THE ARCHIVES

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!


*Happy Halloween from Magic Carpet Burn*
'specially from Charlie 'cause it's his Birthday...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Spooky Halloween Games Songs Sounds That Will Tickle Your Funnybone


Got this from Scarstuff, you can still get it too...

Got this from Goodnight Whatever You Are and will be forever grateful...
I didn't get this from GWYA originally but you can...
Don't run away, keep the bag open, more stuff tomorrow!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Ball Records - Ghost Stories

Sad to say, I'm running out of the good stuff, at least stuff that's inescapably October Country. I know it has a cool cover but posting this is like dropping a stale caramel apple left over from last Halloween into the ol' Trick-or-Treat bag and having it tear a hole in the bottom. For completists only. Of course, I love it. Well, Side One anyway...

Monday, October 26, 2009

Hometown Halloween...

I need to compose myself before I can compose this...let Nostalgia drug me senseless...
I will give you no information about this record- I will leave that up to Scarstuff, for reasons that will become apparent when you read the very last comment on his post. I used to work for the family of the guy who left that comment. I have a few copies of this record & cassette. Now you too will have a copy in the digital format. My first favorite Halloween record cover. The first track is really weird & cool- the rest of the record is just weird. It figures, it was made here in Houston...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Haunted House Music Co. - Haunted House & Night In A Graveyard (NEW!)


The 80's weren't all bad, as evidenced by these totally radical sound effects records. I like them because they are still using as their sonic foundations old-timey library effects mixed together in a new-ish way- no samplers or digital keyboards in sight yet. Haunted House (NEW!)(1985) is a favorite of mine- it has a drifting musical loop that I originally heard in Teenagers From Outer Space, a film that features a lot of the same cues that most of us horrorphiles are familiar with from the Night Of The Living Dead soundtrack.

Three years later, Haunted House(1988) was re-issued at twice it's original length and half it's original cover. Like most records of this type, one side is one long ambient track and the other features individual effects. For this version, the effects tracks are simply repeated- clean the first time, secondly treated with that crappy harmoniser-thing that totally dominated scary sound effects of 80's horror films and which I hate with a passion. What's different about the ambient track? Why, the addition of a NEW! middle section which, in hip-hop parlance, has been "screwed"- I'll let you hear it for yourself...
Same stuff, different configuration- more wind, less music. Anyway, I do recommend these for scaring your friendly neighborhood trick-or-treaters or for those of you who like to do housework at night...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009

For Monsters Only #1 - John Severin Showcase











MONSTER S-I-Z-E version of this well-known ad...


N-O-T the most amazing comp ever but it has a few interesting things on it and also has a monster on the cover playing "rock 'n roll"...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Los Dandies - Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha

I know nothing about this record which is a good thing at the moment because I'm almost too tired to type, see you tomorrow...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

John Zacherley - Scary Tales

A true labor of love, this is a re-creation of Scary Tales, Zach's third lp, with a difference! The album was originally released with a "trick track", in that track one featured three different vocal takes, whichever one you heard depending on where the needle landed. I have placed the three variations thusly- the first is track one, the second at the end of side one and the third at the end of side two. All tracks come from a couple of different sources, a few not-as-good sounding as the rest of it, but are the best available so far. In addition there are several bonus tracks, two of which are alternate versions of songs from Zach's Monster Mash lp(also available here). If you also grab this i believe you will have the entirety of John Zacherley's 60's output with the exception of Spook Along With Zacherley which is still to be had on cd. Cameo-Parkway put out a best-of called Zacherley's Monster Mash with a great Jack Davis cover- that lp, Scary Tales and Spook Along are very hard to find in their original forms, whereas a vinyl copy of Monster Mash is pretty easy to find, not that I've looked lately...

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Ghost of Vic Mizzy and Mr. Chicken

Everybody else is posting the Addams Family soundtrack to commemorate the passing of composer Vic Mizzy, so here's something a little different...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Horror Monsters #9 & Sounds To Make You Shiver


I wish I had time to post this whole issue, it's a good'n...











A great collection of Keith Ward creations all on one page!

"So, you want to visit a Haunted House, hmmm?"
This was my first favorite Haunted House record...
(70s re-issue cover)
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