Halloween Hits: Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House - Disneyland Records (1964)

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Who could forget this kid classic?

If you grew up in the '60s and '70s (as well as many from the '80s), this record was a part of your childhood. Even if you never owned a copy, you knew all about it's existence because you often had a friend that did.. 

Originally released in 1964, Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House remains a perennial Halloween holiday classic.

(Kinda like this album, but for Halloween.)

It was re-released in 1973 with an orange jacket and it has been re-released in it's entirety on CD.

Side One of the LP is narrated by the great Laura Olsher, who sadly passed away in June 2012.

Side 1

Side Two has a compilation of classic Disney sound effects. The most famous one is here.

Side 2

Laura Olsher's voice could be heard on many Disneyland story albums........

                              (Let's hear it for the G.E. Wildcat Portable Stereo Phonograph )

.........and even appears as a sample on Ice Cube's 1991 gangsta rap classic "Jackin' For Beats"

Her performance as Mrs. Cratchit in the 1962 Christmas special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol is another one of her famous roles......

                                  

Scary Toys

Halloween Hits: "Monster Hash" The Toyes (1993)

For those in serious need of Visine and Twinkies..........

Halloween Hits: "I Want My Baby Back" Jimmy Cross (1965)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cross

Halloween Hits: "Halloween" King Diamond (1986)

King Diamond was the Marilyn Manson of the '80s. A self proclaimed Satan worshipper and frontman of the occult-metal band Mercyful Fate who went solo with a new band in 1986. He plays with both bands today.

If not exactly the most ORIGINAL guy on earth......

Pete Wentz? OK, yeah, he came later.....But see what Satanic music does to you, kids?

King Diamond and Mercyful Fate were popular with hardcore metal fans, but had virtually no commercial rock radio airplay (that darned devil warshipping thang put most major rock radio station managers teeth on edge.) It also didn't help their label, Roadrunner Records (now home to Nickelback.) was still a struggling Dutch independent until the '90s.

This is off King Diamond's first full album, Fatal Portrait.