)

29. Nobody Likes You When You're Dead - Zombina and the Skeletones (2:04)

30. The Twilight Zone '85 Main Title - Grateful Dead & Merl Saunders (0:44)

31. The Haunted House (1929) - Mickey Mouse (3:06)

32. Twilight Tone - Manhattan Transfer (5:51)

33. Skeleton Dance - Music for Monsters (1:18)

34. Space Ghost (Main Title) - Ted Nichols / Richard Olson / Bill Getty (0:54)

35. DOA - Bloodrock (8:21)

MA-07 was my VERY FIRST Halloween comp,  I hope you'll find something worthwhile in its callow youthfulness. 

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MA-210 - Trick, Treat, Repeat: 

01 - excerpt - Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One - 2024  (0:15)

02 - Halloween Safety 01 - Centron Educational Films - 1977  (0:49)

03 - Rock 'N' Roll Halloween - Bobby Bare, Jr - 2009  (3:51)

04 - Nosferatu - Blue Öyster Cult - 1977  (5:16)

05 - The Spider and the Fly - The Wicked - 1979  (2:05)

06 - The Devil's Twist - Art Killmer and The Up-Town Four - 1964  (2:03)

07 - Incidental Music - The Mad Daddy Shock Theatre & The Great London Ghost Show - 1958  (1:38)

08 - The Moon Does Strange Things to Me - Free Delivery - 1974  (4:02)

09 - The Blob - Joe August - 1958  (2:10)

10 - Twilight Zone - Barry Raye - 1960  (2:35)

11 - The Merry Ghost from Chatham Square - Henri René Musette Orchestra - 1942  (2:34)

12 - Luther the Anthropoid (Ape Man) - The Jimmy Castor Bunch - 1972  (3:10)

13 - Janie Made a Monster - The Fabulous Five - 1959  (2:44)

14 - Have You Checked the Children? - Life in the Fridge Exists - 1980  (3:07)

15 - Surfer Smash - Johnn (Boris) Jones - 1963  (2:01)

16 - Dirty Little Secret - The Lowdowns - 1996  (2:39)

17 - My Son the Folk Monster - Larry Foster - 1962  (3:07)

18 - Funny Monsters - Deep Freeze Mice - 1983  (4:45)

19 - Doin' the Monster Mash - Leonard Jewell - 1963  (2:07)

20 - Trick or Treat - Chuck Berry - 1961  (1:32)

21 - The Creep - Billy & Mickey - 1961  (2:26)

22 - You Are My Girl - 3 Stooges - 1960  (2:27)

23 - Things That Go Bump in the Night - Allstars - 2002  (2:59)

24 - Danse Macabre - The Young Lovers - 1968  (1:39)

25 - Halloween Is Black as Night - Jackson C Frank - 1965  (2:45)

26 - Macabre! - Eureka!- Bones on a String - Fright Break - Michael Cudahy - 2007  (3:09)

27 - Weird Busters (Ray Parker Jr vs Oingo Boingo) - Burt Reynolds - 2021  (3:02)

28 - Halloween Safety 02 - Centron Educational Films - 1977  (0:28)

29 - Happy Halloween (Intro) - Dan Blakeslee - 2003  (0:26)

  

Now, THIS is music that bears a second ring at the doorbell! 

Track 1 is a clip from an otherwise mediocre WB animated release.

Track 24 is a fun bebop version of Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre.”

Track 26 comprises four cues from Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007), music by Michael “The Millionaire” Cudahy.

We hope your Halloween is safe as well as silly and scary!

See you on Monday!

New Fuel from, or for, Fools

Here's an in-depth (for a newspaper) disturbing bit o' news regarding obvious monkey business with evidence in the JFK murder.

This is from the February 16, 1992 OKC Oklahoman.

Those matte elements for making fake Oswald-in-the-backyard are very suspicious.  Some trickery like what's described in the article is, IMO, surely what produced those pix.  However, what bunch of stupid ne'er-do-well spies would leave the evidence behind?  And leave it at the home of the guy they were framing?

All of us cynical types have always suspected that the "three tramps" were probably spooks, or even real bums who were paid to wander around the railroad area, so as to draw attention and resources from the actual crime, its perpetrator(s) onsite, and its cleanup.

What do YOU think, fellow truthseekers?

PS see you on Thursday for the commencement of this year's BLOG-O-WEEN!