Bill Carlisle - The Tiny Spaceman

Bill Carlisle - The Tiny Spaceman

Salty Holmes - The Ghost Song

Happy halloween...

This is a long time "halloween" type 45 want. Many moons ago i found a 10' copy on eBay and showed a buddy of mine who also collects halloween type records. Little did i know that he thought i was showing him so he could bid on it. But i was just showing him because i was psyched to find a copy. Well what happened was he outbid me on the damn thing..... So when this one came up recently i went whole hog and finally own a copy. There, now you know why i own this and paid way to much for it..... Enjoy.

Salty Holmes - The Ghost Song

Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk

When i was about 5 or 6 i was way into horror movies and comic books. i begged my mom to buy me this plastic 6 foot glow in the dark Frankenstein from the back of a comic. I was so psyched when it finally came and immediately hung it up on the back of my bedroom door. Well later that night when it was bed time i had this 6 foot glow in the dark monster staring at me while i was trying to sleep. i ran out of the room and went and slept with mom....

Now some years later i wish i still had that stupid thing and i've tried to find one and they go for like a hundred bucks.... fuck that shit. But if someone has one for a dollar i'll buy it from you..... heh....

anyway, Happy Halloween!



Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk

The Chubukos - Witch Doctor Bump

Have a Funky Halloween!

The Chubukos - Witch Doctor Bump

Pasquale and Luigi with Tony - Italian Martians

I usually try and do a bunch of halloween stuff gearing up to me fave holiday, but i'm not really feeling this year so here is a goofy little martian tune for you. Happy Halloween...

Pasquale and Luigi with Tony - Italian Martians

Stranded In The Jungle - 10-31-02 Halloween - Mix Tape

Some great old 45's put to tape for the Holiday weekend. Is anyone listening to these or am i the only one...? Oh well, i've been downloading these and then burning them to disk for the car rides between PA & Jersey. Nice.

This is one from Halloween 2002 that really doesnt have much to do with Halloween. Just a bunch of great 45's put down to tape.

dig.

Stranded In The Jungle - 10-31-02 Halloween - Mix Tape - Side A

Stranded In The Jungle - 10-31-02 Halloween - Mix Tape - Side B

Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - (It's A) Monster Holiday

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Usually this is the devil's fave time of the year.... being a big fan of the spooky, ooky and kooky since as far back as i can remember but i just have not been feeling of late, but here is just a little something for the Monster Holiday SPIRIT... A quirky little countrifried monster number by Buck Owens from 1974. Dig that CRAAAAAZE cover art!

Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - (It's A) Monster Holiday

Chuck Osbourne - Frankenstein Pt. 1

OK Folks, tomorrow is the big day! And i will end my brief but fulfilling (at least for me) excursion into the haunting land of Halloween/Monster music with my fave monster of them all...

The almighty FRANKENSTEIN!

When i was about 6 years old i begged my Mom to get me a 6 foot Franky with glowing eyes and bolts from the back of a comic book and man was i excited the day that baby came! I hung it up my wall in my room and proudly tried to scare my little sister with it! Man i though i was cool, that was until it was bed time and the monsters eyes would not stop glowing and staring at me!!! Ha! I think i ran for the hill (Mom's bed) but man i sure wish i still had that silly plastic monster...

Anyway, as with my previous couple of tunes this i heavier funky psych jam with some killer ripping guitar work, and some crude vocals, just like the devil digs 'em... 6 feet under! Get it? Digs 'em 6 feet under!?!? oh, never mind...

Chuck Osbourne? Hittsburg USA Records? Hell if i know... Just don't forget this was ANOTHER Super M Production....

Get crude, get funky and let it rip! This one is all killer thriller and no lame filler....

and if this doesn't satisfy all your Franky needs heads over to A Patchwork Of Flesh to fulfill your needs...

Chuck Osbourne - Frankenstein Pt. 1

Smokey Jam - Lady Vampire

Alright, i could not find ANYTHING out about this band but Halloween without Vampires, even Lady Vampires is like catching the clap without getting laid...
The label states "Area Band" but what area that was i have no idea but i don't think it was Transylvania...
Being on Weird records doesn't hurt this bad boy, er, girl but the real jewel is the song itself, in 1 minuet and 52 seconds they manage to squeeze in some great spooky organ, great fuzzy guitar leads, smooth and somewhat spooky vocals and some more fuzzy guitar, fuzzy, man i do love the fuzzy... ya know more of a 70's bush man.... and i'm sure being from 1972 there was plenty of bush "round these boys...

wait, is this a family show?

matters... enjoy the fuzz.

