This file is one of the Wolfstone archives of the Halloween mailing lists. You can find out more, and reach the entire collection here: http://www.pobox.com/~wolfstone/_r/HalloweenArchive.html This is a copy of Don Bertino's archive from http://www.calweb.com/~bertino/halloween.html on the subject of "halloween music". Minor changes have been made, mostly removal of E-mail headers and signatures, but the germane content is unchanged. - - Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 08:25 EDT From: Donna_KENNY at umail.umd.edu (dk62) Subject: Re: Re: halloween music A P.S. Oh, and GHHOSTBUSTERS and THRILLER are on the new CD/tape, too! DOnna (Harrington) Kenny - - Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 08:25 EDT From: Donna_KENNY at umail.umd.edu (dk62) Subject: Re: Re: halloween music ABout music: Last week in a party store, my husband and I saw -- for the first time -- a really *great* Halloween tape or CD collection, and as I recall had the following music on it: Monster Mash Super Freak Disco Inferno and lots more! (But at the moment, I can't remember the rest!) Anyway, I'll check it out this week and get back to people, but all the songs were Halloween/"creepy, freaky, and inferno-related!" We also have an album (which I haven't yet dug out for our annual party...) that was made in the mid sixties (we're talking VINYL here...) which we play on an old little child's record player. It's a 33 speed record, and it's got all kinds of of noises on it, including a segment of howling wind, one of creaky doors, one of ghost-like moans, one of water dripping, one of cats screaming, etc. (There's a ctually one segment of supposedly futuristic "martian beeps," which doesn't really go off well, but we try to skip the needle of that one! What we like to do with this is put it out on the porch (we live in the East and havea screened-in porch, so that works, despite any weather being dished out that night -- we use it for both Halloween night/trick-or-treaters, as well as for our annual party, held the Sat. prior). Then, we use other music indoors, on a boom box or our litle CD unit for the main party. Anyway, I'll stry to get you (all) the info. on the new CD we found (I can't remember why we didn't buy it. but are going back for it tomorrow!) - - From: RoboJay at aol.com Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:55:48 -0400 Subject: More Halloween music Here are a few more songs I recall: "Werewolf" - from the mid 1970's; I think it is by Five Man Electrical Band "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon "Spooky" by Classics IV, or the Atlanta Rhythm Section (the original sounds spookier) "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles - - From: RoboJay at aol.com Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:13:21 -0400 Subject: Re: halloween music For starters, the following songs come to mind: "Monster Mash" by Bobby Boris Picket "Thriller" by Michael Jackson "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. "Swamp Witch" by Jim Stafford "The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band (if memory serves me right) And if you prefer classical music, there's always "Night on Bald Mountain." - - Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donna J. Logan" Subject: Re: halloween music "Season of the Witch", Donovan. "Superstition", Stevie Wonder. "Dinner with Zach", Zacherly (obscure, you'd have to be old enuf to remember his show, which may have been only NYC local - but his 45 went national) "Monster's Christmas Party", Bobby "Boris" Pickett. "Purple People Eater", the guy (DeVille?) who did The Chipmunks. The soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The soundtracks to Twin Peaks and The Last Temptation of Christ are appropriately "spooky" sounding. I'm sure I'll think up some more.... - - Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 06:22:52 EDT From: lewisw at oasys.dt.navy.mil (Bill Lewis) Subject: Re: halloween music >For starters, the following songs come to mind: >"Monster Mash" by Bobby Boris Picket >"Thriller" by Michael Jackson >"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. >"Swamp Witch" by Jim Stafford >"The Legend of Wooley Swamp" by the Charlie Daniels Band (if memory serves me right) >And if you prefer classical music, there's always "Night on Bald Mountain." Hey what about the all time classic: Toccata and fugue in D minor played on a big pipe organ. - - Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:44:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donna J. Logan" Subject: Re: halloween music On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, D.D. wrote: > > Hi All, > Whenever we want to scare the living tar out of guests we put on some > Barry Manilow or Yani CD's. > Denny Can't say it scares me, but when I hear it (Manilow especially) I turn a sickly shade of green, appropriate for Halloween I guess. Early Olivia Neutron Bomb does it to me, too..... - - Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 08:50:49 EDT From: mrc at cadre.com (Mike Caron) Subject: Halloween Music I just made the rounds to purchase music and sound effects for a Halloween party I am planning. I came across the following CDs: 1. Spooky Tales and Scary Sounds from Holly Music, HCS-4112. I purchased at Wal-Mart for around $8. Contains 30 minutes of sound effects and 30 minutes of stories. The sound effects are good and listed on the packaging. 