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Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Halloween Hits: "The Ghost In You" The Psychedelic Furs (1984)
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Bark At The Moon" Ozzy Osbourne (1983)
Monday, October 22, 2012
Halloween Hits: “The Martian Hop” The Ran-Dells (1963)
Friday, October 19, 2012
Halloween Hits "Monster Rap" Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1984)
Halloween Hits: "Monster Mash" Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1962)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Halloween Hits: "The Headless Horseman" Bing Crosby (1949)
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Spiders & Snakes" Jim Stafford (1973)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Halloween Hits: "The Time Warp" The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Halloween Hits: "The Gila Monster" Joe Johnson (1959)
Halloween Hits: "Frankenstein" The Edgar Winter Group (1972)
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Werewolves Of London" Warren Zevon (1978)
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" Lewis Lee (1978)
From the So-Bad-It's-AWESOME movie.......And it's on YouTube for your viewing pleasure......
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Dinner With Drac (Parts 1 & 2)" John Zachrele (1958)
(Part 2 - The B side of this single - was most likely an earlier demo of the main song on Side One)
John Zachrele was a legendary Philadelphia and New York City TV personality who hosted horror movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zacherle
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Godzilla" Blue Oyster Cult (1977)
Halloween Hits: Georgie - Scholastic Records 1968
And the B-Side: Mother Ghost Nursery Rhymes and Other Tricks and Treats
I think everyone who ever went to a suburban public elementary school in the '70s still remembers the Scholastic Book Club flyers and the books, magazines and records they offered within
Dynamite magazine anyone? |
The Georgie record were based on a series of books written by Robert Bright, an author of children's books and it's pretty safe to say Georgie (written in 1944) was inspired by Casper The Friendly Ghost (first featured in 1939.) You could not hear this record and not make some immediate connection with Casper. Both are friendly ghosts, both are lonesome. Both have human relation problems.
The series continued with Georgie and The Robbers and Georgie and The Noisy Ghost.
Georgie was narrated by voice actor Bob McFadden, best known for his commercial work - he was the voice of Frankenberry in the Count Chocula cereal commercials.
Bob McFadden also had a Halloween hit in 1958, "The Mummy" for Brunswick Records.
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1960s,
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