Oh yeah, check the date on the record with the one on your calendar today...

It was 27 years ago today, Sargent Pepper's told his.... Uh Oh, Wrong Record! Let me Out Of Here!

Smokey Jam - Lady Vampire

The Rattles - The Witch

I dig this tune immensely... And what would Halloween be like without some Witch action? Throw is some fuzzy wah wah guitar and once again count this devil in!!!

The Rattles began their career in the same Hamburg scene where many Liverpool based UK rock groups got their start. They met The Beatles in 1962 and played alongside them on three occasions in Germany; at Munich, Essen and Hamburg. In 1968 they recorded "The Witch", written by Hildebrandt, which was a hit in Germany. The group was forced to split up owing to army service and other reasons and a new line-up formed, although Hildebrandt remained as songwriter and record producer. They enjoyed sustained success in their own country through the 1960s, and recorded a new version of "The Witch" in 1970 which became their only international hit.

"The Witch" went Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, in addition to hitting the Top 20 in Austria and on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. By April 1971, it had sold over one million copies, with the Rattles becoming the first German group to ever appear in the U.S. charts.

* Achim Reichel - vocals, guitar
* Herbert Hildebrandt - bass
* Hans Joachim Kreuzfeld - guitar
* Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach - drums

This was the mid 1960s line-up. By the time of "The Witch" they had all left and successively been replaced by other musicians, with Edna Béjarano now being the lead singer.






The Rattles - The Witch

The Studebaker Bro's - Lie'n In The Grave

Going to switch gears here for the last few days before Halloween.

Most of, if not all of my previous Halloween posts from last year have been 50's or 60's campy novelty type tunes so i thought I'd change it up with a few late 60's early 70's garage and heavy psych type jams just to shake things up around these parts of Hell!

And while this isn't necessarily a real Halloween type tune anytime someone is singing about graves and dust and bones followed up by some ripping FUZZ guitar count this devil IN!!!

As for The Studebaker Bro's or Little Fort records your guess is as good as mine...

The Studebaker Bro's - Lie'n In The Grave

The Tarantulas - Tarantula - Black Widow

What would Halloween be like without some spiders!?!?

Fortunately for us "The Tarantulas" give us these 2 creepy instrumentals from 1960 and now i give them to you... Just in time for the Hell-A-Day!

As for the band:

The Tarantulas first recorded as the Spyders and had some personnel changes before changing their name. Band members included Bobby Tucker, Fred Crook, Dan Rains, Sammy Creason, and Bill English. The Tarantulas' best known song is "Tarantula," and they recorded several other songs including "Like Spellbound" and "Kaw Liga." "Tarantula" was recorded at Fernwood studio in Memphis ca. 1960 and was released as a single (Atlantic-2102 b/w "Black Widow"). This song is included on the CD Fernwood Rock N Roll. After Bill Black passed away in 1965, Bobby Tucker became the lead for the Bill Black Combo and the group, which incorporated other Tarantulas members, recorded until the 1970s.


The Tarantulas - Tarantula

The Tarantulas - Black Widow



The Tarantulas - Tarantula

The Surfmen - The Ghost Hop

What is Halloween without some Ghosts???

Just a little kooky, (some-what) spooky and groovy surf instrumental here to get your weekend started!

The Surfmen consisted of Ray Hunt (lead), Nick Drury (rhythm), Armon Frank (sax), Randall Anglin (bs) & Tim Fitzpatrick (dms). After replacing Drury, Anglin, and Frank with Ed Chiaverini, Ron Griffith, and Joel Willenbring, they changed their name to the Lively Ones in 1962.

I know this is a quick one, but you don't need no slack jawin' from me on this one. Just dig in... Sand and Spooks, oh my!