2. Monster Hits, Vol 1 from RCA, DRC1-1184. This was $15 at Spencer Gifts. Contains fun, Halloween tunes (Addams family, Theme from Jaws, Ghost Busters, Twilight Zone theme, Monster Mash, Purple People Eaters, etc.) that can be danced to. My kids, 1.5 and 5 years old, like it. 3. Ghastly Grooves from Sony Music, AK66391 for $15. I obtained at local CD shop in the mall. This has most of the rock tunes that conjure up images of Halloween (Season of the Witch -- Donovan, Werewolves of London, Witchy Woman, etc). I found this less enjoyable than the Monster Hits CD. - - From: "BHendrsn at kirk.microsys.net" Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:12:06 +0000 Subject: Re: Halloween Music > From: mrc at cadre.com (Mike Caron) > I just made the rounds to purchase music and sound effects for a > Halloween party I am planning. I came across the following CDs: Actually, these are two that I got last year but which I really liked: Sounds from a Night of Terror, Compose, CD9017 Nice CD, the only problem is that it is all one track and it runs for 62 minutes. It's great for backgrounds and adds a laugh at just the right points. Sounds of Horror, Spectacular Sound Effects, SE-2-5509 This one is a lot of disjointed effects, but works great when you put together your sound effect tape for the party or haunted house. It has all the popular effects, the only complaint I have is that some of the effects are very short and can get repetitious if over-used. - - From: Stuart_McIntire_at_AISDC at ccsmtp.uage.com Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 10:18:58 EST Subject: Re: Halloween Music ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Halloween Music Author: halloween-l at netcom.com at Internet Date: 9/28/95 8:50 AM >I just made the rounds to purchase music and sound effects for a >Halloween party I am planning. I came across the following CDs: I always pick up the "generic" Halloween sound effects tapes (especially if they're really cheap) wherever I find them. While in Williamsburg, VA at a dollar store a week ago I picked one up for a dollar (duh!) which is kind of interesting. The music has a few riffs from Michael Jackson's Thriller, but tends to have a jazz background. Pick up the cut outs...the most you'll lose is a buck or two. Also, I picked up Son of Scary Sound Effects at Sam Goody's for under $5. #R4 72170 from Rhino. And yes, "Son of" is a sequel to Scary Sound Effects (that I picked up last year). Liner illo by Jaime Hernandez of Love and Rockets fame. Includes a child's dream sequence, Pirate Ghost Ship, Seance and Dimension X. SFX are many and varied. You also get messages to put on your an- swering machine and sounds that I believe are intended to be converted to .wav files for the computer. Lastly, look for just about any soundtrack by Danny Elfman (Weird Science - I think; Batman; Batman Returns; Beetlejuice; Nightmare Before Xmas; Tales from the Crypt - TV version; etc.) Classical music should include a little Bach and Chopin. Often some good percussion pieces if you can find them...drums can be very effective at times. I've even been recommended to look for music by Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead). Good luck! - Stu McIntire 1. Spooky Tales and Scary Sounds from Holly Music, HCS-4112. I purchased at Wal-Mart for around $8. Contains 30 minutes of sound effects and 30 minutes of stories. The sound effects are good and listed on the packaging. 2. Monster Hits, Vol 1 from RCA, DRC1-1184. This was $15 at Spencer Gifts. Contains fun, Halloween tunes (Addams family, Theme from Jaws, Ghost Busters, Twilight Zone theme, Monster Mash, Purple People Eaters, etc.) that can be danced to. My kids, 1.5 and 5 years old, like it. 3. Ghastly Grooves from Sony Music, AK66391 for $15. I obtained at local CD shop in the mall. This has most of the rock tunes that conjure up images of Halloween (Season of the Witch -- Donovan, Werewolves of London, Witchy Woman, etc). I found this less enjoyable than the Monster Hits CD. - - Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 19:43:53 -0700 From: fishcat at hooked.net (Trystan L. Bass) Subject: Re: halloween music (long) Music is my sig.other/co-host's department, but I'll try to explain some of what we do at our annual Halloween parties. Warning: we have access to some decent pro-audio equipment.... The main music is one 4-hour DAT tape, mixed on a four-track, & with ocassional voiceovers (Thomas does a wicked impersonation of a local DJ, "Steve Massacre of Dead 105"). The music is dark, dismal, and danceable gothic rock such as Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, & the Cure, plus tons of Oingo Boingo & Danny Elfman soundtrack tunes (he did