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Monday, October 08, 2012
Halloween Hits: "Fire" The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (1968)
When I was a little kid, this song's opening used to scare the crap out of me.
Long before Insane Clown Posse, before Marilyn Manson, before King Diamond, before Twisted Sister, before Motley Crue.
Before Kiss, before David Bowie and even before Alice Cooper, there was Arthur Brown in 1968. He originated the kabuki makeup look in rock n' roll - LONG before everyone else.
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Arthur Brown also has the distinction of being the first rock artist to explore fear as a main topic of his albums, also LONG before all the other kabuki-coated imitators that followed him.....
Halloween Hits: "Mr. Sandman" The Chordettes (1954)
Another nifty little gem from Cadence Records, this song was heavily featured in the original Halloween movie series in the '70s and '80s......
Halloween Hits: "The Beauty Of Poisin" Specimen (1983)
Halloween Hits: "The Mummer's Dance (Radio Single Version)" Loreena McKennitt (1997)
It's amazing how so many people get Loreena McKennitt mixed up with Enya. And contrary to widespread urban legend - and one of my pet peeves when talking to the utterly CLUELESS about the song - Enya NEVER sang backup on the chorus on this radio single remix. That was just an overdub of Loreena McKennitt's voice in a different key. I have the radio promo CD and nowhere on it does Enya's name pop up ANYWHERE.
"The Mummer's Dance" hit #14 on the Top 40 radio charts in 1997.
So what's a mummer and why is it dancing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Play
Loreena McKennitt also had another creepy earlier Canadian hit single "All Souls Night" (1991)
Labels:
1990s,
CDs,
Dances,
Halloween,
Historical,
Holiday,
Music,
New Age Music
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