The Surfmen - The Ghost Hop

Sam The Sham - Haunted House - How Does A Cheating Woman Feel

Trying to get into the "spirit" here of my fave month and fave holiday @ the devil's music with some Halloween classics... last month by this time i had a plethora of spooky and kooky tunes for you all, this month not so much... but here we go with what little time we have left i give you Sam The Sham before the Pharaoh's with his first record. BUT the thing here is that even though this is the start of my Halloween posts, the REAL winner here is the B side and "How Does A Cheating Woman Feel"... It is just a really great song IMHO.

I don't really think i need to give any background on Sam the Sham do i???

Enjoy, and i hope to be back with a few more ghoulish numbers before the month ends...

Sam The Sham - Haunted House
Sam The Sham - How Does A Cheating Woman Feel

Count Lorry & The Biters - Frankenstein Stomp

You don't have to be a monster, but it certainly helps!

How about a soul full Frankenstein stomp???

Some nice female backing vocals offset by some Frankensten growls and an Igor type vocals, if you want to call thhem that....

Count Lorry & The Biters - Frankenstein Stomp

Morgus and the 3 Ghouls - Morgus the Magnificent

This is suppossedly Dr John under the name "Morgus and the 3 Ghouls" making reference to Morgus' show? True?

Morgus the Magnificent, aka Momus Alexander Morgus, is a fictional character on television shows that originated in the New Orleans, Louisiana television market. From the late 1950s into the 1980s Morgus was a "horror host" of late-night science fiction and horror movies. Morgus is a quintessential mad scientist created and portrayed by New Orleans actor Sid Noel. Assisted by executioner styled sidekick Chopsley, his well-intentioned experiments served as book-end pieces to the films, and typically go awry at the last minute.

Morgus first appeared on late night television on January 3, 1959, in the House of Shock, hosting the science fiction and horror movies in between experiments.

Morgus and the 3 Ghouls - Morgus the Magnificent

Gene Moss - Ghoul Days

This here is a rare 45 cut from one of the more famous "monster" records called Dracula's greatest Hits. Gene Moss was doing his best Dracula impersonation on the album that came with monster trading cards....

I'll leave the rest of the story to the pros......

Gene Moss - Ghoul Days

Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back

If the Teenage Death Song wasn't dead itself by 1965 — and it wasn't — it certainly wasn't because Jimmy Cross didn't do his darnedest to put the last few nails in its coffin, so to speak. A preposterously funny sendup of the genre in general and of "Leader of the Pack" and "Last Kiss" in particular, Cross' one chart record, written by Perry Botkin, Jr. and Gil Garfield, is impossible to describe without giving away the joke, but I assure you, he does get his baby back, one way or another. Putting a B-side on this would have been overkill, so flipping this disc will turn up something called "Play the Other Side", which is actually the instrumental track, sans vocals and sound effects — a cue to deejays worthy of Phil "Tedesco and Pitman" Spector himself. Cross went from here to something called "The Ballad of James Bong", a tall tale about pop stars based on...well, yeah, you got it.

Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back

The Yo-Yo's - The Mole In The Hole

With only 1 day left i give you a very weird merry-go-round calliope carnival organ type tune that is just plain strange... the Yo Yo's: Randy Starr & Dick Wolf. (Most definitely not the Law & Order Dick Wolf.) This is a fave in the house of the devils...

This one goes out to my boys...

The Yo-Yo's - The Mole In The Hole

Monotones - Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Only 2 days left...

Check my Mix i did with The Red Boy for more Monotones!

The Monotones were a six-member African American "doo wop" vocal group in the 1950s. They are considered a "one-hit wonder," as their only hit song was "(Who Wrote) The Book of Love", which peaked at #5 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1958.

I'll take the legend of sleepy hollow over the book of love any day...

The Monotones formed in 1955 when the seven original singers — all residents of the Baxter Terrace housing project in Newark, New Jersey — began performing covers of popular songs. The members of the Monotones were :

lead singer Charles Patrick (born September 11, 1938)
first tenor Warren Davis (b. March 1, 1939)
second tenor George Malone (January 5, 1940 - October 5, 2007)
bass singer John Smith (b. May 13, 1938)
second bass singer John Ryanes (November 16, 1940 - May 30, 1972)
his brother, baritone Warren Ryanes (December 14, 1937 - June 16, 1982)

Monotones - Legend Of Sleepy Hollow