Batman, Beetlejuice, Nightbreed, etc.). The requiement for getting onto our song list is that the tune must have lyrics that revolve around pain, misery, death, dismemberment, or general weirdness. Or it has a good beat and you can dance to it ;->. Two songs we've played *every*year* are "Deadman's Party" by Oingo Boingo and "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. And we ususally throw in Bach's "Toccata & Fuge," just for fun. In the entryway, we always have some kind of loop tape playing creepy noises. Since Thomas has a 4-track mixer thingy, he can create a layered, extra spooky sound. We've used some of those cheap dime-store Halloween sound effects tapes, plus there are quite a few effects CDs available in big record stores. The effects may seem like ordinary, boing sounds, such as a door shutting, a hammer pounding, glass breaking, a jackhammer or a chain saw, etc. But, when mixed together & repeated a lot (& with some synth wind sounds added), you can get a pretty creepy mix that sounds just like the music they play in horror movies when the ax murderer is sneeking up behind you! Okay, I know not everybody has the equipment for this, but I suspect that if you taped the more violent & weird bits from a generic effects CD & played it at the same time as one of those cheap spooky tapes & arrange the two tape players appropriately, you'd get a similar effect. Not as snazzy, but a good spooky noise for the doorway (it's hard to get good quality sound outdoors anyway). And I bet those older trick-or-treaters won't scoff when they hear the chainsaw revving up! If anyone's *really* curious, I can e-mail them the songlist from past parties (it's all in a database -- I'm also The Organized One of the three co-hosts!). - - From: "Cassidy, Susan" Subject: Halloween Music, again Date: Wed, 04 Oct 95 08:15:00 PDT Hello fellow Halloween-ophiles: I'm putting together the background music tape for my Halloween party, and could use a few more suggestions. I got the "Monster Hits" tape from the Spencer Gifts store they set up in the open space of the local mall. It had some good stuff on it that I copied onto my tape: Monster Mash, the theme from Jaws, Ghostbusters, Werewolves of London, Love Potion #9, and I may use the Twilight Zone theme. I have a different version of the obligatory Bach "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" that has some added wolf howls, etc., at appropriate spots (the version on the Monster Hits tape is great, though), that I started off the tape with. I have added the following, also: Black Magic Woman (Santana) Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones) Frankenstein (Edgar Winter) Witchy Woman (Eagles) I Put A Spell On You (Creedence Clearwater) I plan to add: Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater) After Midnight (Eric Clapton) probably will add: Paint It Black (Rolling Stones) - I think it is close enough to the theme - at least it is the right color! Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult) Evil Woman (ELO) Any other ideas? If you can suggest anything, if you know the album a song is from, in addition to the artist, it would be helpful. I'm the world's worst at remembering song titles and who did them, anyway. I happened to find Frankenstein on a "collected hits" CD and did not remember how the music went (it is instrumental only) until I played it. - - Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 14:52:03 -0600 From: John Rosloot Subject: Re: Halloween Music, again >I'm putting together the background music tape for my Halloween party, and >could use a few more suggestions. Susan: Wow, I just subscribed yesterday, and already saw a post I could reply to. A few years back I was putting together a Halloween-theme tape, and made a list of songs I thought might be appropriate (many are songs you mentioned). They are divided up into 4 groups according to how well I thought they fit the Halloween theme (with some adjustments for songs I just liked more or less than others). Sorry, though I know most of the artists, I don't know which albums they came off of in most cases. Enjoy: Real good --------- April Wine Sign Of The Gypsy Queen Charlie Daniels Band The Devil Went Down To Georgia Classics IV Spooky De Burgh, Chris Don't Pay The Ferryman DJ Jazzy Jeff + The Fresh Prince A Nightmare On My Street Eagles Witchy Woman Harlequin Superstitious Feeling Jackson, Michael Thriller Parker, Ray Jr. Ghostbusters Richards, Cliff Devil Woman Edgar Winter Group Frankenstein Zevon, Warren Werewolves Of London ? Ghost Riders In The Sky Good ---- Bernstein, Elmer Ghostbuster's Main Title Theme Bobby (Boris) Pickett Monster Mash Cars Magic Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Risin' Creedence Clearwater Revival I Put A Spell On You De Burgh, Chris Spanish Train Dokken Dream Warriors (Nightmare On Elm St. 3) Fogerty, John Eye Of The Zombie Jacksons Torture Rockwell Somebody's Watching Me Santana Black Magic Woman Van Morrison Moon Dance Wonder, Stevie Superstition Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs Lil' Red Riding Hood