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 

Halloween Hits: "Godzilla" Blue Oyster Cult (1977)

Halloween Hits: "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"

"The Ghost Of Tom Joad" Bruce Springsteen (1996)

"The Ghost Of Tom Joad" Rage Against The Machine (1997)

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?

Scholastic Records was a sort of like Disneyland Records, if Disneyland were heavier into story books for their literary value than the commercial exploitation of them.

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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Halloween Hits: "Dark Lady" Cher (1974)