Not Bad ------- Branigan, Laura Self Control Brown, Bobby On Our Own (Ghostbusters II) Carnes, Kim Crazy In The Night Doors Riders On The Storm Eagles One Of These Nights ELO Evil Woman Fat Boys Are You Ready For Freddy Fogerty, John The Old Man Down The Road Guess Who Clap For The Wolfman Hall, Daryl Dreamtime Heart Magic Man Hooters All You Zombies Men At Work Dr. Heckyll And Mr. Jive Oingo Boingo Weird Science Santana Evil Ways Toto Stranger In Town ? Theme from Phantom of the Opera Maybe ----- Benson, George Gimme The Night Cafferty, John On The Dark Side Collins, Phil In The Air Tonight Doug And The Slugs Tomcat Prowl Genesis Mama Genesis Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Idol, Billy Eyes Without A Face Inxs Devil Inside Lightfoot, Gordon The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Newton-John, Olivia Magic Police, The King Of Pain Police, The Many Miles Away Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride Stewart, Al Time Passages Stewart, Al Year Of The Cat Wonder, Stevie Skeletons - - Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 08:27:11 -0600 From: John Rosloot Subject: Re: Halloween Music, again Susan: I thought I'd post again in case you're interested in some spooky non-Rock music (since you did mention Bach's Toccata & Fugue). I have a novelty CD called 'Fright Night' (no relation to the movie) which contains classical selections in a Halloween theme. Some selections are: Mussorgsky *Night on Bald Mountain (Played during the Halloween sequence from Fantasia) Saint-Saens Danse Macabre Grieg *In the Hall of the Mountain King Grounod Funeral March of a Marionette (the Alfred Hitchcock theme) Holst *Mars - The Bringer of War (* indicates my favorites) Also, The Labyrinth and (even more so) Cat People movie soundtracks contain some nice Halloween style music. - - Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:34:10 -0400 Subject: Re: Halloween Music, again From: Fred Giuffrida Susan, We set up our three Halloween tapes with a classical piece at the beginning of each tape, followed by lots of other music, lots on the Halloween theme, but some just enjoyable enough to keep the party going. I got most of my classical pieces from a CD called ... Fright Night (Music That Goes Bump in the Night), (c) 1989 CBS Records, Inc., It includes a dozen really great Halloween pieces including: Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette Bach: Toccata in D-minor Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain .. well and eight others. Great stuff. I'm not a classical fanatic, and I like everything on the CD. You'll recognize many of the pieces as background music from you favorite suspense movies. - - From: RoboJay at aol.com Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 20:12:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Halloween Music, again There is an album by Savoy Brown called "Hellbound Train." The title track is delightfully spooky, and perfect for the season. A great companion piece to "Witchy Woman," "Werewolves of London," etc. - - Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 09:11:55 -0600 From: John Rosloot Subject: Re: Halloween Music, Instrumental Sherry: >>I have a novelty CD >>called 'Fright Night' (no relation to the movie) which contains classical >>selections in a Halloween theme. > >What a perfect cd! I've been looking for something instrumental. Do you know >where it's available and if it's available on cassette? I'm afraid I don't. I bought it years ago. You might check any large local music stores; they'll probably be stocking Halloween stuff about now. Here's some of the info off the back, in case it helps: Fright Night Music that goes bump in the night WMK 45530 1989 CBS Records Inc My copy was distributed by CBS Canada. The contents are probably the same if there's an American version, though the catalog code (or whatever you'd call it) may be different. - - Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 13:56:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Marsha Michie Subject: Re: Halloween Music, Instrumental On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, Sherry Rose wrote: > >Susan: > > > >I thought I'd post again in case you're interested in some spooky non-Rock > >music (since you did mention Bach's Toccata & Fugue). I have a novelty CD > >called 'Fright Night' (no relation to the movie) which contains classical > >selections in a Halloween theme. Some selections are: > > > >Mussorgsky *Night on Bald Mountain (Played during the Halloween sequence > > from Fantasia) > >Saint-Saens Danse Macabre > >Grieg *In the Hall of the Mountain King > >Grounod Funeral March of a Marionette (the Alfred Hitchcock theme) > >Holst *Mars - The Bringer of War > > > >(* indicates my favorites) > > > >Also, The Labyrinth and (even more so) Cat People movie soundtracks contain > >some nice Halloween style music. > This is my first post, but since I work in a music library I just had to jump in and add... Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (very spooky!!) and that made me think of how spooky Gregorian chant can be, especially the Dies Irae (which parts of Symphonie fantastique and some other scary pieces are based on). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marsha Michie michie at utk.edu | Somehow I have always known that UTK Music Library 974-3474 | I would never be psychic. - - From: dbell at cup.portal.com Subject: Re: Halloween Music, Instrumental Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 09:15:58 PDT I should have mentioned this earlier, but I didn't realize there would be any trouble finding this CD/Cassette. There is an excellant (IMHO) music store online, with a Web site at WWW.CDNOW.COM. They have a huge selection of all types of music, with search capabilities and very rapid shipment. Their prices are a bit discounted, although offset by shipping charges. It's the convenience that makes it for me... There is also a telnet access to them, but I forget exactly how. Try cdnow.com for starters. They had "Fright Night", supposewd to be in stock, in both CD and cassette. (My order was passed to shipping on Friday - should be here today.) Dave dbell at cup.portal.com >>>I have a novelty CD >>>called 'Fright Night' (no relation to the movie) which contains classical >>>selections in a Halloween theme. >> >>What a perfect cd! I've been looking for something instrumental. Do you know >>where it's available and if it's available on cassette? >I'm afraid I don't. I bought it years ago. You might check any large local >music stores; they'll probably be stocking Halloween stuff about now. Here's >some of the info off the back, in case it helps: >Fright Night >Music that goes bump in the night >WMK 45530 >1989 CBS Records Inc - - Subject: Re: Halloween Music, Instrumental Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:20:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Nathan Kahn" > > Another spooky non-rock piece of music that occurs to me is from Carnival of > the Animals. It was the theme music in that exquisite movie, "Days of > Heaven," starring Richard Gere. > > Anybody know the exact titile of the piece? The title is just that (I think). _Carnival of the animals_. Used to have the record laying around here someplace. Can picture the cover. (Now if I could only picture the composer's name on the cover :-) - - Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:24:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Marsha Michie Subject: Re: Halloween Music, Instrumental On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Nathan Kahn wrote: > > > > Another spooky non-rock piece of music that occurs to me is from Carnival of > > the Animals. It was the theme music in that exquisite movie, "Days of > > Heaven," starring Richard Gere. > > > > Anybody know the exact titile of the piece? > > The title is just that (I think). _Carnival of the animals_. Used to have > the record laying around here someplace. Can picture the cover. (Now if I > could only picture the composer's name on the cover :-) > > Nathan > nathan at theatrefx.com > Yup, Carnival of the Animals (in English. The original French title is Carnaval des animaux) is the title, and it's by Camille Saint-Saens. There are lots and lots of recordings of this available -- check the Schwann catalog at your local record store or library. There is also a lovely video of it, narrated by Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. It is from Video Artists International, VHS-HiFi 69096, ISBN 1-56195-972-3. Although I'm not sure that this is really the piece that the original poster was thinking of. A few movements are in minor keys, but none seem overly spooky to me. Certainly not like Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz - very spooky) or Carmina Burana (Orff - always sends chills up my spine in the beginning!). - - Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 08:49:22 -0700 From: Scott Axworthy Subject: Re: Halloween Sound I didn't save the original request for the net sources for audio Halloween sounds then I remembered an interesting Web site: Try: http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~caseyh/horror/audio/index.html for audio samples from various horror films. Interesting site and a great main Web page. - - From: "BHendrsn at kirk.microsys.net" Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:39:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Halloween Sound Effects > From: mptaiwan at TranSend.com.tw (Brett Muir) > I would also like to make a circular tape of creepy sound effects. Is there > an archive of halloween type .wav files (spooky sounds) that can be > downloaded off the net, or ftp? As a matter of fact, there are two that I know of but I unfortunately don't have their URLs with me at the moment. If you jump on the Lycos search engine and do a search for "halloween", they'll pop up or if you e-mail me at BHendrsn at kirk.microsys.net, I'd be happy to look them up for you. - - From: Stuart_McIntire_at_AISDC at ccsmtp.uage.com Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 14:19:42 EST Subject: Music/SFX Redux Add to your list: Screeches, Clanks & Howls K-Tel Int'l #3146-4 Ghosts, Screams, Demented Dentist, Dogs, Cats, Ghouls, Laughter, Wolves, Bats, Hits, Stabs, Splats, Creaks, T'storm Sounds to Haunt Your House K-Tel Int'l #3061-4 "the scariest, most chilling, blood-curdling, hair raising, etc., spooky sounds ever re- corded!" Halloween's Greatest Stories K-Tel Int'l #3282-4 (by Edgar Allen Poe) Premature Burial, the Pit and the Pendulum, the Tell-Tale Heart, Warlock's Ride, Scary Places (SFX and music) An Air of Terror Orchard Lane Music, Inc. #99007-7521-4 Dr. Frankenstein's Dream, Mansion of the Lost Souls, Open Heart Surgery Nightmare, Forbidden Theater of the Doomed Demonic Soundscapes Orchard Lane Music, Inc. #99007-7522-4 Intro, the WereWolf Forest, Entry Into Vladi the Impaler's Castle (Room of Haunted Souls), Metamorphous, the Stalker, It's BedTime (Sleep If You Can!), Dungeon of Torture, Demonic Demons Elvira presents: Revenge of the Monster Hits Rhino #R4 72179 Intro, Haunted House (sung by Elvira), It's Your Voodoo Working - Charles Sheffield, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman - Tubes, Were- wolves of London - Warren Zevon, Monster's Holiday - Bobby (Boris) Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers, Weird Science - Oingo Boingo, Zombie Stomp (sung by Elvira), Outro Each of these were $4.99 at Sam Goody in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The first song by Elvira (Haunted House) really surprised me. It's really pretty good and is a great send up of many of the horror/haunted house cliches. Catchy tune, too. It's apparently a sequel to Elvira Presents: the Monster Hits, presumably released in 1994. Anyone have a copy they're willing to share? Rhino seems to put out a fair amount of this kind of stuff that's very much to my liking. I've posted other Rhino releases that I've got in my "library" at home. Does anyone know if there is a complete listing of these releases that is current and readily available? - - Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 09:37:16 -0400 Subject: Re: Fright Night CD From: Fred Giuffrida To the person looking for the "Fright Night" CD. I bought mine several years ago and it's wonderful, but I knew I'd seen it in the mountain of catalogs I got this year... Try a company called "Wireless" 1-800-733-3369. Item #26993 $12. - - Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:49:39 -0700 From: milwiron at ix.netcom.com (D.D. ) Subject: Creepy Music and the Theremin Hi All, I know, I promised not to clog up the mailing list but I have to share this information... The one instrument that produces the creepiest sounding music, sound effects and is heard in all old sci.fi. movies is the "Theremin". This is a very old (1920's and '30's) electronic device that produces the pre-Moog synthetic sound. Here are two web addresses that will point to Theremin makers, music, kits, schematics, history, etc. and the international Theremin club. Who would've guessed. Just think....a Theremin added to a display with guest involvement????? Denny Now I'll shut-up, I swear. - - From: alt at ixstar.att.com Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 10:12:14 CDT Subject: Re: Creepy Music and the Theremin Hi All, Hey Denny, I like your idea of a guest-operated theremin. I'll have to look for one to use. Two years ago we used a synthesiser and a program on the computer to play it. We programmed every weird sound possible and put it into a loop. This was used in the "Tunnel of Terror." Last year, unfortunately, I replaced the synth with a new one; no one at home was familiar enough with it, and we ran out of time, so no weird sounds. But ... this year for sure. - - From: RoboJay at aol.com Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 20:02:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Another music suggestion In a message dated 95-10-07 13:56:21 EDT, revcoal at pcnet.com (Donna J. Logan) wrote:: >Which then reminded me of ANOTHER old tune which would be appropriate... >Pink Floyd's "Careful With That Ax, Eugene"....good blood-curdling >screams on that one, too. Forget the name of the album, I believe it was >their first U.S. release, I remember buying it back in 1968 or >so....another cut from that album which would be good mood music for >Halloween is "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun"..... "Careful With That Ax, Eugene" appears on the double album Umma Gumma. Another track on that album is "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Togethern in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict." It isn't musical at all, but has some really weird noises and sound effects. - - Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 08:49:22 -0700 From: Scott Axworthy Subject: Re: Halloween Sound I didn't save the original request for the net sources for audio Halloween sounds then I remembered an interesting Web site: Try: http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~caseyh/horror/audio/index.html for audio samples from various horror films. Interesting site and a great main Web page. - -